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Verse 9, if we confess our sins, so if we acknowledge our sins before the Lord, if we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Because, I mean, we can hear it in his word, but every single week, when we confess our sins before the Lord, so this week, we confess our sins, and then the pastor, who is presiding, it's me today. Where, and Christ tells about this, he talks about this in Matthew where he says, don't, don't go distorting your faces when you're fasting, put oil on your head and, and come together, you know, in front of the people, don't, don't heap up phrases of empty words. Think of the first early Christians, the first church and how those believers and the apostles would go and there was the big first council at Jerusalem where they were deciding that no freedom in Christ is freedom in Christ, it is not freedom in Christ and works. When the church steps in it's in God's hands but at this time it was the church and it was the church people who were demanding the money and who were paying the money and so this is that start of the schism because that is not the true church and really you can say that indeed this does uphold that when the church intercedes it is in God's hands alone because when the church intercedes through reformers such as Martin Luther it is in God's hands and God's hands bring out the full truth of the gospel. Sixty-two the true treasure of the church is the most holy gospel of the glory and grace of God we're going to end on this one because I am almost out of time here but this is beautiful so beautiful that the true treasure treasure of the church is the holy gospel of the glory and grace of God it's not talking that the treasure of the church is the Basilica it's not talking that the treasure of the church is its clergy the treasure of the church isn't its people the treasure of the church is what the church is built upon which is the grace of Jesus Christ his glory his goodness that is the treasure so we're going to we're going to continue we will probably do a little bit more with the 95 Theses next week just a smidge and more but do you see how these these discussion points they weren't they weren't meant to be zingers they weren't meant for anything other than we need to talk about this the Pope needs to know about this can you believe this is happening we need to discuss this and we'll find that that led to a lot of trouble for Martin Luther and for his cohorts in the Reformation so we will continue with this next week um I think I think next week our topic is the history or the historical significance of the Reformation so we're going to look not only at the significance within the church but then how it really began to shape even the world around it okay I will see you next week and god bless Well, last week we took a look at one of the more rugged parts of the prophetic books and that was Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and Habakkuk and Zefania.

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