What Gives Christians Comfort?

1. 0:00Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 1.
2. 0:13What is your only comfort in life and in death, that I am not my own, but belong body and soul, in life and in death to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins
3. 0:25with his precious blood and has delivered me from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head
4. 0:33without the will of my Father in heaven. In fact, all things must work together for my salvation. Because I believe belong to him, Christ by his Holy Spirit also assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly
5. 0:46willing and ready from now on to live for him.
6. 0:50How many things must you know to live and die in the joy of this comfort?
7. 0:54Three, first, how great my sin and misery are, second, how I am delivered from all my sins and misery. Third, how I am to thank God for such deliverance. A catechism
8. 1:06is essentially a teaching tool. It is the asking of good questions in the hope of receiving back answers to those questions. And the question that the Heidelberg Catechism begins with is
9. 1:20that we all ask in one way or another.
10. 1:24The formal way that the question is phrased is what is your only comfort in life and in death?
11. 1:28And so the question is asking about a sense of belonging, a sense of safety, a sense of purpose.
12. 1:37What is that one thing that could give you all of that And the Christian's answer to that question is only Jesus.
13. 1:43We're not responsible for finding our way in this world, for making meaning for ourselves.
14. 1:49We have our identity in Jesus Christ.
15. 1:51We also have safety in Christ.
16. 1:53He's delivered us from the tyranny of the devil.
17. 1:56He's freed us from the penalty of sin.
18. 1:59He's promised us every possible good thing that we could ever desire.
19. 2:06And we have a purpose.
20. 2:07The Lord Jesus Christ, when we belong to him, sets us back into this world to live according to his principles and for his glory.
21. 2:15And so the second question in this first Lord’s Day sort of puts us on a basis.
22. 2:19a quest, how many things do you have to know to live and die in the joy of discomfort? And there's three things that we have to know. We have to know the
23. 2:27service of the law that it first comes in and convicts us of our sin and tells us that we're in need of the Lord Jesus. The gospel comes and tells us that Jesus
24. 2:35is that Savior who can rescue us from everything that's wrong with us and wrong with our world and then the law comes back to us and enables us to know how to live what
25. 2:45to do what to say no to what to say yes to and so we have in the gospel everything that we need and in God's law we have instructions for how do we live every day of our lives for his glory Thank you.

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