The Morning Devotional: WSC Q94 (Part Five)
The Morning Devotional for March 7, 2022
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q94; WLC 165 (Part Five)
Q. 94. What is Baptism?
A. Baptism is a Sacrament, wherein the washing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s.
Matt. 28:19; Rom. 6:4; Gal. 3:27
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The Morning Devotional: WSC Q94 (Part Four)
The Morning Devotional for March 4, 2022
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q94; WLC 165 (Part Four)
Q. 94. What is Baptism?
A. Baptism is a Sacrament, wherein the washing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s.
Matt. 28:19; Rom. 6:4; Gal. 3:27
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The Morning Devotional: WSC Q94 (Part Three
The Morning Devotional for March 3, 2022
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q94; WLC 165 (Part Three)
Q. 94. What is Baptism?
A. Baptism is a Sacrament, wherein the washing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s.
Matt. 28:19; Rom. 6:4; Gal. 3:27
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The Morning Devotional: WSC Q94 (Part Two)
The Morning Devotional for March 2, 2022
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q94; WLC 165 (Part Two)
Q. 94. What is Baptism?
A. Baptism is a Sacrament, wherein the washing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s.
Matt. 28:19; Rom. 6:4; Gal. 3:27
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The Morning Devotional: WSC Q94
The Morning Devotional for March 1, 2022
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q94
Q. 94. What is Baptism?
A. Baptism is a Sacrament, wherein the washing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s.
Matt. 28:19; Rom. 6:4; Gal. 3:27.
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The Morning Devotional: WSC Q93
The Morning Devotional for February 28, 2022
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q93
Q. 93. Which are the Sacraments of the New Testament?
A. The Sacraments of the New Testament are Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper.
Matt. 28:19; Matt. 26:26-28.
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The Morning Devotional: WSC Q92
The Morning Devotional for February 25, 2022
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q92
Q. 92. What is a Sacrament?
A. A Sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Christ; wherein, by sensible signs, Christ and the benefits of the new covenant are represented, sealed, and applied to believers.
Gen. 17:7, 10; Ex. 12; 1 Cor. 11:23, 26.
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The Morning Devotional: WSC Q91
The Morning Devotional for February 24, 2022
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q91
Q. 91. How do the Sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
A. The Sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth administer them; but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of his Spirit in them that by faith receive them.
1 Pet. 3:21; Matt. 3:11; 1 Cor. 3:6-7; 1 Cor. 12:13.
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The Morning Devotional: WSC Q90
The Morning Devotional for February 23, 2022
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q90
Q. 90. How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
A. That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives.
Prov. 8:34; 1 Pet. 2:1-2; Ps. 119:18; Heb. 4:2; 2 Thess. 2:10; Ps. 119:11; Luke 8:15; Jas. 1:25.
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The Morning Devotional: WSC Q89
The Morning Devotional for February 22, 2022
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q89
Question 89
How is the Word made effectual to salvation?
The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching of the Word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort, through faith, unto salvation. (Neh. 8:8, 1 Cor. 14:24–25, Acts 26:18, Ps. 19:8, Acts 20:32, Rom. 15:4, 2 Tim. 3:15–17, Rom. 10:13–17, Rom. 1:16)
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The Morning Devotional: WSC Q88
The Morning Devotional for February 21, 2022
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q88
Question 88
What are the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to usthe benefits of redemption?
The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption, are his ordinances, especially the Word, sacraments, and prayer; all which are made effectual to the elect for salvation. (Matt. 28:19–20, Acts 2:42,46–47)
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The Morning Devotional: WSC Q87
The Morning Devotional for February 18, 2022
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Q87
Question 87
What is repentance unto life?
Repentance unto life is a saving grace, (Acts 11:18) whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, (Acts 2:37–38) and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, (Joel 2:12, Jer. 3:22) doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, (Jer. 31:18–19, Ezek. 36:31) with full purpose of, and endeavour after, new obedience. (2 Cor. 7:11, Isa. 1:16–17)
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