Sunday Program

 “Im So Blessed"

Welcome

Children and Student Ministries Report

Call to Worship 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 & 13

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things…. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Prayer of Invocation and Confession of Sin

“Standing on the Promises of God”

Old Testament Scripture Reading Psalm 127:3-5

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

New Testament Scripture Reading Ephesians 6:1-4

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

“Our God Saves”

Confession of Faith Second Helvetic Confession 29:4

It is most certain that those works which parents do in true faith, by the duties of marriage, and government of their families, are, before God, holy and good works indeed, and do please God no less than prayers, fastings, and alms-deeds.

Pastoral Prayer

“Nearer, My God To Thee"

Sermon: Deuteronomy 6:4-9

“Loving God as Families", Dr. Mike Campbell

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

“A Christian Home” (#451)

Benediction Numbers 6:23-24

[May] the Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

Gloria Patri

Deuteronomy 6:4-9:

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Sermon Introduction:

Deuteronomy 5:7:“You shall have no other gods before me.”

1. What God wanted for Israel.

Verses 4-5: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Matthew 22:36-38: “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment.

Verse 4a: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

1 Corinthians 8:4b-6: We know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” 5 For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Verse 5: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Verse 6: And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

2. What God wanted for Israel’s children.

Verse 7: You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Verses 8-9: You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Resources:

• The Family Worship Book: A Resource Book for Family Devotions by Terry Johnson
• The Beginner’s Gospel Story Bible by Jared Kennedy