The Promise of the Fourth Commandment – A Kingdom Catechism

The Promise of the Fourth Commandment

A Kingdom Catechism

God promises to bless and sanctify His faithful people.

Q 80: What promise does the Lord hold out in the fourth commandment?

A 80: In exchange for obedience to the fourth commandment, the Lord promises to bless and sanctify His people to Him forever. (Exod. 20:8-11; Deut. 5:12-15)

The blessing of God consists primarily in our intimacy with Him. In worship, as we truly participate in the Lord, we enter into His glory and know Him, through Jesus Christ, as He is. Here we experience fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore, such as we can in no way obtain from anything or anyone else (Ps. 16:11). The effect of such participating in the Lord is that the Spirit of God sets us free from the restraints of sin and unbelief and transforms us increasingly into the very image of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that we are able to live, from glory to glory, for the sake of the Lord and His Kingdom (2 Cor. 3:12-18).

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.