The Law (139)
  1. “Putting hope in the cross of Christ means putting hope outside of anything – mentally, physically or even spiritually – you do.”
  2. What happens when our children are taught to read the Scriptures as evidence that God is a heavenly Santa Claus? When happens when they think God rewards or punishes them depending on whether they've been naughty or nice?
  3. Jesus’ life and work is now ours through faith.
  4. 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.
  5. The Fellows hand over the reigns to Dr. Franscico to teach us about Hugo Grotius.
  6. Likewise, when God says, "Do this and you will live," we go about under the illusion that we have the ability to accomplish what God demands of us.
  7. It's difficult enough for us to bear anothers' burdens, but carry another person's sin for him? Why would we do that?
  8. Daniel and Erick spend this episode discussing the Law of God, what Jesus says about it and what His relationship to it is. Jesus is cranking the Law up but it's all to drive us to Himself.
  9. Sometimes we try be the bad god, sometimes the good god, oftentimes a freaky hybrid of both. The result is the same: Jesus the savior just gets in our way.
  10. by Philip Melanchthon, translated by Scott L. Keith, Ph.D.; edited by Kurt Winrich
  11. You became, for a time, ritually unclean. Not sinful. Not immoral. To be unclean meant you bore in your own body the effects of a creation in bondage to decay.
  12. All our little laws reveal that we are, by nature, trying to justify ourselves before others, and before God, based on what we do and who we are.
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