A Kingdom Catechism
Believers are God’s adopted people.
Q 65: What is the basis for the third commandment?
A 65: The basis for the third commandment is God’s having bound Himself to His people in a covenant of grace and promise, setting His Name upon them and making them His own. (Ex. 20.1; Jer. 31.31-34; 2 Cor. 1:20; Eph. 3.14-19; Acts 11.26)
God has chosen, redeemed, called, justified, and adopted us as His people. He has “signed the adoption papers,” so to speak, and now we belong to Him. We were foundlings without Him, slaves to unbelief and sin. We were dead in our trespasses and sins and without hope in the world. We were enemies of God and doomed to eternal perdition.
Then He came and put His Name upon us through the work of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are His covenant people; we bear His Name. We live not in vain, but fruitfully, out of deep gratitude for God’s having made us His own, saved people.
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