Law and Gospel (741)
  1. The Gospel predominates when hearers receive the saving gifts of Christ as God’s final word to them.
  2. There is just something about the idea of not being ‘under Law’ that sets off all kinds of alarms in the minds of many Christians.
  3. As sinful humans, we are adept at taking what God gives as gift and making it into a work. Nowhere is this made more evident than in the universally misunderstood doctrine of sanctification.
  4. While I was still an over-eager seminarian the professor warned me, “Mr. Riley, this is exciting stuff.
  5. Freedom from the Law does not come through personal perfection, it comes through Jesus Christ. The answer is not a better you, but a you who is united to God through Christ.
  6. You are made new by the eternal satisfaction for sin in Christ, by the precious treasure at God’s right hand.
  7. God created Israel to be the vessel into which he would place both his Law and his Son.
  8. These teachings are the heart of the Reformation…If it is about you, it isn’t about Jesus.
  9. The power and the purpose of the Reformation was to bring the full force of the Law and the Gospel to the ears of sinners.
  10. The Law though it does many things—restrains, exhorts the Christian unto righteousness, punishes—always rightly accuses and condemns sinners of their sin before a righteous, holy, and just God.
  11. On this episode, the fellows are once again joined by Dr. Nestingen and Prof. Pless. This time, we tackle listener questions about doctrine and the differences between Norwegian and German Lutheranism.
  12. I spend a lot of time talking to people in coffee shops. Some share my Christian faith, some are exploring and questioning faith and others have left the church, having had a crisis of faith.
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