1. Revisiting the Lutheran Confessions
Session I:
The Ten Commandments
Table I

2. “Catechism 201” Quatenus Quia The Holy Scriptures The Confessions
Inspired
Inerrant
Authoritative
The Confessions
Expository
Faithful
Profitable
Quatenus
Quia

3. The First Table of the Law
1st Commandment “You Shall Have No Other Gods”
2nd Commandment
“You Shall Not Misuse The Name Of The Lord Your God”
3rd Commandment
“Remember The Sabbath Day By Keeping It Holy”

4. Man’s Relationship With God
“Thus the First Commandment is to shine and impart its splendor to all the others. Therefore you must let this declaration run through all the commandments, like a hoop in a wreath, joining the end to the beginning and holding them all together, that it be continually repeated and not forgotten…” (LC I, 326)

5. False Gods

6. What Constitutes a “God”?
“A god means that from which we are to expect all good and to which we are to take refuge in all distress, so that to have a God is nothing else than to trust and believe Him from the [whole] heart; as I have often said that the confidence and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol. If your faith and trust be right, then is your god also true; and, on the other hand, if your trust be false and wrong, then you have not the true God; for these two belong together, faith and God. That now, I say, upon which you set your heart and put your trust is properly your god.” (LC I, 2-3)

7. Mark 10:17-22 V. 20- Where was the young man’s trust?
V. 22- What was the young man’s god?
How did Jesus employ the First Commandment in this text?
What effect did it have on the young man?
Is this good or bad news?

8. God's Law in Action
“The Law must tell man that he has no God nor regards [cares for] God, and worships other gods, a matter which before and without the Law he would not have believed. In this way he becomes terrified, is humbled, desponds, despairs, and anxiously desires aid.” (SA III, II, 4) Jesus did not humiliate the rich young man to make an example out of him. Exercising the authority of the Law, He humbled the young man so that he might repent and receive forgiveness.

9. Interpreting All The Commandments In Light Of The First
2nd Commandment “You Shall Not Misuse The Name Of The Lord Your God”
Read Matt. 12:34, 15:18-19
How do the words of your mouth reveal what your god is?
“The first objects that spring from the heart and manifest themselves are words.” (LC I, 50)
3rd Commandment “Remember The Sabbath Day By Keeping It Holy”
Read Romans 10:13-17, Timothy 4:3
How do the words you hear reveal what your god is?
“The Word of God is the sanctuary above all sanctuaries, yea, the only one which we Christians know and have.” (LC I, 91)

10. Christ Accomplishes The Law For Us
Because of our sin, we do not live in a right relationship with God and cannot obey His commands.
“God forgives us our sins out of pure grace, without any work, merit, or worthiness of ours preceding, present, or following, that He presents and imputes to us the righteousness of Christ's obedience, on account of which righteousness we are received into grace by God, and regarded as righteous.” (Epitome III, 4)

11. Jesus’ Fulfillment of The First Table
1st Commandment Matthew 4:10
2nd Commandment Matthew 11:25-26
3rd Commandment Luke 4:16

12. Table 2 of the Ten Commandments
Closing Prayer
Next Week:
Table 2 of the Ten Commandments