Holy Spirit

Justification and regeneration are, therefore, necessarily connected and have profound implications upon the craft of preaching.

Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.

Christians do have a hope that those who sleep in death will be awakened and their joy will never end, and we yearn for that day.

Faith should later again flow forth from our heart’s depths to our neighbor freely and unhindered in good works; not that we wish to rest our salvation in them; for God will not have that, but wishes the conscience to rest in himself alone.

As Christians, we rest in the finished work of Christ on the cross, and we yearn for our neighbor to be reconciled to God, to know the peace that we are resting in.