Sinner and Saint (Simul) (4)
  1. We can lay down our sledgehammers of moralistic performance, which aren’t effective anyway, and we can trust that we are his and his life is ours.
  2. Jacob is given the gospel afresh right when he needed it and it is because of this gospel that his faith is stirred up anew.
  3. The good news for Jacob is that God humbled himself so that he could lose a wrestling match to a man with a dislocated hip so that he could give him a new name.
  4. There’s no possibility of understanding the grace of Romans 6 and the glory of Romans 8 unless you identify with the excruciating struggle of Romans 7.