This week’s Family Worship:
Family Worship for Lord’s Day December 14, 2025
Confession:
Chapter 19 - The Law of God
God gave Adam a law of comprehensive obedience written in his heart and a specific precept not to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. By these God obligated him and all his descendants to personal, total, exact, and perpetual obedience. God promised life if Adam fulfilled it and threatened death if he broke it, and he gave Adam the power and ability to keep it.
The moral law forever requires obedience of everyone, both those who are justified as well as others. This obligation arises not only because of its content but also because of the authority of God the Creator who gave it. Nor does Christ in any way dissolve this obligation in the Gospel; instead he greatly strengthens it.
Catechism:
Q. What is the duty which God requires of man?
A. The duty which God requires of man is, obedience to his revealed will.
Q. What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
A. The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience, was the moral law.
Scripture Reading: Matthew 1:18-2:15 (The Coming Christ)
Hymn: O, Come All Ye Faithful
Psalm: 51 (Psalter 51A)