# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1860_S133
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How the Simple, and Especially the Sick, Are to Be Instructed in Christianity, etc. 133

...Christ died for us while we were yet sinners. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Eph. 2: God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, etc. Ezek. 18: Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should return from his ways and live? 1 Tim. 2: God will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Fifth, one should set before them the article of redemption, where we thus pray and confess: I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only-begotten Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, etc., and from this show how the heavenly Father, out of pure grace and mercy, without any doing or merit of ours, has sent his beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to us into the world, that he should be our mediator, redeemer, mercy-seat, advocate, and savior, and gives him full and complete authority and power to deal with us poor sinners, and says to us: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; him shall ye hear. That is: whatever Christ speaks and does, that I speak and do. Hence Christ says, John 7: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me; and John 14: The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

Sixth: since the matter is now settled upon Christ and we are directed to him, Christ himself now says that he will not let us perish either, but will help us and rescue us from all distress, bodily and spiritual. John 6: All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day. Matt. 18 and [Luke] 19: The Son of man is come to save that which was lost. Read the Gospel, Luke 15, of the lost sheep, how faithfully this good shepherd seeks it again and carries it home upon his own shoulders; and the parable of the lost son. And read Luke 10 of the man who fell among robbers, and how very diligently the Samaritan tends and cares for him. Also the histories of how Christ receives Mary Magdalene, Zacchaeus, Peter, the Canaanite woman, the thief on the cross, forgiving them their sin and comforting them. Likewise 1 John 3: For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. — And this is testified not only by the Scripture of the New Testament here and there in clear, plain words concerning him, but he has also proved it by deed, in that he associated with the blind, the lame, the lepers