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The First Commandment + +You must not have other gods. + +Q. What does this mean? + +A. We must fear, love, and trust God more than anything else. + +B. The Second Commandment + +You must not misuse your God's name. + +Q. What does this mean? + +A. We must fear and love God, so that we will not use His name +to curse, swear, cast a spell, lie or deceive, but will use it to +call upon Him, pray to Him, praise Him and thank Him in all times +of trouble. + +C. The Third Commandment + +You must keep the Sabbath holy. + +Q. What does this mean? + +A. We must fear and love God, so that we will not look down on +preaching or God's Word, but consider it holy, listen to it +willingly, and learn it. + +D. The Fourth Commandment + +You must honor your father and mother. [So that things will go +well for you and you will live long on earth]. + +Q. What does this mean? + +A. We must fear and love God, so that we will neither look down +on our parents or superiors nor irritate them, but will honor +them, serve them, obey them, love them and value them. + +E. The Fifth Commandment + +You must not kill. + +Q. What does this mean? +A. We must fear and love God, so that we will neither harm nor +hurt our neighbor's body, but help him and care for him when he is +ill. + +F. The Sixth Commandment + +You must not commit adultery. + +Q. What does this mean? + +A. We must fear and love God, so that our words and actions +will be clean and decent and so that everyone will love and honor +their spouses. + +G. The Seventh Commandment + +You must not steal. + +Q. What does this mean? + +A. We must fear and love God, so that we will neither take our +neighbor's money or property, nor acquire it by fraud or by +selling him poorly made products, but will help him improve and +protect his property and career. + +H. The Eighth Commandment + +You must not tell lies about your neighbor. + +Q. What does this mean? + +A. We must fear and love God, so that we will not deceive by +lying, betraying, slandering or ruining our neighbor's reputation, +but will defend him, say good things about him, and see the best +side of everything he does. + +I. The Ninth Commandment + +You must not desire your neighbor's house. + +Q. What does this mean? + +A. We must fear and love God, so that we will not attempt to +trick our neighbor out of his inheritance or house, take it by +pretending to have a right to it, etc. but help him to keep & +improve it. + +J. The Tenth Commandment + +You must not desire your neighbor's wife, servant, maid, animals +or anything that belongs to him. + +Q. What does this mean? + +A. We must fear and love God, so that we will not release his +cattle, take his employees from him or seduce his wife, but urge +they to stay and do what they ought to do. + +K. The Conclusion to the Commandments + +Q. What does God say to us about all these commandments? + +A. This is what He says: + +``I am the Lord Your God. I am a jealous God. I plague the +grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those who hate me with +their ancestor's sin. But I make whole those who love me for a +thousand generations.'' + +Q. What does it mean? + +A. God threatens to punish everyone who breaks these commandments. +We should be afraid of His anger because of this and not violate +such commandments. But He promises grace and all good things to +those who keep such commandments. Because of this, we, too, should +love Him, trust Him, and willingly do what His commandments +require. + + + +Part Two: The Creed + + +The Creed: The Simple Way a Father Should Present it to His Household + +I. The First Article: On Creation + +I believe in God the Almighty Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth. + +Q. What does this mean? + +A. I believe that God created me, along with all creatures. He gave to + me: body and soul, eyes, ears and all the other parts of my body, + my mind and all my senses and preserves them as well. He gives me + clothing and shoes, food and drink, house and land, wife and + children, fields, animals and all I own. Every day He abundantly + provides everything I need to nourish this body and life. He + protects me against all danger, shields and defends me from all + evil. He does all this because of His pure, fatherly and divine + goodness and His mercy, not because I've earned it or deserved it. + For all of this, I must thank Him, praise Him, serve Him and obey + Him. Yes, this is true! + +II. The Second Article: On Redemption + +And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, Who was conceived by the +Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, +was crucified, died and was buried, descended to Hell, on the third +day rose again from the dead, ascended to Heaven and sat down at the +right hand of God the Almighty Father. From there He will come to +judge the living and the dead. +Q. What does this mean? +A. I believe that Jesus Christ is truly God, born of the Father in + eternity and also truly man, born of the Virgin Mary. He is my + Lord! He redeemed me, a lost and condemned person, bought and won + me from all sins, death and the authority of the Devil. It did not + cost Him gold or silver, but His holy, precious blood, His innocent + body -- His death! Because of this, I am His very own, will live + under Him in His kingdom and serve Him righteously, innocently and + blessedly forever, just as He is risen from death, lives and reigns + forever. Yes, this is true. + +III. The Third Article: On Becoming Holy + +I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the community +of the saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, +and an everlasting life. Amen. + +Q. What does this mean? +A. I believe that I cannot come to my Lord Jesus Christ by my own +intelligence or power. But the Holy Spirit called me by the Gospel, +enlightened me with His gifts, made me holy and kept me in the true +faith, just as He calls, gathers together, enlightens and makes holy +the whole Church on earth and keeps it with Jesus in the one, true +faith. In this Church, He generously forgives each day every sin +committed by me and by every believer. On the last day, He will raise +me and all the dead from the grave. He will give eternal life to me +and to all who believe in Christ. Yes, this is true! + + + + + Part Three: The Lord's Prayer + + + +The Our Father + +The Simple Way a Father Should Present it to His Household + + +I. Introduction +Our Father, Who is in Heaven. + +Q. What does this mean? + +A. In this introduction, God invites us to believe that He is our real + Father and we are His real children, so that we will pray with + trust and complete confidence, in the same way beloved children + approach their beloved Father with their requests. + +II. The First Request +May Your name be holy. + +Q. What does this mean? + +A. Of course, God's name is holy in and of itself, but by this + request, we pray that He will make it holy among us, too. + +Q. How does this take place? +A. When God's Word is taught clearly and purely, and when we live holy + lives as God's children based upon it. Help us, Heavenly Father, + to do this! But anyone who teaches and lives by something other + than God's Word defiles God's name among us. Protect us from this, + Heavenly Father! + +III. The Second Request +Your Kingdom come. + +Q. What does this mean? + +A. Truly God's Kingdom comes by itself, without our prayer. But we + pray in this request that it come to us as well. + +Q. How does this happen? +A. When the Heavenly Father gives us His Holy Spirit, so that we + believe His holy Word by His grace and live godly lives here in + this age and there in eternal life. + +IV. The Third Request +May Your will be accomplished, as it is Heaven, so may it be on Earth. + +Q. What does this mean? +A. Truly, God's good and gracious will is accomplished without our + prayer. But we pray in this request that is be accomplished among + us as well. + +Q. How does this happen? +A. When God destroys and interferes with every evil will and all evil + advice, which will not allow God's Kingdom to come, such as the + Devil's will, the world's will and will of our bodily desires. It + also happens when God strengthens us by faith and by His Word and + keeps living by them faithfully until the end of our lives. This + is His will, good and full of grace. + +V. The Fourth Request +Give us our daily bread today. + +Q. What does this mean? +A. Truly, God gives daily bread to evil people, even without our + prayer. But we pray in this request that He will help us realize + this and receive our daily bread with thanksgiving. + +Q. What does ``Daily Bread'' mean? +A. Everything that nourishes our body and meets its needs, such as: + Food, drink, clothing, shoes, house, yard, fields, cattle, money, + possessions, a devout spouse, devout children, devout employees, + devout and faithful rulers, good government, good weather, peace, + health, discipline, honor, good friends, faithful neighbors and + other things like these. + +VI. The Fifth Request +And forgive our guilt, as we forgive those guilty of sinning against us. + +Q. What does this mean? +A. We pray in this request that our Heavenly Father will neither pay +attention to our sins nor refuse requests such as these because of our +sins and because we are neither worthy nor deserve the things for +which we pray. Yet He wants to give them all to us by His grace, +because many times each day we sin and truly deserve only punishment. +Because God does this, we will, of course, want to forgive from our +hearts and willingly do good to those who sin against us. + +VII. The Sixth Request +And lead us not into temptation. + +Q. What does this mean? +A. God tempts no one, of course, but we pray in this request that God + will protect us and save us, so that the Devil, the world and our + bodily desires will neither deceive us nor seduce us into heresy, + despair or other serious shame or vice, and so that we will win and + be victorious in the end, even if they attack us. + +VIII. The Seventh Request + But set us free from the Evil One. + +Q. What does this mean? +A. We pray in this request, as a summary, that our Father in Heaven + will save us from every kind of evil that threatens body, soul, + property and honor. We pray that when at last our final hour has + come, He will grant us a blessed death, and, in His grace, bring us + to Himself from this valley of tears. + +IX. Amen. +Q. What does this mean? +A. That I should be certain that such prayers are acceptable to the + Father in Heaven and will be granted, that He Himself has commanded + us to pray in this way and that He promises to answer us. Amen. + Amen. This means: Yes, yes it will happen this way. + + + + + + + Part Four: Holy Baptism + + + The Sacrament of Holy Baptism: + The Simple Way a Father Should Present it to His Household + + +I. +Q. What is Baptism? +A. Baptism is not just plain water, but it is water contained +within God's command and united with God's Word. + +Q. Which Word of God is this? +A. The one which our Lord Christ spoke in the last chapter of Matthew: +``Go into all the world, teaching all heathen nations, and baptizing +them in the name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Spirit.'' + + +II. + +Q. What does Baptism give? What good is it? +A. It gives the forgiveness of sins, redeems from death and the +Devil, gives eternal salvation to all who believe this, just +as God's words and promises declare. + +Q. What are these words and promises of God? +A. Our Lord Christ spoke one of them in the last chapter of Mark: +``Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; but whoever +does not believe will be damned.'' + +III. + +Q. How can water do such great things? +A. Water doesn't make these things happen, of course. It is God's +Word, which is with and in the water. Because, without God's +Word, the water is plain water and not baptism. But with God's +Word it is a Baptism, a grace-filled water of life, a bath of +new birth in the Holy Spirit, as St. Paul said to Titus in the +third chapter: + +``Through this bath of rebirth and renewal of the Holy Spirit, +which He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ, our +Savior, that we, justified by the same grace are made heirs +according to the hope of eternal life. This is a faithful saying.'' + +IV. +Q. What is the meaning of such a water Baptism? +A. It means that the old Adam in us should be drowned by daily +sorrow and repentance, and die with all sins and evil lusts, +and, in turn, a new person daily come forth and rise from death again. +He will live forever before God in righteousness and purity. + +Q. Where is this written? +A. St. Paul says to the Romans in chapter six: +``We are buried with Christ through Baptism into death, so +that, in the same way Christ is risen from the dead by the +glory of the Father, thus also must we walk in a new life.'' + + + + + + +Part Five: Confession + + +How One Should Teach the Uneducated to Confess + + +I. +Q. What is confession? +A. Confession has two parts: + +First, a person admits his sin + +Second, a person receives absolution or forgiveness from the confessor, +as if from God Himself, without doubting it, but believing firmly that +his sins are forgiven by God in Heaven through it. + +II. +Q. Which sins should people confess? + +A. When speaking to God, we should plead guilty to all sins, even +those we don't know about, just as we do in the ``Our +Father,'' but when speaking to the confessor, only the sins we +know about, which we know about and feel in our hearts. + +Q. Which are these? + +A. Consider here your place in life according to the Ten +Commandments. Are you a father? A mother? A son? A daughter? +A husband? A wife? A servant? Are you disobedient, unfaithful +or lazy? Have you hurt anyone with your words or actions? Have +you stolen, neglected your duty, let things go or injured someone? + + + + + + +Part Six: The Sacrament of the Altar + + +The Sacrament of the Altar: + +The Simple Way a Father Should Present it to his Household + +I. +Q. What is the Sacrament of the Altar? + +A. It is the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ under +bread and wine for us Christians to eat and to drink, +established by Christ Himself. + +II. Q. Where is that written? + +A. The holy apostles Matthew, Mark and Luke and St. Paul write this: + +``Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the night on which He was +betrayed, took bread, gave thanks, broke it, gave it to His +disciples and said: ``Take! Eat! This is My body, which is +given for you. Do this to remember Me!'' In the same way He +also took the cup after supper, gave thanks, gave it to +them, and said: ``Take and drink from it, all of you! This +cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for you +to forgive sins. This do, as often as you drink it, to remember Me!'' + +III. +Q. What good does this eating and drinking do? + +A. These words tell us: ``Given for you'' and ``Shed for you to +forgive sins.'' Namely, that the forgiveness of sins, life and +salvation are given to us through these words in the sacrament. +Because, where sins are forgiven, there is life and salvation as well. + +IV. +Q. How can physical eating and drinking do such great things? + +A. Of course, eating and drinking do not do these things. These +words, written here, do them: ``given for you'' and ``shed for +you to forgive sins.'' These words, along with physical eating +and drinking are the important part of the sacrament. Anyone +who believes these words has what they say and what they +record, namely, the forgiveness of sins. + +V. +Q. Who, then, receives such a sacrament in a worthy way? + +A. Of course, fasting and other physical preparations are +excellent disciplines for the body. But anyone who believes +these words, ``Given for you,'' and ``Shed for you to forgive +sins,'' is really worthy and well prepared. But whoever doubts +or does not believe these words is not worthy and is unprepared, +because the words, ``for you'' demand a heart that fully believes. + + + + +Morning Prayer + + +My Heavenly Father, I thank You, through Jesus Christ, Your +beloved Son, that You kept me safe from all evil and danger last +night. Save me, I pray, today as well, from every evil and sin, so +that all I do and the way that I live will please you. I put +myself in your care, body and soul and all that I have. Let Your +holy Angels be with me, so that the evil enemy will not gain power +over me. Amen. + +Evening Prayer + + +My Heavenly Father, I thank You, through Jesus Christ, Your +beloved Son, that You have protected me, by Your grace. Forgive, I +pray, all my sins and the evil I have done. Protect me, by Your +grace, tonight. I put myself in your care, body and soul and all +that I have. Let Your holy angels be with me, so that the evil +enemy will not gain power over me. Amen. + + + + +This text was translated in 1994 for Project Wittenberg by Robert E. +Smith and has been placed in the public domain by him. You may freely +distribute, copy or print this text. Please direct any comments or +suggestions to Rev. Robert E. Smith of the Walther Library at: + + +Concordia Theological Seminary +E-mail: bob_smith@ctsfw.edu +Surface Mail: 6600 N. Clinton St., Ft. 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