Comfort in Life and in Death. Heidelberg Catechism Introduction and Lord's Day 1
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@hccreed9444 15 күн бұрын
Question 1 was used by God as an anchor to keep me sane and able to function in one of the darkest periods of my life. A divorce AND at the same time a job lost (for the first and only time in my life!). The only job I could find required riding a bus for two hours, followed by walking on foot for a mile and a half each way and spending 8 hours standing at the job. Walking, back and forth on foot in the Winter in Pennsylvania was dark and cold. Raining, snowing, cold, alone. But again, and again, I remembered, “My only Comfort in life and death…my FAITHFUL SAVIOR…ALL things work together for my salvation.” Thank you, Paul for this message.
@nathansybrandy 17 күн бұрын
I just audibly yelled "Yes!"
@lancecleaver227 17 күн бұрын
Wow you’re doing it
@PaulVanderKlay 17 күн бұрын
I just posted it when I got to the section in your talk on Mo's channel. Still no Tim Keller Eulogy though yet. Sorry.
@tylerhelfers7693 15 күн бұрын
I remember running on a treadmill once, talking to a city councilman and attorney who also happened to be my wife's boss at the time, and he was sharing about some struggles he was experiencing in his life at the time. I shared HC Q&A #1 with him. I still remember the look of wonder on his face and his response: "That is truly beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing that with me." Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the catechism as I mull over how I might use it in our international (very theologically diverse) congregation.
@stevemcgee99 15 күн бұрын
36:47 “our propensity to torpedo even a good life” 37:01 “I can’t really be trusted to be the boss of me”
@nickloenen4255 13 күн бұрын
I am grateful for this initiative. You are uniquely gifted to communicate the essence of the Gospel to the modern mind.
@Subvisual 15 күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing these teachings! I grew up in an evangelical church and the lack of a catechism does feel like a gap in my learning.
@markweswhit869 7 күн бұрын
The precision of the language is very refreshing 🙏
@ReneHaveman 15 күн бұрын
as a Dutch reformed Christian, I grew up learning to memorize the complete HC and when I made my public profession of faith, my consistory examined me if I knew sufficient from the HC and could apply this in my life as a Christian. Looking forward to the next video.
@Phlebas9202 15 күн бұрын
I did this class when I was 16. When the time came I never did the Profession of Faith that was supposed to follow and it's haunted me ever since.
@rooderoo12 15 күн бұрын
I'm glad you are doing these Paul. For a while there seemed to be a stigma with talking about the HC (evangelical influence?). I've seen that trend reversing in the churches I have visited in more recent years.
@PaulVanderKlay 15 күн бұрын
There is a reason this document has been loved, memorized and preached for almost 500 years.
@lloydhemstreet3226 15 күн бұрын
Yeah! Excited to see this series start for you! I really enjoyed the “knowing how to swim” illustration (and will likely steal and use it without full attribution someday…)😊
@PaulVanderKlay 15 күн бұрын
Pastors are meme thieves. We rob from each other and almost everyone else. :)
@lloydhemstreet3226 15 күн бұрын
@@PaulVanderKlay very true!
@don-jannbruinsma3405 15 күн бұрын
Our small groups this summer are discussing evangelism in the established church. I just realized what a great evangelism tool LD 1 is. This is where we can find a summary of comfort and peace which is universally sought in all the world.
@WisdomFoundry814 16 күн бұрын
Bless you for doing this!
@lynnlavoy6778 15 күн бұрын
That was helpful, thank you! I had never heard of this until I started watching your stuff and praying the rosary
@marilynn2859 17 күн бұрын
“Yes, Yes,”
@ChadTheAlcoholic 6 күн бұрын
Thank you for these. I didn’t know how much I needed them.
@Joshua_Nikolai 15 күн бұрын
Very excited for this. Thank you Pastor Paul. 🙏🏼
@stevevos1765 15 күн бұрын
My grandmother, who has since passed, had cross-stitched HC Q&A 1, with the CRC insignia. I've kept it as a keepsake. I'll tweet it at you, Paul!
@Lindsay_Mason 13 күн бұрын
Oh I am so looking forward to this series!
@johnmadany9829 15 күн бұрын
"I am not my own"
@APilgrimAndAStranger 14 күн бұрын
I appreciate that you're doing this. I have a Heidelberg Catechism that I bought a while back, so I'll be dusting it off and following along. These are definitely going to be worth multiple listens.
@markweswhit869 6 күн бұрын
One of the Peter Hitchens clips from the Elizabeth Oldfield conversation tie in with the swimming analogy. 🙏
@johnmadany9829 15 күн бұрын
I am thankful that I grew up with the "old Heidelberger".
@Slackarius 15 күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing Paul
@desolasolalexluna5114 14 күн бұрын
What is my only comfort in Life and in Death? Thank you so much Paul for this video and for bringing this all up to the forefront of our everyday (busy) life.
@margorana2628 15 күн бұрын
Love this!
@MrMarccj 15 күн бұрын
Thanks Paul, this has been helpful.
@SamuelAdamsT 15 күн бұрын
So far so good
@mhjbnz 12 күн бұрын
Revisiting my RCNZ youth, post-critically. This is great stuff, PvK
@janetbaxter6358 15 күн бұрын
This looks like fun and I commit to following very these videos. God bless!
@endrickdonitz6669 15 күн бұрын
Looking forward to this series.
@stevemcgee99 15 күн бұрын
4:04 I was going to also remark about the “what it was like, what happened, and what it is like now” format for people to tell their story about recovery.
@mickmarshall9254 15 күн бұрын
Appreciate your take
@Stephen.D20 15 күн бұрын
Awesome! I've been waiting for this! Thanks Paul.
@wilkinspamela5683 15 күн бұрын
Thank you, Sincerely Pam
@samuelewing8935 15 күн бұрын
Thanks blessed Lord's Day my brother🙏
@Bruno-ov9ew 15 күн бұрын
Is interesting that Arminius affirmed the Heidelberg catechism
@theLord_is-my_shepherd 16 күн бұрын
Finally :) !
@Pseudo_Boethius 15 күн бұрын
Oh my, I just realized that you are starting a new experiment that I don't think has ever been tried: a Protestant Reformed catechism class that is open to attendance by the ENTIRE WORLD!!! You're breaking now ground! There will be people in CHINA watching this (I'm not kidding) Ooooooo......we in on the ground floor on the greatest experiment of the Information Age: online discipleship and catechism. Not even the evangelicals have become that sophisticated. If this works, they will be erecting a statue of PVK on the campus of Calvin University.
@SamuelAdamsT 15 күн бұрын
Present and accounted for
@georgerichwine1864 15 күн бұрын
Amen and Amen
@christopherlaycock7445 16 күн бұрын
Our stories are disclosed in a general way. What it used to be like, what happened and what it’s like now.
@sellicott 15 күн бұрын
Oh yeah! It's happening!
@mcmosav 16 күн бұрын
Woohoo!!
@jimluebke3869 15 күн бұрын
The Law is a gift to us, no less than the Gospel. We do reject it time after time, and we should expect that because of who we are, but not who we want to be. Even so, is there a single one that is not for our good, if seemingly not to each of us, but to all together? The vaccines for the children, learning what to do with a toilet and sink, the tedium of clearing your dishes, those antibiotics you have to be so careful taking that give you a stomachache -- as you point out, it's the same kind of thing. Sure, it isn't righteousness itself, but like memorization, it is the scaffolding where righteousness can grow. Like scaffolding, it shouldn't be mistaken for the end product, but with crooked (or absent) scaffolding, you have a much harder time building, and the building could very well turn out wrong when it could have been formed properly.
@Pseudo_Boethius 15 күн бұрын
Good job passing the offering plate at the end! It's just like being in real life church! Someday, you'll have to get up to the "Joel Osteen" level of tithes and offerings, and put a QR code on the screen....
@GreenManorite 15 күн бұрын
The dialogue needs a Catholic/Orthodox set of answers to the same set of questions to compare/contrast because the gulf is deep on many of these (and internationally so from a historical perspective). As a faith and works guy, I really miss participation. Participation in the Body of Christ is salvation. Seems like John 15:5-10 captures this: there are two directions Christ in us (grace) and our call to remain in him which is explicitly tied to Love and the commandments. What is my comfort in life and death? Christ's invitation to be in Him and his Love.
@MrMarccj 15 күн бұрын
Hey! Give me theory or give me death! Theory is good, I like it, but it's only one aspect of the trinity. Well, this particular trinity. The 2nd (in no particular order) is body and the 3rd is heart. Learning to swim or ride a bike requires body. To get good requires heart. You ever watched Chad tile a bathroom? Starts with theory, imagination. How do the owners imagine this bathroom will look? This is all head work. What's the final product? But the head can't do the work, this requires body. Body does the work, guided by the head's vision of the final product. But the finer details, doing the job well, this is a function of heart. This is care. Heart, head and body as a trinity, three aspects of a unified whole. Chad appears to understand this on some deeper level, which may be why he occasionally gets annoyed with over-theoretical live streams. Too much head, not enough heart or body.
@jahnvantuttlesma8215 15 күн бұрын
Nice. You should do the Belgic & Dort next.
@ThreeFormsPodcast 15 күн бұрын
That he should!
@PaulVanderKlay 14 күн бұрын
I'm just getting started. Got 51 Lord's days to go...
@jahnvantuttlesma8215 13 күн бұрын
@@PaulVanderKlay After all of that you can go through the Institutes in their entirety. We can keep you busy on KZfaq for the rest of your life!
@jimluebke3869 15 күн бұрын
"Not a hair can fall from my head, without the will of my Father in heaven." That's called _establishing a track record,_ right?
@Pohnji 15 күн бұрын
How do you combine the idea of “the only true Christian was Jesus and look how his life went” and Jesus saying, “My yoke is easy and my burden is light.”?
@PaulVanderKlay 15 күн бұрын
Because Ironically the cruciform life is EASIER than a life of worldliness. It sounds counter-intuitive but Christians throughout the centuries have known this.
@jedighostbear4401 15 күн бұрын
Hey Paul, I'm strongly thinking about incorporating the New City Catechism into my homeschool curriculum. Obviously it isn't as thorough as the Heidelberg Catechism, but I'm curious about your thoughts on it
@trevorleong6381 11 күн бұрын
I could see a purpose for you diving into Zak Stein’s new book and perhaps drawing Biblical similarities. I’d watch those videos!
@mcmosav 16 күн бұрын
Mcmosav, Classless TLC. I’d like to propose a friendly speculation to “I am not my own” I’m wondering if “I’m never my own” would be a better word or if the added syllable and negation of time is a step too far for the metaphysics of the body?
@Phlebas9202 16 күн бұрын
Phlebas, Classis Diaspora. I'd consider the amendment unfriendly. In life and in death seems to cover the temporal aspect sufficiently. Additionally we aren't supposed to be making edits on the floor.
@MrMarccj 15 күн бұрын
You ever had a moment in your life that you knew, in that moment, you would never forget, ever? You still remember every detail of the moment.
@Matty-Boy 4 күн бұрын
But pastor how do I get literally saved
@matthewkilbride1669 15 күн бұрын
I have a question about audience. The way you were using the "you" and "I" of the catechism, they are universal in application. So are we to understand that a Catholic in Spain, or Orthodox Russian, or Muslim, or Jew living at the time was expected to, if he happened to pick the book up, read himself in the "you" and "I"? The way you told it, the answer seems to be "yes", but based on what (I think) I know about reformed teaching, it's really an "it depends". So to put it simply, who was the audience for the catechism?
@lloydhemstreet3226 15 күн бұрын
The original audience was primarily the Christians, especially young people, in Elector Fredrick's territory.
@matthewkilbride1669 15 күн бұрын
@@lloydhemstreet3226 Thanks. So do you mind if I ask a follow-up. As far as you can tell, if it had been written for a larger audience (throughout Europe and into Western Asia), would it: A) be worded just the same B) be worded differently, but mostly the same C) Be worded significantly differently D) Just not have been written to a larger audience
@lloydhemstreet3226 15 күн бұрын
@@matthewkilbride1669 not really a theoretical question that I had thought of, but off the top of my head, I think "D" is the most likely answer. It was written to Catechize protestant Christians, and I think that would most likely continue to be it's aim?
@matthewkilbride1669 14 күн бұрын
@@lloydhemstreet3226 kind of theoretical in the sense that it’s a counter factual. My point is that I usually think of the Bible as a book that has shaped history across cultures, ages, geographic regions, etc. Should I think of the Heidelberg catechism that way (on a lesser scale obviously), or is it a particular document giving voice to a specific set of historically-conditioned contextual ideas and concerns? As a Christian in 2024 with a master’s degree and the internet at my fingertips, plus a skepticism about denominations at large, what is the significance of the Heidelberg Catechism to me?
@redtrek2153 14 күн бұрын
@@matthewkilbride1669 The Heidelberg Catechism was, and continues to be, at the core of Reformed/Presbyterian Christianity and so by extension also had a great impact on the world, even if the average church member doesn't really know the doctrine explicitly. It absolutely has a local historical context in its inception. But at the same it reflects the interpretations developing in Christianity since Paul because it is not far removed from the Catholicism at the time. The difference comes in the issues that Protestants were protesting against--most fundamentally, how to redefine certain things which were seen as too dependent on the power of the Catholic Church. If you're not terribly interested in denominations per se, it still gives insight into some deep culture which shaped the West.
@Pseudo_Boethius 15 күн бұрын
As far as I'm concerned, you can make your channel 24/7 about catechism and discipleship, and skip all the other silly stuff entirely. Do I need catechism and discipleship at this point in my life? Not at all, I've had the best quality discipleship you could want, so I'll just end up agreeing with pretty much everything. But it would be fascinating to watch this just to see the CRC take on what it's like. Giving you all the encouragement on this project I possibly can....
@MrMarccj 15 күн бұрын
An old Georgian phrase, 'a man was planning and God was laughing'.
@rgrydns1 14 күн бұрын
The real import of the sin and misery part is not as a corrective to "victimhood." It's as a restraint on pride and self-righteousness. PVK presentation of the issue is perhaps too geared towards contemporary culture way issues. He seems to be treating it as a document to toughen up perpetual complainers. That was never the issue. If it were, the HC would become a document for self-confident people to wave around and laugh at the perpetual complainer (e.g., the woke mob). No, the HC lays waste to every human pretense, especially the pretense of people who are full of themselves.
@BrysonCole-rl2rj 15 күн бұрын
Wasn’t Nietzsche wrong in saying, ‘There was only ever one true Christian, and he died on a cross’? Jesus Christ was not a Christian. Only followers of Christ can be called Christian. Christ did not need to be forgiven or repent of sin. He is the means by which God forgives. This is Christianity 101.
@EmJay2022 15 күн бұрын
Is PVK finally leveraging the TLC's platform to openly promote his Calvinism? Never saw it coming....
@MrMarccj 15 күн бұрын
Meh! Dividing habits into good and bad is way off target. Habits are mechanical and nobody goes to heaven through mechanical means. That's one of the problems we face and one of the confusions of science.
@simonskinner1450 15 күн бұрын
But I say Christianity is not the NT truth, Paul warned of false teaching of the gospel message that he had not taught. False teaching bewitched and beguiled subtly from the Cross onwards, in my study I do not find his teaching in Christianity, which is divorced immediately from its roots. Paul is misread to produce a new religion, but I expose this false teaching. Any gratitude is the obedience of faith required in the new covenant, for access to eternal life lost by Adam and returned by Jesus as part of baptism, for the free gift of past sins forgiven. I have a Ytube video series 'Myths in so-called Christianity' for NT truth. My latest 'Is Christianity the truth of the NT? No. #31 Myths in so-called Christianity'.
@williambranch4283 15 күн бұрын
Can innovation and translation of original sincerity not be genuine? The various post-Paulines struggled, until Nicaea settled the matter of authenticity.
@ProfesserLuigi 15 күн бұрын
Jesus must have been a pretty awful teacher if things haven't been right since the cross...
@simonskinner1450 15 күн бұрын
@@williambranch4283 Sincerity is a matter sometimes of shining the light in the dark, but there us a theme here of working back from being saved, to a measure of gratitude. Yet there was no atonement at the Cross, which was a stand alone event used by God to change the covenant, not something Christianity taught me but the NT has.
@simonskinner1450 15 күн бұрын
@@ProfesserLuigi Those with a Gnostic motivation could easily fool the people, as you read in his letters to the 7 churches, and Paul finds decades after the Cross bewitching and beguiling of those he taught. I have just posted a Ytube video 'Is Christianity the truth of the NT? No. Myths in so-called Christianity', and I day Christianity grew from errors but the NT holds the truth. As I see it the churches have a reason to control salvation for the tithe. Neither Christianity, Judaism or Islam are legitimate as none follow the Torah of Abraham, but do benefit.
@williambranch4283 15 күн бұрын
@@simonskinner1450 I work backward from Christ to Jesus? Is this what you are doing too?
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