Mon Nov 16

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words my servant.

Reading

Isaiah 49:1-13—You Are My Servant

Optional Reading

Luke 9:1-20

Keys for kids

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

Jesus is God’s Messiah (God’s Christ).
Jesus is God’s Servant.
As God’s Servant, Jesus, is Savior of the World.

Questions

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

Who is Jesus?
Who is God’s Servant and what is His task?
How is Jesus saving the world?

Catechism

WSC #94

What is Baptism?

Baptism is a Sacrament, wherein the washing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s.

(Matthew 28:19; Romans 6:4; Galatians 3:27)

Children's Catechism 122-123

How many sacraments are there? Two. What are they? Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

Notes

(See Saturday for authors.)

Jesus asked His disciples who the crowds thought He is and then asked them who they thought he is. Peter answered that You are the Christ (or Messiah) of God. And we find much about this Messiah of God in the My Servant passages in Isaiah. God’s Servant—is God’s Messiah—is Jesus.

Here in vs 1-6 God the Father discusses with God the Son that to send God the Son to simply save the Jews is too small a task. No, God says, I will also make you a light for the nations, to be My salvation to the ends of the earth. The Jews needed a Savior, to be sure! But we hear in this secret eternal counsel that the whole world needs a Savior and God will send Jesus to be that Savior of the world. Although Jesus was sent primarily to the Jews (Mt 15:24), He would send His disciples to be His witnesses to all nations (Mt 28:18).

This is who God’s Servant is. This is who the Messiah of God is. As Ortlund comments, Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, and there is no other. He is God’s appointed “light for the nations.” If not, then we would remain in darkness forever.

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 119q, 22c

Prayer

Give thanks that Christ is God’s Servant to save.
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.