Law and Gospel (18)
  1. What is implicit by way of accoutrements and ceremonies becomes explicit in the sermon: Beliefs are put to proclamation.
  2. Sin affects body and soul, right down to the core of our humanity. It calls for a drastic cure, for extreme measures.
  3. The outward sins we do all begin with Sin hidden in our hearts. But we cannot see that, it has to be revealed to us by a spiritual scan, an MRI from above.
  4. Jesus is taking the Law and setting it forth in such a way that we get a good look at what is going on in us.
  5. Matthew 22 sees Jesus address Jewish legal debates. In the process, he makes disticntions between the Law and Gospel.
  6. The Lord’s prayer is a prayer in perfect accord with the will of God, and Jesus gifts it to us to plagiarize at will.
  7. The phrase “works of the law” has an antithesis when it comes to righteousness—faith. What keeping the Law could not do, the gift of faith does.
  8. Stoicism’s opening premise fails to understand that, from its conception, the heart is a thorny bramble.
  9. Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self.
  10. In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.
  11. Justification and regeneration are, therefore, necessarily connected and have profound implications upon the craft of preaching.
  12. The Christian sermon is Gospel preaching. We only preach the Gospel. Only the Gospel is the sermon, notwithstanding necessary admonishments of law and requisite exhortations toward sanctification.
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