Five Minutes a Day with Luther - 12-19-2009
Five Minutes with Luther
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December 19
Isaiah 55:8-9 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither
are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. For as the heavens
are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts."
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The reason why God passed so sharp a sentence against Adam, was
that he had eaten of the forbidden tree, and was disobedient to
God; to the end that for his sake the ground was cursed, and the
whole generation of mankind was subjected to all manner of
miseries, and finally, death was sent upon us all. The sense
and reason of the worldly-wise, who only look upon the biting of
the apple, consider that a slight and trivial thing, and that God
brought too cruel and harsh a sentence against poor Adam. Again,
these worldlings stumble and are offended at this; namely, that
Christ, according to the way they think, despises and rejects
good, honest, and holy people. He sends them away from Him, and
calls them evil-doers; without regard for the fact that some in
His name have prophesied, some have cast out devils, and some
have done miracles. Instead, He receives public sinners, if
they hear His Word and believe in Him; He forgives their sins;
yes, He even makes them righteous and holy, God̓s children
and heirs of everlasting life and salvation, out of pure grace
and mercy, without any of their good works. Human reason,
wisdom, and understanding cannot comprehend God in His majesty;
therefore we must neither seek nor search out what God's will,
His substance, and nature is, anywhere but in His Word.
How most exact is nature's frame!
How wise th' eternal Mind!
His counsels never change the scheme
That His first thoughts designed.
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Cuda.
aka Pastor Robin Fish
It isn't whether we win or lose, it is "Do we stand faithfully?"
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