Mon July 13

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words Anointed, King, and Son.

Reading

Psalm 2—Kiss the Son

Optional Reading

Acts 17:16-31

Keys for kids

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

In Acts, Paul said that God overlooked the times of ignorance.
Jesus has received the nations as His inheritance.
Because of this, all nations must now kiss the Son.

Questions

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

What made the OT times “times of ignorance”?
What about Christ being Mediatorial King changes everything?
Does the thought that Jesus is the reigning King give you confidence in evangelism?

Notes

(See Saturday for authors.)

When Paul spoke before the Areopagus in Athens, he was making a proclamation about a new cosmic reality that had taken place. The times of ignorance were over, and God would then command all people everywhere to repent. Why is this? Because God had appointed a man to judge the world in righteousness: Jesus Christ.

In the words of Psalm 2, God said, “I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill” (vs 6). The nations have been given to Christ as His heritage. Therefore, the kings of the earth are called to be wise and serve the Lord with fear. “Kiss the Son,” verse 12 warns, “lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled.”

The times of ignorance are over. Back in the period of the Old Testament, there was a different order in place. The nations of the earth lived in ignorance, because God had revealed Himself, in a very special way only to Israel (see Psalm 147:19-20). To be sure, God was still the Creator of the whole earth, and the pagan nations were still accountable before Him (Ps. 19; Rom. 1:18-32), but they were separated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise (Eph. 2:12). But those days are no more. With Jesus as King of all the earth, the proclamation of the Gospel goes forth to all nations. Kiss the Son!

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 2a, 51a

Prayer

Pray that the nations would kiss the Son.
Pray for a specific application from yesterday’s sermons.
Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.