Wed Aug 19

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words servant and He.

Reading

Matthew 12:15-21 — Behold My Servant

Optional Reading

Isaiah 42:1-9

Keys for kids

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

Jesus is Servant of God.
He is also Servant of sinners.
Jesus has more mercy than you have sin.

Questions

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

How is Jesus Servant of God?
How is Jesus Servant of Sinners?
How does Jesus treat bruised sinners?

Notes

(See Saturday for authors.)

In the second portrait of Jesus, notice the contrast between the Pharisees, who ignored the needs of men and plotted to kill the Messiah, and Jesus the Servant. ... Knowing that the Pharisees were plotting to kill Him, Jesus didn't try to fight against them; instead, He withdrew, and as He healed the crowds at this time, He tried to keep a low profile. Jesus was intent on His mission: He is the Servant of God and sinners. Consider both of these aspects of Christ's service. First, He is the servant of God: Jesus is loved by the Father and filled with the Spirit. He alone is pleasing before the Father and He alone is perfectly and fully under the influence of God's Holy Spirit.
Second, the Promised One of Isaiah is the servant of sinners: Jesus is hope for the hurting. ...Jesus is a meek and gentle Savior who "will not break a bruised reed" and "will not put out a smoldering wick" (v. 20). ... Christ comes to people who are bruised and battered, whose flame is flickering out. He comes to the spiritually broken, those so bruised by sin and all its effects that they are unable to stand up under it. Richard Sibbes, the Puritan pastor who wrote The Bruised Reed—a classic book taken from the text of Isaiah 42:3—writes the following of Christ's compassion:
Are you bruised? Be of good comfort, he calls you. Conceal not your wounds, open all before him and ... go to Christ.... There is more mercy in [Him] than sin in [you].

David Platt, Exalting Jesus in Matthew

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 147a, 51d

Prayer

Ask Jesus to bind up and heal your wounds.
Pray for change in you 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.