Series B – Sixth Wednesday in Lent – Wednesday, March 25, 2015 | Pr. Chris Rosebrough
| Welcome to the Teaching Ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. Kongsvinger is a beacon for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of Northwestern Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone, and now, here’s a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrough: |
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| 0:27 | Our first reading tonight taken from the Old Testament text second |
| 0:33 | Samuel chapter 11 verse 1 through chapter 12 verse 15. |
| 0:40 | in the spring at the time when kings go off to war David sent joab with the King’s Men and |
| 0:48 | the whole Israelite Army they destroyed the ammonites and besieged rabba but |
| 0:53 | David remained in Jerusalem one evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the |
| 0:59 | palace from the roof he saw a woman bathing the woman was very beautiful and |
| 1:04 | David sent someone to find out about her the man said isn’t this Bathsheba the |
| 1:10 | daughter of eliam and the wife of Uriah the hittite then David sent Messengers to get her |
| 1:16 | she came to him and he slept with her she had purified herself from her uncleanness then she went back home the |
| 1:24 | woman conceived and sent word to David saying I am pregnant |
| 1:29 | so David sent this word to joab Send Me Uriah the hittite and joab sent |
| 1:36 | him to David when Uriah came to him David asked him how joab was how the |
| 1:42 | soldiers were how the war was going then David said to Uriah go down to your |
| 1:47 | house and wash your feet so Uriah left the palace and a gift from the King was |
| 1:53 | sent after him but Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master servants and |
| 2:01 | did not go down to his house when David was told Uriah did not go home he asked him haven’t you come from |
| 2:08 | a distance why didn’t you go home Uriah said to David The Ark in Israel and |
| 2:13 | Judah are staying intense and my master joab and my Lord’s men are camped in the Open Fields how could I go to my house |
| 2:21 | and eat and drink and lie with my wife as surely as you live I will not do such |
| 2:26 | a thing then David said to him stay here one more day and tomorrow I |
| 2:32 | will send you back so Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day in the next at |
| 2:37 | David’s invitation he ate and drank with him and David made him drunk but in the |
| 2:43 | evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master servants he did not |
| 2:49 | go home in the morning David wrote a letter to joab and sent it with Uriah |
| 2:55 | in it he wrote put Uriah in the front line for the fighting is fiercest then |
| 3:01 | withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die so while joab had the city under siege |
| 3:08 | he put Uriah at the pl at the place where he knew the strongest Defenders were when the men of the city came out |
| 3:13 | and fought against joab some of the men in David’s Army fell moreover Uriah the hittite died |
| 3:21 | joab sent David a full account of the battle he instructed the messenger when you have finished giving the king this |
| 3:27 | account of the battle the king’s anger May flare up and he may ask you why did |
| 3:32 | you get so close to the city to fight didn’t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall who killed abimelech the |
| 3:39 | son of Gerald basheth didn’t a woman throw an Upper Millstone on him from the wall so that he died in febes |
| 3:46 | why did you get so close to the wall if he asks you this then say to him also |
| 3:53 | your servant Uriah the hittite is dead the messenger |
| 3:59 | set out and when he arrived he told David everything joab had sent him to |
| 4:04 | say the messenger said to David the men overpowered us and came out against us in the open but we drove them back to |
| 4:11 | the entrance to the City Gate then the Archer shot arrows at your servants from the wall and some of the King’s Men died |
| 4:17 | moreover your servant Uriah the hittite is dead David told the messenger say this to |
| 4:23 | joab don’t let this upset you the sword devours one as well as another press the |
| 4:28 | attack against the city and destroy it say this to encourage joab when uriah’s wife heard that her husband |
| 4:35 | was dead she mourned for him after the time of mourning was over |
| 4:40 | David had her brought to his house and she became his wife and bore him a son |
| 4:46 | but the thing David had done displeased the Lord the Lord sent Nathan to David when he |
| 4:52 | came to him he said there were two men in a certain Town one rich |
| 4:58 | and the other poor the rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle but the poor man had |
| 5:03 | nothing except one little U lamb that he had bought he raised it and grew and it |
| 5:09 | grew up with him and his children it shared his food drank from his cup and even slept in his arm |
| 5:15 | it was like a daughter to him now a traveler came to the rich man but the rich man refrained from taking one of |
| 5:21 | his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come for him instead he took the U lamb that |
| 5:28 | belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him David burned with anger against the man |
| 5:35 | and said to Nathan as surely as the Lord lives the man who did this deserves to die he must pay for that lamb four times |
| 5:42 | over because he did such a thing and had no pity then Nathan said to David |
| 5:49 | you are the man this is what the Lord the god of Israel says |
| 5:54 | I anointed you King over Israel I delivered you from the hand of Saul I |
| 5:59 | gave you your Master’s house and your Master’s wives into your arms I gave you the house of Israel and Judah and all of |
| 6:06 | this if this had been too little I would have given you even more why did you |
| 6:11 | despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes you struck down Uriah the hittite with the sword and |
| 6:18 | took his wife to be your own you killed him with the sword of the ammonites now |
| 6:23 | therefore the sword will never depart from your house because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the hittite |
| 6:29 | to be your own this is what the Lord says out of your own household I’m going to bring Calamity upon you before your |
| 6:36 | very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you and he will lie with your wives in broad |
| 6:42 | daylight you did it in secret but I will do this thing in broad daylight before |
| 6:47 | all of Israel then David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord |
| 6:55 | Nathan replied the Lord has taken away your sin you are not going to die |
| 7:01 | but because by doing this you have made enemies of the Lord the enemies of the Lord shall utter |
| 7:07 | contempt the son born to you will die after Nathan had gone home the Lord |
| 7:12 | struck the child that uriah’s wife had borne to David and he became ill |
| 7:19 | our second reading is taken from psalm 51. verses 1 through 17. |
| 7:27 | have mercy on me o God according to your unfailing love |
| 7:32 | according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions wash away all my |
| 7:38 | iniquity and cleanse me from my sin for I know my transgressions and my sin |
| 7:44 | is always before me against you and you only have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight |
| 7:50 | so that you are proved right when you speak and Justified when you judged |
| 7:55 | surely I was sinful at Birth sinful from the time my mother conceived me surely your desired truth in the inner parts |
| 8:02 | you teach me wisdom in the inmost place cleanse me with hyssop and I will be |
| 8:07 | clean wash me and I will be whiter than snow let me hear joy and gladness let the |
| 8:13 | bones that you have crushed rejoice hide your face from my sins and blot out all |
| 8:18 | of my iniquity created me a pure heart o God and renew a steadfast Spirit Within Me |
| 8:25 | do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant |
| 8:32 | me a willing Spirit to sustain me then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners will turn back to you |
| 8:40 | save me from blood guilt o God the God who saves me and my tongue will sing of |
| 8:46 | your righteousness O Lord open my lips and my mouth will declare your praise |
| 8:52 | and you do not take delight and sacrifice or I would bring it you do not take pleasure in burnt |
| 8:59 | offerings the sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit a broken and contrite heart oh God you will not despise |
| 9:09 | the holy Gospel According to Saint John chapter 20 verses 19 through 23. |
| 9:16 | on the evening of that first day of the week when the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the |
| 9:22 | Jews Jesus came and stood among them and said peace be with you after he said this he showed them his |
| 9:28 | hands and his side the disciples were Overjoyed when they saw the Lord and again Jesus said peace be with you as |
| 9:35 | the father has sent me I am sending you and with that he breathed on them and |
| 9:41 | said receive the Holy Spirit if you forgive this forgive anyone his |
| 9:47 | sins they are forgiven if you do not forgive them they are not |
| 9:54 | forgiven in the name of Jesus |
| 10:01 | Jesus came to die for our sins |
| 10:07 | the gospel is the good news that Christ died for our sins and was raised again |
| 10:12 | on the third day those are powerful words because the problem that Humanity faces |
| 10:19 | is the fact that we have fallen into sin because of our first parents transgression and Rebellion against God |
| 10:26 | every human being born naturally descendants of Adam and Eve |
| 10:32 | have inherited their sin that’s you and I each of us were born and conceived in |
| 10:37 | sin and therefore in bondage to sin death and the Devil Himself and Christ |
| 10:43 | has come and bled and died for our sins and the devil rails against this very |
| 10:51 | gospel and yet God so richly gives this gospel to us this gospel is delivered and the |
| 10:58 | Waters of baptism it’s delivered into our mouths when we take the Lord’s supper and you hear the pastor and the |
| 11:05 | Deacon or Deaconess say take eat this is the True Body of Christ broken for you |
| 11:10 | take drink this is the True Blood of Christ shed for you for the Forgiveness of your sins |
| 11:16 | and also this forgiveness is delivered in the voice of the pastor when the |
| 11:21 | pastor says I by virtue of my office forgive you all of your sins in the name |
| 11:27 | of the father and the Son and the Holy Spirit each of these gifts God has given us |
| 11:32 | baptism the Lord’s supper and the Absolution he’s given these to us to |
| 11:39 | assure us of his great love and mercy for Sinners as sinful as me and as |
| 11:44 | sinful as you these are precious and powerful gifts given to us by God and we dare not |
| 11:51 | despise them because our faith needs these to cling on to and these are the |
| 11:56 | means by which God sustains us as he brings us through the valley of the shadow of death and finally into his |
| 12:03 | glorious Kingdom these are important things and so this week we finally arrive at |
| 12:11 | the part of the catechism that deals with the topic of confession now it’s |
| 12:16 | titled confession it really should be titled Absolution because the important |
| 12:21 | super important part is the words of forgiveness that our faith hangs on to and here’s what Luther writes what is |
| 12:29 | confession what is it and he says confession has two parts |
| 12:34 | first that we confess our sins second that we receive Absolution that |
| 12:41 | is forgiveness from the pastor as from God himself not doubting but firmly |
| 12:47 | believing that by it our sins are forgiven before God in heaven |
| 12:53 | what sins should we confess now keep this in mind |
| 12:59 | and at confession and Absolution kind of comes in two stripes or two varieties one is what we do here in church |
| 13:06 | the other is when you feel like sin has gotten the upper hand on you and there’s |
| 13:11 | something that’s vexing your spirit and your soul and you can’t shake it that’s when you come see me privately |
| 13:18 | and you confess your sins to God through me I just get to listen in if you would |
| 13:24 | and you receive forgiveness for that specific sin and that is the way in |
| 13:30 | which God frees us and delivers us it’s a very powerful thing so Luther asks |
| 13:36 | what sin should we confess well before God we should plead guilty of all sins even |
| 13:43 | those that we are not aware of and that’s kind of a big deal I’m absolutely convinced if God were to |
| 13:51 | allow us even for a moment to see the full scope and magnitude and depth of |
| 13:58 | our sin just that thought would probably crush |
| 14:04 | us and so God in his Mercy in in a lot of ways |
| 14:09 | keeps us from even experiencing the full magnitude of our sin so we confess the ones that we are aware |
| 14:16 | of but before a pastor we confess only those sins which we know and we feel in |
| 14:22 | our hearts so which are these well consider your place in life according to |
| 14:28 | the Ten Commandments are you a father a mother son daughter husband wife employee |
| 14:36 | have you been disobedient Unfaithful have you been lazy |
| 14:42 | have you been hot tempered rude or quarrelsome have you hurt someone by |
| 14:47 | your words or deeds have you stolen have you been negligent have you wasted |
| 14:54 | anything or have you done any harm those are the sins that you should |
| 15:00 | confess and so then Luther in the catechism gives a short form of confession |
| 15:06 | and here’s how it goes the penitent says Dear Confessor |
| 15:12 | I ask you to please hear my confession and to pronounce forgiveness in order to |
| 15:19 | fulfill God’s will and then he continues I a poor sinner |
| 15:24 | plead guilty before God of all sins in particular I confess before you that as |
| 15:29 | a servant made Etc I failed to serve my master I was |
| 15:37 | unfaithful and in this that I have not done what I was told to do I have made |
| 15:43 | him angry I have caused him to curse I’ve been negligent and allowed damage to be done I have been offensive in |
| 15:50 | words and deeds I have quarreled with my peers I’ve grumbled about the lady of the house and cursed her I am sorry for |
| 15:57 | all of this and I ask for Grace I want to do better a master or Lady of the house can say |
| 16:04 | this in particular I confess before you that I have not Faithfully guided my children servants and wife to the glory |
| 16:10 | of God I’ve cursed I’ve set a bad example by indecent words and deeds I’ve |
| 16:15 | hurt my neighbor I’ve spoken evil of him I’ve overcharged people or sold inferior |
| 16:20 | merchandise and given less than what was paid for so let the penitent confess whatever |
| 16:27 | else he has done against God’s Commandments in his own position if however someone does not find himself |
| 16:33 | burdened with these or greater sins he should not trouble himself or search for or invent other sins and thereby make |
| 16:40 | confession a torture instead he should mention one or two that he knows in particular I confess that I’ve cursed |
| 16:46 | I’ve used improper words I’ve neglected this or that let that be enough |
| 16:51 | but if you know of none at all which hardly seems possible that’s Luther’s little note if you |
| 16:57 | really you’re not aware of any sins that you’ve committed at all really then go back and reread the Ten |
| 17:03 | Commandments for a little bit and talk to me in a few minutes so then mention that in particular but receive the Forgiveness upon the general confession |
| 17:10 | which you make to God before the Confessor so then the Confessor shall say |
| 17:15 | God be merciful to you strengthen your faith do you believe that my forgiveness is God’s forgiveness Yes dear Confessor |
| 17:23 | so then let him say let it be done for you as you believe and I by command of |
| 17:28 | our Lord Jesus Christ forgive you your sins in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen go in peace |
| 17:36 | a Confessor will know additional passages with which to comfort and to strengthen the faith of those who have |
| 17:42 | great burdens of conscience or our sorrowful and distressed and see that’s |
| 17:48 | the idea notice it says instructions here to the pastor make sure you got passages to comfort not to burden it’s |
| 17:56 | not like the pat when you come in here to a pastor and you confess and you hear the Absolution the pastor says now about |
| 18:02 | that eighth commandment we need to put an accountability group and and here’s some other passages that really talk |
| 18:08 | about how evil that is like well that’s the wrong thing to do |
| 18:14 | okay because the reason why we have confession is for the Absolution the |
| 18:20 | Absolution is the proclamation of the gospel and what Christ has done to |
| 18:25 | unburden you from a particular sin |
| 18:30 | so this is all run through the gospel other churches that have confession and |
| 18:36 | Absolution end up burdening the people upon their leaving because not only are they required to do Penance they get to |
| 18:42 | hear the Absolution but now they’ve got to make restitution everything gets run through the law in |
| 18:49 | that system |
| 18:55 | now Luther asks a question what is the office of the keys you think in the office of the what I |
| 19:01 | always lose my keys what are we talking about here okay and this is an important thing if you look on your bulletin it |
| 19:09 | looks like Jesus is playing Pac-Man with the Holy Spirit according to my daughter but that’s please remember he breathed |
| 19:15 | on them the Holy Spirit the holy spirit’s going that way but notice there’s two keys there right now if |
| 19:22 | you’re familiar with church artwork those two keys should remind you of |
| 19:27 | something that you may have seen in another church body anyone care to Hazard a guess two keys |
| 19:33 | two keys two keys whenever you see the insignia for the bishop of Rome the Pope always has the |
| 19:40 | two keys but here Jesus |
| 19:46 | gives the two keys there’s a binding key and a loosing key one key undoes sins |
| 19:53 | the other key locks them up and so what is the office of the keys |
| 19:59 | that’s what they call the ability to forgive and bind sins Luther writes the |
| 20:04 | office of the keys is that special Authority which Christ has given to his church on Earth to forgive the sins of |
| 20:13 | repentant Sinners but to withhold forgiveness from the unrepentant as long |
| 20:19 | as they do not repent now where is this written this is what |
| 20:24 | Saint John the Evangelist writes in Chapter 20 The Lord Jesus breathed on his disciples and said receive the Holy |
| 20:31 | Spirit if you forgive anyone his sins they are forgiven if you do not forgive them they |
| 20:39 | are not forgiven now I said I would throw a little greek |
| 20:45 | in here this is an important part of this when you read this in the Greek if |
| 20:50 | you notice it says if you forgive you forgive anyone has sins the Greek verb now for |
| 20:58 | they are forgiven it’s a special verb tense it’s in the |
| 21:03 | perfect and you’re thinking I’ve never heard of a perfect and I’m never going to remember this why are you telling me |
| 21:09 | this know this about this particular verb tense it’s it’s an interesting form of a PA of the past tense and it means |
| 21:17 | that whatever is being referred to has already happened with the ongoing into the future never |
| 21:24 | to stop ending kind of thing to it so it happened here and it’s not just happened |
| 21:31 | it’s happened with implications that go stretch all the way into the future that’s what the perfect is about |
| 21:37 | so the idea is this listen to what how this works then if you forgive anyone |
| 21:43 | his sins and here’s how it will be translated they will have already been forgiven and |
| 21:50 | continue to be forgiven on into the future and because it’s in that tense that says |
| 21:57 | will have already been forgiven that means no joke if you were to put |
| 22:03 | this on a timeline that the Forgiveness of those sins occurred prior to the |
| 22:09 | person saying I forgive you all of your sins does that make sense because it’s in the |
| 22:14 | past tense so when I say I forgive you all of your sins you should think back to this text |
| 22:21 | and say when the pastor says I forgive you all of your sins that literally means they have already been forgiven |
| 22:29 | and will continue to be forgiven on into eternity in other words that proves because they |
| 22:36 | have already been forgiven I’m not the one doing it God is |
| 22:42 | does that make sense so that’s why I say do you believe that my forgiveness is not mine but God’s |
| 22:47 | because the text when you understand how to read the Greek and what’s going on to it I can’t say I’m the one doing it I |
| 22:55 | just get to be the guy that sits there and says all right I got a message from Heaven the message from Heaven is this you’re forgiven do you feel better now |
| 23:01 | no actually I won’t say it that way but you know what I’m saying you should feel better because it’s already been |
| 23:08 | forgiven and continues on into the future to be forgiven now here’s the important part there’s |
| 23:15 | two keys there’s two binding and losing |
| 23:21 | but if you do not forgive them if you retain them |
| 23:29 | they are not have not been forgiven |
| 23:34 | it’s an important thing now I said that in the Bible |
| 23:41 | there are three texts that deal with the office of the keys |
| 23:46 | the one that we read tonight in Our Gospel lesson from John chapter 20. |
| 23:51 | the second is from Matthew chapter 18 and I’m working backwards through the |
| 23:57 | gospels Matthew chapter 18. see if this sounds familiar |
| 24:03 | if your brother sins against you go and tell him his fault between you and him alone |
| 24:09 | if he listens to you you have gained your brother is this not the very text that we all |
| 24:15 | understand is the text by which church discipline is to be enacted this is a text that deals with the with |
| 24:22 | the topic specifically of church discipline in fact if you were to go into the filing cabinet and pull out the |
| 24:29 | church’s Constitution and it deal a topic of you know church discipline this |
| 24:35 | Church’s Constitution specifically says church discipline is to be handled according to this passage of scripture |
| 24:43 | so this is a big deal so if your brother sins against you go and tell him his fault between you and |
| 24:50 | him alone notice pastors not involved if he listens to you’ve gained your brother but if he does not listen take one or |
| 24:57 | two others along with you that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witness Witnesses notice Pastor is still not |
| 25:05 | involved if one of you sins against another and the person sins against comes to me and |
| 25:12 | says pastor and so sinned against me and |
| 25:17 | and I they they need to repent I’m going to basically say why are you |
| 25:22 | talking to me Matthew 18 makes it clear I’m not |
| 25:28 | involved at this point go and talk to your brother or your sister |
| 25:34 | tell them they’re sin call them to repentance and keep in mind the context immediately before this is the parable |
| 25:40 | of the lost sheep this is the means by which Christ goes and hunts for his lost |
| 25:47 | sheep so if he doesn’t listen to two or three Witnesses if he still refuses to listen |
| 25:54 | to the to them tell it to the church if he refuses to listen to the church |
| 26:00 | let him be to you as a gentile and a tax collector truly I say to you here it is |
| 26:06 | whatever you bind on Earth shall be bound in heaven |
| 26:12 | whatever you loose on Earth shall be loosed in heaven |
| 26:17 | binding loosing forgiving not forgiving this is another way of talking about the |
| 26:23 | office of the keys and again notice there’s two of them binding and loosing |
| 26:30 | so I point this out by way of a couple of things I want to remind you of the |
| 26:36 | vows that I took when I was installed here at Kong’s Winger I’d like to read you a portion of them |
| 26:41 | Pastor Lyons asked me will you Faithfully instruct both The |
| 26:48 | Young and the old and the chief articles of the Christian doctrine will you forgive the sins of those who |
| 26:56 | repent and will you promise never to divulge the sins confessed to you |
| 27:02 | remember that part of my vows to be your pastor I had |
| 27:08 | to promise that I would forgive the sins of those who repent |
| 27:14 | Now The Binding key requires me to retain the sins of those who persist |
| 27:21 | in sin and refuse to repent as a severe thing |
| 27:26 | because Jesus makes it clear that when the church exercises the |
| 27:31 | office of the keys and somebody’s sins are bound if they go to their grave |
| 27:39 | in impenitance they go to hell |
| 27:47 | God has remembered their sins it’s a big deal not to be exercised lightly not to be |
| 27:55 | exercised with due diligence does that make sense but that’s the seriousness that we’re |
| 28:01 | talking about when we’re dealing with church discipline it’s a matter of |
| 28:07 | eternal life or Eternal death and it should be handled as such |
| 28:12 | and so you got the idea of just how serious our sin is and how much of a gift it is that God |
| 28:21 | has opened our eyes to our own sinful condition so that we truly in penitent |
| 28:28 | Faith confess that we are sinners and hear the Glorious words of the past |
| 28:35 | are saying I forgive you all of your sins knowing that it’s not him that’s doing the |
| 28:41 | forgiving because it will have already been forgiven on into the future as well right that’s |
| 28:47 | God doing it and so these are comforting words for us and remember our story let |
| 28:53 | me reference it back remember the Old Testament text that I read to you regarding the story of King David |
| 29:00 | and King David we know about his murder we know about his adultery oh and he can |
| 29:07 | even throw in another crime he got Uriah drunk no one ever talks about that but |
| 29:12 | that was part part of the the whole package right but remember |
| 29:17 | that when Nathan the prophet confronted David |
| 29:26 | confessed his sins let me read it again I have sinned against the Lord David |
| 29:32 | said Nathan replied listen to this the Lord has taken away your sin |
| 29:39 | Nathan pronounced absolution now since the Old Testament is full of |
| 29:45 | types and shadows see if you pick this one up you’re not going to die but because by doing this you have made |
| 29:52 | the enemies of the Lord show utter contempt the son that is born to you will die |
| 29:58 | and Nathan had gone home the Lord struck the child that uriah’s wife had borne to David and he became ill and he died |
| 30:08 | the son of David died for the sins of David |
| 30:14 | do you see the connection now and that points us to the son of David |
| 30:20 | Jesus Christ who ultimately did die for the sins of David and the sins of me and the sins of |
| 30:27 | you he died for all of our sins and what a glorious and compassionate |
| 30:33 | God that we have and that Psalm that we read tonight Psalm 51 no sinner had Nathan the prophet left |
| 30:41 | the palace that David went to his desk and took out his pen |
| 30:46 | and took out his parchment and penned these amazing words have mercy on me oh |
| 30:52 | God according to your unfailing love according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions wash away all my |
| 30:59 | iniquity and cleanse me from my sin and God did |
| 31:06 | he blotted out all of David’s transgressions and he did that on the cross by canceling the record of death |
| 31:13 | that stood against him let me read to close tonight a little |
| 31:21 | segment from just a wonderful devotional book by Johann Gerhart entitled |
| 31:27 | meditations on Divine Mercy in this chapter he talks about how |
| 31:34 | contrition Contrition which is sorrow for sin convinces us of the seriousness of sin |
| 31:41 | Gerhard writes O Holy God just judge |
| 31:47 | my heart is contrite and humble my spirit is sad and Afflicted because |
| 31:53 | of my sins I’m overwhelmed with anxiety and weighed down I’ve lost all my courage and my |
| 32:01 | eyes are dark with depression I’m overwhelmed and I begin to weep my spirit is full of anxiety and I forget |
| 32:09 | to eat have you ever been that heart sick about your own sin |
| 32:15 | I have my heart is wounded |
| 32:20 | and a fountain of Tears pours pours forth the blood of a Wounded Heart |
| 32:26 | great way to talk about tears tears of the blood of a Wounded Heart who can discern one’s errors who |
| 32:33 | understands the pain of heart surrounded by failures and faults my parched and |
| 32:39 | contrite soul thirsts for you the font of Life o Christ nourish me |
| 32:45 | with the Dew the spirit of Grace my anguish heart groans for you o true Joy |
| 32:52 | give to me peace and quiet of conscience so justified by faith I might have peace |
| 32:58 | with God my heart condemns me but you God are stronger than my heart |
| 33:05 | absolve me my conscience accuses me but you who |
| 33:10 | affixed the handwriting of conscience to the Cross you acquitted me I offer to you my God my contrite and |
| 33:17 | humble heart as a most grateful sacrifice I offer to you my groans |
| 33:22 | messengers of true and real sorrow over sin I offer to you my tears abundant |
| 33:28 | Witnesses of earnest sorrow I despair of myself in you hope is repaired of myself I fail |
| 33:38 | in you I am restored in me there is only anguish in you I find Joy |
| 33:46 | once again I am weary and heavy laden you restore me and give rest to my soul the Deep |
| 33:54 | calls out of the deep and the depth of my misery calls out to the depth of your mercy from the depths I cry out to you |
| 34:02 | cast my sins into the depths of the sea there is no soundness in my flesh |
| 34:08 | because of your wrath there is no peace in my bones because of my sin my sins |
| 34:14 | overwhelm me and they are like a great weight that becomes ever more burdensome |
| 34:19 | as it is carried heal my soul o Heavenly physician or |
| 34:25 | death will swallow me take the weight of sins away from me you Who Bore that |
| 34:30 | weight on the cross or I will lose hope under this unbearable burden |
| 34:37 | have mercy on me font of grace and mercy |
| 34:43 | and the answer from God’s word is I forgive you all of your sins |
| 34:50 | that is how a burden conscience is unburdened |
| 34:56 | and these words do not come from me they come from God which means there isn’t an authority |
| 35:02 | higher that can that anyone can appeal to in order to overturn that verdict |
| 35:08 | the gavel has landed and the verdict has come back |
| 35:16 | you are forgiven in the name of Jesus |
| 35:22 | amen |
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