Sat July 18

Listen up, little ones

Listen for the words God and faith.

Reading

Hebrews 10:26-39—My Righteous One Shall Live by Faith

Optional Reading

Habakkuk 2:2-5

Keys for kids

• Don’t keep on sinning.
• Trust Jesus for salvation and live by faith.
• Perseverance shows that Christ has truly saved us.

Questions

1. How do we show we have true faith?
2. What is the danger of deliberate and continued sin?
3. How can we persevere in doing good?

Notes

(See below for all authors.)

Living by faith is demonstrated by living in good works. These good works never earn God’s favor. Instead, they show that God has already given us His favor and has saved us.

The alternative is to claim faith but live with no works to demonstrate faith (James 2:17). Or as the writer of Hebrews puts it, to deliberately and continually sin leads to eternal punishment by God. As we have already seen in Hebrews, this can’t mean that someone who is truly a Christian sins so much that they lose their salvation. Instead, it means they were never saved in the first place. And to find ourselves in the presence of God in His judgment, that comes after we die, without the righteousness of Christ protecting us is a terrifying thing.

Instead of rejecting Christ, we are urged to persevere in Him. These Hebrews had endured sufferings. They had been mocked and mistreated for their faith. Some had even been put in jail and had their things taken by those who persecuted them. But they kept persevering. They kept living by faith. So must we.

Swedish Method questions

Praise

Psalm 31c, 51a

Prayer

1. Pray that you will persevere-by faith.
2. Pray for the reading and preaching of God’s word tomorrow.
3. Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.