The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 4
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The First Part—Of the Misery of Man
The First Part—Of the Misery of Man
Truths concerning how great our sins and miseries are.
Truths that make us see we are helpless and without hope.
Truths that point us to our Only Savior, Jesus Christ.
Truths that make clear how great His saving work is.
Lord’s Day 4: Answering objections about God’s justice in dealing with sin (Questions 9-11)
Lord’s Day 4: Answering objections about God’s justice in dealing with sin (Questions 9-11)
Why do we sinners raise these kinds of objections? And why is it important to be dealt with?
These are objections that the sinner raises because he wants/hopes to sin and get away with it. This Lord’s Day, in answering these objections, destroys that hope and teaches that God is indeed just.
Question 9: BUT DOESN’T GOD DO US AN INJUSTICE BY REQUIRING IN HIS LAW WHAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO?
Question 9: BUT DOESN’T GOD DO US AN INJUSTICE BY REQUIRING IN HIS LAW WHAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO?
Grade 4 requiring to answer calculus questions. Or telling the blind to read. What else?
Question 9: BUT DOESN’T GOD DO US AN INJUSTICE BY REQUIRING IN HIS LAW WHAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO? No, God created humans with the ability to keep the law. They, however, tempted by the devil, in reckless disobedience, robbed themselves and all their descendants of these gifts.
9. Masasabi bang hindi makatarungan ang Diyos sa tao kung nag-uutos Siya ng hindi naman kayang sundin ng tao dahil sa kanyang makasalanang kalagayan? Hindi; sapagkat nilikha ng Diyos ang tao na may kakayahan sa pagsunod; ngunit dahil sa panunukso ng diyablo at ng kanyang sariling pagsuway, inalisan niya ang kanyang sarili at lahat ng kanyang magiging angkan ng kakayahang kaloob ng Diyos.
Why is it “fair” for God to demand of man what man is not able to perform?
Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright, but they pursued many schemes.”
When God created man, he was able to keep God’s commandments. It is entirely man’s own fault that he is no longer able to do what he was able to do in the beginning. — G. I. Williamson
Giving downpayment to contractor, but contractor spent it on vacations.
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned.
Federal headship, Adam as our representative. Is this fair? Can you think of similar examples, like war.
So then, as through one trespass there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is justification leading to life for everyone. For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.
Question 10: WILL GOD PERMIT SUCH DISOBEDIENCE AND REBELLION TO GO UNPUNISHED?
Question 10: WILL GOD PERMIT SUCH DISOBEDIENCE AND REBELLION TO GO UNPUNISHED?
What if you as a parent to your child? Or a judge to a criminal?
Question 10: WILL GOD PERMIT SUCH DISOBEDIENCE AND REBELLION TO GO UNPUNISHED? Certainly not. He is terribly angry about the sin we are born with as well as the sins we personally commit. As a just judge He punishes them now and in eternity. He has declared: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Hahayaan ba ng Diyos na ang gayong pagsuway at pagrerebelde ay hindi mapaparusahan? Hinding-hindi. Siya ay lubhang galit sa ating orihinal pati na ang mga nagawang kasalanan. Lalapatan Niya ng kaukulang parusa sa kasalukuyang buhay at sa kabilang buhay ang lahat ng mga ito ayon sa Kanyang makatarungang hatol. Ipinahayag Niya sa Kasulatan, “Sumpain ang hindi tumutupad sa lahat ng nasusulat sa aklat ng Kautusan.”
For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,
And just as it is appointed for people to die once—and after this, judgment—
Paano ang pagpaparusa ng Diyos sa buhay ngayon? Sa kabilang buhay?
Nararapat ba tayong parusahan nang ganito?
“ ‘Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”
The Commentary of Dr. Zacharias Ursinus on the Heidelberg Catechism Question 10. Will God Suffer Such Disobedience and Rebellion to Go Unpunished?
God punishes sin most severely, justly, and certainly. He punishes it most severely, that is, with present and eternal punishment, on account of its enormity and greatness, because it is an offence against the infinite good. Most justly, because every sin, even the smallest transgression, is a violation of the law of God; and, therefore, according to the order of divine justice, deserves eternal punishment and banishment from God. Most certainly, because God is true, and does not change the sentence which the law denounces: “Cursed is he that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.” (Gal. 3:6.)
Question 11: BUT ISN’T GOD ALSO MERCIFUL?
Question 11: BUT ISN’T GOD ALSO MERCIFUL?
Parang napakalupit yata ng parusa ng Diyos? Bakit mas gusto natin ang appeal sa awa ng Diyos at hindi sa hustisya ng Diyos?
Question 11: BUT ISN’T GOD ALSO MERCIFUL? God is certainly merciful, but He is also just. His justice demands that sin, committed against His supreme majesty, be punished with the supreme penalty-eternal punishment of body and soul.
Hindi ba mahabagin din ang Diyos? Totoong mahabagin ang Diyos, ngunit makatarungan din Siya. Hinihingi ng Kanyang katarungan, na ang kasalanan na nagawa laban sa kataas-taasang Diyos, ay nararapat na mahatulan ng pinakamatinding parusa, kaparusahang walang hanggan para sa katawan at kaluluwa.
The Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed: The Lord—the Lord is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth, maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion, and sin. But he will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.
But divine love without divine wrath is meaningless. When we minimize God’s justice, we do not exalt His mercy, we undermine it. God’s mercy exhibits its full power and sweetness when we see it not merely as a general goodwill to all people, but as the means by which God’s people are rescued, in Christ, from their just wrath and condemnation. — Kevin DeYoung
Hindi ba’t parang unfair na ang kasalanang nagawa natin sa maikling panahon ay paparusahan ng everlasting punishment?
The Commentary of Dr. Zacharias Ursinus on the Heidelberg Catechism Question 10. Will God Suffer Such Disobedience and Rebellion to Go Unpunished?
all sins, even the smallest, deserve eternal punishment, because all offend the infinite and eternal good.
The Commentary of Dr. Zacharias Ursinus on the Heidelberg Catechism Question 11. But Is Not God Also Merciful?
Every crime is great, and deserving of punishment in proportion to the majesty of him against whom it is committed.
The Commentary of Dr. Zacharias Ursinus on the Heidelberg Catechism I. How Many Kinds of Afflictions Are There?
The reason which makes this form of punishment necessary is evident from this: that sin which is committed against God, who is infinitely good, demands an infinite punishment and satisfaction, which could not be rendered by the afflictions which are incident merely to this life. This would not satisfy the infinite and eternal justice of God.
Anu-ano ang itinuturo ni Jesus tungkol sa realidad ng impiyerno?
Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
‘Father Abraham!’ he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame!’
And throw this good-for-nothing servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
“Then he will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!
“And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
And if your eye causes you to fall away, gouge it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.
Kung kailangang ma-satisfy ang demands ng justice ng Panginoon, ano ngayon ang pag-asa natin na matatanggap natin ang awa at pagpapatawad ng Diyos?
Lord, you showed favor to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob. You forgave your people’s guilt; you covered all their sin. Selah
Faithful love and truth will join together; righteousness and peace will embrace.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. God presented him as the mercy seat by his blood, through faith, to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his restraint God passed over the sins previously committed. God presented him to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so that he would be just and justify the one who has faith in Jesus.