How and why did God create us? QUESTION #4 How and why did God create us?

How and why did God create us? ANSWER QUESTION #4 How and why did God create us? ANSWER God created us male and female in his own image to glorify him. SCRIPTURE Genesis 1:27

What else did God create? QUESTION #5 What else did God create?

What else did God create? ANSWER QUESTION #5 What else did God create? ANSWER God created all things and all his creation was very good. SCRIPTURE Genesis 1:31

QUESTION #6 How can we glorify God?

We glorify God by, loving him, and by obeying his commands and law. QUESTION #6 How can we glorify God? ANSWER We glorify God by, loving him, and by obeying his commands and law. SCRIPTURE Deuteronomy 11:1

What does the law of God require? QUESTION #7 What does the law of God require?

What does the law of God require? QUESTION #7 What does the law of God require? ANSWER That we love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; and love our neighbor as ourselves. SCRIPTURE Matthew 22:37-40, Deut. 6:5

What does the law of God require? QUESTION #7 What does the law of God require? ANSWER Personal, perfect, and perpetual obedience; that we love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; and love our neighbor as ourselves. What God forbids should never be done and what God commands should always be done.

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:37-40

What is the law of God stated in the Ten commandments? QUESTION #8 What is the law of God stated in the Ten commandments?

ANSWER You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol. You shall not misuse the name of the LORD Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Honor your father and mother. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony. You shall not covet. SCRIPTURE Exodus 20:1-17

“And God spoke all these words, saying, ’I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but show steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. Exodus 20:1-6

“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20:6-11

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbors.” Exodus 20:12-17

What does the law of God require? QUESTION #7 What does the law of God require? Perfect Obedience

“For everyone who relies on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, ‘Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.’” Galatians 3:10

“If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ’You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.” James 2:8-10

“Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned…” Romans 5:12

“There is therefore now no condemnation fir those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:1-2

“And I am sure of this that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6

What does the law of God require? QUESTION #7 What does the law of God require? Perfect Obedience Complete Love for God & Neighbor

“The second commandment seems to me to be an overwhelming commandment “The second commandment seems to me to be an overwhelming commandment. It seems to demand that I tear the skin off my body and wrap it around another person so that I feel that I am that other person; and all the longings that I have for my own safety and health and success and happiness I now feel for that other person as though we were me. It is an absolutely staggering commandment. If this is what it means, then something unbelievably powerful and earthshaking and reconstructing and overturning and upending will have to happen in our souls. Something supernatural. Something well beyond what self-preserving, self-enhancing, self-exalting, self-esteeming, fallen human beings like me can do on their own.” -John Piper