# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S1
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Hebrews 10:19-25
By Present Joun W. BEuNKEnN, D.D.

Dear FRIENDS AND Co-workers:

The writer to the Hebrews placed the wonderful words of the
text read to you into a marvelously beautiful setting. He had com-
pared Christ’s work of redemption, especially His death on Gol-
gotha’s cross, with the work of the Old Testament priests. This
comparison led him to point out again and again the pre-eminence
of Christ’s person, the incomparable superiority of His work, and
the immeasurably greater effectiveness of His sacrifice. In one of
the earlier chapters the apostle said of our Savior: “Such an high
priest became us who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from
sinners, and made higher than the heavens; who needeth not daily,
as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins
and then for the people’s; for this He did once, when He offered
up Himself.” Just prior to our text the apostle emphasized that
Christ had come to carry out God’s eternal counsel for the salvation
of mankind and that He had brought the perfect sacrifice.

Then follow the impressive and important words of our text,
on the basis of which, under the gracious guidance of the Holy
Spirit, we shall direct our attention to the topic:

God’s Infinite Grace
to Our Church Provokes Wholehearted Dedication

I

The Infinite Grace Which God Has Granted Our Church

The history of our beloved Synod abounds with evidence of
God’s infinite grace. From its very inception God led our fathers
to emphasize purity of doctrine, with special stress on the three
great solas, Scripture alone, by grace alone, by faith alone. The
conservative position taken by the fathers has made a mighty im-
pact and exerted a tremendous and wholesome influence on our
church throughout the 109 years since its founding. God has
blessed us, as few others, with the preaching of “Jesus Christ, and
Him crucified,” as the only hope of salvation. There is no church
body which places greater emphasis on justification solely by grace,
for Christ’s sake, through faith. The thorough instruction and the
doctrinal preaching which our church offers us give us abundant
opportunity to become fully acquainted with the glorious truths