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1. What is your only comfort in life and death? |
That I, with body and soul, both in life and in death, am not my own, but belong to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ, who with his precious blood has fully satisfied for all my sins, and redeemed me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me that without the will of my Father in heaven not a hair can fall from my head; indeed, that all things must work together for my salvation. Wherefore, by His Holy Spirit, He also assures me of eternal life, and makes me heartily willing and ready from now on to live unto Him. |
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2. How many things are necessary for you to know, that you in this comfort may live and die happily?
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Three things: first, the greatness of my sin and misery. Second, how I am redeemed from all my sins and misery. Third, how I am to be thankful to God for such redemption.
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3. From where do you know your sins and misery?
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From the Law of God. |
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4. What does the Law of God require of us?
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Christ teaches us in sum, in Matthew 22: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first and greatest commandment; and the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
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5. Can you keep this all perfectly?
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No, for I am by nature inclined to hate God and my neighbor.
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6. Did God create man, therefore, wicked and perverse?
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No, but God created man good, and after His own image, that is, in true righteousness and true holiness; that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love Him, and live with Him in eternal blessedness to praise and glorify Him.
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7. From where, then, comes this depraved nature of man?
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From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise, whereby our nature became so corrupt that we are all conceived and born in sin.
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8. But are we so depraved, that we are totally unable to do any good and inclined to all evil?
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Yes; unless we are born again by the Spirit of God.
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9. Does not God, then, wrong man by requiring of him in His law that which he cannot perform?
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No, for God so made man that he could perform it; but man, through the instigation of the devil, by willful disobedience deprived himself and all his posterity of this power.
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10. Will God permit such disobedience and apostasy to go unpunished?
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By no means; but he is terribly displeased with our inborn sin as well as our actual sins, and will punish them in just judgment in time and eternity, as He has declared: Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them." (Dr 27:26)
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