Thu Apr 24

For Sermon prep / review notes: worshipconnected.org/posts/daily/thu-apr-10

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words fathers and children.

Reading

Psalm 78:1-8

Optional Reading

Optional Reading 2 Chron 36:1-14

Keys for kids

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

God had you in mind when the Bible was written.
Each generation should teach the next about God.
We learn about God so we can worship God better.

Questions

(some read these before notes, then ask them after)

How many days have you had to learn the fear of the Lord?
Why should households gather to worship God?
How do we learn about how to worship God?

Notes

Fathers have over 6,500 opportunities, if taking once each day, to call their children, in their first 18 years, to come, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord (Psalm 34:11). Family or household worship is an ideal way for fathers to make this call. Family or household worship is an ideal way for any household to listen to God and learn better the fear of the Lord.

Household worship is, as the name suggests, members of the household gathering to worship God together. It includes instruction from the head of the household to those gathered so that they might know and follow the Lord. Of course, worship is more than instruction. However, we are to worship what we know and Who we know, so instruction from God in his word is a vital part of worship—private, household, and corporate.

In our text today, the Psalmist reminds God’s people that God “established a testimony in Jacob and set up a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children” (v.5). The reason for this command was so that the children, even those not yet born, would put their confidence in God and not forget God’s works, but keep his commands (Ps 78:7). This was in order that the generations to come would not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not loyal and whose spirit was not faithful to God (Ps 78:8). So, a family meeting to worship God is a vital practice, in order that they, and their offspring, will follow after God.

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday reading for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 78a, 10a

Prayer

Pray for your household to worship God regularly.
Pray for the preparation for preaching God’s word this Sunday.
Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.