An Explanation of Luther's Small CatechismLuther, Martin
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An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism
Luther, Martin
Lutheran Church -- Catechisms -- English
THIS IS MOST CERTAINLY TRUE: 1. That Jesus Christ, true God and true
Man, is my Lord, who has redeemed me. 2. That He has paid the penalty
for my sins with His holy and precious blood and His innocent sufferings
and death. 3. That consequently I belong to Him, and should serve Him
now and for ever.
QUESTIONS.--1. What four things does the explanation of the second
article tell us about Christ's redemption? 2. Whom has Christ redeemed?
3. What was I before Christ redeemed me, and why? 4. From what has
Christ redeemed me? 5. What is meant by redemption from sin? from death?
and from the devil? 6. How has Christ redeemed me? 7. Why was the
shedding of Christ's blood necessary? 8. Why did Christ suffer and die
if He was innocent? 9. What is meant when we say that Christ was our
substitute? 10. Why has Christ redeemed me? 11. To whom do I now belong,
and what is my duty therefore? 12. What is meant by living under Christ
in His kingdom? 13. In what spirit am I to serve Him? 14. What hope has
Christ secured for me? 15. What three things are most certainly true
according to this second article?
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SCRIPTURE VERSES.--I Pet. 2:24. Who his own self bare our sins in his
own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
I John 2:2. And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours
only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
John 1:29. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world.
Gal. 2:20. I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
himself for me.
Isa. 53:6. All we like sheep have gone astray.
II Cor. 5:21. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin;
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
I John 3:8. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he
might destroy the works of the devil.
I Pet. 1:18, 19. Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with
corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation
received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of
Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
I John 1:7. The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
I Pet. 3:18. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for
the unjust, that he might bring us to God.
Rom. 5:7, 8. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet
peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God
commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.
II Cor. 5:15. He died for all, that they which live should not
henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and
rose again.
Gal. 2:20. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I
live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for
me.
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