The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 2
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Heidelberg Catechism Part 1 (Lord’s Days 2-4)
Heidelberg Catechism Part 1 (Lord’s Days 2-4)
Lord’s Day 2 - our misery
Lord’s Day 3 - the knowledge of our sin
Lord’s Day 4 - the punishment for sin
Question 3
Question 3
Q. From where do you know your sins and misery?
A. From the law of God.
Saan mo ba natuklasan ang tungkol sa iyong mga kasalanan at pagdurusa? Mula sa Kautusan ng Diyos.
What is this question asking?
misery we can know by experience.
But not — root cause and extent.
And the Christian answers that the cause of his misery is not in something outside of himself. The Christian knows that it makes no difference how you change things. You can improve the surroundings, etc., but that doesn't touch the root of my misery. You can have prohibition. You can remove all sorrow and suffering and grief, and make this as good a place to live in as you can conceive of; but it doesn’t help. My misery is not in strong drink. My misery is not even in hell. Take hell away and I will still be miserable. My misery is in me. My misery is in my heart. I am miserable. My heart is crooked. — H. Hoeksema
Ano ang “kautusan” na tinutukoy dito? Anu-ano ang iba’t ibang function or purposes nito?
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
The Commentary of Dr. Zacharias Ursinus on the Heidelberg Catechism Question 3. Whence Knowest Thou Thy Misery?
The misery of man, therefore, is his wretched condition since the fall, consisting of these two great evils: First, that human nature is depraved, sinful, and alienated from God, and secondly, that, on account of this depravity, mankind are exposed to eternal condemnation, and deserve to be rejected of God.
Question 4
Question 4
Q. What does God’s law require of us?
A. Christ teaches us this in a summary in Matthew 22: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.
Ano ang hinihingi sa atin ng Kautusan ng Diyos? Itinuturo ito sa atin ni Kristo sa pamaraang binuod sa Mateo 22: “Iibigin mo ang Panginoon mong Diyos ng buong puso, at ng buong kaluluwa, at ng buong pag-iisip, at ng buong lakas. Ito ang dakila at unang utos. Ang pangalawa ay katulad nito, iibigin mo ang iyong kapwa gaya ng pag-ibig mo sa iyong sarili. Sa dalawang kautusang ito nakasalalay ang lahat ng mga kautusan at mga propeta.”
Bakit kaya yung summary ng law na “love God and love others” ang sagot dito at hindi yung Ten Commandments?
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
The Commentary of Dr. Zacharias Ursinus on the Heidelberg Catechism Question 4. What Doth the Law of God Require of Us?
To love God with the whole heart, is, upon a due acknowledgment of his infinite goodness, reverently to regard and esteem him as our highest good, to love him supremely, to rejoice and trust in him alone, and to prefer his glory to all other things, so that there may not be in us the least thought, inclination, or desire for anything that might be displeasing to him; yea, rather to be willing to suffer the loss of all things that may be dear to us, or to endure the heaviest calamity, than that we should be separated from communion with him, or offend him in the smallest matter, and lastly, to direct all this to the end that he alone may be glorified by us.
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
What is the connection of loving God and loving others?
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Question 5
Question 5
Q. Can you keep all this perfectly?
A. No, I am inclined by nature to hate God and my neighbor.
Kaya mo bang isakatuparang ganap ang lahat ng ito? Hindi, sapagkat ako ay likas na namumuhi sa Diyos at pati na sa aking kapwa.
Ano ang pagkakaiba ng sagot na ito sa karaniwang iniisip o paniniwala ng mga tao ngayon tungkol sa sarili nila?
Ano ang nararamdaman mo sa pagsagot sa tanong na ‘to?
as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 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— 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.
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
Every attempt on the part of sinful men to compromise or to deny this is a hopeless delusion. When we begin to see this, we begin to understand what God intended us to learn through the law. And when we begin to grasp the unpleasant truth about our own position and condition, we also begin to realize our need for Jesus Christ as our only comfort.
G. I Williamson
Paano naman nagiging comforting sa atin ang mga ito? Hindi ba’t parang mas nagiging miserable pa tayo kung malaman nating ganito pala kalala ang kundisyon natin?
It confirms you are a child of God.
It leads you to your Savior.
But what the catechism means is, do you know that that hatred is your misery? Is that your experience? And the Christian answers, “Yes, my misery is my corruption.” Is your sin your misery? If that is true, then it is only through grace, it is only because the love of God has been implanted in your heart that you say, “My sin is my misery.” The natural man will never say, “My sin is my misery.” If you have learned to know that your corruption is your misery, then it is by grace. — H. Hoeksema
And what are we to do? Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest, says the Lord. No reformation of society, no evolution, no education, no prohibition will help. The only thing that will remove your misery is an operation. It must be cut out. It must be washed away in the blood of Christ. You must go to Him. You must go to Him daily. For this is the promise, Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.—H. Hoeksema