The Large Catechism – part 100
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 20:32
Series: Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
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From the Confessions: The Large Catechism, The Ten Commandments
The Third Commandment
Therefore, I continually say that all our life and work, if it is to be pleasing to God or holy, must be ordered according to God’s Word. Where this is done, this commandment is in force and being fulfilled.
Pulling It Together: God’s word, the gospel, is the very power of salvation. This is how God bequests the eternal inheritance of the saints. He constructs a Christian through the word of his grace — in other words, through the righteousness of Christ. He builds a saint by grace, through faith in the builder, not in the constructed. If our lives are so ordered, always oriented to the Builder and his grace, then we are being built well. Like a contractor’s building plans, we too must be constructed according to the correct plan, according to the Word of God. This is why we come together on the Lord’s Day, to hear his word of grace, to be built together according to divine plan.
Prayer: Order my life, Father, according to your word of grace. Amen.
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Rev. Dr. Mark E. Ryman has served as Pastor for St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Salisbury, NC, since 2021. Previously, Pastor Ryman served congregations in North Carolina and Ohio, as well as a call to specialized ministry with Sola Publishing.
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