I Believe
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Mark 9:24
We confess what the Scripture teaches, and with the father of the boy with the unclean spirit, say, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
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The Father Almighty
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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