I have been engaged in a personal study of Creeds and Confessions from the Early Church. It is astonishingly amazing how these confessions and creeds speak to me both personally and spiritually. The first 5 questions and answers of the Westminster Larger Confession are quite striking and clear:
Question 1: What is the chief and highest end of man?
Answer: Man's chief and highest end is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy him forever.
Question 2: How does it appear that there is a God?
Answer: The very light of nature in man, and the works of God, declare plainly that there is a God; but his Word and Spirit only do sufficiently and effectually reveal him unto men for their salvation.
Question 3: What is the Word of God?
Answer: The holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God, the only rule of faith and obedience.
Question 4: How does it appear that the Scriptures are the Word of God?
Answer: The Scriptures manifest themselves to be the Word of God, by their majesty and purity; by the consent of all the parts, and the scope of the whole, which is to give all glory to God; by their light and power to convince and convert sinners, to comfort and build up believers unto salvation: but the Spirit of God bearing witness by and with the Scriptures in the heart of man, is alone able fully to persuade it that they are the very Word of God.
Question 5: What do the Scriptures principally teach?
Answer: The Scriptures principally teach,: What man is to believe concerning God, and: What duty God requires of man.
May the Lord continually use and infuse us in Christian Ministry - as we hold high the blood-stained banner of the Christian Life; this blood and flows from the pierced wounds of our lovng Savior!
4 comments:
Thank God for creeds and confessions and thank you for the reminder oh how sometimes we ignore and forget. keep up the faithful work
This is sound doctrine that needs to be shared with our congregations regularly.
In our attempt to be relevant, we often remove the basic elements of Christianity!
Thanks for this my brother! Did this come out the work entitled, "Creeds of Christendom"?
In the words of the late Dr. Adrain Rogers, " this is a Solid Word for an Unsure Age." Thanks for sharing this! The Lord knows we need to check our foundation to see if it rest on Jesus and His Word.
God's Blessings my Brother!!!
Teach Doc Teach!!! I will visit your blog regularly for class. This is great! Thanks!!
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