Fri May 8

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words passing away.

Reading

1 John 2:17—The World is Passing Away

Optional Reading

Psalm 1

Keys for kids

Also for the littles. Young households might choose, after Keys for Kids, to go directly to praise and prayer.

The world is passing away.
Those who love the world will pass away.
If you do God’s will, you will abide forever.

Questions

(Some read the ?s before the notes/ ask them after.)

How do you know the world is passing away?
What happens to those who love the world?
What will happen to those who do God’s will?

Notes

(See Saturday for authors.)

In Ecclesiastes, the Preacher calls life “vanity” and “a striving after the wind” (1:14). It’s like a mist that will suddenly vanish. This also is the fate of the world. It may seem at times like the world is not passing away, but we are assured here that it is. Christ has won the victory. Satan has been cast down to the earth. The old has passed away and the new has come.

This means that there are only two kinds of people. There are those who love the world and will pass away with the world, and there are those who love God and will abide forever. You are either the blessed man who is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields it fruit in its season and whose leaf never withers, or you are like the chaff that will be driven away by the wind. Which one are you?

Do not love the world because those who love the world do not love God. Do not love the world because the world is opposed to God. Do not love the world because the world is passing away.

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 1a, 111a

Prayer

Ask God to help you do His will.
Pray for the hearing of God’s word preached this Lord's Day.
Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.