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Lord's Day 19

  • Q. 50.  Why is it added, “and sitteth at the right hand of God”?
    A.  Because Christ is ascended into heaven for this end, that He might appear as Head of His church,1 by whom the Father governs all things.2

  • Q. 51.  What profit is this glory of Christ, our Head, unto us?
    A.  First, that by His Holy Spirit He pours out heavenly graces upon us His members;3 and then that by His power He defends and preserves us against all enemies.4

  • Q. 52.  What comfort is it to thee that “Christ shall come again to judge the quick and the dead”?
    A.  That in all my sorrows and persecutions, with uplifted head I look for the very same person who before offered Himself for my sake to the tribunal of God, and has removed all curse from me, to come as judge from heaven;5 who shall cast all His and my enemies into everlasting condemnation,6 but shall translate me with all His chosen ones to Himself, into heavenly joys and glory.7

  1. Eph. 1:20-22. Col. 1:18.

  2. Mat. 28:18. John 5:22.

  3. Eph. 4:8.

  4. Psa. 2:9. John 10:28.

  5. Luke 21:28. Rom. 8:23, 24. 1 Thes. 4:16.

  6. 2 Thes. 1:6-9. Mat. 25:41.

  7. Ps. 2:9. John 10:28.

Lord's Day 18

  • Q. 46.  How dost thou understand these words, “He ascended into heaven”?
    A.  That Christ, in sight of His disciples, was taken up from earth into heaven;1 and that He continues there for our interest,2 until He comes again to judge the quick and the dead.

  • Q. 47.  Is not Christ then with us even to the end of the world, as He hath promised?
    A.  Christ is very man and very God; with respect to His human nature, He is no more on earth;3 but with respect to His Godhead, majesty, grace, and spirit, He is at no time absent from us.4

  • Q. 48.  But if His human nature is not present wherever His Godhead is, are not then these two natures in Christ separated from one another?
    A.  Not at all, for since the Godhead is illimitable and omnipresent,5 it must necessarily follow that the same is beyond the limits of the human nature He assumed,6 and yet is nevertheless in this human nature and remains personally united to it.

  • Q. 49.  Of what advantage to us is Christ’s ascension into heaven?
    A.  First, that He is our advocate in the presence of His Father in heaven;7 secondly, that we have our flesh in heaven as a sure pledge that He, as the Head, will also take up to Himself, us, His members;8 thirdly, that He sends us His Spirit as an earnest,9 by whose power we seek the things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God, and not things on earth.10

  1. Acts 1:9. Mark 16:19.

  2. Heb. 4:14. Rom. 8:34. Eph. 4:10.

  3. Acts 3:21. John 3:13. John 16:28.

  4. Mat. 28:20.

  5. Acts 7:49. Jer. 23:24.

  6. Mat. 28:20. John 16:28. John 17:11. John 3:13.

  7. Heb. 9:24. 1 John 2:1. Rom. 8:34.

  8. John 14:2-3. Eph. 2:6.

  9. John 14:16. 2 Cor. 1:22. 2 Cor. 5:5.

  10. Col. 3:1. Phil. 3:20.

Lord's Day 17

  • Q. 45.  What doth the resurrection of Christ profit us?
    A.  First, by His resurrection He has overcome death, that He might make us partakers of that righteousness which He had purchased for us by His death;1 secondly, we are also by His power raised up to a new life;2 and lastly, the resurrection of Christ is a sure pledge of our blessed resurrection.3

  1. 1 Cor. 15:16.

  2. Rom. 6:4. Col. 3:1ff.

  3. 1 Cor. 15. Rom. 8:11.

Lord's Day 16

  • Q. 40.  Why was it necessary for Christ to humble Himself even unto death?
    A.  Because, with respect to the justice and truth of God,1 satisfaction for our sins could be made no otherwise than by the death of the Son of God.2

  • Q. 41.  Why was He also “buried”?
    A.  Thereby to prove that He was really dead.3

  • Q. 42.  Since then Christ died for us, why must we also die?
    A.  Our death is not a satisfaction for our sins, but only an abolishing of sin, and a passage into eternal life.4

  • Q. 43.  What further benefit do we receive from the sacrifice and death of Christ on the cross?
    A.  That by virtue thereof our old man is crucified, dead, and buried with Him;5 that so the corrupt inclinations of the flesh may no more reign in us;6 but that we may offer ourselves unto Him a sacrifice of thanksgiving.7

  • Q. 44.  Why is there added, “He descended into hell”?
    A.  That in my greatest temptations, I may be assured, and wholly comfort myself in this, that my Lord Jesus Christ, by His inexpressible anguish, pains, terrors, and hellish agonies, in which He was plunged during all His sufferings, but especially on the cross, hath delivered me from the anguish and torments of hell.8

  1. Gen. 2:17.

  2. Heb. 2:9, 10. Phil. 2:8.

  3. Acts 13:29. Mark 15:43,46.

  4. John 5:24. Phil. 1:23.

  5. Rom. 6:6, 7ff.

  6. Rom. 6:12.

  7. Rom. 12:1.

  8. Isa. 53:10. Mat. 27:46.

Lord's Day 15

  • Q. 37.  What dost thou understand by the words, “He suffered”?
    A.  That He, all the time that He lived on earth, but especially at the end of His life, sustained in body and soul the wrath of God against the sins of all mankind;1 that so by His passion, as the only propitiatory sacrifice,2 He might redeem our body and soul from everlasting damnation, and obtain for us the favor of God, righteousness and eternal life.

  • Q. 38.  Why did He suffer under Pontius Pilate as judge?
    A.  That He, being innocent, and yet condemned by a temporal judge,3 might thereby free us from the severe judgment of God to which we were exposed.4

  • Q. 39.  Is there anything more in His being crucified than if He had died some other death?
    A.  Yes [there is]; for thereby I am assured that He took on Him the curse which lay upon me; for the death of the cross was accursed of God.5

  1. 1 Pet. 2:24. Isa. 53:12.

  2. 1 John 2:2. Rom. 3:25.

  3. Luke 23:14. John 19:4. Psa. 69:4.

  4. Gal. 3:13, 14.

  5. Deut. 21:23. Gal. 3:13.

Lord's Day 14

  • Q. 35.  What is the meaning of these words — “He was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary”?
    A.  That God’s eternal Son, who is and continueth true and eternal God,1 took upon Him the very nature of man, of the flesh and blood of the Virgin Mary,2 by the operation of the Holy Ghost;3 that He might also be the true seed of David,4 like unto His brethren in all things, sin excepted.5

  • Q. 36.  What profit dost thou receive by Christ’s holy conception and nativity?
    A.  That He is our Mediator,6 and, with His innocence and perfect holiness, covers in the sight of God my sins,7 wherein I was conceived and brought forth.

  1. John 1:1. Col. 1:15. Psa. 2:7. Rom. 9:5. 1 John 5:20.

  2. John 1:14. Gal. 4:4.

  3. Mat. 1:18. Luke 1:35.

  4. Psa. 132:11. Acts 2:30. Rom. 1:3.

  5. Phil. 2:7. Heb. 4:15.

  6. Heb. 2:16, 17.

  7. Psa. 32:1. 1 Cor. 1:30. Rom. 8:34.

Lord's Day 13

  • Q. 33.  Why is Christ called the only begotten Son of God, since we are also the children of God?
    A.  Because Christ alone is the eternal and natural Son of God;1 but we are children adopted of God, by grace, for His sake.2

  • Q. 34.  Wherefore callest thou Him our Lord?
    A.  Because He hath redeemed us, both soul and body, from all our sins, not with gold or silver, but with His precious blood,3 and hath delivered us from all the power of the devil; and thus hath made us His own property.

  1. John 1:1. Heb. 1:2.

  2. Rom. 8:15-17. Eph. 1:5, 6.

  3. 1 Pet. 1:18, 19. 1 Cor. 6:20.

Lord's Day 12

  • Q. 31.  Why is He called Christ, that is, anointed?
    A.  Because He is ordained of God the Father, and anointed with the Holy Ghost,1 to be our chief Prophet and Teacher,2 who has fully revealed to us the secret counsel and will of God concerning our redemption; and to be our only High Priest,3 who by the one sacrifice of His body has redeemed us, and makes continual intercession with the Father for us;4 and also to be our eternal King,5 who governs us by His Word and Spirit, and who defends and preserves us6 in (the enjoyment of) that salvation He has purchased for us.

  • Q. 32.  But why art thou called a Christian?
    A.  Because I am a member of Christ by faith,7 and thus am partaker of His anointing;8 that so I may confess His name,9 and present myself a living sacrifice of thankfulness to Him;10 and also that with a free and good conscience I may fight against sin and Satan in this life,11 and afterwards reign with Him eternally over all creatures.12

  1. Heb. 1:9.

  2. Deut. 18:18. Acts 3:22. John 1:18. John 15:15. Mat. 11:27.

  3. Psa. 110:4. Heb. 7:21. Heb. 10:14.

  4. Rom. 8:34.

  5. Psa. 2:6. Luke 1:33.

  6. Mat. 28:18. John 10:28.

  7. 1 Cor. 6:15.

  8. 1 John 2:27. Joel 2:28.

  9. Mat. 10:32.

  10. Rom. 12:1.

  11. Eph. 6:11, 12. 1 Tim. 1:18, 19.

  12. 2 Tim. 2:12.

Lord's Day 11

  • Q. 29.  Why is the Son of God called Jesus, that is, a Savior?
    A.  Because He saveth us, and delivereth us from our sins;1 and likewise, because we ought not to seek, neither can find salvation in any other.2 

  • Q. 30.  Do such then believe in Jesus the only Savior, who seek their salvation and welfare of saints, of themselves, or anywhere else?
    A.  They do not; for though they boast of Him in words, yet in deeds they deny Jesus the only deliverer and Savior;3 for one of these two things must be true, either that Jesus is not a complete Savior, or that they who by a true faith receive this Savior must find all things in Him necessary to their salvation.4

  1. Mat. 1:21.

  2. Acts 4:12.

  3. 1 Cor. 1:13, 31. Gal. 5:4.

  4. Col. 2:10. Isa. 9:6, 7. Col. 1:19, 20.

Lord's Day 10

  • Q. 27.  What dost thou mean by the providence of God?
    A.  The almighty and everywhere present power of God,1 whereby, as it were by His hand, He upholds and governs heaven, earth, and all creatures;2 so that herbs and grass, rain and drought,3 fruitful and barren years, meat and drink,4 health and sickness,5 riches and poverty,6 yea, and all things come, not by chance, but by His fatherly hand.7 

  • Q. 28.  What advantage is it to us to know that God has created, and by His providence doth still uphold all things?
    A.  That we may be patient in adversity;8 thankful in prosperity;9 and that in all things which may hereafter befall us, we place our firm trust in our faithful God and Father,10 that nothing shall separate us from His love;11 since all creatures are so in His hand, that without His will they cannot so much as move.12

  1. Acts 17:25-28.

  2. Heb. 1:3.

  3. Jer. 5:24.

  4. Acts 14:17.

  5. John 9:3.

  6. Prov. 22:2. Job 1:21.

  7. Mat. 10:29, 30. Eph. 1:11.

  8. Rom. 5:3. Psa. 39:9.

  9. Deut. 8:10. 1 Thes. 5:18.

  10. Rom. 5:3-6.

  11. Rom. 8:38, 39.

  12. Job 1:12. Job 2:6. Mat. 8:31. Isa. 10:15.

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