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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. We

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confess in the Augustana that the memory of saints

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maybe said, before us. That we may follow their faith and good works

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according to our calling. And since it is your calling to be preparing

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to be a Confessor

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like Staupitz.

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It's good to commemorate him so that you may follow his example.

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When you become a pastor, you hear all kinds of things coming from the

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mouths of your parishioners.

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Things that you should expect to come from the mouths of penitent

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sinners.

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It will be your calling to listen.

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And to forgive their sins, according to Christ's command and to give

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them Evangelical Council.

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You'll hear from them how they do not understand their own actions.

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How they do what they do not want to do.

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How they delight in the law in their inner being.

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But how another law wages against the law of their mind.

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You will hear how wretched things really are.

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Especially if one of your penitence is a brother Pastor in the office.

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You'll hear how they are sorry for all their sins and want to do

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better.

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And when you hear the confessions of your people, you will as our

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right says, speak additional scripture passages to comfort and

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strengthen the faith of those who have great burdens of conscience are

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sorrowful and distressed.

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And here is where you must know your Bible.

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To have in your mind the scriptures that you may apply them to that

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penitent that child of God.

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Who has great, burdens of conscience is full of sorrow and is

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distressed because of the mess

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they've made of things.

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And it's then and there that you'll follow the example of Staupitz.

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Who is able to practice this art of being a Confessor to none other

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than blessed Martin Luther.

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Luther wrote the role of the law is to terrify men to drive them crazy

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into despair until they realize that they can do neither what the law

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demands nor achieve God's favor by their own efforts, and keep the

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law.

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He said, I recall when Doctor Staupitz said to me on a certain

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occasion. More than a thousand times

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I've lied to God, promising that I would become Godly.

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But I never did what I promised.

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I will never again resolve to become Godly for

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I see that I cannot carry out my resolution.

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I want

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quit lying to God.

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Follow Staupitz

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then

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and Luther

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and Saint Paul.

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And confess

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Oh, Wretched, Man that I am.

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You have lied to God.

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You have made promises that you cannot keep as much as you would

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desire to your thoughts and desires have been soiled with sin.

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Sin, dwells within you.

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You make your resolutions to keep the law of God

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but again, you fail and falter because you make the great mistake

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and forget Christ.

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So Luther said I was very anxious to become Godly, but how long did

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that last?

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Until I'd finished reading the Mass, an hour later, I was more evil

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than I was before. The state of affairs goes on and on until a person

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becomes quite weary and is forced to say I've had it up to here

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with being Godly

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according to Moses,and the law. I'm going to follow another preacher

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who says to me.

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Come to me

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if you labor and are heavy laden

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and I will give you rest.

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In his own despairing over the condemnation of the law, Saint Paul

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asks, who will rescue me from this body of death?

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And he follows the other preacher rejoicing.

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Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, Our Lord.

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And so it is to be with you.

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The rescue from the demands of the law from your lying to God from

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your body of death from being sinful beyond measure.

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The rescue is Jesus Christ.

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The Commandment that is holy and righteous and good

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is kept by Him completely.

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His body

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perfect, and holy without spot or blemish.

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Hung from a tree

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and his sacred blood poured out there.

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From His holy wounds comes the answer.

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The preaching of that work delivers, what was earned forgiveness for

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you

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that is full complete and free.

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Not earned

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except by Him.

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Not merited

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but by Him.

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Given freely out of the Father's

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love for you

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a wretched sinner.

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Who is declared righteous through faith in Jesus Christ.

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And it's Christ the preacher

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who gives you the absolution you need. Christ

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the preacher

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who says come to me, you are weak

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but I've taken your weakness.

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Christ, the preacher.

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Who says I forgive you all your sins.

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And Christ uses preachers to be his mouth even as they are to be the

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ear to hear the confessions of the penitent.

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To fear those who fear

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Hell so greatly deserved.

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Luther wrote of his Confessor.

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Remembering when he was distraught and drowning and temptation and

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sorrow had not Doctor Staupitz or rather God, through Doctor Staupitz,

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help me out.

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I would have been drowned in them and would have been in Hell long

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ago.

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So it is that we give thanks to God and follow the example of Staupitz.

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For God, works through men, put in the office to listen.

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To absolve.

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To pull, sinners right out of Hell

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by being the voice of the real preacher Jesus.

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May God grant it

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that you be one of those.

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A father Confessor.

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That pulls sinners right out of Hell

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by the forgiveness of all their sins.

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Sinners need forgiveness.

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You do.

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Thanks be to God through Christ Our Lord

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that God grants it

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even to you.

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And according to his good pleasure, when he puts you in the office,

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like Staupitz,

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even through you.

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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.