Lord’s Day 4 Themes and Divisions

 

R. Bredenhof

Sinful man trembles before the greatness of God:

  1. God’s goodness and our failure
  2. God’s justice and our punishment
  3. God’s mercy and our hope

Bible readings:  Deuteronomy 32:1-47

 

Excuses thrown out, and salvation laid out!

1.      Our total accountability

2.      God’s majestic personality

3.      Our new responsibility

Bible readings: Romans 2:1-11, 3:1-8, 6:15-23 

 

C. Bouwman

 

Righteous God punishes sin in this life and the next

 

1.      This punishment is real

2.      This punishment has a reason

3.      This punishment prompts gratitude

 

Bible readings:  Numbers 11:1-6; 10; 18-20; 31-34

 

W. Bredenhof

 

Comforted Christians confess God’s justice

 

1.      The basis of God’s justice

2.      The demands of God’s justice

3.      The administration of God’s justice

 

Bible readings:  Deuteronomy 7:1-11

 

Our confession of God’s justice

 

We see God’s justice:

 

1.      Vindicated from the beginning

2.      Executed eternally

3.      Uncompromised by his mercy

 

Bible readings:  Luke 16:19-31, Romans 3:1-20

 

Love compels us to tell the truth about God’s justice

 

We’ll consider that it is:

 

1.      Infinite

2.      Eternal

3.      Unchangeable

 

Bible readings:  Psalm 7

 

“Is there injustice on God’s part?  By no means!”

 

We’ll consider:

 

1.      What God’s justice involves

2.      How God’s justice is expressed

3.      Why God’s justice is maintained

 

Bible readings:  Job 34:1-20, Romans 9:1-29

 

C. Stam

 

The confession concerning the perfect justice of God,

 

1.      in maintaining his covenant law

2.      in executing his righteous judgment

 

Bible readings:  Exodus 34:1-9

 

K. Dijk

 

The confession of God’s punishment of our sin.

 

1.      God can punish

2.      God will punish

3.      God must punish

 

Bible readings:  none provided in the original source

 

The enigma of suffering

 

1.      Why we ask this question

2.      How God gives the answer

 

Bible readings:  none provided in the original source

 

B. Holwerda

 

The justice of the Lord

 

  1. The Lord and the demand of his justice (zijn vorderingsrecht)
  2. The Lord and the requital of his justice (zijn vergeldingsrecht)
  3. The Lord and the redemption of his justice (zijn verlossingsrecht)

 

Bible readings:  Psalm 92

 

B. Jongeling

 

We confess God’s faithfulness

 

  1. To his work
  2. To his Word
  3. To himself

 

Bible readings:  Romans 5:12-21

 

S. t’Hart

 

God’s mercy is seen in his justice

 

1.      The price of justice

2.      The cost of mercy

 

Bible readings:  Isaiah 42:1-9, Romans 3