Monday, January 11, 2021

Westminster Shorter Catechism (WSC) Q&A #11-13 (1646, 1647)

 #11 Question: What are God’s works of providence?

Answer: God’s works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions. 

#12 Question: What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was                           Created?

Answer: When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.

 #13 Question: Did our first Christian parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?

Answer: Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.

 Recommended Sermon 

·         WSC #11-13: God’s Good Providence, by Dennis Prutow [Text: Ephesians 1:11,12 (Audio)]

How I Found Christ?

 How I Found Christ? by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)