Question & Answer 18
The Westminster Shorter Catechism with Sinclair Ferguson
Release Date: 10/28/2025
The Westminster Shorter Catechism with Sinclair Ferguson
Question: What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification? Answer: The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end. Study Reformed theology with a free resource bundle from Ligonier Ministries: A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your...
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Question: What is sanctification? Answer: Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness. Study Reformed theology with a free resource bundle from Ligonier Ministries: A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question: What is adoption? Answer: Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of the Sons of God. Study Reformed theology with a free resource bundle from Ligonier Ministries: A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question: What is justification? Answer: Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein He pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone. Study Reformed theology with a free resource bundle from Ligonier Ministries: A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question: What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life? Answer: They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which, in this life, do either accompany or flow from them. Study Reformed theology with a free resource bundle from Ligonier Ministries: A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question: What is effectual calling? Answer: 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. Study Reformed theology with a free resource bundle from Ligonier Ministries: A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open...
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Question: How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? Answer: The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling. Study Reformed theology with a free resource bundle from Ligonier Ministries: A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question: How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ? Answer: We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit. Study Reformed theology with a free resource bundle from Ligonier Ministries: A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question: Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation? Answer: Christ's exaltation consisteth 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. Study Reformed theology with a free resource bundle from Ligonier Ministries: A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question: Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist? Answer: 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. Study Reformed theology with a free resource bundle from Ligonier Ministries: A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask...
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Answer: The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called Original Sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.
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