Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions

Scripture Text: Acts 20:32

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From the Word: And now I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and grant you an inheritance among all the sanctified. (Acts 20:32)

From the ConfessionsThe Large Catechism, The Ten Commandments

The Third Commandment

Therefore, I continually say that all our life and work, if it is to be pleasing to God or holy, must be ordered according to God’s Word. Where this is done, this commandment is in force and being fulfilled.

Pulling It Together: God’s word, the gospel, is the very power of salvation. This is how God bequests the eternal inheritance of the saints. He constructs a Christian through the word of his grace—in other words, through the righteousness of Christ. He builds a saint by grace, through faith in the builder, not in the constructed. If our lives are so ordered, always oriented to the Builder and his grace, then we are being built well. Like a contractor’s building plans, we too must be constructed according to the correct plan, according to the Word of God. This is why we come together on the Lord’s Day, to hear his word of grace, to be built together according to divine plan.

Prayer: Order my life, Father, according to your word of grace. Amen.

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