Wed Sep 16

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words word and I.

Reading

Psalm 119:9-11—Young Men and Pure Ways

Optional Reading

Luke 2:40-50

Keys for kids

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

Jesus was a real boy who never sinned.
He always kept His ways pure.
Like Him, we guard our ways the way God’s Word says to.

Questions

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

How did Jesus keep His way pure? How can we?
What are some ways God’s Word tells us to live purely?
What are the “I” outcries in Psalm 119:9-17?

Catechism

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

WSC #22

How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?

Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.

Heb. 2:14, 16; Heb. 10:5; Matt. 26:38; Luke 1:27, 31, 35, 42; Gal. 4:4; Heb. 4:15; Heb. 7:26

Notes

(See Saturday for authors.)

Jesus was a real boy. But a boy who never sinned. How did Jesus keep His ways pure? By guarding it the way God’s Word told Him to. He did that perfectly, every day of His life. He did that perfectly, every time He was tempted to sin.

Whether you are a young man, or a young woman, or an older man or an older woman, how can you keep your way pure? Exactly the same way Jesus did. That is, guard it the way God’s Word tells you to.

Psalm 119 is full of references to God’s Word. Yet it’s even more full of the psalmist speaking to God about his life and God’s Word_. I, me, my, You, and Your_ are the most common words. Consider Jesus, growing in strength and wisdom (Lu 2:40), increasing in wisdom and stature, finding God’s and man’s favor (Lu 2:52) singing, reading, praying these verses from Psalm 119.

I have sought You with all my heart; I have treasured Your word in my heart; I rejoice in the way revealed by Your decrees as much as in all riches; I will … think about Your ways; I will not forget Your word. And in Jesus, united to Him by faith, we can and must live and love this way, too.

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 119b, 119v

Prayer

Ask God to help you keep your ways pure like Jesus did.
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.