Confessional Corner: Law & Gospel (FC V)

From the beginning of the world these two proclamations have always been taught alongside each other in God's Church, with a proper distinction. The descendants of the well-respected patriarchs, and the patriarchs themselves, called to mind constantly how in the beginning a person had been created righteous and holy by God. They know that through the fraud of the Serpent, Adam transgressed God's command, became a sinner, and corrupted and cast himself with all his descendants into death and eternal condemnation. They encouraged and comforted themselves again by the preaching about the woman's seed, who would bruise the Serpent's head (Genesis 3:15); Abraham's seed, in whom "all the nations of the earth [will] be blessed" (Genesis 22:18); David's son, who should "bring back the preserved of Israel" and be "a light for the nations" (Isaiah 49:6; see also Psalm 110:1; Luke 2:32), and who "was wounded for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities ... and with His stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5). (SD V 23) https://wrestlingwiththeology.org/media/podcast/cc_230904.mp3 Subscribe on RadioPublic (https://radiopublic.com/wrestling-with-theology-6Na4AJ) or your favorite podcast app.