Question 108. What are the duties required in the second commandment?

 

Question 108. What are the duties required in the second commandment?

Answer. The duties required in the second commandment are, the receiving, observing, and purely and entirely keeping of all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath instituted in his word; especially prayer and thanksgiving in the name of Christ; the reading, preaching, and hearing of the word; the administration and faith of the sacraments; church government and discipline; the ministry and upkeep thereof; religious fasting; swearing in the name of God, and making vows to him; also, to deny, hate, and oppose all false worship, and to remove it, and all monuments of idolatry, according to each one's place and calling.

 

The idol in the heart is covetousness. Colossians 3:5 "Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry." The members on the earth refer to the fleshly self. Jesus told them to deny themselves, Luke 9:23-24 "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life (psyche) will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it." Psyche refers to the life of the fleshly self. Since the flesh is alive, the self is created. This fleshly self is said to establish itself as an idol that opposes God.

As a person is born and grows, this fleshly self also grows, but it is said that there is an idol called greed within it, which is the desire to become like God. This is a word that tells us to deny it. In other words, it tells us to believe that this greedy heart was crucified with Jesus on the cross. So a change in identity occurs, and the fleshly heart is not the self, but the spiritual heart is the self. The spiritual heart is a heart guided by the Holy Spirit.

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