Here's a gift recommendation for your pastor during pastor appreciation month, the

Concordia commentary on Hagai and Malachai. This new commentary explores Hagai's

exhortation to rebuild the temple and Malachai is concerned with the practices in the temple.

The Concordia commentary on Hagai and Malachai is published by Concordia Publishing House.

Their phone number 1-800-325 40, or learn more at issues E.C.org, the new Concordia commentary on Hagai and Malachai. When God's Holy law has spoken to a sinner it always finds something to accuse

because that's what the law is primarily sent to do in a world of sinners but is

that the only thing that God's holy law does especially in the life of the

Christian? Welcome back to issues does, especially in the life of the Christian.

Welcome back to issues, etc.

I'm Todd Wilkin.

On this Friday, October the 4th,

we're going to talk about the Lutheran Confessions

and the third use of the law.

Pastor Jonathan Lang is our guest. He is pastor of Our

Savior Lutheran Church in Evanston, Wyoming and St. Paul Lutheran Church in

Camarra, Wyoming. He's leader of the Wyoming Pastors Network and author of a

recent column for Logiaia titled Using the Formula of

Concord Six and the Preachers Task. Jonathan, welcome back. Well, thank you,

Todd. It's always great to talk to you.

Scripture in the Confessions teach three uses of God's law.

What are they?

Very simply, we call them the curb and the mirror and the rule. We're simply first use use which is the to kind of constrain the the human being to conform him to what he ought to be and do.

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