Catechesis

New City Catechism

Question 18

Will God allow our disobedience and idolatry to go unpunished?

Children: No, God is righteously angry with our sins and will punish them both in this life, and in the life to come.

Adult: No, every sin is against the sovereignty, holiness, and goodness of God, and against his righteous law, and God is righteously angry with our sins and will punish them in his just judgment both in this life, and in the life to come.

Righteous Lord, if we think that we are good, we deceive ourselves. We deserve your wrath. We have broken your commands, and we have not loved you with our whole hearts, minds, and strength. We can only plead the righteousness of Christ and ask you to let our punishment fall on him. Amen.

Question 18

Prayer