Heidelberg Catechism: 'From where do you know your sins and misery?'

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First Part: Man’s Guilt

LORD’S DAY 2

3. From where do you know your sins and misery?

From the Law of God.1

1 Rom 3:20

4. What does the Law of God require of us?

Christ teaches us in sum in Matthew 22: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.1 This is the first and great commandment; and the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”2

1 Deut 6:5; 2 Lev 19:18

5. Can you keep all this perfectly?

No,1 for I am by nature inclined to hate God and my neighbor.2

1 Rom 3:10, 23; 1 Jn 1:8, 10; 2 Gen 6:5, 8:21; Jer 17:9; Rom 7:23, 8:7; Eph 2:3; Tit 3:3