Jul 18
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Text: Gen 2:1-3 (read as group)
Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Test
1. What further reasons were given this week in support of keeping, honoring, and obeying the sabbath?
2. Read as a group the LBC of 1689 22:7 and 8 (as listed and discussed in the sermon) and discuss its meaning and applications.
3. Below are the 5 points from Sunday’s sermon. Review and discuss each one as a group and their applications to the Christian life.
-1. Under Moses the Sabbath day remained substantially the same.
-2. Under Moses the Sabbath day contained a gospel promise and a word of condemnation.
-3. Under Moses the Sabbath day was a day for convocation.
-4. Under Moses Sabbath observance was more rigorous.
-5. Under Moses there was an expectation that the Sabbath would remain and yet be altered with
the coming of the Messiah and the establishment of the New Covenant.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Verse for reflection/meditation-
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. (Genesis 2:1-3)
