ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY EDUCATION NETWORK CUENET LUTHERAN CONFESSIONS 2-18 DR. ROBERT KOLB CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY: CAPTION FIRST, INC. P.O. BOX 1024 LOMBARD, IL 60148 800-825-5234 *** THIS TEXT IS BEING PROVIDED IN A ROUGH DRAFT FORMAT. COMMUNICATION ACCESS REALTIME TRANSLATION (CART) IS PROVIDED IN ORDER TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION ACCESSIBILITY AND MAY NOT BE A TOTALLY VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS. *** LC2-18 >> THANK YOU. I'VE ALSO NOTICED THAT LUTHER'S FIRST COMMENT AFTER THE SECOND ARTICLE IS TO SAY THAT "I BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS MY LORD." I EVEN NOTICED IN YOUR RECENT EDITION TO THE BOOK OF CONCORD THE WORD LORD IS WRITTEN DIFFERENTLY THAN EVERY OTHER WORD IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. WHY? WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY THAT CHRIST IS LORD? >>DR. ROBERT KOLB: GOOD QUESTION, DAVID, BECAUSE IT GETS TO THE HEART OF THE CATECHISM. MANY SCHOLARS WOULD SAY THAT THAT WORD "LORD" IS THE CENTER AROUND WHICH THE WHOLE CATECHISM REVOLVES. IT IS CAPITALIZED IN THIS TRANSLATION BECAUSE IT WAS IN GERMAN. THE WORD LORD IN HEBREW WAS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE NAME OF GOD, YAHWEH, THE NAME HE TOOK FOR HIMSELF IN THE BURNING BUSH, HIS IDENTIFICATION OF HIMSELF BECAUSE THE JEWS DID NOT WANT HIS SACRED NAME TO PASS THEIR LIPS. AND IF YOU HAVE JEWISH FRIENDS TODAY AND IF YOU TALK ABOUT JEHOVAH OR YAHWEH, THEY PROBABLY WON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. HE IS ADONAI. THAT MEANS HE IS THE LORD. THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY ARE ON A FIRST NAME BASIS. AMERICANS ARE ON A FIRST NAME BASIS WITH EVERYBODY. BUT GOD CAME TO BE ON A FIRST NAME BASIS WITH US. HE COMES NEAR TO US. AT ANY RATE, IN THE GERMAN THE EQUIVALENT OF THIS KIND OF AWE THAT YOU HAVE FOR THE HOLY NAME OF GOD WAS REPRODUCED IN MANY 16TH CENTURY TEXTS WITH THE CAPITAL LETTERS THAT WE HAVE INCLUDED IN THIS TRANSLATION. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE LORD? IT'S NOT A WORD THAT AMERICANS LIKE. FIRST OF ALL, WE THINK OF LORDING IT AS LORDING IT OVER. WE LOOK AT OUR LORD'S WORDS IN MATTHEW 20 OR MARK 10. WE REALIZE THAT GOD'S KIND OF LORDSHIP IS THE LORDSHIP OF A SERVANT. I HAVE NOT COME TO BE SERVED BUT TO SERVE AND TO GIVE MY LIFE AS A RANSOM FOR MANY. THAT'S THE KIND OF LORDSHIP WE FIND IN OUR GOD. THE TERM LORD IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST -- AND THIS WAS TRUE, ALSO, IN THE ABSOLUTIST REGIMES OF EARLY MODERN EUROPE -- THE TERM LORD MEANT MORE THAN JUST HARSH TYRANT. IT REALLY DIDN'T MEAN THAT AT ALL. THE WORD LORD THEORETICALLY, EVEN WHEN IT WAS USED FOR HARSH TYRANTS, THEORETICALLY MEANT SOMETHING LIKE A FATHER FIGURE. SOMEONE WHO WOULD PROTECT AND DEFEND HIS PEOPLE. BUT SOMEONE WHO WOULD LOVINGLY CARE FOR THEM AND MAKE SURE THAT THEIR LIVES WERE IN ORDER AND WERE GOING ALL RIGHT. AND SO IF WE TURN TO THE LARGE CATECHISM, WE SEE THAT LUTHER EXPLAINS THE TERM LORD TO A LARGE EXTENT IN MILITARY LANGUAGE. WE GET TO KNOW THE SECOND PERSON OF THE GOD HEAD AS ONE WHO IS A CONQUEROR. LUTHER HIMSELF SAYS THAT THIS IS WHAT IT IS TO BECOME A LORD. IT MEANS THAT JESUS HAS REDEEMED AND RELEASED ME FROM SIN, FROM THE DEVIL, FROM DEATH, FROM ALL MISFORTUNE OF THE BEFORE; THAT I HAD NO LORD OR KING BUT WAS CAPTIVE UNDER THE POWER OF THE DEVIL. I WAS CONDEMNED TO DEATH AND ENTANGLED IN SIN AND BLINDNESS. AND THEN HE GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT HOW GOD HAD CREATED US AND HOW WE FELL VICTIM BY OUR OWN WILLS, OF COURSE, TO THE TYRANTS AND JAILERS. AND THESE TYRANTS AND JAILERS HAVE NOW BEEN ROUTED. THEIR PLACE HAS BEEN TAKEN BY JESUS CHRIST. AND HE IS LUTHER SAYS THE LORD OF LIFE, THE LORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. THAT IS THE ONE WHO RESTORES SHALOM, THAT HEBREW WORD FOR PEACE. THAT EMBRACES ORDER AND EVERYTHING ELSE. HE IS THE LORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. HE IS THE LORD OF EVERY GOOD AND EVERY BLESSING. HE HAS SNATCHED US POOR CREATURES FROM THE JAWS OF HELL AND MADE US FREE. RESTORED US TO THE FATHER'S FAVOR AND GRACE AS HIS OWN POSSESSION. HE HAS TAKEN US UNDER HIS PROTECTION AND SHELTER IN ORDER THAT HE MAY RULE US IN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, WISDOM, POWER AND LIFE AND BLESSEDNESS. SO TO BE A LORD FOR JESUS IS, FIRST OF ALL, TO BE THE RESCUER. THE ONE WHO SAVES US FROM THE WORST OF OUR ENEMIES. AND THEN HE IS THE ONE WHO, AS LUTHER SAYS IN THE SMALL CATECHISM, WHO MAKES US HIS OWN AND WHO LETS US BELONG TO HIM IS THE NEW TRANSLATION. LET'S US LIVE UNDER HIM IN HIS KINGDOM AND BRINGS US TO SERVE HIM IN ETERNAL RIGHTEOUSNESS, INNOCENCE AND BLESSEDNESS ON THE BASIS OF HIS RESURRECTION. SO OUR LORD IS A LORD LUTHER SAID IN HIS TREATISE ON THE FREEDOM OF A CHRISTIAN OR ON CHRISTIAN LIBERTY. LUTHER SAID THAT WE ARE FREED FROM ALL OUR ENEMIES, THE ACCUSATION OF THE LAW THAT CONDEMNS US TO HELL. THE TERRORS OF SATAN. THE TEMPTATION OF OUR SIN. OUR GUILT, OUR SHAME. ALL OF THAT CHRIST HAS TAKEN INTO HIMSELF. AND HE HAS BURIED OUR SINFULNESS. AND THEN LUTHER SAYS HE DID THAT SO THAT WE MIGHT BE BOUND TO OUR NEIGHBOR. ACTUALLY IN OTHER PLACES IT'S CLEAR THAT LUTHER REGARDS THAT BEING BOUND TO OUR NEIGHBOR AS BEING FREED FOR SERVICE TO OUR NEIGHBOR. SO WE ARE FREED FROM SIN AND EVERY KIND OF EVIL. AND WE ARE FREED FOR BEING REAL HUMAN BEINGS. AND THAT MEANS TO LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. LUTHER BELIEVED THAT JESUS CHRIST CAME BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY SO THAT HE MIGHT LIVE THE PERFECT LIFE UNDER THE LAW FOR US AND SO THAT HE MIGHT SUFFER FOR US. BUT AS PAUL SAYS IN ROMANS 4:25, THE FOCUS OF HIS SAVING WORK COMES IN HIS DYING FOR OUR SIN AND HIS RISING FOR OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. THE LAW OF GOD AND THE -- IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS MAKES A VERY SIMPLE PROPOSITION. IF WE SIN, WE WILL DIE. THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH WE READ IN ROMANS 6:23. AND SIN IS AN ABSOLUTELY FAIR PAY MASTER. SIN ALWAYS PAYS DEATH TO THOSE WHO ENGAGE IN SIN. AND SO CHRIST COMES AS OUR SUBSTITUTE TO SATISFY THIS DEMAND OF THE LAW. HE DIDN'T SHED A LITTLE BLOOD TO PAY A FINE FOR US. HE DIDN'T MERELY MAKE UP WHAT WE HAD DONE WRONG. BECAUSE THERE IS NO MAKING UP OF WHAT WE HAVE DONE WRONG. THERE IS ONLY DEATH FOR SINNERS. AND LUTHER STRESSES PARTICULARLY IN HIS GREAT GALATIONS COMMENTARY THAT CHRIST TOOK THE WAGES OF SIN UPON HIMSELF IN HIS DEATH. AND IN ROMANS 6, ONE OF LUTHER'S FAVORITE PASSAGES, WE SEE THAT CHRIST BURIED OUR SIN IN HIS TOMB. THE ONLY PLACE IN GOD'S UNIVERSE WHERE THE FATHER DOESN'T LOOK ANYMORE. AND THEN WE ARE RAISED IN THE WORD OF GOD IN BAPTISMAL FORM OR WHATEVER FORM THAT COMES TO US, WE ARE RAISED TO A NEW IDENTITY. WE BECOME NEW CREATURES IN CHRIST. THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS TO BE LORD. *** THIS TEXT IS BEING PROVIDED IN A ROUGH DRAFT FORMAT. COMMUNICATION ACCESS REALTIME TRANSLATION (CART) IS PROVIDED IN ORDER TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION ACCESSIBILITY AND MAY NOT BE A TOTALLY VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS. ***