Q/A#14
Q: How many people perfectly keep God’s commandments?
A: No one perfectly keeps God commandments; none live morally upright, but all fail to love God and people.
As it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
no one understands; no one seeks for God.
All have turned aside;
together they have become worthless;
no one does good, not even one.”
– Romans 3:10-12 (ESV)
For Further Reflection
Matthew 22:37-40
Our Response
View ourselves with humility
Repent regularly of our sins
Q/A#13D
Q: What do the eighth, ninth, and tenth commandments teach us?
A: The eighth, ninth, and tenth commandments teach us to love God and people by respecting what belongs to others, telling the truth, and being content.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet….
– Exodus 20:15-17a (ESV)
For Further Reflection
Ephesians 4:25 & 28, I Timothy 6:6-8
Our Response
Share with others instead of taking from them.
Be radically committed to the truth.
Be content with what God gives you.
Q/A#13C
Q: What do the fifth, sixth, and seventh commandments teach us?
A: The fifth, sixth, and seventh commandments teach us to love God and people by honoring our parents, human life, and marriage.
Honor your father and mother….
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
– Exodus 20:12a, 13-14 (ESV)
For Further Reflection
Ephesians 6:1-4, I John 3:15, Matthew 5:21-32
Our Response
Honor all God-given authority.
Treat people as image-bearers of God.
Respect the marriage relationship.
Q/A#13B
Q: What do the third and fourth commandments teach us?
A: The third and fourth commandments teach us to love God by honoring Him in the way we use His name and His time.
You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain…. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. – Exodus 20:7a & 8 (ESV)
For Further Reflection
Exodus 20:7-11, Mark 2:27
Our Response
Honor God’s name with our words and our lives.
Enjoy a day to rest and worship.
Q/A#13A
Q: What do the first and second commandments teach us?
A: The first and second commandments teach us to love God by making him first in our lives and imaging him correctly.
You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image…” – Exodus 20:1-4a (ESV)
For Further Reflection
Exodus 19-20, Matthew 22:37-40
Our Response
Put God first
Image God correctly
Q/A#13
Q: What summary of instructions did God give us in the Old Testament to live morally upright?
A: God gave us the Ten Commandments.
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.” – Exodus 20:1-2 (ESV)
For Further Reflection
Exodus 19-20, Matthew 22:37-40
Our Response
Obey with gratitude
Love God and people
Q/A#12
Q: After what pattern did God create us?
A: God created us in his own image to be relational and rational, to both work and rest, and to live morally upright in all things.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion…. – Genesis 1:26a (ESV)
See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes. – Ecclesiastes 7:29 (ESV)
For Further Reflection
Genesis 2:3, 15-20
Our Response
Live as an image-bearer of God
Praise God for who he made you to be
Q/A#11
Q: Who are people?
A: People are God’s special creation, created either male or female, each with body and soul joined together.
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.
– Genesis 1:27 (ESV)
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. – Matthew 10:28 (ESV)
For Further Reflection
Psalm 139:13-18, Genesis 1-2
Our Response
Realize you are special!
Praise God!
Q/A#10
Q: What is God’s continuing work in creation?
A: God’s continuing work in creation is to preserve and rule over it according to his perfect plan.
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.
– Acts 17:24-26 (ESV)
For Further Reflection
Ps. 65:9, 139:16, Is. 40:26, Matt. 6:26, II Chr. 20:6
Our Response
Trust in His care
Trust in His plan
Q/A#9
Q: According to God’s Word, how did the world begin?
A: The world began by a direct act of God, who perfectly created all things to reveal his glory.
In the beginning,
God created the heavens and the earth….
And God saw everything that he had made,
and behold, it was very good.
– Genesis 1:1, 31a (ESV)
The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
– Psalm 19:1 (ESV)
For Further Reflection
Read Genesis 1, Hebrews 11:3
Our Response
Enjoy God’s good creation
Praise God for his creation
Brian J. Mikul 