Sunday, December 30, 2007

Questions 27-28 from the Westminster Shorter Catechism. For your Family Devotion today.



Q27: Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?

A27: Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition,[1] made under the law,[2] undergoing the miseries of this life,[3] the wrath of God,[4] and the cursed death of the cross;[5] in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.[6]
1. Luke 2:72. Gal. 4:43. Isa. 53:34. Matt. 27:465. Phil. 2:86. Matt. 12:40

Q28: Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation?

A28: Christ's exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day,[1] in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father,[2] and in coming to judge the world at the last day.[3]
1. I Cor. 15:42. Mark 16:193. Acts 17:31

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