The Westminster Shorter Catechism with Sinclair Ferguson

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Question & Answer 52 May 13, 2026

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Question: What are the reasons annexed to the Second Commandment?

Answer: 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 May 12, 2026

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Question: What is forbidden in the Second Commandment?

Answer: 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 May 11, 2026

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Question: What is required in the Second Commandment?

Answer: 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 May 08, 2026

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Question: Which is the Second Commandment?

Answer: 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 May 07, 2026

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Question: What are we specially taught by these words, "before me" in the First Commandment?

Answer: 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 May 06, 2026

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Question: What is forbidden in the First Commandment?

Answer: 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 May 05, 2026

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Question: What is required in the First Commandment?

Answer: 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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Question & Answer 45 May 04, 2026

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Question: Which is the First Commandment?

Answer: The First Commandment is, "thou shalt have no other gods before Me.�

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Question & Answer 44 May 01, 2026

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Question: What doth the preface to the Ten Commandments teach us?

Answer: The preface to the Ten Commandments teacheth us, That because God is The Lord, and our God, and Redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all His commandments.

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Question & Answer 42 Apr 29, 2026

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Question: What is the sum of the Ten Commandments?

Answer: The sum of the Ten Commandments is, "to love the Lord our God" with all our heart, all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbor as ourselves.

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