This Week's Memory Work: First Catechism Questions:
FC 103 – Can you keep the Ten Commandments perfectly? No--since the fall of Adam, the only one who has been able to do this is Jesus.
FC 104 – Of what use are the Ten Commandments to you? They teach me what is pleasing to God, and how much I need a savior.
Shorter Catechism Questions:
WSC 88 – What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption? The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption are, his ordinances, especially the Word, sacraments, and prayer; all of which are made effectual to the elect for salvation.
WSC 89 – How is the Word made effectual to salvation? The Spirit of God makes the reading, but especially the preaching, of the Word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort, through faith, unto salvation.
WSC 90 – How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation? That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives.
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