Tue Sep 22

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the names Adam and Noah.

Reading

1 Chronicles 1:1-4—Adam, Seth, Enosh …

Optional Reading

Luke 3:23-38

Keys for kids

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

This chapter begins with 10 names—Adam to Noah.
We know more about Noah, Methuselah, Enoch, and Adam.
In his grace, Jesus undid what Adam did in his sin.

Questions

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

What did Adam do that affected all of us?
How could the oldest man to live die before his father did?
What did Jesus do that affected all who believe in him?

Catechism

(1 Q&A each week related to the preaching text)

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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)

Notes

(See Saturday for authors.)

This book, which has 9 chapters of names, begins with these 10 names: Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah. We know something of each of these names, though little about a few of them.

Methuselah, the oldest man who ever lived, died before his father did. That riddle is solved remembering that Enoch, his father, did not die, but was taken directly to heaven after walking with God for his 365 years on this earth.

Yet, it is the first name, Adam, who is the father of us all. Though sceptics scoff and scoffers scorn, and sadly, even Christians waver, we are called all throughout the Bible to believe that Adam was indeed the first created human being in this world that God made.

We read this about Adam: Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned. Rom 5:12 (CSB)

But thanks be to God, we also read: If by the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. Rom 5:17 (CSB)

You have Adam’s sin. Do you have Christ’s righteousness?

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 65a, 119v

Prayer

Thank God that in Jesus He undid the effect of Adam’s fall.
Give thanks for something from last Lord’s Day’s sermons.
Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.