LORD’S DAY 1 – May 23, 2010

1. What is your only comfort in life and in death?

That I, with body and soul, both in life and in death,^[1] am not my own,^[2] but belong to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ,^[3] who with His precious blood^[4] has fully satisfied for all my sins,^[5] and redeemed me from all the power of the devil;^[6] and so preserves me^[7] that without the will of my Father in heaven not a hair can fall from my head;^[8] indeed, that all things must work together for my salvation.^[9] Wherefore, by His Holy Spirit, He also assures me of eternal life,^,[10] and makes me heartily willing and ready from now on to live unto Him.^[11]

^[1]Rom. 14:7-8.  ^[2]I Cor. 6:19.  ^[3]I Cor. 3:23.  ^[4]I Pet. 1:18-19.  ^[5]I Jn. 1:7; 2:2.  ^[6]I Jn. 3:8. ^[7]Jn. 6:39.  ^[8]Mt. 10:29-30;  Lk. 21:18.  ^[9]Rom. 8:28.  ^[10]II Cor. 1:21-22;  Eph. 1:13-14; Rom. 8:16.  ^[11]Rom. 8:1.

2. How many things are necessary for you to know, that in this comfort you may live and die happily?

Three things:^[1] First, the greatness of my sin and misery.^[2] Second, how I am redeemed from all my sins and misery.^[3] Third, how I am to be thankful to God for such redemption.^[4]

^[1]Lk. 24:46-47;I Cor. 6:11;Tit. 3:3-7.^[2]Jn. 9:41; 15:22.^[3]Jn. 17:3.^[4]Eph. 5:8-11; I Pet. 2:9-12;  Rom. 6:11-14;  *Rom. 7:24-25;  *Gal. 3:13;  *Col. 3:17.

FIRST PART: OF MAN’S MISERY

LORD’S DAY 2 – May 30, 2010

3. From where do you know your misery?

From the Law of God.^[1]

^[1]Rom. 3:20;  *Rom. 7:7.

4. What does the Law of God require of us?

Christ teaches us in sum, Mt. 22: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”^[1]

^[1]Lk. 10:27.  *Deut. 6:5.  *Gal. 5:14.

5. Can you keep all this perfectly?

No,^[1] for I am prone by nature to hate God and my neighbor.^[2]

^[1]Rom. 3:10-12, 23;  I Jn. 1:8, 10.  ^[2]Rom. 8:7;  Eph. 2:3.