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Sep 13, 2026
R. Scott ClarkHOST
He just doesn't think we ought to discuss it or we shouldn't argue about it, and he Seems a little peeved at Helvidius for even bringing it up.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
The Belgian Confession refers to Mary as the Blessed Virgin Mary in Article 18, and we'll see similar language in the Heidelberg Catechism.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
The Westminster Confession refers only once to the Virgin Mary in Chapter 8 and says nothing about her perpetual virginity.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
To the best of my knowledge, most Reformed people today have abandoned Mary the doctrine of perpetual virginity.
Caleb JohnsonGUEST
You can follow along as I read.
Caleb JohnsonGUEST
We're looking at the third commandment this evening, Lord's Day 36 and 37 of the Heidelberg Catechism.
Caleb JohnsonGUEST
Exodus 20, verse 7.
Caleb JohnsonGUEST
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
Caleb JohnsonGUEST
If you're anything like me, we associate don't take the name of the Lord in vain with cuss words, with flippant words, with OMGs.
Caleb JohnsonGUEST
Now the Third Commandment is certainly not less than these things, but it is more.
Caleb JohnsonGUEST
as we will see in the Catechism, speaking of which, follow along as I read question 99 from the Heidelberg Catechism.
Caleb JohnsonGUEST
We'll jump right into it.
Christopher ShawHOST
A catechism is an ancient question and answer method of teaching basic doctrine.
Christopher ShawHOST
So some famous catechisms that you may or may not have heard of would be the Westminster Shorter Catechism and the Heidelberg Catechism.
Christopher ShawHOST
Luther and Calvin also both used this method.
Christopher ShawHOST
Of course, it's been used by the Catholic Church as well.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
Who knows? They continued to participate in the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
You can see that in Session 22 of the Council of Trent, Canon 3, which Calvin and all the Protestants regarded as an abomination to God and, quoting the Heidelberg Catechism, an accursed idolatry.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
Calvin warned of the very real possibility of the ruin of the Nicodemites and of their becoming alienated from grace.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
This is a spiritual danger to the Nicodemites or to the crypto-evangelicals.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
In all forms of rationalism, whether open theism or the federal vision— This distinction is ignored.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
This, as it were, qualification is ignored.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
The Heidelberg Catechism says, by his hand, as it were.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
signaling that we understand that God, considered apart from the incarnation, does not have a body.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." So far we read God's holy Word.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
We believe that on the basis of that passage, and in harmony with all of Scripture, the Heidelberg Catechism in Lord's Day 5 explains the truth of the satisfaction of God's justice.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
So let's read Lord's Day 5 together now.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
Lord's Day 5.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
And therefore, all of our boast and all of our glorying is in God alone.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
Now why do I begin the sermon from Lord's Day 5 in Isaiah 53 with that quote from Jonah chapter 2? The answer is that Lord's Day 5 brings us down the path explaining that glorious truth.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
Lord's Day 5 marks the beginning of the second section of the Heidelberg Catechism that explains our deliverance from the greatness of our sin and misery.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
Lord's Day 5 begins the explanation of salvation from sin.
Matthew BarrettHOST
Welcome to the Credo Podcast, where we model faith-seeking understanding as we contemplate God and his word with the wisdom of the great tradition.
Matthew BarrettHOST
I am Matthew Barrett, your host, and I have such a treat for you today on the Credo Podcast because over, goodness, decades now, I keep returning to the Heidelberg Catechism And perhaps you have too.
Matthew BarrettHOST
Certainly question one is memorable to say the least.
Matthew BarrettHOST
I can think of many times with my own children in which we have not only asked this question and given its answer, but I've even encouraged my own children to memorize it at times because it really is... one of those that captures the very essence of what it means to be a Christian.
Matthew BarrettHOST
What is your only comfort in life and in death? And if you have never cracked open the Heidelberg Catechism, maybe that is the place to start.
Matthew BarrettHOST
I think it will capture your heart and really drive you to push further into the catechism.
Matthew BarrettHOST
But what is a catechism and why the Heidelberg Catechism? This is, dare I say, I think I can say this, this is one of the most important catechisms written in the history of the church.
Matthew BarrettHOST
Of course, it's specific to the Reformed Church and his had an impact, though, even beyond it in many ways.
speaker_2HOST
This is the group.
speaker_2HOST
But their three confessional standards are the Belgic Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the Canons of Dort.
speaker_2HOST
So these are very, very important documents in the history of the church.
speaker_2HOST
And again, they form, you know, one leg of the three-legged stool that the theology of the Reformed Church is based on.
Kirk CameronHOST
Now, I've got a couple other helps like catechisms.
Kirk CameronHOST
I've been reading through the Heidelberg Catechism, and on the Lord's Day, number 32, it asks this question.
Kirk CameronHOST
Since then, we are redeemed from our misery by grace through Christ.
Kirk CameronHOST
without any merit of ours, that echoes Ephesians 2.8.9, why then must we do good works? Now, not why should we want to, but why must we do good works? So, in other words, if Jesus already did it all, What's left for us to do? Now, if I'm Mormon, I might say, well, I'm saved by grace after all that I can do, right? Like after all that I can do, then Jesus makes up the rest.
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Kirk CameronHOST
Your spouse can see it.
Kirk CameronHOST
Your friends and your coworkers can see it.
Kirk CameronHOST
They may never end up reading the Heidelberg Catechism.
Kirk CameronHOST
They may never end up reading the Bible.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Wherefore He even commanded it to be punished with that death.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
So we continue now in the third G of the guilt, grace, and gratitude format of the Heidelberg Catechism, having considered guilt or sin and misery apart from Christ, and then how Christ redeems us from that.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
And then how we should live, having been redeemed by grateful obedience.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
And the Catechism will use the Ten Commandments as well as the Lord's Prayer as a framework for that grateful obedience.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
If you're using one of our pew Bibles, you'll find that in many of them, page 1318.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
And then once you've found that, if you'd also take your Trinity Psalter hymnal and turn in the back of the Psalter hymnal to page 895, page 895, where you find Lord's Day 48 of the Heidelberg Catechism.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
just one question question 123 but it helps us to understand what we're praying for when we ask thy kingdom come so i think want to think about this question and have it in mind as we come to god's word and so lord's day 48 question 123 i'll read the question out loud and if you would please respond by reading the answer out loud so lord's day 48 question 123 asks what does the second petition mean Your kingdom come means rule us by your word and spirit in such a way that more and more we submit to you.
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Preserve and increase your church.
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