The Highway Forums Announcements What's New on The Highway website? "The Second Commandment" - Ernest Reisinger

Here is the second trusted, protecting friend, to guard our ways. It is going to guard our worship. For, you see, when we set about to worship God, all our sins and problems come to the fore to spoil that worship. Satan does not want us to worship the true God in a true way. Therefore, this commandment not only sets out what we are to refrain from in worshipping God, but it also directs our steps so that we will worship him in the way in which he wants to be worshipped. How would you summarize the Second Commandment? What is the thrust of it? I believe it to be this: God wants to bind his people close to him in a union that leaves nothing between them. God wants to forge a close union with you and to let nothing separate you from him.

This an excellent little article on one of the more controversial commandments of God's moral law; the second commandment. The late Ernest Reisinger expands on how the Westminster Larger Catechism deals with this commandment while retaining the two-folder headings of Q. 108-109:

1) Duties Required in the Second Commandment
2) Sins Forbidden in the Second Commandment

Wanting to avoid the externalizing the law, i.e., reducing the law of God to its "letter", the author writes from the traditional and biblical perspective of the "spirit" of the law, which addresses the entirety of life.

Read this article now by going here: The Second Commandment.

For later reading, you can find this article in the section: "Calvinism and the Reformed Faith" and then clicking on the "Praxis" button on the left.

In His service and grace,