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See also: Christian; Christian living Christian Life Martin Luther 1.      Prayer. For this reason you should despair of your wisdom and reason; for with these you will acquire nothing, but by your arrogance cast yourself and others into the pit of hell as did Lucifer. Kneel down in your chamber and ask God in true … Continue reading “LIFE”

See also: Christian; Christian living Christian Life Martin Luther 1.      Prayer. For this reason you should despair of your wisdom and reason; for with these you will acquire nothing, but by your arrogance cast yourself and others into the pit of hell as did Lucifer. Kneel down in your chamber and ask God in true … Continue reading “CHRISTIAN
LIFE”

Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. The … Continue reading “CHRIST
IN THE BIBLE”

The cross is the source of the forgiveness of sins. It is not a debt settled by due payment. It is not a substitutionary offering whereby someone is paid a price so that others might then go free. Frank G. Jannaway

Christ is the Morning Star who, when the night of this world is past brings to his saints the promise of the light of life and opens everlasting day. Venerable Beds

Let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same. Oliver B. Greene He [Christ, our Sin-bearer] is not like Moses who only shows sin, but rather like Aaron who bears sin. Martin Luther Jesus became the greatest liar, perjurer, thief, adulterer and murderer that … Continue reading “CHRIST
AS SIN-BEARER”

The good news is that sin has been dealt with; that Jesus has suffered its penalty for us as our representative, so that we might never have to suffer it; and that therefore all who believe in him can look forward to heaven. The only true gospel is of the one mediator (1 Tim. 2:5–6), … Continue reading “CHRIST
AS SUBSTITUTE”

Jesus is not a good way to heaven, He’s the only way. Author unknown Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. Karl Barth The way to Jesus is not by Cambridge and Oxford, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Socrates, … Continue reading “CHRIST
AS THE WAY TO GOD”

My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. The Bible, Colossians 2:2–3

Jesus himself did not come from the proletariat of day-laborers and landless tenants, but from the middle class of Galilee, the skilled workers. Like his [foster] father, he was an artisan, a tekton, a Greek word which means mason, carpenter, cartwright and joiner all rolled into one. Professor Martin Hengel