Law and Gospel (26)
  1. No matter how stringent one's "regulations" — "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" (Col. 2:21) — the sinful nature that resides in everyone's heart is untamable by self-effort alone.
  2. The gospel is best understood in terms of those two most important words: for you.
  3. The difference between God's gospel and man's could not be greater.
  4. If your faith is rooted in the gospel of Zion, in the good news of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection on your behalf, you are already a member of the “heavenly Jerusalem”
  5. The cross not only stands as the measure of our hatred of God but also as the measure of God’s love for us.
  6. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  7. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  8. When we believe in Jesus as the true and better fulfillment of every promise made to Abraham, we, too, are counted as righteous in the same way that he was — by faith.
  9. The essence of what it means to be a son or daughter of Abraham, an inheritor of the Abrahamic promise, was irrevocably tethered to faith.
  10. Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.
  11. Paul has zero patience for the gospel of God to be called into question, especially when the ones questioning it are the ones who should’ve known better.
  12. His successes were not the result of his brilliance, might, and ability as an apostle. They were the result of the all-sufficient grace of God.
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