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
QUESTIONS.--1. Of what does the Third Article treat? 2. What is to be
said about the importance of the Holy Spirit's work? 3. Analyze the
Third Article and its Explanation. 4. What is to be said about the
person and nature of the Holy Ghost? 5. How does the Holy Ghost come
into our hearts? 6. Describe the Work of the Holy Ghost. 7. Why can we
not be saved if the Holy Spirit does not work in us? 8. How has the Holy
Spirit called me? 9. How has He enlightened me? 10. How does the Holy
Ghost bring me to repentance? 11. What does repentance include? 12. How
does the Holy Ghost bring me to faith? 13. What does faith include? 14.
What is true faith? 15. What is meant by regeneration? 16. What is meant
by conversion? 17. Must a Christian know the exact time of his
conversion? 18. What is meant by justification? 19. What is the relation
of faith and works in salvation? 20. What is meant by sanctification?
21. What is the relation between faith and good works? 22. How are we
preserved in the faith?
SCRIPTURE VERSES.--I Cor. 2:14. But the natural man receiveth not the
things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither
can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
John 20:31. But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is
the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life
through his name.
I Tim. 2:4. Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the
knowledge of the truth.
Matt. 20:16. So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be
called, but few chosen.
II Tim. 1:12. For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He
is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
II Cor. 5:17. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Rom. 5:1. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom. 8:1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in
Christ Jesus.
Rom. 3:28. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith
without the deeds of the law.
Gal. 2:16. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law,
but by the faith of Jesus Christ.
Eph. 2:8, 9. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should
boast.
Rom. 3:20. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be
justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Gal. 3:10. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the
curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all
things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Rom. 8:5. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the
flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Jas. 2:26. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without
works is dead also.
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