The Westminster Shorter Catechism with Sinclair Ferguson

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Question & Answer 55 Oct 14, 2026

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Q: What is forbidden in the Third Commandment? A: The Third Commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing [of] anything whereby God maketh Himself known.

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Question & Answer 54 Oct 13, 2026

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Q: What is required in the Third Commandment? A: The Third Commandment requireth the holy and reverent use of God's names, titles, attributes, ordinances, Word, and works.

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Question & Answer 53 Oct 12, 2026

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Q: Which is the Third Commandment? A: The Third Commandment is, "thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain

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Question & Answer 52 Oct 09, 2026

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Q: What are the reasons annexed to the Second Commandment? A: The reasoned annexed to the Second Commandment are, God's sovereignty over us, and the zeal He hath to His own worship.

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Question & Answer 51 Oct 08, 2026

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Q: What is forbidden in the Second Commandment? A: The Second Commandment forbiddeth the worshipping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in His Word.

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Question & Answer 50 Oct 07, 2026

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Q: What is required in the Second Commandment? A: The Second Commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in His Word.

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Question & Answer 49 Oct 06, 2026

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Q: Which is the Second Commandment? A: The Second Commandment is, "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth, thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them

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Question & Answer 48 Oct 05, 2026

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Q: What are we specially taught by these words, "before me" in the First Commandment? A: These words "before me" in the First Commandment, teach us, That God who seeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other God.

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Question & Answer 47 Oct 02, 2026

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Q: What is forbidden in the First Commandment? A: The First Commandment forbiddeth the denying, or not worshipping and glorifying the true God, as God, [and our God,] and the giving of that worship and glory to any other which is due to Him alone.

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Question & Answer 46 Oct 01, 2026

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Q: What is required in the First Commandment? A: The First Commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify Him accordingly.

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