A reading from the Book of Concord - 3 year series - March 1, 2015

[A Book of Concord Reading]

The following reading from the CONCORDIA edition of the Book of
Concord is for the Romans 5:1-11 for the Lent 2, series B, March
1, 2015.

It is from Epitome, Article V, pages 484-485.

What a beautiful Gospel message, "We were reconciled to God by
the death of His son!"

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Pastor Doug May
Socorro, New Mexico
dou...@bookofconcord.org

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF CONCORD - 3 YEAR SERIES
LENT 2, SERIES B
EPITOME
ARTICLE V, THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL

The Pure Doctrine of God's Word

We believe, teach, and confess that the distinction between the
Law and the Gospel is to be kept in the Church with great
diligence as a particularly brilliant light. By this
distinction, according to the admonition of St. Paul, God's Word
is rightly divided.

We believe that the Law is properly a divine doctrine. It
teaches what is right and pleasing to God, and it rebukes
everything that is sin and contrary to God's will.

For this reason, then, everything that rebukes sin is, and
belongs to, the preaching of the Law. But the Gospel is properly
the kind of teaching that shows what a person who has not kept
the Law (and therefore is condemned by it) is to believe. It
teaches that Christ has paid for and made satisfaction for all
sins [Romans 5:9]. Christ has gained and acquired for an
individual—without any of his own merit—forgiveness of sins,
righteousness that avails before God, and eternal life [Romans
5:10].

The term Gospel is not used in one and the same sense in the
Holy Scriptures. The term Gospel [sometimes means] Christ's
entire teaching (this is how it is used in Mark 1:15; Acts
20:21). It is correctly said that the Gospel is a preaching of
repentance and of the forgiveness of sins. (paragraphs 2-6)

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