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Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions

Scripture Text: Revelation 13:5–10

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From the Word: Revelation 13:5–10

From the Confessions: The Large Catechism, The Ten Commandments

The Fourth Commandment

Honor your father and your mother, (that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.)

Let everyone come together, boasting of their many great, painful, and difficult works. We will see whether they can produce a single thing that is greater and nobler than obedience to father and mother, to whom God has appointed and commanded obedience next to his own majesty. If God’s Word and will are primary and are being observed, nothing should be esteemed higher than the will and word of one’s parents, so long as they too, are obedient to God and not opposed to the preceding commandments.

Pulling It Together: Those who depend upon their works instead of their hope and faith in the great work of Christ Jesus have already bowed to the beast. In doing so, they have knelt before the dragon who has waged and won his war by convincing them of their own religious powers. If anyone is to depend upon his religious devotion, to the worm he will go. This calls for the steadfast faith of Christ’s followers. We must depend upon him by believing his Word and keeping his commandments, no matter what the devil and his world throw at us. As has been said so often, this begins in the home where God has given us parents from whom to learn obedience to him.

Prayer: Help me to learn your lessons, Lord. Amen.

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