Catechism 2014
Questions for Lord’s Day #4
January 26, 2014
Children
Q.9. Who is God?
A. God is a Spirit, and does not have a body like men.
Q.10. Where is God?
A. God is everywhere.
Q.11. Can you see God?
A. No. I cannot see God, but he always sees me.
Adults
Q. 9. Is God unjust to Mankind by requiring of him in the
Law that which he is not able to perform?
A. No, For God had made Man such a one as (l) he might
perform it: but Man, by the urging of the (m) Devil and his own stubbornness
deprived himself and all his posterity of those Divine Graces.
(l) John 3.5. Ephesians 4.24.
(m) Luke 10.30
Q. 10. Does God leave this stubbornness and falling away of
Man unpunished?
A. No. But God is angry in most dreadful (n) manner, as well
for the sinful condition in which we are born, as also for those which we
ourselves commit, and in most just Judgment punishes them with present and
everlasting Punishments as he pronounced: “‘Cursed be anyone who does not
confirm the words of this law by doing them. (o)”
(n) Rom. 5.12.
(o) Deut. 27.26. Gal. 3.10.
Q. 11. Is God not merciful?
A. Yes, Truly He is
(p) merciful, but he is also (q) just. Therefore his Justice requires that which is committed against the divine
Majesty of God, should also be repaid with extreme, that is,
everlasting Punishment both in Body and Soul.
(p) Exod. 34.6. Psalm 5.4, 5, 6.
(q) Exod. 20.5. 2 Corinthians 6.14.
Fighter Verse:
1 Thessalonians
5:14-17
14 And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage
the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. 15 See that no one
repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to
everyone. 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing…
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