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“The power of sin and death could be broken only by a greater power.” God’s power that is greater than sin and death is himself.
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Jesus has made a display of his cross-conquered enemies, leaving them stripped of all power on the battlefield of the world.
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God’s pursuing mercy finds its target through the cross. Through faith in God’s grace through Christ, the law’s condemnation cannot follow through.
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Death may think it rules the world, but there is another who rules over death, for he brings to life even those who have died. “Christ is the Death of death.”
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If your sin is found in you, you will pay. If, however, your sin is borne by Christ Jesus to the cross, he who is found to be with our sin, pays the penalty for us.
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The Lord looked down from height of heaven and saw a world imprisoned by sin. There was nothing we could do about it. God had to do it himself.
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If Christ must be a pretty, sinless Savior, then our sins are cast back on us. We should want nothing to do with this false, Roman faith.
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We are spared a great and eternal penalty, separation from God and the fire of hell, because God has laid on his Christ the iniquity of us all.
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Though the innocent, unblemished Lamb of God, “personally innocent,” as Luther wrote, “his sinlessness was defiled with the sinfulness of the world."
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If Jesus were not a cursed sinner, he would not have died, and a whole world would be lost in sin and death.
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God has turned the tables on law-keepers everywhere. Christ is the law-keeper, our law-keeper. He is our law-keeper because we are joined to him.
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The righteous and innocent soul who is the very Son of God, had to die because upon him was laid the charge and penalty of all sinners: sin and death.
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“All the prophets of old said that Christ should be the greatest transgressor, murderer, adulterer, thief, blasphemer that ever was or ever could be on earth.”
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The death that we deserved was suffered by Christ Jesus, by a good and righteous man, but an incarnate man, God born in the flesh.
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Keeping the law rightly demands an observance of more than the law; it requires we observe the one who did keep it justly.
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What does God command us but to believe, to have faith — not in our works but in his work, his grace toward us. We recoil at the thought.
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When one is made righteous through faith in the Righteous Man, all his deeds are deemed good. Righteousness does not come from deeds but righteous deeds do rightly follow faith.
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I must daily divest myself of the law’s baggage, relying upon God’s grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. There is life in him alone.
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Now we are free to offer good works, not as things worthy of forgiveness and salvation, but done precisely because we are forgiven and saved.
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The law is not meant to merely obligate and accuse and condemn me but to send me running back into the arms of grace.
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Make this — faith in Christ alone — be your first and chief article of belief, and you will know the peace of Christ that surpasses all understanding.
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We are God’s workmanship, not our own. Works are not the cause of our faith and salvation; they — and all the gifts of Christ — are the result.
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The appointed time is coming and only those who live with faith in God’s Christ will be justified and be given eternal life.
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You are accursed if you are more confident in your lack of direction than the clear directions of one who knows how to get there.
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God is not favorable toward smart, religious, or moral people. Be careful that your righteousness springs from faith instead of from morality or religion or learning.
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If Gideon had conquered the Midianites without faith, by mere military strategy and prowess, we might never have heard of a Gideon.
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Faith acts. You can tell who the real Christians are by the things they do and say, and if you are really astute, you might tell because of the things they think.
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If church leaders are so interested in people doing good works, they should stop pressing on works, and pray about the faith of their people.
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Peter writes that faith comes first, not love or works, but that love and other works should follow faith, furnishing faith as proper Christians are called to do.
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People of faith do not strut and crow at God when they are corrected. They understand that their Father is gracious and they repent of their wrong.
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The offering of faith, though it be a small, tarnished coin, is accepted while gold and silver given by the merely religious person is an unacceptable sacrifice.
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Lest you think David is merely overconfident because he has been triumphant before over lion and bear, he does not credit his confidence with himself.
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This is how faith works. It does not rely upon reason or a man’s strength and size. Faith relies upon God alone — and acts.
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True faith in Jesus Christ brings forgiveness and eternal life, and with these, the infilling of the Holy Spirit. And God's Spirit will not inhabit us idly.
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Here is a test of our trust in God’s ability to save us utterly. There are those who say God cannot and will not save us unless we are involved in our salvation.
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We add nothing to his redemptive, sanctifying work. Through baptism, God alone clothes us with the garments of salvation, with the covering of Christ.
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We are not even interested in keeping the law, even if we could do so. We are a stiff-necked people, bent on moving away from God and his law.
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Though Moses’ regulation was to keep the law, no one keeps it perfectly but Christ through whom we are counted holy and righteousness through faith alone.
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There has been a double imputation: our sins are removed and imputed to Christ. They are nailed them to the cross, and we are given his righteousness.
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We know that we do the law imperfectly. But do we keep at it? Do we keep keeping the commandment, loving God and neighbor however imperfectly?
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If one holds that any other work than the cross of Jesus Christ and faith in him accounts for forgiveness of sins and eternal life, that person is Antichrist.
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There have been many Antichrists, and still more will follow. Anywhere anything other than Christ Jesus is required for salvation, there is the Antichrist at work.
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The so-called treasury of merit teaches that, if our own good works are deficient for salvation, the good works or merit of others may be applied to our accounts.
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We may not say it or admit it, perhaps because we do not see it, but we are in effect, claiming to be god when we take on the task of being Christ and savior.
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Those who rely on works-righteousness for forgiveness and salvation count themselves among those antichrists who claim, “I am the Christ.”
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Our loving Father has already promised to be for us, not against us. When we try to bargain with him or make deals, we are calling him a liar.
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