Preaching (2219)
  1. Paul hits the nail on the head in this tour-de-force of alien righteousness teaching.
  2. The love of God here is amazing. Jesus warns them of God’s judgment in order that He might save them from sin.
  3. God turns a song meant to catch us in our sin into the love song of our savior. Easter’s distant triumph song.
  4. Jesus Christ is the only one whose “standing in the breach” satisfied God’s just wrath for debts and sins while at the same time bringing the saving mercy and life that God desires for all people.
  5. The Kingdom we have been planted in is not a scramble to the top, but a dive to the bottom, to serve, to receive, not to lord it over and acquire and do.
  6. For those who hear the Father’s Word of forgiving love in Christ, the “I will not” changes to an, “I will.”
  7. What all variations of affable chatter share in common is that the preacher does not do justice to the most salient fact about him and his hearers: They are dead men walking.
  8. We expect God to be at least as fair our society. But that is not how God operates.
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