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48 Cards in this Set
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Who is the first and best of beings? |
God. |
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What is the chief end of man? |
To glorify God and to enjoy him forever |
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How do we know that there is a God? |
The light of nature in man and the works of God But his word and spirit reveals him unto us for salvation. |
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What is the word of God? |
The Old and New Testaments scriptures with divine inspiration. The only infallible rule of faith. |
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What do the scriptures mainly teach? |
What we are to believe about God, and the duty God requires. |
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Are there more Gods than one? |
There is only one living and true God |
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How many persons are there in the God head? |
There are three. They are all equal in power but are the same essence of one God. |
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How did God create man? |
God created male and female in his own image with knowledge, righteousness, holiness, and dominion over the creatures. |
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What is sin? |
The transgression of the revealed will of God. |
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Into what condition did the fall bring mankind? |
It brought us into a condition of sin and misery |
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Did God leave all mankind to perish in the condition of sin and misery? |
No. Through grace God delivered man out of the condition of sin into a condition of salvation by a Redeemer. |
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Who is the redeemer of God’s elect? |
The Lord Jesus Christ who is the eternal son of God. |
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How did Christ being the son of God become man? |
By taking to himself a true body and reasonable soul. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary without sin. |
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How does Christ perform the office of prophet? |
By revealing to us the will of God for our salvation, through the word. |
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How does Christ perform the office of a priest? |
By offering himself as a sacrifice to reconcile us to God and by making intercession for us before God. |
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How does Christ perform the office of a king? |
By conquering us to himself, And by restraining and defeating all of our enemies. |
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What do we mean by Christ’s humiliation? |
that he underwent the miseries of this life, such as: the wrath of God, the death of the cross, being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time. |
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What do we mean by Christ exaltation? |
We mean his rising again from the dead on the third day, ascending up into heaven, sitting at the right hand of the father, and coming to judge the world at the last day. |
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How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ? |
By the effective application of redemption to us, by his Holy Spirit. |
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How does the spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? |
By working faith in us and uniting us to Christ in our calling. |
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What is justification? |
When God pardons all our sins and accepts us as righteous in his sight. |
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What is sanctification? |
when we are enabled to die unto sin and live into righteousness. |
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What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? |
At death the soul of believers are made perfect in holiness and immediately pass unto glory. The bodies rest in their graves till the resurrection. |
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What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? |
Believers are raised up in glory. They shall be openly acknowledged on the day of judgement and made perfect. |
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What shall be done to the wicked at death? |
At death they will be cast into the torments of hell. their bodies will stay in their graves until the resurrection. |
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What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgement? |
The bodies of the wicked shall be raised out of the grave and sentenced together with their souls. They shall have torment from the devil forever. |
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What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgement? |
The bodies of the wicked shall be raised out of the grave and sentenced together with their souls. They shall have torment from the devil and his angels forever. |
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What is the duty which God requires of man? |
He requires obedience that comes from faith. |
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What is the sum of the Ten Commandments? |
To love the lord our God, with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind and to love our neighbors as ourselves. |
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What does every sin deserve? |
God’s wrath and curse both in this life, and in that which is to come. |
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What does God require of us that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin? |
God requires faith in Jesus Christ, and repentance unto life with the diligent use of all the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption. |
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What is faith in Jesus Christ? |
It is saving grace. Through this grace we receive and rest upon Christ alone for salvation trusting him to forgive our sins and guide us to eternal joy. |
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What is repentance unto life? |
Saving grace by which a sinner turn from it to God with full purpose of new obedience. |
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What are the outward and ordinary means by which Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption? |
Through the word, baptism, the Lord’s supper and prayer. All which are made effectual to the elect for salvation. |
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How is then word made effective for salvation? |
The spirit of God makes the reading and the preaching of the word an effective means of converting sinners and building them up in holiness through faith unto salvation. |
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How is the word to be read and heard that it may become effective for salvation? |
We must attend to it with diligence, preparation and prayer, receive it in faith and love, lay it up in our hearts and practice it in our lives. |
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How do baptism and the Lord’s supper become effective means of salvation? |
not from any virtue in them or in him that administers them but only by the blessing of Christ and the working of his spirit in those who receive him. |
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How do Baptist and the Lord’s supper differ from the other ordinances of God? |
They were specifically instituted by Christ to represent and apply to believers the benefits of the new covenant by visible and outward signs. |
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What is baptism? |
A holy ordinance in which immersion in the water in the name of the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. It signifies being joined to Christ and our sharing the benefits of the covenant of grace. |
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To whom is baptism administered? |
All who actually profess repentance, faith, and obedience towards God |
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Are infants of professing believers to be baptized? |
No because there is no example in the scriptures to baptize infants. Baptism is made as an expression of faith. |
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How is baptism rightly administered? |
By immersion of the whole body in water in the name of the father, son and Holy Spirit. |
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What is the duty of those who are rightly baptized? |
To give themselves to some visible and orderly Christian church, that they may live out their walk with Jesus Christ. |
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What is the visible church? |
The organized society of professing believers of all ages, where the gospel is being preached and baptism and the Lord’s supper is administered in true faith. |
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What is the invisible church? |
The whole number of the elect that have been or shall be gathered into one under Christ. |
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What is the Lords supper? |
The holy ordinance of the church. The eating of bread and drinking of the cup in honor of Christ death. Those that drink and eat in a worth manner partake of Christ body and blood not physically but spiritually. |
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What is prayer? |
Prayer is an offering up of our desires to God for things agreeable to his will in the name of Jesus Christ, with confession of our sin and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies. |
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What rule has God given for our direction in prayer? |
The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer but the special rule of direction is the prayer that Christ taught his disciples better known as the Lord’s Prayer. |
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