WSC #5 Flashcards
Q. 35. What is sanctification?
A. Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace by which our whole person is made new in the image of God, and we are made more and more able to become dead to sin and alive to righteousness.
Q. 37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ when they die?
A. When believers die, their souls are made perfect in holiness and immediately pass into glory. Their bodies, which are still united to Christ, rest in the grave until their resurrection.
Q. 41. Where is the moral law summarized?
A. The moral law is summarized in the ten commandments.
Q. 42. What is the essence of the ten commandments?
A. The essence of the ten commands is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind, and to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Q. 61. What does the fourth commandment forbid?
A. The fourth commandment forbids failing to do or careless doing what we are supposed to do. It also forbids treating the day as unholy by idleness, by doing anything in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words, or works about our worldly affairs or recreations.
Q. 82. Can anyone perfectly keep the commandments of God?
A. Since the fall no ordinary man can perfectly keep the commandments of God in this life, but breaks them everyday in thought, word, and action.
