MEMORY VERSE(S)
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:23–24, ESV).

CATECHISM QUESTION(S)
Baptist Catechism #36:
Q. What is justification?
A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein He pardoneth (pardons) all our sins, and accepteth (accepts) us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.

MEMORY VERSE(S)
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day” (John 6:44, ESV).

CATECHISM QUESTION(S)
Baptist Catechism #35:
Q. What benefits do they that are effectually called, partake of in this life?
A. They that are effectually called, do in this life partake of justification, adoption, sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.

MEMORY VERSE(S)
“For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified” (Romans 8:29–30, ESV).

CATECHISM QUESTION(S)
Baptist Catechism #34:
Q. What is effectual calling?
A. Effectual calling is the work of God’s Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, He doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the Gospel.

MEMORY VERSE(S)
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5, ESV).

CATECHISM QUESTION(S)
Baptist Catechism #33:
Q. How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
A. The Spirit applieth (applies) to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.

MEMORY VERSE(S)
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21, ESV).

CATECHISM QUESTION(S)
Baptist Catechism #32:
Q. How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
A. We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us, by His Holy Spirit.

MEMORY VERSE(S)
“If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God” (Colossians 3:1, ESV).

CATECHISM QUESTION(S)
Baptist Catechism #31:
Q. Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation? (In what way was Christ exalted?)
A. Christ’s exaltation consisteth (Christ was exalted) in His rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.

MEMORY VERSE(S)
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8, ESV).

CATECHISM QUESTION(S)
Baptist Catechism #31:
Q. Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation? (In what way was Christ exalted?)
A. Christ’s exaltation consisteth (Christ was exalted) in His rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.

MEMORY VERSE(S)
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons” (Galatians 4:4–5, ESV).

CATECHISM QUESTION(S)
Baptist Catechism #30:
Q. Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?
A. Christ’s humiliation consisted in His being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross, in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.