Week of 10-02-22

We encourage you to use the resources below to follow up on what your kids and teens learned at Sunday School and Wednesday's Student Ministry Gathering and as a guide for having some Christ-centered conversations with your family this week.

For Kids

​Unit 13: Session 1 - Jeroboam Disobeyed God

Bible Story Summary:

• Jeroboam was the king of Israel. He made two calves for God's people to worship.
  
• King Jeroboam led God's people to worship false gods.
  
• God sent a prophet to warn Jeroboam, but Jeroboam did not turn from his evil ways.
  
• Because of Jeroboam's sin, Jeroboam's kingdom would one day be destroyed.

Christ Connection

• Sin separates us from God. Jesus came to bring us back to God. Jesus is the true King who gave His life so we can be forgiven.​

This Unit's Key Passage Phrase: Love the Lord your God. - Deuteronomy 6:5

This Unit's Big Picture Question: What is idolatry? Idolatry is loving something else more than God.

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For Students

“As far as the east is from the west, so far does He remove our transgressions from us.” - Psalm 103:12

REFLECTION QUESTIONS:
1) How have you seen God be consistent in your life?
2) What does the truth that God removes your sin as far as the east is from the west do to your view of sin and following Jesus?
 3) What are some opportunities you can take this week to join with the host of heaven in worshiping God?
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QUESTIONS FOR PARENTS:
1) Take some time this week to share with your student how God has been faithful to you and your family.
2) How can your family take time to worship God together this week for His faithfulness?
3) What does it mean that God is eternally faithful? How does that strengthen your faith?

Student Guide

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For Family Worship
New City Catechism Question 41: What is the Lord's Prayer?
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Matthew 6:9-12
Pray then like this: 
“Our Father in heaven, 
hallowed be your name. 
Your kingdom come, 
your will be done, 
on earth as it is in heaven. 
Give us this day our daily bread, 
and forgive us our debts, 
as we also have forgiven our debtors. 
And lead us not into temptation, 
but deliver us from evil. 

​Reading:
When Jesus’s disciples asked him to teach them to pray, Jesus gave them a model prayer. We call it the Lord’s Prayer, but really it’s the Lord’s model prayer. It is the way Jesus taught his disciples to pray.

When we say, “Our Father,” we remember that the God who created the universe is our Father in heaven. He is the Father who provides. He is the Father who sustains. He is the Father who protects. And the prayer reminds us that we are able to run to our Father to let our needs be known.

But Jesus also reminded us that he’s not only our Father but he’s also our King. So when we say, “Your kingdom come, your will be done,” we realize our Father is the King. We’re coming to our Father, who is the King of the universe, who has complete and total authority over all things. Our focus must first and foremost be on our Father, who is King. And the greatest joy for his children is that his name would be hallowed, that his name would be famous. And so we should pray, “God, make your name famous.” The Lord’s Prayer is also a corporate prayer. “Our Father” reminds us that we’re not an only child. Our desire is to make sure his name is hallowed over all the earth. Ultimately, this world is not our home, and we long for his kingdom to finally and fully be established. But until then, Jesus reminded us that we can go to our Father. When we fail our Father, when we fail our King, we can ask for forgiveness.

The Lord’s model prayer instructs us that we are utterly dependent upon our Father for all of our daily needs. I think modern-day people tend to forget this. Jesus said to pray in this way: “Give us this day our daily bread.” That is very humbling.

Finally, until God’s kingdom comes we need to understand that we are engaged in a spiritual battle, and we need protection. We ask our King to protect us. In fact, the apostle Paul reminds us that in this spiritual warfare that we don’t put on our armor, we put on God’s armor (Eph. 6:10–18). We put on our King’s armor. We put on our Father’s armor, and we fight in the strength of our Father. So it is right and good for us—whatever our needs or circumstances may be—to remember that we are utterly dependent, moment by moment, breath by breath, on our Father King, and we can run to him. We can come to him, and we can ask him for the things that we need.

As long as we have breath in us, let us live to make the King’s name famous, to hallow his name, both as a church and also as individual Christians, longing for his kingdom to come. Let us long for the return of Jesus, but know that until that day comes, he will pardon our sin, he will provide our daily bread, and he will protect us from the Evil One.

- Juan Sanchez

Sing:

Pray:
Our Father in Heaven, when we pray the prayer that you taught us, keep us from reciting empty words. Let these petitions be the cries of our hearts. Bring your kingdom on earth to us and through us for your great name’s sake. Amen.​