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002 - The Six Chief Parts · Small Catechism

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  Speaker 1: The six Chief Parts of the Small Catechism by Martin Luther,
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  Speaker 1: translated by F. Pente and W. H. T. Tao. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Number one the
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  Speaker 1: Ten Commandments, as the head of the family should teach
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  Speaker 1: them in a simple way to his household. The first commandment,
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt have no other gods. What does this mean? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: We should fear, love and trust in God above all things.
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  Speaker 1: The second commandment thou shalt not take the name of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, thy God in vain. What does this mean?
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  Speaker 1: Answer we should fear and love God, that we may
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  Speaker 1: not curse, swear, use witchcraft, lie, or deceive by his name,
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  Speaker 1: but call upon it in every trouble, pray, praise, and
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  Speaker 1: give thanks. The third commandment thou shalt sanctify the Holy Day.
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean? Answer we should fear and love God,
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  Speaker 1: that we may not despise preaching and his word, but
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  Speaker 1: hold it sacred and gladly hear and learn it. The
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  Speaker 1: fourth commandment, thou shalt honor thy Father and thy Mother,
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  Speaker 1: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest
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  Speaker 1: live long upon the earth. What does this mean? Answer
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  Speaker 1: we should fear and love God, that we may not
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  Speaker 1: despise nor anger our parents and masters, but give them honor, serve, obey,
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  Speaker 1: and hold them in love and esteem. The fifth commandment
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt not kill? What does this mean? Answer? We
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  Speaker 1: should fear and love God that we may not hurt
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  Speaker 1: nor harm our neighbor in his body, but help and
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  Speaker 1: befriend him in every bodily need, in every need and
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  Speaker 1: danger of life and body. The sixth commandment thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: not commit adultery. What does this mean? Answer? We should
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  Speaker 1: fear and love God that we may lead a chaste
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  Speaker 1: and decent life in words and deeds, and each love
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  Speaker 1: and honor his spouse. The seventh commandment thou shalt not steal?
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean? Answer? We should fear and love
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  Speaker 1: God that we may not take our neighbor's money or property,
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  Speaker 1: nor get them by false war or dealing, but help
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  Speaker 1: him to improve and protect his property in business, that
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  Speaker 1: his means are preserved and his condition is improved. The
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  Speaker 1: eighth commandment thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean? Answer? We should fear and love
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  Speaker 1: God that we may not deceitfully, belie, betray slander or
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  Speaker 1: defame our neighbor, but defend him, think and speak well
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  Speaker 1: of him, and put the best construtduction on everything. The
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  Speaker 1: ninth commandment, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. What
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  Speaker 1: does this mean? Answer? We should fear and love God,
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  Speaker 1: that we may not craftily seek to get our neighbor's
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  Speaker 1: inheritance or house, and obtain it by a show of
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  Speaker 1: justice and right and so forth, but help and be
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  Speaker 1: of service to him in keeping it. The tenth commandment,
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant,
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  Speaker 1: nor his maid servant, nor his cattle, nor anything that
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  Speaker 1: is his. What does this mean? Answer we should fear
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  Speaker 1: and love God that we may not is strange force
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  Speaker 1: or entice away our neighbor's wife, servants, or cattle, but
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  Speaker 1: urge them to stay and diligently do their duty. What
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  Speaker 1: does God say of all these commandments? Answer? He says,
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  Speaker 1: thus it is twenty verse five, and following I the
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  Speaker 1: Lord thy God, Ama jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
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  Speaker 1: the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
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  Speaker 1: generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto
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  Speaker 1: thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean? Answer? God threatens to punish all
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  Speaker 1: that transgress these commandments. Therefore we should dread his wrath
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  Speaker 1: and not act contrary to these commandments. But He promises
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  Speaker 1: grace and every blessing to all that keep these commandments.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore we should also love and trust in Him and
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  Speaker 1: gladly do zealously and diligently order our whole life according
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  Speaker 1: to his commandments. Number two, The creed, as the head
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  Speaker 1: of the family, should teach it in a simple way
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  Speaker 1: to his household, the first article of creation. I believe
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  Speaker 1: in God, the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean? Answer? I believe that God has
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  Speaker 1: made me and all creatures. That He has given me
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  Speaker 1: my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my limbs,
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  Speaker 1: my reason and all my senses, and still preserves them.
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  Speaker 1: In addition thereto clothing and shoes, meat and drink, house
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  Speaker 1: and homestead, wife and children, fields, cattle, and all my
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  Speaker 1: goods that He provides me richly and daily with all
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  Speaker 1: that I need to support. This body and life protects
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  Speaker 1: me from all danger, and guards me and preserves me
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  Speaker 1: from all evil, and all this out of pure fatherly
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  Speaker 1: divine goodness and mercy, without any merit or worthiness in me,
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  Speaker 1: for all which I owe it to him to thank, praise, serve,
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  Speaker 1: and obey him. This is most certainly true the second
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  Speaker 1: article of redemption. And in Jesus Christ, his only son,
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  Speaker 1: our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born
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  Speaker 1: of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified,
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  Speaker 1: dead and buried. He descended into hell. The third day
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  Speaker 1: he rose again from the dead. He thuscended into heaven
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  Speaker 1: and sitteth on the right hand of God, the Father Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: From thence he shall come to judge the quick and
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  Speaker 1: the dead. What does this mean? Answer? I believe that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father from eternity,
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  Speaker 1: and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary, is
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  Speaker 1: my Lord, who has redeemed me a lost and condemned creature,
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  Speaker 1: purchased and one delivered me from all sins, from death
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  Speaker 1: and from the power of the devil, not with gold
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  Speaker 1: or silver, but with His holy precious blood, and with
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  Speaker 1: his innocent suffering and death, in order that I may
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  Speaker 1: be wholly his own and live under him. In his
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  Speaker 1: kingdom and serve him in everlasting righteousness, innocence, and blessedness,
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  Speaker 1: even as he is risen from the dead, lives and
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  Speaker 1: reigns to all eternity. This is most certainly true. The
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  Speaker 1: third article of sanctification. I believe in the Holy Ghost,
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  Speaker 1: one holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean? Answer? I believe that I cannot,
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  Speaker 1: by my own reason or strength, believe in Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: my Lord, or come to him. But the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 1: has called me by the Gospel, enlightened me with his gifts,
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  Speaker 1: sanctified and kept me in the true faith. Even as
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  Speaker 1: he calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies the whole Christian Church
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  Speaker 1: on earth, and keeps it with Jesus Christ in the
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  Speaker 1: one True faith, in which Christian Church. He forgives daily
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  Speaker 1: and richly all sins to me and all believers, and
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  Speaker 1: at the last day will raise up me and all
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  Speaker 1: the dead, and will give to me and all believers
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  Speaker 1: in Christ everlasting life. This is most certainly true. Number three,
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  Speaker 1: The Lord's prayer as the head of the family should
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  Speaker 1: teach it in a simple way to his household. Our Father,
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  Speaker 1: who art in heaven? What does this mean? Answer? God would, thereby,
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  Speaker 1: with this little introduction tenderly urge us to believe that
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  Speaker 1: He is our true father, and that we are his
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  Speaker 1: true children, so that we may ask him confidently with
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  Speaker 1: all assurance, as dear children ask their dear father. The
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  Speaker 1: first petition, hallowould be thy name? What does this mean? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: God's name is indeed holy in itself, but we pray
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  Speaker 1: in this petition that it may become holy among us. Also,
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  Speaker 1: how is this done? Answer? When the Word of God
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  Speaker 1: is taught in its truth and purity, and we, as
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  Speaker 1: the children of God, also lead holy lives in accordance
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  Speaker 1: with it. To this end, help us, dear Father in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: But he that teaches and lives otherwise than God's Word
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  Speaker 1: teaches profanes the name of God among us. From this,
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  Speaker 1: preserve us, heavenly Father. The second petition, thy kingdom come?
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean? Answer? The Kingdom of God comes
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  Speaker 1: indeed without our prayer of itself, but we pray in
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  Speaker 1: this petition that it may come unto us. Also, how
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  Speaker 1: is this done? Answer? When our heavenly Father gives gives
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  Speaker 1: us his Holy Spirit, so that by his grace we
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  Speaker 1: believe His Holy word and lead a godly life here
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  Speaker 1: in time and yonder in eternity. The third petition, Thy
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  Speaker 1: will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean? Answer? The good and gracious will
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  Speaker 1: of God is done indeed without our prayer, but we
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  Speaker 1: pray in this petition that it may be done among us. Also,
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  Speaker 1: how is this done? Answer? When God breaks and hinders
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  Speaker 1: every evil counsel and will which would not let us
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  Speaker 1: hallow the name of God, nor let his kingdom come,
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  Speaker 1: such as the will of the devil the world and
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  Speaker 1: our flesh, but strengthens and keeps us steadfast in His
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  Speaker 1: word and faith unto our end. This is His gracious
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  Speaker 1: and good will. The fourth petition, give us this day
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  Speaker 1: our daily bread? What does this mean? Answer? God gives
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  Speaker 1: daily bread even without our prayer, to all wicked men.
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  Speaker 1: But we pray in this petition that He would lead
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  Speaker 1: us to know it and to receive our daily bread
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  Speaker 1: with thanksgiving. What is meant by daily bread? Answer? Everything
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  Speaker 1: that belongs to the support and wants of the body,
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  Speaker 1: such as meat, drink, clothing, shoes, house, homestead, field, cattle, money, goods,
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  Speaker 1: A pious spouse, pious children, pious servants, pious and faithful magistrates,
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  Speaker 1: good government, good weather, peace, health, discipline, honor, good friends,
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  Speaker 1: faithful neighbors, and the like. The fifth petition, And forgive
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  Speaker 1: us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean? Answer? We pray in this petition
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  Speaker 1: that our Father in Heaven would not look upon our
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  Speaker 1: sins nor deny such petitions on account of them. For
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  Speaker 1: we are worthy of none of the things for which
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  Speaker 1: we pray, neither have we deserved them, but that He
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  Speaker 1: would grant them all to us by grace. For we
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  Speaker 1: daily sin much, and indeed deserve nothing but punishment. So
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  Speaker 1: will we verily, on our part, also heartily forgive, and
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  Speaker 1: also readily do good to those who sin against us.
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  Speaker 1: The sixth petition, And lead us not into temptation. What
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  Speaker 1: does this mean? Answer God? Indeed tempts no one. But
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  Speaker 1: we pray in this petition that God would guard and
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  Speaker 1: keep us, so that the devil the world and our
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  Speaker 1: flesh may not deceive us, nor seduce us into misbelief, despair,
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  Speaker 1: and other great shame. A vice, and though we be
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  Speaker 1: assailed by them, that still we may finally overcome and
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  Speaker 1: gain the victory. The seventh petition, but deliver us from evil?
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean? Answer? We pray in this petition
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  Speaker 1: as in a summary, that our Father in heaven would
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  Speaker 1: deliver us from all manner of evil, of body and soul,
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  Speaker 1: property and honor. And at last, when our last hour
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  Speaker 1: shall come, grant us a blessed end and graciously take
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  Speaker 1: us from this vale of tears to himself in heaven. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean? Answer that I should be certain
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  Speaker 1: that these petitions are acceptable to our Father in Heaven
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  Speaker 1: and heard, for he himself has commanded us so to pray,
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  Speaker 1: and has promised that he will hear us. Amen. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that is yea, yea, it shall be so. Number four,
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  Speaker 1: the sacrament of holy baptism. As the head of the
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  Speaker 1: family should teach it in a simple way to his household. First,
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  Speaker 1: what is baptism? Answer? Baptism is not simple water only,
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  Speaker 1: but it is the water comprehended in God's command and
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  Speaker 1: connected with God's word, which is that word of God. Answer, Christ,
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  Speaker 1: our Lord says in the last chapter of Matthew, go
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  Speaker 1: ye into all the world and teach all nations, baptizing
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  Speaker 1: them in the name of the Father and of the
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  Speaker 1: Son and of the Holy Ghost. Secondly, what does baptism give,
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  Speaker 1: or prophet? Answer? It works forgiveness of sins, delivers from
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  Speaker 1: death and the devil, and gives eternal salvation to all
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  Speaker 1: who believe this, as the words and promises of God declare,
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  Speaker 1: Which are such words and promises of God? Answer, Christ,
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  Speaker 1: our Lord says in the last chapter of Mark. He
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  Speaker 1: that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. But he
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  Speaker 1: that believeth not shall be damned. Thirdly, how can water
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  Speaker 1: do such great things? Answer? It is not the water, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: that does them, but the Word of God, which is
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  Speaker 1: in and with the water, and faith which trusts such
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  Speaker 1: word of God in the water. For without the word
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  Speaker 1: of God, the water is simple water and no baptism.
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  Speaker 1: But with the word of God it is a baptism
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  Speaker 1: that is a gracious water of life and a washing
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  Speaker 1: of regeneration in the Holy Ghost, as Saint Paul says
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  Speaker 1: Titus chapter three, by the washing of regeneration and renewing
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Ghost which He shed on us abundantly
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  Speaker 1: through Jesus Christ, our Savior, that, being justified by His grace,
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  Speaker 1: we should be made errors according to the hope of
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  Speaker 1: eternal life. This is a faithful saying. Fourthly, what does
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  Speaker 1: such baptizing with water signify? Answer? It signifies that the
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  Speaker 1: old atom in us should, by daily contrition and repentance,
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  Speaker 1: be drowned and die with all sins and evil lusts,
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  Speaker 1: and again a new man daily come forth and arise,
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  Speaker 1: who shall live before God in righteousness and purity forever.
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  Speaker 1: Where is this written? Answer? Saint Paul says Romans chapter six.
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  Speaker 1: We are buried with Christ by baptism into death, that,
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  Speaker 1: like as He was raised up from the dead by
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  Speaker 1: the glory of the Father, even so we also should
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  Speaker 1: walk in newness of life. Number five Confession, How Christian
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  Speaker 1: should be taught to confess? What is confession? Answer? Confession
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  Speaker 1: embraces two parts. The one is that we confess our sins,
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  Speaker 1: the other that we receive absolution or forgiveness from the
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  Speaker 1: confessor as from God himself, and in no wise doubt,
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  Speaker 1: but firmly believe that our sins are thereby forgiven before
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  Speaker 1: God in heaven. What sins should we confess? Answer? Before God?
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  Speaker 1: We should plead guilty of all sins, even of those
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  Speaker 1: which we do not know, as we do in the
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  Speaker 1: Lord's prayer. But before the Confessor we should confess those
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  Speaker 1: sins alone which we know and feel in our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Which are these? Answer here, Consider your station according to
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  Speaker 1: the ten commandments, whether you are a father, mother, son, daughter, master, mistress,
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  Speaker 1: a manservant or maid servant. Whether you have been dis obedient, unfaithful, slothful,
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  Speaker 1: whether you have grieved any one by words or deeds,
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  Speaker 1: whether you have stolen, neglected, or wasted aught, or done
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  Speaker 1: other injury. Pray, propose to me a brief form of confession.
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  Speaker 1: Answer you should speak to the confessor. Thus, Reverend and
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  Speaker 1: dear Sir, I beseech you to hear my confession and
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  Speaker 1: to pronounce forgiveness to me. For God's sake. Proceed, I,
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  Speaker 1: a poor sinner, confess myself before God guilty of all sins.
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  Speaker 1: Especially I confess before you that I am a man servant,
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  Speaker 1: a maid servant, and so forth. But alas I serve
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  Speaker 1: my Master unfaithfully. For in this and in that, I
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  Speaker 1: have not done what they commanded me. I have provoked
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  Speaker 1: them and caused them to curse, have been negligent in
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  Speaker 1: many things, and permitted damage to be done. Have also
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  Speaker 1: been immodest in words and deeds, have quarreled with my equals,
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  Speaker 1: have grumbled and sworn at my mistress, and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: For all this, I am sorry, and pray for grace.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do better. A master or mistress may
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  Speaker 1: say this. In particular, I confess before you that I
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  Speaker 1: have not faithfully trained my children, domestics, and wife family
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  Speaker 1: for God's glory. I have cursed, set a bad example
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  Speaker 1: by rude words and deeds, have done my neighbor harm
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  Speaker 1: and spoken evil of him, have overcharged and given false
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  Speaker 1: wear in short measure, and whatever else he has done
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  Speaker 1: against God's commandment and his station, and so forth. But
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  Speaker 1: if any one does not find himself burdened with such
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  Speaker 1: or greater sins, he should not trouble himself or search
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  Speaker 1: for or invent other sins, and thereby make confession a torture,
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  Speaker 1: but mention one or two that he knows. Thus, in particular,
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  Speaker 1: I confess that I once cursed again, I once used
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  Speaker 1: in proper words, I have once neglected this or that,
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  Speaker 1: and so forth. Let this suffice. But if you know
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  Speaker 1: of none at all, which however, is scarcely possible. Then
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  Speaker 1: mention none in particular, but receive the forgiveness upon your
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  Speaker 1: general confession which you make before God to the Confessor.
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  Speaker 1: Then shall the Confessor say, God be merciful to THEE
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  Speaker 1: and strengthen thy faith. Amen. Furthermore, dost thou believe that
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  Speaker 1: my forgiveness is God's forgiveness? Answer yes, dear sir, Then
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  Speaker 1: let him say, as thou believest, so be it done
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  Speaker 1: unto thee and by the command of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: I forgive thee thy sins in the name of the
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  Speaker 1: Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Depart in peace. But those who have great burdens upon
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  Speaker 1: their consciences, or are distressed and tempted, the Confessor will
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  Speaker 1: know how to comfort and to encourage to faith. With
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  Speaker 1: more passages of scripture. This is to be merely a
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  Speaker 1: general form of confession for the unlearned. Number six, the
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  Speaker 1: sacrament of the altar. As the head of the family
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  Speaker 1: should teach it in a simple way to his household.
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  Speaker 1: What is the sacrament of the altar? Answer? It is
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  Speaker 1: the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: under the bread and wine. For us Christians to eat
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  Speaker 1: and to drink, instituted by Christ himself. Where is this written? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: The Holy Evangelists Matthew, Mark Luke and Saint Paul write, Thus,
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  Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ, the same night in which he
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  Speaker 1: was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks,
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  Speaker 1: he breaketh and gave it to his disciples, and said,
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  Speaker 1: take eat. This is my body which is given for you.
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  Speaker 1: This do in remembrance of me. After the same manner,
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  Speaker 1: also he took the cup, when he had supped, gave thanks,
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  Speaker 1: and gave it to them, saying, take drink ye all
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  Speaker 1: of it. This cup is the new Testament in my blood,
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  Speaker 1: which is shed for you for the remission of sins.
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  Speaker 1: This do ye as oft as ye drink it in
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  Speaker 1: remembrance of me. What is the benefit of such eating
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  Speaker 1: and drinking? Answer that has shown us in these words
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  Speaker 1: given and shed for you for the remission of sins,
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  Speaker 1: namely that in the sacrament forgiveness of sins, life and
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  Speaker 1: salvation are given us through these words. For where there
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  Speaker 1: is forgiveness of sins, there is also life and salvae.
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  Speaker 1: How can bodily eating and drinking do such great things? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: It is not the eating and drinking, indeed that does them.
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  Speaker 1: But the words which stand here, namely given and shed
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  Speaker 1: for you for the remission of sins. Which words are
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  Speaker 1: besides the bodily eating and drinking, as the chief thing
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  Speaker 1: in the sacrament. And he that believes these words has
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  Speaker 1: what they say and express, namely the forgiveness of sins.
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  Speaker 1: Who then receives such sacrament worthily answer fasting and bodily
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  Speaker 1: preparation is indeed a fine outward training. But he is
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  Speaker 1: truly worthy and well prepared who has faith in these
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  Speaker 1: words given and shed for you for the remission of sins.
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  Speaker 1: But he that does not believe these words or doubts,
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  Speaker 1: is unworthy and unfit. For the words for you require
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  Speaker 1: altogether believing hearts and of the six chief parts. Recording
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  Speaker 1: by Jonathan Lang