Q & A 3
Q. How do you come to know your misery?
A. The law of God tells me.1
Q & A 4
Q. What does God’s law require of us?
A. Christ teaches us this in summary in Matthew 22:37-40:
“‘You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart,
and with all your soul,
and with all your mind.’ (1)
This is the greatest and first commandment.
“And a second is like it:
‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ (2)
“On these two commandments hang
all the law and the prophets.”
Q & A 5
Q. Can you live up to all this perfectly?
A. No. (1)
I have a natural tendency
to hate God and my neighbour. (2)
1 Rom. 3:9-20, 23; 1 John 1:8, 10
2 Gen. 6:5; Jer. 17:9; Rom. 7:23-24; 8:7; Eph. 2:1-3; Titus 3:3