# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S327
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

YNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 327

bondage of sin and of the devil, from which man cannot
by his own powers. From this desperate condition
y only God can set man free.
esis 1—3; Psalms 51 and 130; Romans 1—7; Ephesians
ws 2:14-18.
: Ill. REDEMPTION
‘believe and teach:
“from eternity decreed to send, and in the fullness of time
is Son to fallen man as Savior, to fulfill the Law in the
ead and to suffer the sinner’s punishment in his stead.
5 delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for
ion,” Rom. 4:25. God “laid on Him the iniquity of us
Christ entered into death in order to bring man, held
p of death, unto life with Himself. In His victory over
rings to man a life of freedom from death. God by
hrist from the dead proclaimed to the world that He has
‘¢he atonement for man’s sin as completed and that Christ,
and exalted God-Man, shall reign as Lord forever.
ah 53; Matthew 20:28; Luke 24; John 11 and 14; Acts 2:
Corinthians 15; 2 Corinthians 5:14-21; 1 Timothy 2:4-6;
18-25 IV. ELECTION
ieve and teach:
from eternity, solely because of His grace in Christ and
“any cause whatever in man, elected as His own all those
nakes and keeps members of His kingdom and heirs of
The Holy Spirit by the Gospel has called us and
of our status before God, testifying to us that He has
‘or Himself in Christ from the foundation of the world,
imputation of Christ’s righteousness has given us the
that He will present us faultless before the throne of

; 13: 48; Romans 8; Ephesians 1; 1 Peter 1:1-9.

V. MEANS OF GRACE

jeve and teach:

willed that the knowledge and benefit of Christ’s
-from sin be brought to man through His means of

Word. Through the Holy Scriptures, which God caused
by men chosen and inspired by Him, God instructs
us regarding His will for us. The Holy Scriptures