In today’s episode, we look at questions 3, 4 and 5 of the Heidelberg Catechism.

3. Q. From where do you know

your sins and misery?

A. From the law of God.

4. Q. What does God’s law require of us?

A. Christ teaches us this in a summary in Matthew 22:

Love the Lord your God

with all your heart

and with all your soul

and with all your mind.1

This is the first and greatest commandment.

And the second is like it:

Love your neighbor as yourself.

All the Law and the Prophets hang on these

two commandments.

5. Q. Can you keep all this perfectly?

A. No,1 I am inclined by nature

to hate God and my neighbor.

And for our word of the day, we consider those for whom laws of God are not valued as they should be…

Resources: Heidelberg Catechism