Feb. 01, 2026

Acts 13:26-41

The New Family Tradition

Family Tradition

Number 1

Make the decision now that your house will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:14,15

Number 2

Make Living and Talking about Jesus priority one. Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Number 3

Live Out the Promises of God as the Family of God.
Acts 13:26-41

1. The Promise

Acts 13:32-34

A. The Promise made

Genesis 12:1-3

B. The Promise kept

Ephesians 2:12-14

1 John 2:25

“God is His own standard. God imitates nobody and is influenced by nobody. That may be hard to take in this degenerate age, when we’ve introduced the idea of the VIP, the man of influence. And they say, crudely enough, ‘It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know.’ But you can’t influence God one way or the other. And God imitates nobody-He is never forced to act out of character. Nothing can force God to act otherwise than faithfully to Himself and to us- no person, no circumstance, nothing.” AW Tozer, The Attributes of God

2. Our Problem: Broken Promises

A. To God

1 John 1:6, 8, 10

B. To Others: family

Colossians 3:6-9

John 14:6

3. Our Need for the Power of God for Promise

A. Life of promise

2 Peter 1:3-4, 11

Luke 3:8

Luke 19:9

B. Promise: God has not failed nor will He

Romans 9:6-8

C. Being sons and daughters of Abraham

Galatians 3:6-9, 13-14

1 Peter 3:1, 3-6

Reflection Questions:

1. How do you live out the promises of God?

2. How do you keep truth in your family? Do you keep your promises, and do you teach Jesus as the truth?

Follow UP in the Word through the Week…

Monday:

Read: Genesis 12:1-3

What did God promise Abram? How has that promise come true for the lives of those who follow Jesus Christ?

Tuesday:

Read: Ephesians 2:12-14

What has Christ accomplished for us? How were we stranger to the covenant of promise?

Wednesday:

Read: 1 John 2:25

What is the promise made to us? How do we receive that promise?

Thursday:

Read: 1 John 1:6, 8, 10

How do truth and promise interact with one another?

Friday:

Read: Colossians 3:6-9

How is our life shaped by the promises of God and His truth according to these verses?

Saturday:

Read: 2 Peter 1:3-4, 11

What makes the promise “precious”? Are they of that value in your life?