Listen up, little ones
Listen for the words heart and hardened.
Reading
Hebrews 3:12-13—Encourage Each Other Daily
Optional Reading
Heb 10:19-25
Keys for kids
- God has an important help in our struggle against sin.
- We have already seen our best help is Jesus.
- Another major help is one another.
Questions
- What are some of the one-another commands?
- How might sin deceive us?
- How can we help each other not be deceived by sin?
Notes
(See below for all authors.)
In the middle of the exhortation to the Hebrews not to harden their hearts against God’s voice, God gives us one of the important means we can use to avoid that sin. One another. Christianity is intended to be lived in community. That is God’s plan. Here is a look at all of the New Testament one-another commands bit.ly/1anothernt. And here is a thought about one-another things that we are not commanded to do bit.ly/1anothernot.
Here in Hebrews, we are to exhort (encourage) one another every day as one of God’s means to keep us from being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Sin is often inviting, enticing. Thomas Brooks states that Satan's first device to draw the soul into sin is, to present the bait—and hide the hook; to present the golden cup—and hide the poison; to present the sweet, the pleasure, and the profit that may flow in upon the soul by yielding to sin—and to hide from the soul the wrath and misery that will certainly follow the committing of sin.
We are to help each other not be deceived and hardened by sin. How has someone encouraged you in this way recently? How have you encouraged someone in this way? It is God’s way.
Swedish Method questions
Praise
Psalm 122a, 2a
Prayer
- Ask God to help you encourage someone to avoid sin.
- Pray for the reading and preaching of God’s word tomorrow.
- Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.