This week’s Family Worship:
Family Worship for Lord’s Day September 14, 2025
Confession:
Chapter 6 – The Fall of Mankind, and Sin and Its Punishment
God created humanity upright and perfect. He gave them a righteous law that would have led to life if they had kept it but threatened death if they broke it. Yet they did not remain for long in this position of honor. Satan used the craftiness of the serpent to seduce Eve, who then seduced Adam. Adam acted without any outside compulsion and deliberately transgressed the law of their creation and the command given to them by eating the forbidden fruit. God was pleased, in keeping with his wise and holy counsel, to permit this act, because he had purposed to direct it for his own glory.
Catechism:
Q. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
A. Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.
Q. What is sin?
A. Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
Q. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
A. The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.
Scripture Reading: Genesis 1:1 – 2:3 (Creation)
Hymn: I Sing the Mighty Power of God
Psalm: 146 (Psalter 146A)