Walther Law & Gospel

The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel

by Pastor C.F.W. Walther (1885)

Preface and Introduction by W.H.T. Dau and the Recitation of the 25 Theses
Lecture 1 – The 2 Doctrines of Scriptures and the Differences between Law and Gospel
Lecture 2 – The Differing Effects of the Law and the Gospel
Lecture 3 – The 2 Proclamations of Law and Gospel are to be in Each Sermon
Lecture 4 – Only a Faithful Pastor is Rightly Able to Distinguish the Law and the Gospel
Lecture 5 – Commingling Law and Gospel Produces No Comfort to the Terrified Conscience
Lecture 6 — Distinguishing Law & Gospel: An Art Taught by God in the School of Experience
Lecture 7 – The Difficulties Encountered in Dealing with the Hearers of a Sermon
Lecture 8 – Without the Distinguishing of Law and Gospel, the Scriptures are a Closed Book
Lecture 9 – 1st Confounding of L&G – Making Christ a New Moses – Pope is Anti-christ
Lecture 10 – Law Preached in all Fierceness – the Gospel in Full Sweetness
Lecture 11 – Law is to be Preached 1st and Gospel 2nd – Not Vice Versa
Lecture 12 – Law is Not for the Terrified Soul – Gospel is Not for Secure Sinner
Lecture 13 – Antinomians – Wrongly Demanding Faith Via the Law
Lecture 14 – The True Christian Church versus the Sects
Lecture 15 – Salvation is by Faith Alone and Not by the Law
Lecture 16 – Luther versus Zwingli and the Anabaptists
Lecture 17 – 7 Scriptural Bases for the Lutheran Practice of Absolution
Lecture 18 – 5 Ways and Places Where God Tells Us We Are Forgiven
Lecture 19 – There is no Intermediate State Between a Christian and a non-Christian
Lecture 20 – Good Works are a Fruit of Repentance (Confession and Absolution)
Lecture 21 – Justification of the Sinner apart from Works of the Law, Good Deeds, etc.
Lecture 22 – The Law Leads to a Knowledge of One’s Sinfulness and Sins
Lecture 23 – Sorrow Over Sin is Not a Cause of Forgiveness
Lecture 24 – Mankind Has No Ability to Believe and Can Not Produce Faith
Lecture 25 – Man is Saved Solely and Only by the Dying and Resurrection of Jesus the Christ
Lecture 26 – Repentance: Confession of Sin (Law) and Confession of Christ (Gospel)
Lecture 27 – There are 5 Marks of the Gospel of the LORD God
Lecture 28 – Grossest Confusion of L&G: Converted When You Avoid Sin & Do Certain Works
Lecture 29 – The True Reality of Who a Christian is: Sinner and Saint
Lecture 30 – There Are Two Outcomes to Life: Heaven or Hell
Lecture 31 – All Sins are Mortal. None are Venial.
Lecture 32 – The Lutheran Church Has Pure Doctrine, But is Not the Alone-Saving Church
Lecture 33 – The Sacraments Are Gifts of Christ to His Church
Lecture 34 – The False Doctrines and Practices of the Pietists
Lecture 35 – Repentance is All God’s Work, Doing and Gift
Lecture 36 – What is Missing in All Other Churches
Lecture 37 – The Gospel, Not the Law, is the Basis and Motivation for Good Works
Lecture 38 – Truths and Falsehoods About the Sin Against the Holy Spirit
Lecture 39 – The Gospel is to Have Predominance in All Preaching and Teaching