Catechism questions 17-20
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Last week
We didnt get to stay in the perfect state in which God created everything
Sin entered the world through what?
All of man kind has fallen
Because adam fell so we all did with him
The promise to adam was given to him and his descendants
So also the punishment for breaking this commandment
DONT GET STUCK HERE
Question 17 Into what state did the fall bring mankind?
Answer The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
16 To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.” 17 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
The Fall brought death
A darkness hovered over man from the time of the fall
A chasm was opened between God and man due to their sin
This seperation from God is the thing that leaves all men searching to fill “what’s missing”
This sense of something missing this misery and dispare comes from the sinfulness into which man fell
Question 18 What is the sinfulness of that state into which man fell?
Answer The sinfulness of the state into which man fell includes the guilt of Adam’s first sin, the lack of righteousness which he had before the Fall, and the corruption of every part of his nature, which is commonly called Original sin; together with all the actual sins which flow from it.
4 parts
Adams sin
Our lack of righteousness
The sin infection we have in every part of our nature
And our actual sin
10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” 13 “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” 14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.” 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 in their paths are ruin and misery, 17 and the way of peace they have not known.” 18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
Anne Frank said
“in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
On our own apart from God we can do no good thing
Can we do nice things sure
But we can do nothing that is pleasing to God
Because without him our nature is opposed to him
Disobedient to him
Sin is a disease that infects us completely
TOTAL DEPRAVITY
So thats sin so what about the misery?
Question 19 What is the misery of mankind’s fallen condition?
Answer All mankind, by their fall, lost fellowship with God and are under his wrath and curse. Therefore, they are subject to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.
8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The misery of our condition is just this
This life
Have you lived here long
have you experienced terrible things happen
Man apart from God is lost without hope
Toiling in our state of sinfulness
The idea of a lost fellowship with God
So strong
What is our chief end
To Glorify God and Enjoy him
How can we enjoy him if we dont know him
If we have lost fellowship with him
If we hide ourselves from him
The worst place to be
Dead in our trespasses
HOPELESS STATE
Thank God he didnt leave us there
Question 20 Did God leave all of mankind in their state of misery and sin to perish?
Answer In God’s eternal purpose and because it pleased Him, He chose some to everlasting life. These He freed from sin and misery, through a covenant of grace, and brought them salvation through a Redeemer.
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
17 For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. 18 Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. 19 For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. 20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
God had planned before the foundations of the earth to rescue us from our fallen state
God in his providence saved us from this state of sin and misery
Our seperation from God
Our broken fellowship with him
Our lost state in which we try to hide ourselves from God
Can be fixed
and the only one who can fix it is God himself
BUT GOD
6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
God fixed our broken state a brought us into salvation
Sure we live in a terrible state totally depraved with no way of saving ourselves lost, BUT GOD has a plan to fix that we will be able to glorify him and enjoy him forever because he made a way for us to do this
You no longer need to hide yourself because he has chosen us out of this life of sin and misery to an eternity in fellowship with him