Sat Aug 22

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words God and Jesus.

Reading

Hebrews 13:20-25 — May God Equip You to Do His Will

Optional Reading

Numbers 6:22-27

Keys for kids

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

God gives us equipment to make progress in the Christian life.
God equips us to make progress in the Christian life.
And He gets the glory.

Questions

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

What does God equip us to do?
What equipment does He use?
What do we do in response?

Notes

(See below for all authors.)

How do we make progress in the Christian life? We find in these verses both equipment and an equipper.

The equipment needed to do God's will is the God of peace—and the risen-from-the-dead Lord Jesus who is the Great Shepherd of we sheep. We need His blood—blood of His eternal covenant. And we need Him working good in us.

And we dare not think that having been given this equipment we equip ourselves. No! God is the equipper—the one who equips us with all we need for doing His will.

Since God does this through Jesus Christ, He gets the glory, not us. But we get the benefit of this equipping. We do what is pleasing to God. We are obedient. We work out our salvation because God is working in us (Phil 2:12-13).

So, like these Hebrews Christians, let us pay attention to this brief instruction. Let us exalt Jesus—together, helping each other until that day when we see Him face to face. God's grace will help us.

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 84b, 51d

Prayer

Rejoice that God is working in you.
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.

Notes this week are drawn in part from commentaries by John Calvin, William Hendriksen, Kent Hughes, R.C. Sproul, David Platt, Richard Brooks, the Theological Dictionary of the Old and New Testaments (TDOT, TDNT) and notes from the CSB Study Bible, and the Reformation Study Bible (RSB).