Heidelberg Catechism

Question 52. What comfort is it to you that “Christ will come again to judge the living and the dead”?

Answer: In all my sorrows and persecutions, I lift up my head to look for the very same person who before submitted himself for my sake to the judgment of God, and has removed all curse from me, to come as judge from heaven. (a) He will cast all his and my enemies into everlasting condemnation, (b) but will take me with all his chosen ones to himself into heavenly joy and glory. (c)

(Scriptural proofs after the fold.)

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Sunday's Hymn: 'Tis Not That I Did Choose Thee

‘Tis not that I did choose thee,
For, Lord, that could not be;
This heart would still refuse thee,
Hadst thou not chosen me.
Thou from the sin that stained me
Hast cleansed and set me free;
Of old thou hast ordained me,
That I should live to thee.

‘Twas sovereign mercy called me
And taught my op’ning mind;
The world had else enthralled me,
To heavenly glories blind.
My heart owns none before thee,
For thy rich grace I thirst;
This knowing, if I love thee,
Thou must have loved me first.

—Josiah Condor 

Older tune with original words

Matthew Smith with updated words and new tune

Other hymns, worship songs, prayers, sermons excerpts, or quotes posted today:

• My Shepherd Will Supply My Need at Graces Daily
• What a Friend We Have In Jesus at The Happy Wonderer
• Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King at By Grace Alone
• Alive and full of power at Blogging Theologically
• Thorns and Roses at Tried With Fire
• There Is a Far Kingdom from Trevin Wax
• Lord’s Day 36, 2014 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Your weekly dose of Spurgeon: Turning then walking at Pyromaniacs

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.

On Christ's Session

I posted at Out of the Ordinary this morning about Jesus’s rule at the Father’s right hand.

Theologians sometimes call Christ’s present reign his heavenly session. When a court is in session, the judge (or justices) are sitting. Christ’s session refers to his sitting at God’s right hand, the place place where he rules over creation—over (to quote the verses from Ephesians above) all other “rule and authority and power and dominion,” above “every name that is named” throughout history past and history to come. He is the master of all human authorities and all spiritual powers.

Read the rest of Jesus Is Lord.

This post is the latest in a series of posts on truths every Christian woman should know. Here are the previous posts:

1. God Has Spoken (posted at the True Woman Blog)
2. God Is Three and God Is One
3. God Is Who He Is
4. God Had a Plan
5. God Created the Universe
6. We Are Made in God’s Image
7. We Are All Sinners
8. God Saves
9. The Son Came
10. Jesus Lived and Died
11. Jesus Is Risen