Always appreciate how you are very balanced in the law and gospel. This is helpful. I guess I'm pretty sensitive after coming out of a law based church setting. But in Gerhard O Forde's reflections on Luther's Heidelberg Disputation 1518 page 98 "Whoever has been emptied through suffering no longer regards himself as the worker but rather God, who works and does all things in him." So removed is the theologian of the cross from worry about works, there is a shocking indifference. He neither boasts if he does works, nor is he disturbed if God does not work through him." All of God's word will by the Power at work within us penetrate into our hearts and we will be moved. Praise God that he fulfills all righteousness!! Thanks Erick for all that you do. So glad you get to take time away as well! Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thanks Pastor. What a blast !
Always appreciate how you are very balanced in the law and gospel. This is helpful. I guess I'm pretty sensitive after coming out of a law based church setting. But in Gerhard O Forde's reflections on Luther's Heidelberg Disputation 1518 page 98 "Whoever has been emptied through suffering no longer regards himself as the worker but rather God, who works and does all things in him." So removed is the theologian of the cross from worry about works, there is a shocking indifference. He neither boasts if he does works, nor is he disturbed if God does not work through him." All of God's word will by the Power at work within us penetrate into our hearts and we will be moved. Praise God that he fulfills all righteousness!! Thanks Erick for all that you do. So glad you get to take time away as well! Merry Christmas to you and yours.