tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post1668159651376884977..comments2023-10-09T03:39:02.388-06:00Comments on Expository Lutheran: Gospel of Prime ImportanceBror Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913133289813136695noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post-4163535366505236412008-08-01T08:08:00.000-06:002008-08-01T08:08:00.000-06:00"Yeah but!""Yeah but!""Yeah but!""They would rathe..."Yeah but!"<BR/><BR/>"Yeah but!"<BR/><BR/>"Yeah but!"<BR/><BR/>"They would rather make aspects of the law of prime importance."<BR/><BR/>Right on, Bror! The law is what we are about. We are law bangers by nature. We are all about doing, and not God's doing, or even our own. We are about telling others what they have to do. <BR/><BR/> That word, the word of doing, is a real downer. It brings death. It is supposed to. That's it's job.<BR/>But the Word of promise brings life. That Word is Christ Himself, comung to us from outside of our little law banger selves.<BR/><BR/>Left to our 'doing', we would surely perish, for no one will be justified in the sight of the law.<BR/><BR/>But we are not left to our own devices! He loves us so much that He died a horrible death for us. Not to whip us into shape. He wouldn't have had to die to do that.<BR/><BR/> He died and was raised again that we might live! <BR/><BR/> St. Paul was right. Bror Erickson is right. Anyone who speaks this gospel message is right, and carries upon their tongues the gift of life within a vessel that is all about death aside from His living and abiding truth.<BR/><BR/> That is the power of the Word of God. Of Jesus Christ Himself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com