This week’s Family Worship:
Family Worship for Lord’s Day March 15, 2026
The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith
Chapter 21 - Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience
The liberty Christ has purchased for believers under the gospel is found in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, and the severity and curse of the law. It also includes their deliverance from this present evil age, bondage to Satan, the dominion of sin, the suffering of afflictions, the fear and sting of death, the victory of the grave, and everlasting damnation. In addition, it includes their free access to God and their obedience to him, not from slavish fear but from a childlike love and willing mind.
All these liberties were also enjoyed in their essence by believers under the law. But under the New Testament the liberty of Christians is further expanded. They are free from the yoke of the ceremonial law to which the Jewish congregation was subjected; they have greater confidence of access to the throne of grace; and they have a fuller supply of God’s free Spirit than believers under the law usually experienced.
Those who use Christian liberty as an excuse to practice any sin or nurture any sinful desire pervert the main objective of the grace of the gospel to their own destruction, and they completely destroy the purpose of Christian liberty. This purpose is that we, having been delivered from the hands of all our enemies, may serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our lives.
The Baptist Catechism
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Q84. Which is the tenth commandment?
A. The tenth commandment is You shall not covet thy neighbor’s house, you shall not covet thy neighbor’s wife, or his male-servant, or his female-servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.
Q85. What is required in the tenth commandment?
A. The tenth commandment requires full contentment with our own condition, with a right and charitable frame of spirit toward our neighbor, and all that is his.
Q86. What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
A. The tenth commandment forbids all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbor, and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.
Scripture Reading: Exodus 19 (The Covenant Declared)
Hymn: O Worship the King
Psalm: 110 (110D)