Greetings to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Worship went well this morning. I did liturgy and Pastor Ludwig preached an awesome sermon on Deuteronomy 4. It was a good sermon on why the law is still a good thing. This is actually a topic I have been studying up on quite a bit lately so I was glad to hear his point of view on it. I appreciate his down to earth approach on things and I think the people appreciate it too.
The world today does anything to try to explain or diminish the law. Even Christians try to make the law not important. The truth is that the law is still a wonderful thing given to us from God. Don't believe me? Try reading Psalm 119 and see what it saws about God's law, statues, commandments, etc. Now it is true, we live by the Gospel of Jesus Christ but even Jesus says he did not come to get rid of the law. We still live according to God's will which is given to us in His law. An the real issue is that when we try to void the law, we actually change the Gospel message. When we try to say the law doesn't matter because Christians are just as sinful as non-believers, we are denying that salvation has actually changed us into saints. When we try to say the law only applies to non-Christians because believers are already saved by the Gospel, we deny the fact that we as Christians are still sinners. It is the sinner and saint paradox that is a mystery to us and yet does not give us permission to change the Word of God. As children of God who are sinners and yet are saved saints all at the same time, the Law applies to us to teach us how to live according to God's will, and the Gospel most certainly applies to us because it is through the forgiveness of sins in Christ's name that we have eternal life.
Hope you have a great Sunday and as you hear the Word of our Lord be reminded that we as His children, who live according to His will, only have life in His name. In the name of Jesus, Amen.
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