Five Minutes a Day with Luther - 05-28-2012
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Five Minutes with Luther
May 28, 2012, 8:05:01 AM5/28/12
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FIVE MINUTES A DAY WITH LUTHER
** Now available in book form: http://lcmssermons.com/about5mins.php **
May 28
Gal 6:13 For those who are circumcised do not even keep the
Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that
they may boast in your flesh.
* * *
Here Paul shows them what sort of teachers they have. Though
they keep the Law outwardly, yet in keeping it they do no keep
it. For without the Holy Ghost the Law cannot be kept. But the
Holy Ghost cannot be received without Christ, and where the Holy
Ghost does not dwell, there dwells an unclean spirit, that is to
say, one who despises God and seeks his own gain. Therefore all
that he does toward keeping the Law is mere hypocrisy, and
therefore double sin. This may be applied to other works also.
He that works, suffers, or prays without Christ, works, prays and
suffers in vain, for "whatever is not of faith is sin" (Rom
14:23). It profits a man nothing to be outwardly circumcised,
to fast, to pray, or to do any other work, if he despises grace,
forgiveness of sin, and the work of Christ, and be puffed up with
the opinion of his own righteousness. And why do the false
apostles want you to be circumcised? That they may glory in
your flesh. And what do you gain but that the false apostles
may glory that they are your teachers and you are their
disciples? They do not have the Word of the Spirit, therefore
it is impossible for you to receive the Spirit by their
preaching. They only exercise your flesh, making you fleshly
justiciaries or justifiers of yourselves, through which you reap
nothing but unprofitable labor and damnation.
Not what these hands have done
Can save this guilty soul;
Not what this toiling flesh has borne
Can make my spirit whole.
---
Cuda.
aka Pastor Robin Fish
To be Lutheran is to be Christian -- and Vice Versa!
View online at http://lcmssermons.com/5mins.php?d=2012-05-28
These daily readings are now available in book form;
read about it at http://lcmssermons.com/about5mins.php.
** Now available in book form: http://lcmssermons.com/about5mins.php **
May 28
Gal 6:13 For those who are circumcised do not even keep the
Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that
they may boast in your flesh.
* * *
Here Paul shows them what sort of teachers they have. Though
they keep the Law outwardly, yet in keeping it they do no keep
it. For without the Holy Ghost the Law cannot be kept. But the
Holy Ghost cannot be received without Christ, and where the Holy
Ghost does not dwell, there dwells an unclean spirit, that is to
say, one who despises God and seeks his own gain. Therefore all
that he does toward keeping the Law is mere hypocrisy, and
therefore double sin. This may be applied to other works also.
He that works, suffers, or prays without Christ, works, prays and
suffers in vain, for "whatever is not of faith is sin" (Rom
14:23). It profits a man nothing to be outwardly circumcised,
to fast, to pray, or to do any other work, if he despises grace,
forgiveness of sin, and the work of Christ, and be puffed up with
the opinion of his own righteousness. And why do the false
apostles want you to be circumcised? That they may glory in
your flesh. And what do you gain but that the false apostles
may glory that they are your teachers and you are their
disciples? They do not have the Word of the Spirit, therefore
it is impossible for you to receive the Spirit by their
preaching. They only exercise your flesh, making you fleshly
justiciaries or justifiers of yourselves, through which you reap
nothing but unprofitable labor and damnation.
Not what these hands have done
Can save this guilty soul;
Not what this toiling flesh has borne
Can make my spirit whole.
---
Cuda.
aka Pastor Robin Fish
To be Lutheran is to be Christian -- and Vice Versa!
View online at http://lcmssermons.com/5mins.php?d=2012-05-28
These daily readings are now available in book form;
read about it at http://lcmssermons.com/about5mins.php.
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