A Survey throughthe Heidelberg Catechism

LORD’S DAY #50

Heidelberg Catechism DGB recent points

God uses our prayers to change our selfish wills.

Pray always to the fullness of the Triune God.

Prayer brings us closer to God.

Psalm 110 shows us God’s will for creation.

Reluctance to pray is a sign of weak faith.

We pray keenly aware of “Already, but not yet.”

Every knee will bow … willingly or not.

Kingdom of darkness broken on the Cross, mortal wound, still writhing IAW God’s plan and purpose.

God’s Kingdom grows one conversion at a time.

HC Lord’s Day 49 Angels Military host– an army with rank structure.

Praising God day and night.

Sent forth now and then to minister to the saved.

Serve as messengers.

Individual angels make up larger bodies of angels.

The fall means Adam is now not able not to sin.

to sin

die 

Christians renewed by the Holy Spirit are able to sin,but are also able to be restored!

serve God to sin

forgiveness conviction

in Christ by Holy Spirit

repentance

The coming of the Kingdom means perfection in your sanctification.

to live not able to sin

 

The coming of the Kingdom means perfection in the corporate body of Christ.

Rev. 21

 

Lord’s Day 49

Thomas Watson Thy will be done …

Avoiding God’s will = doing Satan’s will.

Doing God’s will benefits our self-interest (we avoid punishment, sad consequences).

King sends us to mine gold, and we get to keep it.

What God wills is more privilege than duty.

God’s commands don’t burden us; they adorn us.

Doing the will of God makes us like Christ.

Walking closely w/God fills the soul w/secret joy.

Doing God’s will is your comfort and crown.

Lord’s Day 49

William Gurnall … on earth as it is in heaven.

Stand strong in defense; face forward.

Uriah obeyed, stood strong, and died.

Stand, and the day is ours; flee and all is lost.

Striving against sin and Satan brings comfort, even when it’s bloody; running from the colors brings shame, disgrace, and punishment.

Satan cannot hurt us w/o our consent.

When we resist, his heart fails and he leaves.

Our resistance must be strong.

Lord’s Day 49

Thomas Watson ... on earth as it is in heaven.

God gave us his word to make us doers of his will.

The manner of our obedience matters.

God’s angels obey swiftly and completely.

Their obedience is set by the sundial of His Word.

Angels obey every little command, play every little note. (Abraham and Isaac, our favorite sins)

We are to obey sincerely … out of respect for the Commander. The command, not our comfort, is the ground of our duty.

God’s glory in all the word is our focus.

Lord’s Day 50Heidelberg Catechism

125. Q. What is the fourth petition?

A. Give us this day our daily bread.

That is: Be pleased to provide for all our bodily need,

that we may thereby acknowledge Thee to be the only fountain of all good, and

that without Thy blessing neither our care and labor, nor thy gifts can profit us; and

therefore, that we may withdraw our trust from all creatures and place it alone in Thee.

HC Lord’s Day 50 Deuteronomy 8 “The whole commandment that I command you

today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

HC Lord’s Day 50Deuteronomy 8 con’t.

4 Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.

7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills,

8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

10 And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

HC Lord’s Day 50 Psalm 145: 14-21 14The Lord upholds all who are falling and raises up

all who are bowed down. 15 The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.

16You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing.

17The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. 18The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

19He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them. 20The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

21My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord, and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.

HC Lord’s Day 50 Matthew 6:25-33 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your

life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

HC Lord’s Day 50 Matthew 6:25-34 con’t. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which

today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

34 Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Westminster Shorter Catechism Q. 104 Q 104. What do we pray for in the fourth

petition?

In the fourth petition (which is, Give us this day our daily bread), we pray,

That of God's free gift we may receive a competent portion of the good things of this life,

and enjoy his blessing with them.

Prov. 30:8-9;

Gen. 28:20;

I Tim. 4:4-5

Westminster Shorter Catechism Q.104 Citations Proverbs 30:8-9. Remove far from me

falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, 9 lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.

Genesis 28:20. If God will be with me [Jacob] and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear … .

1 Tim. 4:4-5. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received in thanksgiving, 5 for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

Westminster Larger Catechism Q. 193 Q. 193. What do we pray for in the fourth petition?

A. In the fourth petition,(which is, Give us this day our daily bread),

acknowledging, that in Adam, and by our own sin, we have forfeited our right to all the outward blessings of this life,

and deserve to be wholly deprived of them by God, and to have them cursed to us in the use of them;(Dt. 8:3)

and that neither they of themselves are able to sustain us,[Dt. 8:3) nor we to merit,(Gen. 32:10) or by our own industry to procure them;(Dt. 8:17-18) but prone to desire,(Jer. 6:13) get,[Hos. 12:7] and use them unlawfully:[James 4:3]

Westminster Larger Catechism Q. 193 con’t.

we pray for ourselves and others, that both they and we, waiting upon the providence of God from day to day in the use of lawful means, may,

of his free gift, and as to his fatherly wisdom shall seem best, enjoy a competent portion of them;(Gen. 43:12-14)

and have the same continued and blessed unto us in our holy and comfortable use of them,(1 Tim. 4:3-5) and contentment in them;(1 Tim. 6:6-8)

and be kept from all things that are contrary to our temporal support and comfort.(Prov. 30:8-9)

WLC Q. 192, continued

we pray, that God would by his Spirit take away from ourselves and others all blindness,[Eph. 1:17-18] weakness,[Eph. 3:16] indisposedness,[Mt. 26:40-41] and perverseness of heart;[Jer. 31:18-19]

and by his grace make us able and willing to know, do, and submit to his will in all things,[Ps. 119:1, 8, 35-36; Acts 21:14]

with the like humility,[Micah 6:8] cheerfulness,[Ps. 100:2; Job 1:21, 2 Sam. 15:25-26] faithfulness,[Is. 38:3] diligence,[Ps. 119:4-5] zeal,[Ro. 12:11] sincerity,[Ps. 119:80] and constancy,[Ps. 119:112] as the angels do in heaven.[Is. 6:2-3, Ps. 103:20-21, Mt. 18:10]

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