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Lord's Day 23
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59   Q. What good does it do you, however,
to believe all this?
A. In Christ I am right with God
and heir to life everlasting.1

1 John 3:36; Rom. 1:17 (Hab. 2:4); Rom. 5:1-2
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60   Q. How are you right with God?
  A. Only by true faith in Jesus Christ.1

Even though my conscience accuses me
   of having grievously sinned against all God's commandments
   and of never having kept any of them,2
and even though I am still inclined toward all evil,3
nevertheless,
   without my deserving it at all,4
   out of sheer grace,5
God grants and credits to me
the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ,6
   as if I had never sinned nor been a sinner,
   as if I had been as perfectly obedient
      as Christ was obedient for me.7

All I need to do
is to accept this gift of God with a believing heart.8

1 Rom. 3:21-28; Gal. 2:16; Eph. 2:8-9; Phil. 3:8-11
2 Rom. 3:9-10
3 Rom. 7:23
4 Tit. 3:4-5
5 Rom. 3:24; Eph. 2:8
6 Rom. 4:3-5 (Gen. 15:6); 2 Cor. 5:17-19; 1 John 2:1-2
7 Rom. 4:24-25; 2 Cor. 5:21
8 John 3:18; Acts 16:30-31
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61   Q. Why do you say that
by faith alone
you are right with God?
A. It is not because of any value my faith has
   that God is pleased with me.
Only Christ's satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness
   make me right with God.1
And I can receive this righteousness and make it mine
   in no other way than
   by faith alone.2

1 1 Cor. 1:30-31
2 Rom. 10:10; 1 John 5:10-12
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