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As and God, the sea is growing,

My head is blessed in writing,

To the heart who's death in minding, The hymn Water, Blood, and Spirit crying. If you want to know what Scripture teaches about the sacraments, you go first to Christ's institution of the sacraments.

You could go to 1st Corinthians 11, where the Apostle Paul recounts that institution

for the Lord's Supper or to Matthew 28 or elsewhere for the institution of baptism. But are these

the only places in Scripture that talk about the sacraments that allude to the sacraments? Are they

already being pointed to in the old

testament as well welcome back to issues etc i'm todd wilkin thanks for tuning us in live on this

tuesday afternoon the 20th of may joining us to talk about reading the bible with sacramental

sensitivity dr reed lessing he's edwin f and and Esther Lash chair of Old Testament Studies at Concordia

University, St. Paul, Minnesota, author of 12 Concordia Publishing House books. He's currently working

on the Concordia Commentary on Genesis chapters 12 through 36. Dr. Lessing, welcome back.

Good to be here with you, Todd. What do you mean by sacramental sensitivity?

I'm trying to read the Bible, noting all of the different ways that biblical authors are going to

refer to the sacraments of Holy Baptism and Holy Communion. Beyond just the obvious, right, when we have, say, the baptismal

mandate at the end of Matthew 28 or the words of institution in the synoptic gospels, Matthew,

Mark, and Luke in 1st Corinthians chapter 11. There's more to what's going on in both

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