What is family worship? (Click the arrow to the left)
As Christians, particularly Christian men, we are responsible to lead our households with strength and resolve in the ways of Christ. Leading our families in devotions and family worship is one way to lead our families, raising our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, Jesus Christ (cf. Deuteronomy 6:7; Ephesians 6:4).
In my house, we do morning and evenings. In the morning after we eat breakfast together, we all have our quiet times. We read our Bibles seperately and journal what we see. In the evenings before bed, we talk about what we saw in our morning Bible reading, I share my insight from my own devotional time, we ask questions from the New City Catechism, we sing a couple worship songs together, and then we pray as a family. Family worship doesn’t have to look like this. It may look different for every household, but I want to invite you to join me in leading our families well. Every weekday on this blog, I want to provide a guide for fathers to lead their families in some form of family worship. If your household doesn’t have a father, I believe the responsibility falls to the mother. Design a routine that works for your family, but be intentional about leading in the only way that matters instead of getting too caught up with the affairs of this world. Every Christian man is the pastor of his home. I believe the most important thing we can do for our children is (1) lead them in the home and (2) be faithful to the church as a family. As the family goes, so goes the nation. Our job as pastors to our family matters.
John 5:31-47
31 “If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is not true.
32 “There is another who testifies of Me, and I know that the testimony which He gives about Me is true.
33 “You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
34 “But the testimony which I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
35 “He was the lamp that was burning and was shining and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
36 “But the testimony which I have is greater than the testimony of John; for the works which the Father has given Me to accomplish—the very works that I do—testify about Me, that the Father has sent Me.
37 “And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.
38 “You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent.
39 “aYou search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
40 and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.
41 “I do not receive glory from men;
42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
43 “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44 “How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God?
45 “Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.
46 “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.
47 “But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
There are many people who have claimed to be the Christ, a prophet, an incarnation of a god, a mahdi, or something similar. They are usually false messiah’s who lead many people astray. What makes Jesus any different?
Jesus taught that if He bore witness about Himself, His witness is not true. The baptizer testified about Him, but even that was not a sufficient testimony. According to Jesus, the only sufficient testimony could come directly from God. If there was no testimony from God in a clear way, Jesus, according to His own words, was a liar.
Jesus gave us a way to falsify His claims about who He is. It seems God spent much time in human history inspiring many prophecies the messiah would have to fulfill. Jesus pointed at those prophecies and instructed people to compare Him to what had been written since Moses started writing Genesis. He challenged us to confirm that He fit the bill. He invited scrutiny. Then, He showed that many people don’t believe Moses. If we don’t believe those words that God inspired millennia in the past, how will we believe in Jesus or His words?
Today’s question from the New City Catechism:
Q- Why must the redeemer be truly God?
A- That because of his divine nature his obedience and suffering would be perfect and effective.
Acts 2:24 says,
24 “But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.
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