What the Church Is
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Matthew 23:1–10
The Christian is that person who no longer seeks his salvation, his deliverance, his justification in himself, his virtues, but in Jesus Christ alone.
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Concerning the Church
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Ephesians 5:25–27
The Church of Christ is that congregation of saints in which the gospel is correctly taught and the Sacraments are rightly administered.
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New Obedience
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Galatians 5:18–25
One who walks by the Spirit operates under a new obedience, doing even more than the law requires. These fruits of the Spirit do not save but flow from faith.
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Of the Ministry
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Romans 10:5–17
The Holy Spirit, through the Word and Sacraments, works faith in them that hear the gospel, justifying those who believe that they are received by grace for Christ's sake.
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Of Justification
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Romans 3:21-31
Romans 3:28 sounds like a sixteenth century Lutheran wrote the words but they were penned by Paul and inspired by the Holy Spirit in the first century.
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Of the Son of God
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 20:30-31
Eternal God then born human also, Jesus has a dual nature, a shared existence or incarnation. He is God and man at once — God in the flesh.
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Of Original Sin
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Galatians 3:21-27
We all need a Savior because we are all sinners from birth. Even those "innocent" little babies need the Savior. Do not hinder them coming to Jesus.
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A Preface Toward Unity
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 Peter 3:13-17
Christians ought to hope for unity, beginning to do so by considering how they agree on matters of the faith, for we are called to fellowship in Jesus.
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Standing On Your Own Feet
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Revelation 20:11–15
In the end, at the coming of Christ, “every one must stand on his own feet; his own personal faith is demanded, he will give an account for himself...”
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One Christ
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 4:1–6
He is not two beings, a god and a man somehow in a kind of symbiosis, or a compound or complex organism, two beings, but no longer quite human or divine.
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Equal and Subordinate
Reading the Word with Luther
Scripture Text: Colossians 2:8–15
When you were dead in your sins, God made you alive with him by canceling the debt that stood against you, nailing it to the cross.
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Addressing Heresies
Reading the Word with Luther
Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 1:18–21
"Now, that sounds believable," said no one ever about the Trinity — unless the Spirit of God is at work in her through the proclaimed Word.
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Compulsion
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Romans 11:33–36
We have been a great gift from God: the revelation of himself. Otherwise we could not comprehend the Mystery who is God, nor believe in him.
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Trinity in Unity
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 14:6–13
Now this is the catholic faith: we worship one God in trinity and the Trinity in unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the divine being.
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Whole and Inviolable
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 20:24–29
The latest theological craze attracts the spiritually distracted like deer to headlights. The more glaring and wilder, the better.
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The Athanasian Creed
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Luke 24:44–45
The whole three Persons are coeternal together, and coequal, so that in all things, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshiped.
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The World to Come
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 John 5:10–13
We may hope to see a departed family member in heaven, but for the true believer, there is no greater longing than to be with God on earth as in heaven.
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Looking Forward to It
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 15:12–19
In the creeds, we confess that Jesus really died but was also resurrected from the dead. And so, we confess that we too will be raised as he was.
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One Baptism
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Ephesians 4:1–6
We’re you baptized into a stream, a pond, a river, a baptistery, a font? Or were you baptized into Christ. If the latter, your sins have been removed.
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One Church
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Galatians 6:11–18
We confess a Church united in its apostolic doctrines and practices, one that is orthodox, rightly teaching the Word and observing the sacraments.
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Lord and Giver of Life
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 2 Corinthians 3:12–18
The Holy Spirit is too often thought of as impersonal, a power, rather that the relational third person of the Trinity who is God.
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The Never-ending Kingdom
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Isaiah 9:2–7
If you are in Christ who is eternal from the Father, then you are eternal from and in Christ, a citizen of his eternal, never-ending kingdom.
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