Q. 38. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
A. At the resurrection, believers, being raised up to glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.
1 Cor. 15:43; Matt. 25:23; Matt. 10:32; 1 John 3:2; 1 Cor. 13:12; 1 Thess. 4:17-18.
Today in U. S. History
On May 29, 1765, Patrick Henry delivered a thunderous speech against the Stamp Act in Virginia's House of Burgesses. When the speaker of the House declared the speech to be treasonous, Henry said, "If this be treason, make the most of it."
"Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen."
– Col. Jeff Cooper
Q. 37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
A. The souls of believers are, at their death, made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves until the resurrection.
Heb. 12:23; 2 Cor. 5:1, 6, 8; Phil. 1:23; Luke 23:43; 1 Thess. 4:14; Isa. 57:2;
Job 19:26-27.
Well, that didn't work out so good.
"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world."
– George Washington
"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."
- Tacitus
Q. 36. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
A. The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.
Rom. 5:1-2, 5; Rom. 14:17; Prov. 4:18; 1 John 5:13; 1 Pet. 1:5.
"He begins to die, that quits his desires." - George Herbert
"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."
– George S. Patton
Q. 35. What is sanctification?
A. Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.
2 Thess. 2:13; Eph. 4:23-24; Rom. 6:4, 6; Rom. 8:1.
I take back all the times as a child when I didn't want to take a nap.
Q. 34. What is adoption?
A. Adoption is an act of God’s free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God.
1 John 3:1; John 1:12; Rom. 8:17.
"Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure." - Bill Bright
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it." - Pericles
Okay, so I'm a day or two late on the Steak & Shake fun. I'll just pretend I'm eating pizza.😂
Q. 33. What is justification?
A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
Rom. 3:24-25; Rom. 4:6-8; 2 Cor. 5:19, 21; Rom. 5:17-19; Gal. 2:16; Phil. 3:9.
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." - Thomas Jefferson
"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today."
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn
