QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• Who has access to God’s moral law? Where is it found?
• Why does our catechism say that the moral law is “summarily comprehended” in the Ten Commandments? In other words, why do we not say that the moral law = the Ten Commandments? Why is it important for us to refer to the Ten Commandments as a summary of God’s moral law?
• How can we go about teasing out the implications of the brief and general moral principles stated in the Ten Commandments? Can those who do not have access to the scriptures do this? Why do we say that those who have the scriptures (and faith) are in a better position to speak to issues of morality?
• What does the sixth commandment forbid? You may use our catechism, but be specific with application beyond the sin of murder itself. 
• What does the sixth commandment require? Again, be specific with the application. 
• If you have time, search online for the Westminster Larger Catechism, read questions 134-136, and discuss. (Note: “physic” in answer 135 means medicine)

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• How would you go about convincing someone who thinks they are morally upright before God that they are not, and that they need a Savior?
•  We cannot truly keep the second table of God’s law without keeping the first table of God’s law. Discuss.
• What does the fifth commandment require and forbid?
• Why is the fifth commandment the first commandment of the second table of the law?
• If the fifth commandment requires us to show honor to all people in their various positions, then why did God specifically say, “honor your father and mother.” Why so specific?

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• How did Christ fulfill the moral law?
• How did Christ fulfill the civil and ceremonial laws of Moses?
• Discuss some of the ways that the Law of Moses pointed forward to Christ and prepared the way for him?
• When we speak of Christ’s passive obedience we have in view the way that he submitted to the will of the Father to suffer in the place of sinners. What do we mean when we speak of Christ’s active obedience? Why does his active obedience matter? 
• What gave Jesus Christ the right to rise from the dead and to give eternal life to those who come to him? 
• Are you united to Christ by faith?

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• What are the three uses of the moral law of God?
• What are ways that God uses his moral law to restrain evil in the world today?
• What do the judicial laws of Old Covenant Israel and the judicial laws of all other (common) nations share in common?
• What was unique about the law code given to Old Covenant Isreal?
• According to the covenant that God made with creation in the days of Noah (Genesis 9),  what are common governments to concern themselves with in their law codes? 
• It is one thing to know what God’s law is. It is another thing to know how it is to be used. Discuss possible misuses of God’s law and the potential ramifications.

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• What is the unchanging, moral law of the fourth commandment?
• What part of the fourth commandment is to be considered “positive law”?
• Why does Sabbath-keeping remain today? Why has the day changed? 
• What benefits come to God’s people from the observance of the Sabbath day?
• When will there be no more Sabbath-keeping? Why?

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 

AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• The law is good. Discuss.
• What does the third commandment forbid? What does it require?
• What does it mean to handle something in a vain way?
• Give examples of violations of the third commandment. 
• How can we grow in our keeping of the third commandment?