LARGE CATECHISM



LARGE CATECHISM

WORKBOOK

NAME __________

UNIT ONE: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

FIRST COMMANDMENT (pp. 13-20)

1. What does it mean to have a god? (13)

2. What is the true worship and service of God? (15)

3. True / False Idolatry consists in simply setting up an image and worshiping it. (15)

4. Fill in the blank: “Idolatry takes place primarily in the

___________.” (15)

5. What is the height of idolatry? (16)

6. Fill in the blanks: “We are to _________ in ______ alone, ________

to Him, expecting to receive nothing but _________ things from ________.” (16)

SECOND COMMANDMENT (pp. 20-25)

1. True / False The greatest misuse of the Second Commandment occurs

when false preachers arise and parade their lies as the Word of God. (21)

2. Will God punish those who use His Name in order to tell lies? (21)

3. Put an “x” in the blanks which are the four ways of using God’s name

correctly. (22)

_____ a. Asking God to damn a person to hell.

_____ b. Swearing rightful oaths (like when you’re in court).

_____ c. Teaching true doctrine.

_____ d. Never praying to God to ask for help.

_____ e. Praising and thanking God in good days and the like

_____ f. Calling on God’s Name in times of trouble

4. Fill in the blanks: “_______ upon Me in the ______ of ______; I

will ___________ you, and you shall __________ Me.” (Psalm 50:15)

5. Fill in the blanks: “For truly to _______ God’s _________ means

_________to Him and ____________ to Him for all _____________.”

(23)

6. What can a child do and say when he sees or hears something frightful or

horrible? (24)

THIRD COMMANDMENT (pp. 25-29)

1. What is the deadly sin of “acedia?” (28)

FOURTH COMMANDMENT (pp. 29-40)

1. True / False God has set parents next to Himself in authority. (29)

2. True / False To honor is not a much higher thing than to love. (29)

3. What three things does “honor” include:

a.

b.

c.

4. True / False Parents are to be regarded as occupying the highest place in our lives next to God. (29)

5. True / False Parents are God’s representatives. (30)

6. List four ways children are to speak to their parents: (30)

a.

b.

c.

d.

7. What promise does God add to the Fourth Commandment? (34)

8. Are pastors to be honored as a father? (38)

9. What is the highest duty of parents? (40)

FIFTH COMMANDMENT (pp. 40-44)

1. Can the government (civil authorities) punish criminals? (41)

2. Does the government act in place of parents? (41)

3. True / False The Fifth Commandment forbids anger to everyone

except parents and rulers. (41)

4. True / False If you harm someone physically, you have kept the

Fifth Commandment. (42)

5. True / False If I wish someone ill in a spirit of anger and hatred, I have kept the Fifth Commandment. (42)

6. True / False If I fail to do good, I have broken the Fifth Commandment. (42-43)

SIXTH COMMANDMENT (pp. 44-47)

1. True / False The Sixth Commandment explicitly forbids honoring

your spouse.

2. On page 45 the Large Catechism states: “Not only is the external

act [of adultery] prohibited, but also every kind of source, stimulation,

and means.”

Would these other “sources, stimulation, and means” include:

_____ a. Dirty jokes?

_____ b. Looking at pornographic magazines?

_____ c. Going to “R” rated movies in which there is graphic

nudity?

3. True / False The Sixth Commandment is not focused on marriage. (45)

4. True / False God established marriage as the first one of all His

institutions. (45)

5. True / False Husband and wife are to be faithful to one another.

6. Is sex a good gift from God? If so, then where is this gift to be used properly?

SEVENTH COMMANDMENT (pp. 47-53)

1. What does God want protected by the Seventh Commandment? (47)

2. True / False If the clerk at Wal-Mart accidentally gives you $10.00 extra in change and you take it knowing the mistake, you have kept the Seventh Commandment.

3. Can employees (workers) break the Seventh Commandment? If so, how?

(48)

EIGHTH COMMANDMENT (pp. 40-44)

1. What treasure of your neighbor’s does God want protected in the

Eighth Commandment? (53)

2. Sally’s parents always go home after church on Sunday and bad-mouth

the pastor and the congregation. Have Sally’s parents broken the

Eighth Commandment? If so, how?

3. True / False People would rather listen to bad things about a

neighbor instead of good things. (54)

4. True / False No one has authority to publicly judge his neighbor,

not even if he has seen him commit a sin. (55)

5. True / False I am of course able to see and hear my neighbor

sinning, but I have no business reporting it all around town. (55)

6. Complete this sentence: When you get to know a sin, let your ear

. .

_____________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________(55)

7. Take note: God has appointed parents, teachers, pastors, and the

government to judge sin and punish it.

8. True / False We can speak evil of a person even if he is guilty of a sin. (55)

9. Fill in the blanks: “Honor and ______________ can be _____________ in a ___________, but cannot soon be __________________.” (56)

10. Matthew 18:15 tells you what to do if someone sins against you. What are you to do? (56-57)

11. According the Eighth Commandment what is a “particularly fine and

noble virtue?” (59)

NINTH AND TENTH COMMANDMENTS (pp. 59-62)

1. Look up the word “covet” in a dictionary and write down the

definition.

2. True / False God does not want you to deprive your neighbor of

anything that is his. (62)

3. If your neighbor buys a new car or boat, should you be happy for

him and help him to keep it?

4. True / False When speaking about the commandments, God wants above

all our minds to be pure. (62)

CONCLUSION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (pp. 62-67)

1. True / False In the Ten Commandments we have a summary of divine

teaching as to what we are to do in order that our whole life may please

God. (62-63)

2. Can we keep even one commandment? (63)

3. What helps us keep the commandments? (63-64)

4. Explain how the First Commandment illumines all the other

commandments (65)

5. True / False The Ten Commandments are just suggestions. (66)

6. True / False God watches over the Ten Commandments with great and

earnest care. (66)

7. True / False God will punish those who disdain the Ten Commandments.

(66)

8. Look up the word “disdain” in a dictionary and write down its meaning.

9. What promise does God give to those who obey the Ten

Commandments? (67)

UNIT TWO: THE APOSTLES? CREED

FIRST ARTICLE (pp. 67-70)

1. What doe the Creed teach us? (67)

2. True / False The Creed was once divided into 12 articles. (68)

3. Into how many articles did Dr. Luther divide the Creed? (68)

4. Fill in the blanks:

a. The First Article is about God the ____________ and sets forth

_________

b. The Second Article is about God the ________ and sets forth

___________

c. The Third Article is about God the _______ _________ and sets

forth _______________ (68)

5. Fill in the blanks:

a. God the Father ___________ ______

b. God the Son _____________ _______

c. God the Holy Spirit _________ ______ (68)

6. How do the First Commandment and the First Article of the Creed go

together? (68)

7. True / False God provides for our needs and protects us because we

deserve it. (69)

8. For all the things God has given us what do we owe Him in return? (69)

SECOND ARTICLE (pp. 70-72)

1. On what words are we to focus? (71)

2. What does it mean that Jesus is “my Lord?” (71)

3. The little word “Lord” simply means what? (71)

4. What does Jesus do for us as “Redeemer” (71)

5. How did Jesus conquer sin? (72)

6. Did Jesus do all this for me or for Himself? (72)

7. True / False Our salvation is based only in Jesus who is confessed in the

Second Article of the Apostles? Creed (72)

THIRD ARTICLE (pp. 72-78)

1. What is the office [or work] of the Holy Spirit? (72)

2. How does the Holy Spirit make us holy? (73)

3. Fill in the blanks: “He [the Holy Spirit] first _________ us into His holy

______________, placing us into the arms of the ________, where He

_________ to us and __________ us to __________.” (73)

4. True / False The Holy Spirit brings us to faith through the preaching of

the Gospel. (73)

5. Fill in the blanks: “Thus to __________ or make _______ is nothing else

that to ________ us to _________ our Lord to _________ this

__________, which we could never have ___________ by

_____________.” (73)

6. Who is the “mother” of all Christians? (73)

7. True / False Where Christ is not preached there is no Holy Spirit. (74)

8. In the Christian community (church) how do we have the forgiveness of

sins? (75)

9. Why do we always need the forgiveness of sins? (75)

10. True / False Everything in the church is arranged so that we do

not become bored and are always excited. (75)

11. Everything in the church is arranged for what reason? (75)

12. True / False Outside the Christian Church you can find the Gospel,

forgiveness and sanctification. (75)

13. True / False If you want to know who God is, what He has done for

you, and continues to do for you, look to the Creed. (77)

14. Fill in the blanks: “He [God] ___________ us for the very purpose

that He might _________ us and make us _________.” (77)

15. Fill in the blanks: “But we could know ___________ of ___________

either, if it were not ____________ to us by the ____________

_________.” (77)

16. What are the differences between the Ten Commandments and the

Creed? (77)

UNIT THREE: THE LORD’S PRAYER

INTRODUCTION (pp. 78-84)

1. Does God command you to pray? (78)

2. Which commandment commands you to pray? (78)

3. Complete the sentence: “As the Second Commandment teaches, to pray

is to_________________________________________.” (79)

4. Can you be a Christian and never pray? (79)

5. Give three reasons why God wants you to pray? (81)

a.

b.

c.

6. For whom should you pray? (list four) (83)

a.

b.

c.

d.

THE FIRST PETITION (pp. 84-85)

1. True / False The name of God was given to you when you were baptized.

(84)

2. Look up the word “profane” in a dictionary and write its meaning.

3. List three ways God’s name is profaned (84):

a.

b.

c.

THE SECOND PETITION (pp. 85-87)

1. List the two ways God’s reign takes place (86):

a.

b.

THE THIRD PETITION (pp. 87-89)

1. Who are we to expect to be our enemies? (88)

2. Do these enemies want God’s will done among us?

3. Where God’s Word is preached, accepted or believed, and bearing fruit,

what follows? (88)

4. True / False The Third Petition’s purpose is that God’s will be done

among us.

THE FOURTH PETITION (pp. 89-92)

1. What is the greatest need of all for which we pray in this petition? (90)

2. What does God want us to recognize by praying this petition? (92)

THE FIFTH PETITION (pp. 92-94)

1. Does God forgive us before we pray? (92) If so, then why do we

pray the Fifth Petition?

2. True / False Unless God keeps on forgiving us, we are lost. (93)

3. Will God forgive you if you will not forgive others? (93)

4. On page 94 what Bible passages are given? Write them here.

THE SIXTH PETITION (pp. 94-96)

1. List three kinds of temptation: (94)

a.

b.

c.

2. What temptations does the old Adam put before us? List seven. (94)

3. List the fifteen temptations of the world. (94-95)

4. List the temptations of the devil (95)

5. What temptations face young people? Old people? Christians? (95)

6. When does the devil usually strike? (96)

THE SEVENTH PETITION (last petition) (pp. 96-97)

1. How does the devil try to hurt us? (96)

2. The word “Amen” expresses what? (97)

3. True / False A prayer said without faith is not genuine. (97)

UNIT FOUR: BAPTISM

PART ONE (pp. 97-104)

1. Upon what words is Baptism founded? (98)

2. Choose the correct statement: (98)

a. Baptism is something you do for God.

b. Baptism is something God does for you.

3. Is Baptism an optional thing for Christians? (98)

4. True / False We must be baptized or we shall not be saved? (98)

5. In whose name are we baptized?

6. True / False When you were baptized it was God Himself who baptized

you. (99)

7. What is the power, effect, benefit, fruit, and purpose of Baptism? (101)

8. What does it mean to be saved? (101)

9. True / False Where God’s Name is, there is life and salvation. (101)

10. True / False Faith receives the benefits Baptism gives. (101)

11. True / False Without faith Baptism becomes useless. (102)

12. True / False Baptism is a treasure that God gives us. (103)

13. How do you use Baptism rightly? (104)

PART TWO (pp. 104-109)

1. Choose the correct statement: (105)

a. Regarding Baptism everything depends on the person’s faith.

b. Regarding Baptism everything depends on God’s Word and promise.

2. True / False My faith makes Baptism what it is. (105)

3. True / False My faith receives what Baptism is. (105)

4. Why does the church baptize infants? (106)

UNIT FIVE: HOLY ABSOLUTION (A Brief Admonition to Go to Confession)

PART ONE (pp. 122-124)

1. What three oppressive requirement have been removed by the

Lutherans? (122)

a.

b.

2. This part of the Large Catechism is talking about confession before the

pastor. What two other kinds of confession are there? (123)

a.

b.

3. What are the two parts of Confession? (124)

a.

b.

PART TWO (pp. 124-127)

1. Which part of confession should we hold in high and great esteem? (104)

2. What should motivate you to make confession to your pastor or

neighbor? (125)

3. True / False. Lutherans go to confession in order to receive God’s Word,

that is, the Absolution.

4. Complete the sentence: “When I therefore urge you to go to

confession, . . . _________________________________________.?

(126)

UNIT SIX: THE SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR

PART ONE (pp. 110-117)

1. Choose the correct statement: (112)

a. The validity of the Lord’s Supper depends on my holiness.

b. The validity of the Lord’s Supper depends on God’s Word.

2. Why do we go to the Sacrament of the Altar? (112)

3. How does the forgiveness of sins won at the Cross get delivered to you?

(113)

4. True / False People who do not take the Lord’s Supper for a long period

of time are not to be considered as Christians (115)

5. What is the meaning of these words of Christ, “as often as you do it?”

(116)

6. What should draw you to come to the Lord’s Supper? (117)

PART TWO (pp. 118-121)

1. What is the “highest wisdom” to be learned? (118)

2. How are we to regard the Lord’s Supper? Choose the correct answer:

(119)

a. As something harmful from which to flee

b. As a wholesome and soothing therapy

c. As a poison

3. In the Lord’s Supper what four things does the forgiveness of sins

contain? (119)

a.

b.

c.

d.

4. What three things should you do if you feel no need or hunger for the

Sacrament of the Altar? (119-120)

a.

b.

c.

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