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Please start by reading the introduction.
Read The IntroductionPart 1: God, Creation and Fall, Law
- Lesson 01 What is our only hope in life and death?
- Lesson 02 What is God?
- Lesson 03 How many persons are there in God?
- Lesson 04 How and why did God create us?
- Lesson 05 What else did God create?
- Lesson 06 How can we glorify God?
- Lesson 07 What does the law of God require?
- Lesson 08 What is the law of God stated in the Ten Commandments?
- Lesson 09 What does God require in the first, second, and third commandments?
- Lesson 10 What does God require in the fourth and fifth commandments?
- Lesson 11 What does God require in the sixth, seventh, and eighth commandments?
- Lesson 12 What does God require in the ninth and tenth commandments?
- Lesson 13 Can anyone keep the law of God perfectly?
- Lesson 14 Did God create us unable to keep his law?
- Lesson 15 Since no one can keep the law, what is its purpose?
- Lesson 16 What is sin?
- Lesson 17 What is idolatry?
- Lesson 18 Will God allow our disobedience and idolatry to go unpunished?
- Lesson 19 Is there any way to escape punishment and be brought back into God’s favor?
- Lesson 20 Who is the Redeemer?
Part 2: Christ, Redemption, Grace
- Lesson 21 What sort of Redeemer is needed to bring us back to God?
- Lesson 22 Why must the Redeemer be truly human?
- Lesson 23 Why must the Redeemer be truly God?
- Lesson 24 Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die?
- Lesson 25 Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven?
- Lesson 26 What else does Christ’s death redeem?
- Lesson 27 Are all people, just as they were lost through Adam, saved through Christ?
- Lesson 28 What happens after death to those not united to Christ by faith?
- Lesson 29 How can we be saved?
- Lesson 30 What is faith in Jesus Christ?
- Lesson 31 What do we believe by true faith?
- Lesson 32 What do justification and sanctification mean?
- Lesson 33 Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works, or anywhere else?
- Lesson 34 Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through Christ alone, must we still do good works and obey God’s Word?
- Lesson 35 Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through faith alone, where does this faith come from?
Part 3: Spirit, Restoration, Growing in Grace
- Lesson 36 What do we believe about the Holy Spirit?
- Lesson 37 How does the Holy Spirit help us?
- Lesson 38 What is prayer?
- Lesson 39 With what attitude should we pray?
- Lesson 40 What should we pray?
- Lesson 41 What is the Lord’s Prayer?
- Lesson 42 How is the Word of God to be read and heard?
- Lesson 43 What are the sacraments or ordinances?
- Lesson 44 What is baptism?
- Lesson 45 Is baptism with water the washing away of sin itself?
- Lesson 46 What is the Lord’s Supper?
- Lesson 47 Does the Lord’s Supper add anything to Christ’s atoning work?
- Lesson 48 What is the church?
- Lesson 49 Where is Christ now?
- Lesson 50 What does Christ’s resurrection mean for us?
- Lesson 51 Of what advantage to us is Christ’s ascension?
- Lesson 52 What hope does everlasting life hold for us?