Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 136
Scripture Text: 2 Timothy 4:7-8
The Lord has fought the fight. He has gone before us and has won the long battle. He is with us and will never leave us or forsake us.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 135
Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Some orders of monks placed their hoods upon dead bodies, indicating that their good works were transferred to the account of the deceased.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 134
Scripture Text: Romans 14:8-12
The opponents’ conclusions were that if one pays for his own reward, he can pay more than is due. Therefore, the credit must be transferable to others.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 133
Scripture Text: Psalm 130:1-8
There is nothing worthy of forgiveness and the resurrection of the body to everlasting life, save the work of Christ. Imagining otherwise does great damage to Scripture and to troubled hearts and minds.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 132
Scripture Text: Matthew 20:1-10
Eternal life is a reward from God that is based on something very important: his promise. It is not based upon how much work we have done.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 131
Scripture Text: Luke 6:20-23
“Blessed are the poor,” Jesus says in Luke’s Sermon on the Plain. In Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount, he says, “Blessed are the poor in spirit."
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 130
Scripture Text: 1 Peter 1:3-9
Faith is the means of justification, righteousness, and salvation. Only faith keeps our souls at peace before God. Our good deeds will never give us at rest.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 129
Scripture Text: 2 Corinthians 5:1-7
We are reborn with a purpose. But let us be clear; the purpose does not precede or cause rebirth. That purpose is the result of our being newly created.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 128
Scripture Text: Romans 8:29-30
What will be the result in the future life for the way we have lived the present life? Left on our own, sin and death are terrifying.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 127
Scripture Text: Hebrews 10:22-25
We should recognize in ourselves that we are disposed to fall back into old ways. But we should also consider that others are just like us.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 126
Scripture Text: Romans 8:12-15
Good works are evidence that a person has been justified. For the Spirit who produces good works only indwells the justified.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 125
Scripture Text: Romans 9:30-32a
Why did the gentiles come to a state of righteousness when the Jews worked hard at it but never arrived? Why did the gentiles attain righteousness when they did not even try?
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 124
Scripture Text: Romans 10:13–17
What came first, the chicken or the egg? Some love to deliberate over such things; these questions wear out other people.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 123
Scripture Text: Ephesians 1:13-14
The difference that precedes salvation is easy to determine. That distinguishing feature is trust in the one who saves.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 122
Scripture Text: Luke 17:7-10
We are indentured servants, slaves to sin and death, and we can never earn our freedom. Either the master sets us free—and death and the devil are not going to do that—or someone pays our debt and sets free.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 121
Scripture Text: James 4:6–10
The old nature believes that if one loves enough, is joyous all the time, at peace, patient and kind toward others, is good, faithful, and self-controlled, that person will have earned God’s grace.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 120
Scripture Text: 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17
If a man was swimming in the ocean and began to drown, he would be quite correct to not trust his own efforts to save himself. But he would yell with his last breath to the lifeguard.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 119
Scripture Text: Titus 3:4-7
There is faith and there is the fruit of faith. Faith ought to have results in this life, not just the result of an eternal life to come.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 118
Scripture Text: Psalm 79:8–9
God forgives us for the sake of his name. His reputation is at stake, so he will keep his promise. This is easy to understand.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 117
Scripture Text: John 15:14-17
Behold, what importance some people place in their works. They value deeds so thoroughly that they distort the words of Christ. When he downplays works, they exalt them.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 116
Scripture Text: John 10:7-9
When we think that we have earned God’s mercy and may therefore, demand it, we rob God of the glory that belongs to him alone.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 115
Scripture Text: Daniel 9:15-19
The First Commandment teaches us that God is faithful to deliver his people. “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery."
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 114
Scripture Text: Luke 11:2–4
Our sin leaves us indebted to God. This is why Jesus tells us to pray, “Forgive us our sins.” Matthew uses the word “debt," making it clear that we owe God for our moral failure.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 113
Scripture Text: Hebrews 10:19–23
Pour some dirt into a cup of water and find out how many people will drink? Just so, we are not palatable; each person is just some good mixed in with the bad.
Concerning Love and the Fulfilling of the Law – part 112
Scripture Text: Hebrews 4:14-16
We cannot make any offering for sin that produces mercy and forgiveness. Our virtue will not do it, nor will religious works, the right disposition, or remorse.
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