For Our Benefit
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Matthew 10:34–39
Christ Jesus came to save us — not to make us feel better but to bring us into a corrected and eternal relationship with God.
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Teaching Posted in January 2022
Very God of Very God
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 5:15-18
There is no other God to be truer than, so “true God of true God” simply emphasizes the doctrine that Jesus is not a created being but is truly God.
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Light of Light
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Revelation 21:22–25
The light that is God is generated by his glory. As he is by definition, “God of God,” he is by description, “Light of Light.”
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God from God
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Philippians 2:5–11
Jesus has always been God with the Father and Holy Spirit. Together, they are one God and Jesus is God of this Triune God.
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Begotten of the Father Before All Worlds
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 1:1–4, 14–18
Christ was in the beginning as the creating Word. He was with God. And he was God. Christ Jesus is God, with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
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Things Visible and Invisible
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 8:4–6
We confess that the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, forever one God, is the creator of all things, whether visible or unseen.
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The Nicene Creed
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 14:8–11
The Nicene Creed originated from a need to confront a false teaching by concisely and correctly teaching what the Scripture says about Jesus Christ.
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The Life Everlasting
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 14:1–4
"Are we there yet?" You have heard this childlike question many times. We too, should be like little children, eager to be at our eternal home with God.
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The Life Everlasting
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 14:1–4
"Are we there yet?" You have heard this childlike question many times. We too, should be like little children, eager to be at our eternal home with God.
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Resurrection of the Body
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18
Resurrection is a mystery but we confess our belief that in the flash of an instant, we will be changed. We will be made otherwise, altered, glorified.
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Forgiveness of Sins
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 John 1:5–10
Do not run for the bushes. Do not deny. Confess! For we have been given a Savior and so, we believe in the forgiveness of sins.
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The Communion of Saints
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Hebrews 11:1–12:2
Let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
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The Holy Catholic Church
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Matthew 16:13–20
In the creed, we confess a catholic Church, meaning the entire communion of believers throughout time who hold to orthodox or correct doctrine.
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The Holy Catholic Church
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Matthew 16:13–20
In the creed, we confess a catholic Church, meaning the entire communion of believers throughout time who hold to orthodox or correct doctrine.
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I Believe in the Holy Spirit
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Ephesians 1:1–14
Christians believe that the Lord our God is one God yet three persons, or the Trinity, whom we name as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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He Will Come Again
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 Peter 4:1–7
The Christian should be careful to live faithfully, yet not trust in her own righteousness but in Jesus who is coming soon to judge all who have lived.
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He Ascended - copy
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18
We need not be concerned over our future. It is secure in Christ, so we are freed and empowered to live the risen and ascended life now.
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He Ascended
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18
We need not be concerned over our future. It is secure in Christ, so we are freed and empowered to live the risen and ascended life now.
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He Rose Again
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Genesis 45:25–28
Like Jacob, who simply believed the report of his son being still alive, we confess that on the third day Christ Jesus rose from the dead and lives.
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He Descended into Hell
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Ephesians 4:1–10
We celebrate the Ascension; we should observe the “Descension” too. Jesus Christ did descend into hell but it could not hold him.
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Jesus Died
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 19:38–42
Jesus really died. He is not dead, but he once died, crucified on a Roman cross. This was no trickery or vision; the incarnate God physically died.
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Was Crucified
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 19:16–27
Jesus suffered in our place a literally excruciating death in order to redeem the world from its lost condition, again literally justifying humanity to God.
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Suffered Under Pontius Pilate
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Matthew 27:11–23
Jesus did not have to suffer under Pilate's authority but for the will of his Father, he suffered that the sins of the world be covered by his sacrifice.
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The Incarnate God
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Matthew 1:18–25
In becoming man, while also fully God, Jesus paid the price for our sin, restoring our favor with God by the blood of his sacrifice.
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Conceived by the Holy Spirit
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 6:54–63
Even in the conception of Jesus in the womb of Mary, we see that human works had no play. Mary did nothing. Joseph surely did nothing. God did it all.
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His Only Son
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 John 4:9–15
The Scriptures alone teach the incarnation, so we should believe it as an article handed over and shown to us by God himself.
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In Jesus Christ
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 10:22–39
In the creed, we profess that it is God himself who saves us from sin and death. Our confession is that Jesus is this saving God.
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Maker of Heaven and Earth
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Genesis 1:1–31
In these few, opening words of the creed, we see the Trinity expressed even before God is named as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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The Father Almighty
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Matthew 7:7-11
In both law and gospel he has given good gifts to his children. As the Almighty, he commands; as our Father, he gives us his grace.
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