The Sum of the Ten Commandments (WSC 42; FC 80)
/The Ten Commandments can be summed up in the command to love God with all your heart, which, if done, means you will also love your neighbor as well.
The Ten Commandments can be summed up in the command to love God with all your heart, which, if done, means you will also love your neighbor as well.
The Ten Commandments summarize for us the Moral Law of God which was given at creation and continues to be of use to us, even after the fall.
The Moral Law is the Covenant of Works which required perfect and personal obedience and promised life for those who obey and threatened death for those who disobeyed.
God holds us accountable to obey all that he tells us in his word and nothing more.
On the Last Day, God’s people are publicly proclaimed to be innocent and rewarded with heaven, where they fulfill their created purpose.
When you die, your soul and body are separated, your soul going to heaven and your body resting in the grave until the Last Day.
There are three benefits which accompany or flow from justification and adoption and two benefits which accompany or flow from sanctification.
Sanctification is a long and slow process where God changes you to be more and more like him.
The Bible uses adoption to describ the reality that we have the rights of sons of God, namely to ask for help, receive discipline and inherit his kingdom.
God declares us righteous by doing two things: taking away our sin and giving us Christ’s obedience.
God gives true believers blessings in this life which flow from being united to Jesus in this world.
God enables us to believe in Jesus Christ by reversing our total depravity and, thereby, enabling us to understand, believe and trust in him for our salvation.
Faith takes hold of Jesus and what he possesses, but is, itself, a gift of God.
The Holy Spirit takes the accomplishments of Christ in history and applies them to the elect today.
The first petition of the Lord’s Prayer orients the whole prayer toward that which brings God glory and seeks His aid to help us be a part of what brings him glory.
The exaltation of Christ includes everything from his resurrection on.
The humiliation of Christ includes his birth and his death and everything in between.
To be our king, Jesus must both rule over his people in justice and conquer all his enemies.
Jesus serves as our priest by keeping God’s house holy, not letting any sin or enemy enter into it.
Pastor Dan McManigal is the pastor of Hope Presbyterian in Mercer Island, WA.
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