Baptist Catechism Part 2
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- How many commandments did God give on Mt. Sinai?
- Ten commandments
- What are the ten commandments sometimes called?
- God’s moral law
- What do the first four commandments teach?
- Our duty to God
- What do the last six commandments teach?
- Our duty to our fellow men
- What is the sum of the ten commandments?
- o love God with all my heart, and my neighbor as myself
- Who is your neighbor?
- All my fellow men are my neighbors
- Is God pleased with those who love and obey him?
- Yes. He says, ‘I love them that love me’
- s God pleased with those who do not love and obey him?
- No. ‘God is angry with the wicked every day’
- What is the first commandment?
- Thou shalt have no other gods before me
- What does the first commandment teach us?
- To worship God only
- What is the second commandment?
- Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
- What does the second commandment teach us?
- To worship God in the right way, and to avoid idolatry
- What is the third commandment?
- Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
- What does the third commandment teach us?
- To reverence God’s name, word, and works
- What is the fourth commandment?
- Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy
- What does the fourth commandment teach us?
- To keep the Sabbath holy
- What day of the week is the Christian Sabbath?
- The first day of the week, called the Lord’s Day
- Why is it called the Lord’s Day?
- Because on that day Christ rose from the dead
- How should the Sabbath be kept?
- In prayer and praise, in hearing and reading God’s Word, and in doing good to our fellow men
- What is the fifth commandment?
- Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee
- What does the fifth commandment teach us?
- To love and obey our parents
- What is the sixth commandment?
- Thou shalt not kill
- What does the sixth commandment teach us?
- To avoid hatred, all that leads to it, and all that follows from it
- What is the seventh commandment?
- Thou shalt not commit adultery
- What does the seventh commandment teach us?
- To be pure in heart, language and conduct
- What is the eighth commandment?
- Thou shalt not steal
- What does the eighth commandment teach us?
- To be honest and not to take the things of others
- What is the ninth commandment?
- Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor
- What does the ninth commandment teach us?
- To tell the truth and not to speak evil of others
- What is the tenth commandment?
- Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy neighbor’s
- What does the tenth commandment teach us?
- To be content with what we have
- Can any man keep these ten commandments?
- No mere man, since the fall of Adam, ever did or can keep the ten commandments perfectly
- Of what use are the ten commandments to us?
- They teach us our duty, make clear our condemnation, and show us our need of a Saviour
- Does God condemn all men?
- No. Though he could justly have done so he has graciously entered into a covenant to save many