Ready for the weekend? I know I am! As we unload the tiresome burdens of another week…let’s soak in gospel goodness from our favorite 16th Century Reformer. Here’s your weekly installment of ‘Luther, Lockdown. Law & Gospel’. Enjoy!
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Luther, Lockdown, Law & Gospel | Galatians 4:27
After a long week of busyness, stress, and frustration…take a break and here some good news from Martin Luther. We continue our weekly series, ‘Luther, Lockdown, Law and Gospel’ as a way of providing some much needed relief as we all attempt to navigate COVID, quarantine, and the interruption of our lives. Hope you find rest in this week’s excerpt…
Luther, Lockdown, Law & Gospel | Galatians 4:8-9
Feeling burden during all this quarantine, lockdown, and pandemic malaise? Here’s some Martin Luther to provide some much needed relief after a crushing week. Our burdens are many…God’s grace is sufficient. Enjoy your end-of-week dose of Luther’s Commentary on Galatians…
Luther, Lockdown, Law, & Gospel | Galatians 4:4-5
Could you use some relief from a long week? We continue our series ‘Luther, Lockdown, Law, & Gospel’ as we mine Martin Luther’s Commentary on Galatians. Enjoy some relief as we carefully distinguish Law from Gospel. May this series continue to refresh and nourish your soul…
Luther, Lockdown, Law & Gospel | Galatians 4:3
The Law may restrain evil, but it does not deliver from sin…
When the Law exercises its higher function it accuses and condemns the conscience. All these effects of the Law cannot be called divine or heavenly. These effects are elements of the world…
Luther, Lockdown, Law & Gospel | Galatians 3:18
That the Law is something entirely different from the promise is plain. The Law thunders: “Thou shalt, thou shalt not.” The promise of the “seed” (Christ) pleads: “Take this gift of God.” If the inheritance of the gifts of God were obtained by the Law, God would be a liar. We would have the rightContinue reading “Luther, Lockdown, Law & Gospel | Galatians 3:18”
Luther, Lockdown, Law & Gospel | Galatians 3:12
Paul undertakes to explain the difference between the righteousness of the Law and the righteousness of faith. The righteousness of the Law is the fulfillment of the Law according to the passage: “The man that doeth them shall live in them.” The righteousness of faith is to believe the Gospel according to the passage: “TheContinue reading “Luther, Lockdown, Law & Gospel | Galatians 3:12”
Luther, Lockdown, Law & Gospel | Galatians 3:10
Civil laws and ordinances have their place and purpose. Let every government enact the best possible laws. But civil righteousness will never deliver a person from the condemnation of God’s Law. I have good reason for calling your attention to this. People easily mistake civil righteousness for spiritual righteousness. In civil life we must, ofContinue reading “Luther, Lockdown, Law & Gospel | Galatians 3:10”
Luther, Lockdown, Law & Gospel | Galatians 3:2
Right here we have one more difference between the Law and the Gospel. The Law does not bring on the Holy Ghost. The Gospel, however, brings on the gift of the Holy Ghost, because it is the nature of the Gospel to convey good gifts. The Law and the Gospel are contrary ideas. They haveContinue reading “Luther, Lockdown, Law & Gospel | Galatians 3:2”
Luther, Lockdown, Law & Gospel | Galatians 3:1
The apostasy of the Galatians is a fine endorsement of the Law, all right. You may preach the Law ever so fervently; if the preaching of the Gospel does not accompany it, the Law will never produce true conversion and heartfelt repentance. We do not mean to say that the preaching of the Law isContinue reading “Luther, Lockdown, Law & Gospel | Galatians 3:1”
Law, Grace, & Daily Living 