Sermon for January 25 due to snow closure
Discipling Children
Self Identity
Raving fans
2 Timothy 3:16-17
Scripture Title: Make the Lord Visible
Pastor Greg Wiest
Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 6:6-9 "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates."
Sermon Summary:
Today’s message is about the importance of God’s Word and imprinting it on our hearts and on our children’s hearts. The context for our passage is that God had given the Israelites the Ten Commandments. They'd escaped slavery in Egypt and they were a nation of people coming out of a pagan culture. Living in the promised land, they would be surrounded by pagan Canaanite cultures that were saturated with evil and the occult. The Lord was reshaping them to live according to His principles and to become His people. The law was meant to help them live in a way that would help them to flourish and be blessed as a nation and as a people. Today, self-identity has taken center stage in American culture. Much of what our children are taught is confusing and it conflicts with God's Word and His framework for living. As Christians, our identity is in Christ. We need people to see that we belong to the Lord. We can make our identity visible by wearing a cross as a necklace or a bracelet, wearing one of our Got Hope church t-shirts, or having a Christian bumper sticker on our car. We want to build a Christian culture within our household. You could have the Bible and Scripture verses visible in your home. You should have daily family devotions, pray together, and talk about the sermon and the Sunday school lesson after worship. We want children and our families to know what is in the Word of God and how it applies to our lives. When we make God’s Word and his framework central to our lives, we're setting the foundation of following Jesus and living as He would have us live.
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