Absolution

I see the Small and Large Catechism back up after Apostles or the Creeds, so it comes before the- The Small and Large Catechisms.

And they were written, the Large Catechism was a reduction of a series of sermons on the Catechism, and then the Small Catechism, which becomes the layman's Bible giving us basic foundational teachings, the Ten Commandments, God's law, the Creed, the Gospel, the Lord's Prayer, the holy life of faith, which is created and then nurtured by the sacraments, Baptism, Lord's Supper, Confession and Absolution.

What year, Verla? 1529.

There you go, 1529.

There is a formal way of speaking the gospel in which the church has historically expressed its confidence.

[coughs] Absolution.

In the direct and personal declaration of the forgiveness of sin in Christ, the gospel overlaps the law, both confirming its accusation and bringing the law to its end.

Only sinners are forgiven.

That's the whole point of the devil.

Absolution and the forgiveness of sins are certain.

Now, we know this is kind of a ridiculous story because of what Hebrews says, that Christ did not come for the angels, but only for the sons of men.

So there is no salvation for the demons.

But the question is, why? Why is there no salvation for them? And it's because it's because of the insanity of their own sinfulness that won't let them confess.

Yet the devil cannot bring himself to do this.

Absolution, oh, here, I missed the green sentence.

Absolution and the forgiveness of sins are certain, but you must acknowledge and confess that you've sinned.

right rome uses this all the time out from the chair ex cathedra is an official pronouncement an official teaching in the mind of the early church when the bishop sat down to preach it was ex cathedra he was preaching from the chair to hand on this good news of Jesus and how he is the fulfillment of every promise of God in the Old Testament sent into our flesh to impart the forgiveness of sins to the world.

Forgiveness that you receive in the waters of baptism that is spoken to you in the absolution.

and that is put into your mouth with the body and blood of Christ at the altar.

The bishop is the man entrusted with proclaiming that.