# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S292
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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.therefore do not need the cup. The important fact is that Jesus

_ Christ, who instituted this Holy of Holies for His Christians, gave’
it to us in two parts and made two distinct statements about its

nature and benefits. And we, who by the grace of God know the

truth about this Holy Sacrament, should rejoice and be very grate-

ful about the two parts and also about the two weighty statements
which are full of heavenly meaning and heavenly blessings “to us.”

In both parts of the Holy Sacrament full and complete salvation
is offered to the guests. :

Reflect upon the first part of the Blessed Sacrament and what

it means when the Savior says: “This is My body, which is given
for you.” In the first place, the Savior says, I am giving the body
which was given, or sacrificed, for you, that is, evidently, for your
* benefit, for your salvation. That, in general, is certainly what
Jesus is pledging to you and what He wants you to believe with all
your heart. But when Jesus does not definitely state, in the first
part, the purpose for which His sacred body was ‘sacrificed, that
means, that He is giving you the privilege to supply from the fact

that His body was sacrificed for you, anything that His promises.

warrant and what you at any time need the most, as, for instance,
that Jesus’ body was sacrificed to save you, or to reconcile you to
God, or that you might be sure of His love and forgiveness, or
that sin, death, hell, and the devil have been conquered for you, or
that heaven has been won for you. The exceedingly glorious fact
is that none of the blessings which were won for you by the Sav-
jor’s atoning sacrifice are excluded here under the wide-open state-
ment that the Savior’s body was sacrificed for you. .

Then in the second part of the Sacrament the Savior makes
a statement which gives relief from all sin, whence all grief and

eternal damnation has come to man, namely, that the blood in the:
Sacrament pledges the forgiveness of all sin. Then Luther says.
with Scriptural warrant, “where there is ‘forgiveness ‘of sin, there’
is also life and salvation.” The full salvation pledged: a second

time in the Blessed Sacrament.
_ In regard to another matter concerning the Small Catechism
I wish to say, I am glad and’thankful to God that the committee
on Catechism felt compelled to’ quote the Third: Commandment
from the Scriptures, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy”;
which is also’the correct understanding of Luther’s “Feiertag.”
God in His mercy grant that at this convention we correct
what has been wrong so long. oO
Do not blatne me for my zeal in this matter. It means so much
to us; it is so important. . oo