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Q: How much should I leave to my children and to charity in my will? A: One helpful approach some families use is sometimes called adding “a child named Charity.” For example, if a couple has four children, they might divide their estate into five equal parts. Each child would receive one-fifth, and the remaining […]
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Q47: But is not Christ with us even unto the end of the world, as He has promised? A: Christ is true man and true God. According to His human nature He is now not on earth, but according to His Godhead, majesty, grace, and Spirit, He is at no time absent from us. Q48: […]
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Q45: What benefit do we receive from the “resurrection” of Christ? A: First, by His resurrection He has overcome death, that He might make us partakers of the righteousness which He has obtained for us by His death. Second, by His power we are also now raised up to a new life. Third, the resurrection […]
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Q43: What further benefit do we receive from the sacrifice and death of Christ on the cross? A: That by His power our old man is with Him crucified, slain, and buried; so that the evil lusts of the flesh may no more reign in us, but that we may offer ourselves unto Him a […]
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Q40: Why was it necessary for Christ to suffer “death”? A: Because the justice and truth of God required that satisfaction for our sins could be made in no other way than by the death of the Son of God. Q41: Why was He “buried”? A: To show thereby that He was really dead. Q42: […]
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