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Bristol SDA Church

Garhett Morgan

Family Worship

Father, Lord, I just wanna thank you for this Sabbath, and Lord, you have given us so many opportunities.

You've given us the opportunity to be here today, you've given us the opportunity to worship you, the opportunity to give back to you in tithes and offerings, Lord, the opportunity to learn and to change.

Father, we ask that as we are here we would follow your leading hand, that we would be guided by you.

Father, may your Spirit be here and speak.

Lord, help my words not to mar your message.

By the way, praise the Lord that Jeremy and Christy had their babies this week.

They came and there didn't seem to be any issues.

We'll have a couple new church members here very soon.

Well, today I just want to open up with the verse here.

And David, always the man good with words, writes this.

All right, Psalm 95, 6 and 7 says this, "'O come, let us worship and bow down.

Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker." That's what we're doing now, amen, worshiping the Lord in spirit and truth.

But then it says in verse 7, for He is our God and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of his hand.

Today, if you will hear his voice, then it continues, harden not your heart.

My friends, are we commanded to worship the Lord?

It's something that God commands us to do.

Now, we don't always have to listen to that command, but if you've ever read David in his Psalms or even some of the other places that he writes, you'll find that David doesn't just worship the Lord, but he enjoys worshipping God.

Like when Jesus comes before the Lord and prays to Him, it's something that David actually looks forward to doing.

We've been talking about a few things here the past few weeks.

A couple weeks ago we learned about the importance of Bible study and how this is a living word.

In the past we've talked about prayer, how important it is to the Christian life.

They're things that you do know very well.

But we often need reminded of the importance of these things, don't we?

And that's what we're going to be doing the next few weeks.

I know we've discussed it already, but in the next few weeks to come, we're going to be discussing things like what a Christian attitude should look like.

We're going to be talking about stewardship financially, also spiritual stewardship as well.

We're going to be talking about lots of basic, if you're taking a college course, Christianity 101.

But today we're going to be talking about something that is probably 1 of the most important things that we can talk about here, especially if you have young people in your home.

And by young people, I mean under the age of 16.

Today what we're gonna be talking about is the importance of family worship.

Now you might be thinking to yourself, well, if you have kids, this message is especially for you today.

Maybe you're thinking, well, I don't have kids.

Maybe you're looking forward to having kids soon.

Well, if you're looking forward to bring someone into this world in the future, this message is also for you.

You might be thinking, well, my kids are grown and they're out of the house and now it's just me and my spouse.

This message can be for you too, personally.

But today what we'll be talking about is the importance of spending that time in family worship.

It's no secret that when you look around the world today, when you look around our country today especially, because that's where we are, when you look around the country today, you'll find that a lot of our homes are falling apart.

And when the family circle is falling apart and crumbling and is unstable, we find that society is only as stable as the family is.

And because we have unstable families, we're finding that we're living in a very unstable society.

Not everyone has the privilege of growing up with a father and mother that has family worship with them.

My friends, today if you have children and you're not doing family worship, hopefully by the end of this message you'll see the importance of having it.

I want to read you a quote here from Seventh Testimonies to the Church, page 42.

It's a pretty short quote, but it really hit me this week.

It says this, and yet in this time of fearful peril, that's where we're at, right?

Some who profess to be Christians have no family worship.

They do not teach their children to love and fear Him.

Many have separated themselves so far from Him that they feel under condemnation in approaching Him at all.

They cannot come boldly to the throne of grace, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.

There is a form of godliness without the power.

My friends, I don't know if you have ever been going through something in your life, maybe there's a temptation that you're dealing with, maybe there's just been something that's thrown at you that is really causing lots of stress, and you know that you should be able to overcome it, but it feels like you're powerless to overcome it.

My friends, I can tell you this, if you're connected to Jesus, you have the power to overcome, amen?

But here's the point that I want to make today.

We all want our homes to be hedges where Jesus lives, amen?

We want our home to be a place that we invite Christ into and we don't let Him go, but he actually lives there, right?

And 1 of the best ways to have Jesus continually live in your home is consistent family worship.

We're talking practically here, aren't we?

Well, there are 3 main excuses for why couples or families with children don't have family worship.

There's 3 main excuses, And these are the 3 excuses that I always hear when it comes to people that struggle or don't do family worship at all.

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