Family Bible Study – Week 4 Recap
July 8, 2021
Involves:
- Dinner
- Study/Discussion
- Prayer
- Fellowship/Dessert
If you haven’t yet read the introduction, vision, and the previous weeks’ content for this family Bible study, please catch-up at calvaryphx.com/kids before proceeding.
Watch 3-minute video on this week’s part of the Shema we’re looking at.
VIDEO
Discussion
HEART – “Lev”
What does the Bible say about the heart? A lot–it’s mentioned about 1000 times!
- The heart is that spiritual part of us where our emotions and desires dwell.
- It contains our intellect, understanding, wisdom, and discernment.
- Feeling emotions-bad and good.
- Choices are made.
- Affections are centered.
- The center of all human existence.
Look Up & Discuss
- Acts 13:22 – We have a heart because God does.
- 1 Sam 2:35, Jer. 3:15 – God blesses His people with leaders who know and follow His heart.
- Jer. 17:9 – The human heart is naturally evil, treacherous and deceitful.
Because of the fall into sin, our hearts (mind, emotions, and desires) are tainted by sin.
- Psalm 44:21 – God knows the secrets of our heart, we may not understand them, but God does (1 Cor. 14:25)
- Jer. 17:10 – God judges righteously
Jesus pointed out the fallen condition of our hearts:
- Mark 7:21-23 – our biggest problem is internal.
So how are we saved?
- Romans 10:10 – We get a heart change by the power of God in response to faith.
- Ps. 51:10 – God can give us a new heart
- Ezek. 36:26 –
- Is. 57:15 – revives the heart of the contrite
- Ps. 17:3 – God’s work of creating a new heart involves testing our hearts (Deut. 8:2 also)
- Neh. 7:5, 1 Kings 10:24, 2 Cor. 8:16 – God fills our hearts with new ideas, new wisdom, and new desires.
- Prov. 4:23 – Guard our hearts, it’s the core of our being.
- Jeremiah 31:31-34 – God declares He will write His law on our hearts.
- Hebrews 8:8-13 – This is fulfilled in New Testament under Jesus. Old is now obsolete.
What’s that law? LOVE—we talked about last week.
Our kids’ hearts – the Internet/social media can get ahold of them before we even realize it and do lots of damage.
Great need for supervision and filtering.
Resources: covenanteyes.com, axis.org (see below).
Home-work:
- Besides your personal daily devotions and prayer
- Encourage to pray regularly as a family
- Encourage to have family devos at least once a week (song, scripture, prayer).
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See you on Thursday!
