Category: CL2017
Why Was It Necessary For Our Savior to Be True God?
“Without controversy, great is the mystery of Godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.” — I Timothy 3:16 It is indeed a great mystery — a fact that defies human reason and exceeds the ability of human understanding to comprehend …
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The All-Sufficiency of Christ’s Passive Obedience for Our Redemption
We Lutherans are often accused of being “obsessed with terminology” when we teach and discuss the doctrines of Holy Scripture, terminology that is nowhere found in the Bible and terminology that hopelessly confuses all but professional theologians with its complexity. …
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The Resurrection of Christ: Evidence of our Justification
“[Christ] was raised again for our justification.” Romans 4:25 Concerning the festive day of Christ’s mighty resurrection from the dead, it is truly our great privilege to declare with the Psalmist: “This is the day which the Lord hath made! …
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Walking with the Risen Savior in His Word
“And they said one to another, ‘Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us by the way and while He opened to us the Scriptures?’” –Luke 24:32 Many of us have hanging in our homes the …
The Fourth Commandment
“Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.” (Note in our Catechism’s wording above the combination of the Old Testament citation in Exodus 20:12 and …
The Third Commandment
“Thou shalt sanctify the holy day.” (In the Old Testament it was: “Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.” — Exodus 20:8) The word “Sabbath” in Hebrew means “rest.” The Lord initially instituted the Sabbath Day, the seventh day …
Old Testament Prophecies Pointing to Christ’s Passion
“Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer.” Luke 24:46 The great passion of Christ (His extreme suffering for our redemption) already stood as a written, divinely declared fact in the Old Testament Scriptures well before its …
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