Michael Jensen writes:

Is the teaching of the Bible on human sexuality even possible to fulfill? Is it simply inhuman to say that the only context for human sexual expression is a lifelong marriage between a man and a woman?

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Tim Challies writes:

Like most parents, I have those moments where guilt and regret comes over me like a wave. I consider then how much of my parenting time has already passed by and how little remains. My oldest child, my son, is thirteen. He is already a teenager, just one year away from high school, just eight years from the age I was when I left home to get married. My girls are following close behind him. When that wave rises up, when I feel like I could drown beneath all that regret, I sometimes consider those things I will never regret.

Here are 18 things I know I will not regret doing with my kids.

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adapted from an article by Jack D. Kinneer, July 2000 New Horizons

We practice baptism by pouring or sprinkling water on the person being baptised. Some Christian brethren object that “everyone knows that ‘baptise’ means ‘to immerse’.” They point out that if you look up the Greek word “to baptise” in a Greek Lexicon (a dictionary of Greek words), then you will find that it lists “to immerse” as one of the meanings. And that is true.

So why don’t we immerse people when we baptise? Aren’t we supposed to be committed to following God’s Word? We are! But that is precisely why we do not immerse as our mode of baptising.

Does “baptise” mean “to immerse”?

Even though “to immerse” is one meaning of “baptise,” it was never the only meaning. Classical Greek used the words “to baptise” and “baptism” with a range of meanings. Neither of these words always meant “to immerse” or “immersion.” The Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament) used the word “baptise” in such a way that it cannot possibly always mean “to immerse.” For example, Daniel 4:23 in the Septuagint says that Nebuchadnezzar was “baptised” with dew. Obviously, he was not “immersed” in dew.

It is equally the case that the word “baptise” cannot always mean “to immerse” in the New Testament. For example, Hebrews 9:10 speaks of “various washings, regulations for the body until the time of reformation.” Our English version translates this “washings,” but the Greek text says “baptisings.” This verse refers to Old Testament cleansing rites such as the red heifer or the Day of Atonement. These Old Testament “baptisings” were never by immersion; they were always by sprinkling. The very context of this verse emphasizes that these Old Testament “baptisms” were by sprinkling (Heb. 9:19, 21).

In fact, as we study the God-inspired New Testament, we note that it never uses the words “to baptise” and “baptism” in the sense of “immerse” or “immersion.” “To baptise” mostly means “to wash.” In a secondary sense, “to baptise” also means “to be joined to” or “to be united to.” This meaning stemmed from ancient Jewish cleansing rites. For example, Gentile converts were received into the Jewish nation by a washing rite. In the Old Testament, the priests were ordained, that is, joined to their priestly calling by sprinkling. Likewise, a person barred from the camp because of leprosy, would be reunited to the people of God by a sprinkling rite when his disease had been healed. These cleansing rites were called “baptisms” (Mk. 7:4; Heb. 9:10). Consequently, the word “to baptise” came to mean “to be united to.” Therefore, in the New Testament, “to baptise” means either “to wash” or “to unite.”

Not only does the New Testament never use the words “to baptise” and “baptism” in the sense of “immerse” or “immersion,” but also it sometimes uses “baptise” in such a way that it cannot possibly mean “to immerse.” In 1 Peter 3:18–22, for example, God’s Word compares the flood of Noah to Christian baptism. He writes,

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ…

God’s Word says that the water that saved Noah corresponds to baptism, which pictures our salvation. Just as Noah was saved through water, so Christians are now saved through the water of baptism. Could immersion in water correspond to Noah’s salvation through water? Of course not! Noah and his family were not immersed; the wicked were immersed! Immersion under water is not a sign of salvation. Immersion under water is a sign of God’s wrath! Immersion under water does not picture what happened to Noah; rather it pictures what happened to the rebellious human race.

Likewise, 1 Corinthians 10:1–4 says:

For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptised into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.

If “baptise” always means “to immerse,” then this Scripture would have to mean, “all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were immersed into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.” But that cannot possibly be correct. The Israelites were not immersed; the Egyptian army was immersed! Immersion under water does not picture what happened to God’s people; it pictures what happened to the rebellious Egyptians.

Sprinkling or pouring best expresses the symbolism of baptism

God’s people were never immersed as a means (or sign) of salvation. Immersion spelled divine destruction, whether for the unbelievers in Noah’s day or for Pharaoh’s army. Immersion under water is a sign of condemnation. Christian baptism, however, is a sign of salvation. Therefore its proper mode is not immersion; rather its proper mode is pouring or sprinkling. Throughout the Old Testament God’s people were cleansed and prepared to meet God by being sprinkled with water (or sometimes with blood).

Isaiah announced salvation this way:

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants (44:3).

Similarly, Ezekiel proclaimed God’s salvation:

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you (36:25).

According to God’s word, the most fitting mode of baptism is pouring or sprinkling water.

But doesn’t baptism signify burial with Christ?

Some object, however, that since God’s Word says that baptism pictures our burial with Christ; therefore immersion is a more fitting symbol. Romans 6:3–4 says:

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

But a closer look at this Scripture shows that this objection misses the mark. First, it reflects our tendency to read our own experiences into God’s Word. We are used to burying people by “immersing” them in the earth— we dig a hole in the ground, we put the body in it, then we fill it with dirt. But Jesus was not “immersed” under the ground. Instead, he was buried in a cave in the side of a hill with a rock in front of the entrance. When we stop reading into God’s Word and simply read out of it what is there, then immersion is not really an obvious symbol of Christ’s burial in a cave.

Second, the word “baptise” in this passage is not used in its common meaning of “wash” (whether by immersion or by pouring), but in its secondary sense of “to be united to.” As we read this Scripture in its context, does it not clearly mean that all who were united to Christ Jesus were united to his death and resurrection? That is why free grace will not lead God’s redeemed children to continue in sin. Baptism signifies their union with Christ. Because they are joined to Christ, they are therefore joined to him in his death and in his resurrection. Accordingly, they will die to sin and walk in newness of life. Here, “baptise” clearly means “to be united to.”

Immersion contradicts the symbolism of baptism

According to God’s Word, therefore, immersion is actually inappropriate as a sign of salvation because immersion pictures destruction. Instead, we practice baptism by sprinkling or pouring water because we believe that this is the biblical mode of baptism. This portrays the spiritual reality of which God himself spoke when he said, “I will sprinkle clean water on you.” (Ezekiel 36:25)

 

27 October 2013 — 10 AM Worship

 

Scripture:	1 Samuel 5:1–7:1
Sermon:	“The Living God Is Not Safe”
Hymns:	TH 624 — “Through All the Changing Scenes of Life”
	TH 150 — “The Law of God is Good and Wise”
	TH 92 — “A Mighty Fortress is Our God”
Doxology:	TH 100 (stanza 4) — “Holy! Holy! Holy!”

 

 

27 October 2013 — 3 PM Worship

Larger Catechism #84 (paraphrased into modern English)	Shall all people die?
	Since God threatened death as the wages of sin, it is appointed unto all people once to die;  because all have sinned.
Shorter Catechism #37 (paraphrased into modern English)	What blessings does Christ give believers at their death?
	At our death as believers, Christ makes our souls perfect in holiness and immediately welcomes us into glory; while our bodies, being still united to Christ, rest in our graves until the resurrection.
Scripture:	Hebrews 9:27
Sermon:	“Seven Sobering Facts About Death”
Hymns:	TH 30 — “Our God, Our Help in Ages Past”
	TH 540 — “A Few More Years Shall Roll”
	TH 499 — “Rock of Ages”
Doxology:	TH 705 (stanza 5) — “I Know Not When…”

 

Christian Faith

1. What Is Real?

1.      Who made you?

God.

2.      What else did God make?

He made all things.

3.      Why did God make you?

To glorify him and enjoy him forever.

4.      How can you glorify and enjoy God?

By loving him and obeying him as my God.

5.      Why should you love and obey God as your God?

Because he made me and takes care of me.

6.      Where do you learn how to love and obey God?

From the Bible.

7.      What is the Bible?

The Bible is God’s Word.

8.     Who is God?

God is a spirit who is great and good.

9.      Who made God?

No one made God. He always was and always will be.

10.    How many gods are there?

There is only one God, the living and true God.

11.    In how many persons does this one God exist?

The one God exists in three persons.

12.    Who are the three persons of the one God?

God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

13.    Where is God?

God is everywhere.

14.    Can you see God?

No. I cannot see God, but he always sees me.

15.    Does God know all things?

Nothing can be hidden from God.

16.    Can God do all things?

God can do anything he wants to do.

17.    What does God want to do?

God is holy and he only wants to do good.

18.    Does God ever change?

Never! God will never fail me. I can count on him to stay great and good forever and ever.

2. Our Beautiful World

19.    Who were our first parents?

Adam and Eve.

20.   What were Adam and Eve like when God first made them?

They were holy and happy.

21.    How does God govern human beings?

He makes covenants with them.

22.    What is a covenant?

A solemn, binding agreement between two or more parties.

23.    What covenant did God make with human beings in Adam?

The covenant of works.

24.    What did God tell us to do in the covenant of works?

To fill the world and rule it as his helpers.

25.    How did God make us so we could fill the world?

He made us for marriage, male and female.

26.    What is marriage?

A total union of one man and one woman that joins them in body and soul.

27.    How does marriage glorify God?

The love of the husband and wife is a living picture of the covenant love of God and his people.

28.   How did God make us so we could rule the world as his helpers?

He made us in his own image.

29.    What does it mean that we are made in the image of God?

God made us like him, to show what he is like by how we live, work, and worship.

30.   How should we behave because we are made in God’s image?

We should take good care of ourselves and everything God gives us.

31.    Is everyone made in the image of God?

Yes! Every human being in the whole world is made in God’s beautiful image.

32.    How should we treat other people because God has made them in his own image?

We should treat everyone with respect and work together with them in love.

3. Our Horrible Problem

33.    What did God require Adam to do in the covenant of works?

To obey him perfectly.

34.    What did God promise in the covenant of works?

To reward Adam with life if he obeyed God perfectly.

35.    What did God threaten in the covenant of works?

To punish Adam with death if he disobeyed God.

36.    Did Adam keep the covenant of works?

No. Adam broke the covenant of works by sinning against God.

37.    What is sin?

Sin is anything that breaks or falls short of God’s law.

38.   What is breaking God’s law?

Being or doing anything that God forbids.

39.    What is falling short of God’s law?

Not being or doing anything that God requires.

40.   What was Adam and Eve’s sin?

Eating the fruit God told them not to eat.

41.    Who tempted them to this sin?

The devil tempted Eve, and she gave the fruit to Adam.

42.    What were Adam and Eve like after they had sinned?

They became guilty and sinful, and they began to suffer.

43.    Was Adam acting only for himself in the covenant of works?

No. Adam represented the whole human race.

44.    What effect did Adam’s sin have on all people?

Because of Adam’s sin, everyone is born guilty and sinful, suffers, and must die.

45.    How sinful are you?

Sin makes every part of me dirty, and it makes God’s beautiful image ugly.

46.    What does each and every sin deserve?

Each and every sin deserves the anger and curse of God.

4. God’s Wonderful Solution

47.    Is there any escape from the anger and curse of God?

Yes!

48.   Where can you find an escape from the anger and curse of God?

Only God himself can save me.

49.    Can you be saved through the covenant of works?

No. Everyone has broken the covenant of works, so it shows that we are bad.

50.    How then can you be saved?

Only by the Lord Jesus Christ in the covenant of grace.

51.    Who is saved by the Lord Jesus in the covenant of grace?

Jesus saves only those whom God has chosen to be his people.

52.    What does God the Father promise in the covenant of grace?

To forgive the sins of his people and adopt them as his children.

53.    What does God the Son promise in the covenant of grace?

To save his people by keeping God’s law for them and taking all their guilt and punishment on himself.

54.    What does God the Holy Spirit promise in the covenant of grace?

To give his people new hearts that love God and hate sin.

55.    How could Jesus obey God’s law for us and take our guilt and punishment?

He became one of us, fully God and also fully human.

56.    What kind of life did Jesus live on earth?

He lived a life of love, obedience, and suffering.

57.    Did our Lord Jesus Christ commit any sin, even a tiny one?

No. “In him there is no sin” (1 John 3:5).

58.    What kind of death did Jesus die?

He died the painful and shameful death of the cross as the atonement for sin.

59.    What is the atonement for sin?

Jesus satisfied God’s justice by suffering and dying in our place.

60.   Did Jesus stay dead?

No! On the third day after his death, Jesus rose again.

61.    Where is Jesus now?

Jesus is now in heaven at the right hand of God, but he is also with us by his Holy Spirit.

62.    What is Jesus doing now?

Working as our prophet, priest, and king.

63.    How does Jesus work as our prophet?

As our prophet, Jesus teaches us the will of God.

64.    Why do you need Jesus as a prophet?

I need Jesus as my Prophet because I cannot know God by myself.

65.    How does Jesus work as our priest?

As our priest, Jesus speaks to God for us and shows God that he died for our sins.

66.    Why do you need Jesus as a priest?

I need Jesus as my Priest because I have broken God’s law.

67.    How does Jesus work as our king?

As our king, Jesus orders all things for us, and he rules us and defends us.

68.   Why do you need Jesus as a king?

I need Jesus as my King because without him I am weak and helpless.

5. What Must I Do Be Saved?

69. Who will be saved and go to heaven?

Only those who follow Jesus by repenting from sin and believing in him.

70.    What does it mean to repent?

To repent is to be sorry for sin because it displeases God, and to hate sin and turn away from it.

71.    What does it mean to believe in Jesus?

To trust Jesus alone for salvation.

72.    What happens if you do not repent and trust Jesus?

God says, “whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him” (Jn 3:36).

73.    Can people repent and believe and go to heaven with a sinful nature?

Before anyone can repent and believe in Jesus and go to heaven, God himself must change that person’s heart.

74.    What is this change of heart called?

The new birth or regeneration.

75.    What happens if you do repent and trust Jesus?

If I repent and trust Jesus, God will freely give me the gifts of justification, adoption, sanctification, and eternal life.

76.    What is justification?

God’s freely forgiving all my sins, and saying that I am perfectly good in his sight.

77.    What is adoption?

God’s freely giving himself to be my devoted Father and taking me to be his dearly loved child.

78.    What is sanctification?

God’s freely making me more and more like Jesus by helping me to say “no” to sin and “yes” to him.

79.    Do you say “no” to sin and “yes” to God in order to earn his favour?

No! It’s the other way around; I love God because he first loved me.

Christian Life

1. God Is with Us

80.   Can you repent and trust Jesus without help?

No. I cannot repent and trust Jesus without the powerful help of God’s Holy Spirit.

81.    How can you get the powerful help of the Holy Spirit?

God has told me to seek the Holy Spirit by regularly using the means of grace.

82.   What are means of grace?

God-given ways through which the Holy Spirit works in my life and I come to Jesus in faith.

83.   What are the means of grace that the Holy Spirit especially uses?

The Holy Spirit especially uses the Bible, the sacraments, and prayer as means of grace.

84.   How does the Holy Spirit use the Bible to work in your life?

The Holy Spirit uses the Bible to create and strengthen faith, especially when I hear it read and preached.

85.    Why is it important for you regularly to hear faithful Bible preaching?

Because God says that “faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the Word of Christ” (Romans 10:17).

86.   Why is it important for you to study the Bible for yourself?

Because the Bible is God’s Word by which the Holy Spirit speaks to me.

87.    What are the sacraments?

Jesus gave us two sacraments, baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

88.   How does the Holy Spirit use these sacraments to work in your life?

To mark me as God’s own, comfort me, and strengthen my faith.

89.   What sign is used in baptism?

Washing with water.

90.   What does this washing with water mean?

It means that God claims me as his own, confirms that he will wash away my sin if I trust Jesus, and calls on me to trust him.

91.    Into whose Name are you baptised?

I am baptised into the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

92.    Who are to be baptised?

Believers and their households are to be baptised.

93.    Why do we baptise children, even little infants?

Because in his covenant of grace God claims them, and by their baptism he marks them as his own.

94.    What does God say to you by your baptism?

“My child, you belong to me. Give me your heart.”

95.    What sign is used in the Lord’s Supper?

Giving and receiving bread and wine in worship.

96.    What does this giving and receiving bread and wine mean?

That Jesus offered his body and shed his blood for our sins.

97.    Who may eat and drink in the Lord’s Supper?

Only those who follow Jesus in repentance and faith, and profess their faith before the church.

98.   What does God say to you by the Lord’s Supper?

“Just as surely as you can taste and touch the bread and wine, so surely God forgives and adopts everyone who follows Jesus.”

2. We Rely on God

99. What is prayer?

Prayer is talking to God by faith in the name of Jesus Christ, with the help of the Holy Spirit.

100. How does God use prayer to work in your life?

When I draw near to God in faith by praying, God draws near to me in grace.

101. What did Jesus give us to teach us how to pray?

Jesus gave us the Lord’s Prayer to teach us how to pray.

102. What is the Lord’s Prayer?

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.”

103. How many requests are there in The Lord’s Prayer?

There are six requests in the Lord’s Prayer.

104. What do you pray for in the first request?

When I pray, “Hallowed be your name,” I ask God to help me and everyone else to honour him.

105. What do you pray for in the second request?

When I pray, “Your Kingdom come,” I ask God to help all the world to trust and obey him.

106. What do you pray for in the third request?

When I pray, “Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven,” I ask God to help people on earth to serve him as the angels do in heaven.

107. What do you pray for in the fourth request?

When I pray, “Give us this day our daily bread,” I ask God to provide me and everyone else with all that we really need.

108. What do you pray for in the fifth request?

When I pray, “And forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors,” I ask God to forgive my sins for Jesus’ sake, and to help me to forgive others.

109. What do you pray for in the sixth request?

When I pray, “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,” I ask God to keep me and everyone else from sin.

110. What happens if you don’t use God’s means of grace?

My faith gets weaker and I become an easier target for the world, the flesh, and the devil.

3. We Are With Each Other

111. Where does God especially use his means of grace?

God especially uses his means of grace in the special shared life of his people in his church.

112. What is the church?

The church is the family of God.

113. Who are the members of the church?

All people everywhere who believe in Jesus, and their children.

114. Who runs the church?

Jesus runs the church as our King.

115. How does King Jesus run the church?

By his Holy Spirit he speaks through his Word, and gives us pastors and elders to shepherd us in our churches.

116. What do our churches do?

They worship God together, build up believers to live new lives, and spread the good news about Jesus to the world.

117. How important is the church?

God clearly tells us to love one another and not to neglect the church meetings, as some do.

118. How do we live out the special shared life of believers?

By using our different gifts and resources to serve each other and to build each other up.

4. God Teaches Us How to Live

119. Where can you learn how to obey God?

God tells me how to obey him in his law.

120. If you are saved by Jesus only because of God’s grace, do you still need God’s law?

Yes! It shows me when I’m sinning and how to obey him.

121. How does Jesus sum up God’s law?

Jesus says, “you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength” and “you shall love your neighbour as yourself.” (Mark 12:30–31)

122. Who is your neighbour?

Everyone God brings into my life is my neighbour.

123. Can anyone keep God’s law perfectly?

Since the fall of Adam, only one person has been able to keep God’s law perfectly — Jesus.

124. How do believers fit into the world?

We are in the world but not of it.

125. What does it mean that we are in the world?

God’s people live as members of their human societies, honouring those societies and their leaders.

126. How should we live to be “in the world”?

We should work to be good neighbours and citizens.

127. What does it mean that we are not of the world?

We are different from others because the Holy Spirit is teaching us to love God and to say “no” to sin and “yes” to him.

128. How should believers live to be “not of the world”?

We should love and obey God above all else, and live in a way that shows how Jesus is changing us.

5. The Ten Commandments

129. What does Jesus say about God’s law?

Jesus says, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15).

130. What is the first commandment?

The first commandment is, “You shall have no other gods before me.”

131. What does God tell you in the first commandment?

I should love God more than anything, and I should worship and serve only him.

132. What is the second commandment?

The second commandment is, “You shall not make for yourself a carved image … You shall not bow down to them or serve them …”

133. What does God tell you in the second commandment?

I should know and worship God only according to his Word, never according to human imagination.

134. What is the third commandment?

The third commandment is, “You shall not take the name of The LORD your God in vain …”

135. What does God tell you in the third commandment?

I should treat God’s name, Word, and works with respect because I worship him.

136. What is the fourth commandment?

The fourth commandment is, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work…”

137. What does God tell you in the fourth commandment?

I should spend the Lord’s Day in worship and fellowship with the Lord and his people. Then I should honour him with my work the other six days.

138. What is the fifth commandment?

The fifth commandment is, “Honour your father and your mother…”

139. What does God tell you in the fifth commandment?

I should respect and obey my parents and anyone else who is in charge, for God’s sake.

140. What is the sixth commandment?

The sixth commandment is, “You shall not murder.”

141. What does God tell you in the sixth commandment?

I should not hate or hurt anyone, even when I am angry, but rather I should love everyone in all that I think, feel, say, and do.

142. What is the seventh commandment?

The seventh commandment is, “You shall not commit adultery.”

143. What does God tell you in the seventh commandment?

I should honour and respect marriage and be pure in all I think, feel, say, and do.

144. What is the eighth commandment?

The eighth commandment is, “You shall not steal.”

145. What does God tell you in the eighth commandment?

I should not take anything that belongs to someone else.

146. What is the ninth commandment?

The ninth commandment is, “You shall not bear false witness…”

147. What does God tell you in the ninth commandment?

I should always tell the truth, and never lie.

148. What is the tenth commandment?

The tenth commandment is, “You shall not covet  …”

149. What does God tell you in the tenth commandment?

I should always be content with whatever God chooses to give me.

6. God Gives Himself to Us Forever

150. What will happen to you when you die?

When I die my body will return to dust, and my spirit will return to God who gave it.

151. Will Jesus come again?

Jesus will come again to judge the world on the Last Day.

152. What will happen on the Last Day?

The bodies of the dead will be raised to life again—some to eternal death and others to eternal life.

153. What is eternal death?

On the Last Day, God will cast unbelievers into hell.

154. What is hell?

Hell is an awful place, where the lost will suffer for their sins forever. The Bible calls it a “second death.”

155. Does God enjoy sending people to hell?

Not at all! He wants people to love him and be saved. God says, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked” (Ezekiel 33:11).

156. What is eternal life?

On the Last Day, God will take believers to glory forever and ever.

157. What is glory?

Glory is a wonderful new heaven and earth where God’s people will be with him, will be like him, will rule the world as his helpers, and will be holy and happy forever and ever.

158. Who has the hope of glory?

Everyone who follows Jesus by repenting from sin and trusting him has the hope of glory.

159. What do you do when you have the hope of glory?

I want Jesus to come again, I tell others about him, I live in a way that shows him to others, I trust God when I’m hurting or unhappy, and I have joy because of God’s love.

160. What will you do in glory?

I will perfectly glorify God and enjoy him forever and ever.

 

By Larry Wilson and Greg Forster (based largely on Catechism for Young Children by Joseph P. Engels, 1840, and influenced by the Westminster Shorter and Larger Catechisms, and by the Heidelberg Catechism)