thanksgiving).25 Commandments were not busywork; they revealed the best God intends for humanity. At the same time, every positive command implied that there was something God did not want human beings to do. Thus, for Luther, the third and the fourth commandments (which are positive: “Keep the sabbath” and “Honor your parents”) implied prohibitions (“Do not despise the Word or preaching” and “Do not despise parents or superiors”). We often forget what Luther did not: that failure to honor God’s