# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S329
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"ERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 329

VL JUSTIFICATION
ve and teach:

edemptive work Christ is the Propitiation for the sins
world; hence forgiveness of sin has been secured and
for. all men. (This is often spoken of as objective justifi-
“God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself,
g their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto
of Reconciliation,” 2 Corinthians 5:19. Hence no sinner
ernally lost on account of his sins. God offers this propi-
id. reconciliation freely to all men through His means of
ere is nothing in sinful man or in what he may do to
s declaring him righteous. God justifies the sinner solely
sis of Christ’s righteousness, which He imputes to the
gh the Gospel and which the sinner accepts by faith.
wrought in man by the Holy Spirit. Through this faith
y receive from God but also retain the blessed assurance
eousness in His sight for Christ’s sake.

man 3—5; Galatians 2: 16—3: 29: Colossians 1; 1 John 2: 2.

VI. CONVERSION
eve and teach:

nner’s conversion takes place when God brings the con-
to faith in Christ as his Savior. This change of heart
to sin, and this reliance upon Christ for salvation from
ork of God the Holy Spirit, without any co-operation
ér from sinful man. “No man can say that Jesus is the
t by the Holy Ghost,” 1 Corinthians 12: 3b.

5:31; 26:18; Ephesians 2:1-9; Jeremiah 31: 18-19; Ezek-

VII. SANCTIFICATION
eve and teach:

iever in Christ can no longer enjoy living in sin, but
pted and enabled by the love of God in Christ and by
ing Holy Spirit to live according to God’s command-
to be minded toward all things as God is minded. “I am
ith Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
sof. the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for
atians 2: 20.
efore, out of gratitude to God, seek to glorify Him by
good works, without which faith is dead. In glori-
2-we seek to serve Him and our neighbor in love, as He
‘in both tables of His Law.