THE GOSPEL CATECHISM:

1) Who is God?

God is my Creator, my King and my Judge, worthy of all my worship and obedience.  
(Psa 24; Acts 17:24, 31; Rom 2:5-11, 16; Psa 50:6)

2) What is God’s character?

God is perfectly Good, perfectly Just & perfectly Holy (pure).
(Psa 136; Deut 32:4; Isa 6:3; 1 Jn 1:5)

3) Why can’t God allow any stain of evil whatsoever into Heaven?

Because He is perfectly Good, perfectly Just & perfectly Holy.
(Psa 5:4-6; Hab 1:13; Rev 21:27)

4) What is humanity’s character?

All of us are wicked, rebel sinners against God.  (Rom 2:5, 5:10; Eph 2:1-3)

5) What is sin?

Sin is disobeying God in any way… in word, in thought, or in deed. (1 Jn 3:4)

6) Are you a sinner?

Yes, I am a sinner.  I have disobeyed God and I deserve His punishment. (Rom 3:23)

7) What is God’s just punishment upon sinners?

Hell. Jesus Christ taught that Hell is eternal torment in fire, forever and ever. 
(Mat 10:28, 13:41-42, 18:8-9, 25:46; Mark 9:43-49; 2Thess 1:5-10; Rev 20:11-15)

8) What did God do to save sinners from Hell?

In love, God the Father sent God the Son into this world to save sinners. Fully God & fully Man, Jesus LIVED sinlessly, DIED sacrificially & RESURRECTED gloriously.
(1 Cor 15:3-4; Jn 3:16; 1 Jn 4:9-10)

9) What does Jesus’ death on the cross mean?

Having lived the perfectly Good, Just & Holy life that I could not live, Jesus died on the cross as my substitute to take my place under God’s punishment that I deserved for my sin to pay off in full my debt of sin against God. (Rom 3:24-26; Eph 1:7-8)

10) What does Jesus’ resurrection prove?

1) That He is God, 2) that His sacrifice on the cross has power to wash away sin, 3) that He is alive, ruling from Heaven at the right-hand of God the Father and coming back one day soon.  (Rom 4:25, 10:9)

11) What must you do to be saved from Hell?

God commands me to REPENT, SURRENDER and BELIEVE… to repent of (turn away from) my sin, surrender my life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and believe that His sacrifice has paid off my personal sin-debt before God, that His perfect Righteousness has been applied to me.  (Acts 2:38, 16:30-31; Mark 1:15, 8:34-38; Jn 3:18 & 36)

12) What identity before God does the believer have now?

In Christ, I am fully forgiven, set free from sin and adopted into God’s family as His child.  (Rom 8:31-39; Gal 4:3-7)

13) What gift has God promised to all who believe in Jesus Christ?

The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit lives in a believer to comfort me in trials, to change me to be more like Jesus, to fight against sin, to grow in my Christian faith and to please God. (Eph 1:13-14)

14) What assurance does the believer have? 

That Jesus will return to resurrect me to eternal Life to be with God forever in His Kingdom. (1 Th 1:9-10; Jn 14:1-6)

15) What should a new believer in Jesus Christ do first?

1) Be baptized, 2) Pray & study my Bible every day, doing what it says, 3) Join a Bible-teaching church to grow in my faith. (Acts 2:38, 42)