1. The grass withered for them too, but they held on to God’s Word. They knew that was eternal, so they lived in it. They lived in his forgiveness.
  2. The law demands love, and love has no limits, no end, it is never done.
  3. Today, people often bemoan the loss of children in the church.
  4. The authority God gives to men—to you and I as baptized believers in Christ—is to forgive sins, to free them from guilt, to free them from the power of sin.