03/19/2026
Confession and Catechism Reading for Sunday, March 22. (Let us know WHAT we believe and WHY we believe it!):
Chapter 7 – God’s Covenant (1689 2LBCF)
1. Though rational creatures are responsible to obey God as their Creator, the distance between God and these creatures is so great that they could never have attained the reward of life except by God’s voluntary condescension. He has been pleased to express this through a covenant framework.1
1Luke 17:10; Job 35:7, 8.
2. Since man brought himself under the curse of the law by his fall, it pleased the Lord to make a covenant of grace.2 In this covenant He freely offers to sinners life and salvation through Jesus Christ. On their part He requires faith in Him, that they may be saved,3 and promises to give His Holy Spirit to all who are ordained to eternal life, to make them willing and able to believe.4
2Genesis 2:17; Galatians 3:10; Romans 3:20, 21. 3Romans 8:3; Mark 16:15, 16; John 3:16. 4Ezekiel 36:26, 27; John 6:44, 45; Psalms 110:3.
John 3:16 – For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 6:44 - No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
The Baptist Catechism
87. Q. Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? A. No mere man since the fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, (Ecc. 7:20; Gal. 5:17; 1 John 1:8, 10) but does daily break them in thought, word, or deed. (Gen 4:5; 7:21; Rom. 3:9–21; James 3:2–13)
88. Q. Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
A. Some sins in themselves, and by reason of several aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others. (Pas. 78:17, 32, 56; Ezek. 8:6, 13, 15; 1 John 5:16)
89. Q. What does every sin deserve? A. Every sin deserves God’s wrath and curse, both in this life and that which is to come. (Lam. 3:39; Matt. 25:41; Rom. 6:23; Eph. 5:6; Gal. 3:10)