Q. 102. What is the sum of the four commandments which contain our duty to God?
A. The sum of the four commandments containing our duty to God is, to love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our strength, and with all our mind.[444]
Q. 103. Which is the first commandment?
A. The first commandment is, Thou shall have no other gods before me.[445]
Q. 104. What are the duties required in the first commandment?
A. The duties required in the first commandment are, the knowing and acknowledging of God to be the only true God, and our God;[446] and to worship and glorify him accordingly,[447] by thinking,[448] meditating,[449] remembering,[450] highly esteeming,[451] honouring,[452] adoring,[453] choosing,[454] loving,[455] desiring,[456] fearing of him;[457] believing him;[458] trusting[459] hoping,[460] delighting,[461] rejoicing in him;[462] being zealous for him;[463] calling upon him, giving all praise and thanks,[464] and yielding all obedience and submission to him with the whole man;[465] being careful in all things to please him,[466] and sorrowful when in any thing he is offended;[467] and walking humbly with him.[468]
Q. 105. What are the sins forbidden in the first commandment?
A. The sins forbidden in the first commandment are, atheism, in denying or not having a God;[469] idolatry, in having or worshipping more gods than one, or any with or instead of the true God;[470] the not having and avouching him for God, and our God;[471] the omission or neglect of anything due to him, required in this commandment;[472] ignorance,[473] forgetfulness,[474] misapprehensions,[475] false opinions,[476] unworthy and wicked thoughts of him;[477] bold and curious searching into his secrets;[478] all profaneness,[479] hatred of God;[480] self-love,[481] self-seeking,[482] and all other inordinate and immoderate setting of our mind, will, or affections upon other things, and taking them off from him in whole or in part;[483] vain credulity,[484] unbelief,[485] heresy,[486] misbelief,[487] distrust,[488] despair,[489] incorrigibleness,[490] and insensibleness under judgments,[491] hardness of heart,[492] pride,[493] presumption,[494] carnal security,[495] tempting of God;[496] using unlawful means,[497] and trusting in lawful means;[498] carnal delights and joys;[499] corrupt, blind, and indiscreet zeal;[500] lukewarmness,[501] and deadness in the things of God;[502] estranging ourselves, and apostatizing from God;[503] praying, or giving any religious worship, to saints, angels, or any other creatures;[504] all compacts and consulting with the devil,[505] and hearkening to his suggestions;[506] making men the lords of our faith and conscience;[507] slighting and despising God and his commands;[508] resisting and grieving of his Spirit,[509] discontent and impatience at his dispensations, charging him foolishly for the evils he inflicts on us;[510] and ascribing the praise of any good we either are, have or can do, to fortune,[511] idols,[512] ourselves,[513] or any other creature.[514]
Q. 106. What are we specially taught by these words before me in the first commandment?
A. These words before me or before my face, in the first commandment, teach us, that God, who seeth all things, taketh special notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other God: that so it may be an argument to dissuade from it, and to aggravate it as a most impudent provocation:[515] as also to persuade us to do as in his sight, whatever we do in his service.[516]
Why God Hates Atheism and How Atheism Leads the Breakdown Of All Levels Of Society, Police States, Unbiblical Science, the Occult, God's Judgment and Hell (For Unbelievers), Etc., By Pastor Jim Dodson (Free MP3) -- and Other Free Reformed MP3s By Greg Price, the Westminster Assembly, Stephen Charnock, Thomas Watson, Dr. Steven Dilday, Thomas Boston, Henry Bullinger, Thomas Ridgeley, David Dickson, William Hetherington, A.W. Pink, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, Dr. F.N. Lee, Dr. Reg Barrow and Others On the First Commandment, the Westminster Larger Catechism, the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Etc. http://www.puritandownloads.com/phenomenal-message-about-practical-atheism-and-how-christians-and-unbelievers-practice-this-sin-as-individuals-families-churches-and-states-and-how-practical-atheism-leads-to-the-breakdown-of-all-levels-of-society-by-jim-dodson-free-mp3/ Summary: Deals primarily with the first commandment and practical Atheism, whether practiced in the life of Christians or unbelievers. Also touches on Calvinism, election, God's infinity, Heaven, providence, predestination, sanctification, apologetics, affections, emotions, the mind, the will, faith, reason, idolatry, unbelief, misbelief, science, judicial hardening, God's justice, God's mercy, reprobation, apostasy, the occult, police states, Communism, Hell and much more! A fascinating message containing much important teaching about biblical truth and its application to the individual, family, church and state, to science, to the mind and much more.
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