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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: Christ are not given and shed for us in the Lord's Supper, hence we
could not have forgiveness of sins in the Sacrament. For although the
work is accomplished and the forgiveness of sins acquired on the cross,
yet it cannot come to us in any other way than through the Word. For
what would we otherwise know about it, that such a thing was
accomplished or was to be given us if it were not presented by
preaching or the oral Word? Whence do they know of it, or how can they
apprehend and appropriate to themselves the forgiveness, except they
lay hold of and believe the Scriptures and the Gospel? But now the
entire Gospel and the article of the Creed: I believe a holy Christian
Church, the forgiveness of sin, etc., are by the Word embodied in this
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