Mon May 4

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words high priest and clothes.

Reading

Zechariah 3:1–10—The High Priest with Filthy Clothes

Optional Reading

Heb 4:14-5:5

Keys for kids

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

Joshua was an Old Testament high priest.
Yet he was sinful and dirty (as all OT high priests were).
Only Jesus as our Great High Priest is perfect.

Questions

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

Why did the High Priest need clean clothes?
How can we get clean from sin?
How should we respond to Jesus giving us clean “clothes?”

Notes

(See Saturday for authors. The notes today are excerpts from The Priest with Dirty Clothes by R.C. Sproul You can buy the book at bit.ly/PwDCrcs)

The king looked at Jonathan and frowned. “Why are you here again with dirty clothes?” the king asked. “I told you that you could not stand in front of me looking like that.”… At that moment, someone came into the room. …At first, no one recognized the stranger. Then someone shouted, “It’s the great prince!”

…The prince said to Jonathan, “Take off your dirty clothes and give them to me.”…He gave his dirty clothes to the prince, and the prince put them on himself. Then the prince handed Jonathan…the beautiful clothes that belonged to [himself]. The prince smiled again at Jonathan and said: “These are the clean clothes I promised you. They are yours forever. …Jonathan was filled with joy. “How can I ever thank you for being so kind to me?” he asked the prince. The prince said, “If you are really thankful, and if you want to show that you love me, then keep all the commandments that I give to you.”

“Oh, I will,” Jonathan said. “I want to be good enough to wear your clothes.” “But you cannot be good enough, Jonathan. You must live your whole life trusting in my goodness while you wear my clothes.” On that day, Jonathan preached his best sermon ever. And he spent the rest of his life preaching about the great prince. He wore the prince’s perfect present until the day he died.

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 51a, 111a

Prayer

Rejoice that Jesus makes you clean.
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.