Sunday Sermon … Your Family and Significant Events
I’m excited! The first Word Keeper revival and this Sunday Sermon kicks it off!
This one is from May 23.
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The most important days are the ordinary days, the regular days. However, you and your family can also use significant events to remember God and to connect with God. … God encouraged the Israelites to do so, and we still do this today.
Three ways to connect with God:
1. Make holidays, holy-days. … Take important days and commemorate them so you won’t forget them. … In Exodus 12-13 Moses has been God’s messenger to Pharaoh. In chapter 12, the tenth and final plague is delivered. This plague involved an angel who would passover all the houses and kill the first-born son of each house that did not have blood of a lamb on the door-post. After this plague, the Israelites were allowed to leave Egypt in the great Exodus. … God told the Israelites to make a holiday (or holy-day) in order to remember what God did for them. Each year, they were to have a meal called Passover. Each family would roast a lamb and eat the whole lamb that night. … Commemorate and celebrate! These days that are meant for us to remember important landmarks can also be fun. Holidays don’t have to be just commemorative or just fun. They can be both. … Holidays are also meant to be teaching opportunities. Parents are to teach their children why they commemorate and celebrate the holiday. … Here in the U.S. we have Easter and Christmas as our main Christian holidays
2. Create landmarks to record the activity of God in your family life. … In Joshua 4 When the Israelites were camped on the banks of the Jordan River and about to reach the Promised Land and Joshua became the leader of the Israelites, God performed a miracle through Joshua to help validate him as the new leader. The priest carrying the Ark of the Covenant stepped into the river and it dried up. As the priests stood in the middle of the dried up river, Joshua had twelve men, one from each tribe of Israel, go back and stack large stones from the riverbank in the middle of the river. They were monuments that commemorate and celebrate what God did for them. Now when children asked why the stones were there, they were to tell the children of the events of that day and the place. … When God does something in your family, create a landmark or a memento of a what happened there or on that day. Just be sure that you do not worship the landmark.
3. Mark times of transition in your family. … In Joshua 23-24, Joshua is getting to be an old man and is ready to hand leadership over to someone else. This is a significant event that and the Israelites needs to realize it. So Joshua calls the next generation of leaders to him and encourages them and challenges them to be strong and to fear the Lord. But he also tells them to make their own decisions and decide whether or not they will serve the one true God or the false gods of other nations. Then he says, “but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” … They had to make a choice in this time of transition. Serve God or serve false gods? They chose God. The covenant was renewed and Joshua recorded the event and then he took a stone and set it there as a witness to what happened.
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