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The following reading from the CONCORDIA edition of the Book of Concord is for the LSB series C Gospel, Luke 4:16-30 for the 3rd S a. Epiphany, January 24, 2010. It is from Formula of Concord, Solid Declaration, Article VIII, page 593. Jesus is the Christ because he was anointed by the Holy Spirit and thus he proceeded to fulfill that office by proclaiming good news to the poor in spirit. Click here for the reading formatted for the back of a standard CPH bulletin. Pastor Doug May
We believe, teach, and confess that God the Father has given His Spirit to Christ, His beloved Son, according to the received humanity. (Because of this He is called also Messiah; i.e., the Anointed.) He has not received His gifts with limits as other saints. For on Christ the Lord, according to His received human nature, rests "the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge <and the fear of the Lord." This not in such a way that, as a man, He knew and could do only some things, like other saints know and can do things by God's Spirit, who works in them only created gifts. According to His divinity, Christ is the Second Person in the Holy Trinity. And from Him, as also from the Father, the Holy Spirit proceeds. So the Spirit is and remains Christ's and the Father's own Spirit to all eternity, not separated from God's Son. As the Church Fathers say, the entire fullness of the Spirit has been communicated by the personal union to Christ according to the flesh, which is personally united with God's Son. This manifests and shows itself with all its power <in, with, and through Christ's human nature>. Now <according to the received human nature>, He knows and can do all things. For on Him the Father poured the Spirit of wisdom and power without measure. So as man, Christ has received all knowledge and all power. (paragraphs 72-74)
These are excerpts from the Book of Concord.
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