# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1860_S135
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How the Simple, and Especially the Sick, Are to Be Instructed in Christianity, etc. 135

...payment all upon himself, and does abundantly enough for it. Isa. 53: Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, etc. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. Matt. 20: The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Rom. 8: He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Rom. 4: Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification. Gal. 2: The life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Gal. 3: Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. 2 Cor. 5: The love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; and he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again. Luke 24: Thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations. —There, then, one should say to the sinner and the sick person, how Christ suffered all this — his suffering, dying, descent into hell, damnation, and death — not for himself, but for us; and how this Lamb of God bears the sin of the world and pays with this suffering for our debt, so that we need not pay for it eternally. For as far as it lies with us, we are poor sinners who would have well deserved to be cast into the abyss of hell and damned forever. But this Person who suffers, dies, and is condemned for us is God and God's Son. Therefore their redemption is far greater than our injury. 2 Cor. 5: He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness which counts before God. — Ah, this is indeed a comfort beyond all comfort, that God's Son becomes our servant so deeply that he is even condemned for us — indeed, for our service and for our redemption. Who can conceive and sufficiently praise this goodness and grace of God?

Ninth. Upon this the sick person, or otherwise the poor sinner, is to be informed how God, through Christ, has instituted the preaching of his holy Word and the ministry of the sacraments, and has ordained them in the Church until the end of the world — namely, through the preaching of the Gospel and outward signs, which are: the public, general preaching of repentance and the forgiveness of sins through faith in Christ; likewise the particular preaching, or absolution, whereby repentance and the forgiveness of sins are proclaimed to one person alone, etc. Matt. 18: Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them, etc.; and thereafter the two sacraments, namely Baptism, whereby salvation and