20 March By the Law I have died to the Law, so that I live for God. Galatians 2:19.  The Scriptures give our Lord Christ so many lovely names, calling Him our law, sin, death, even though He Himself is nothing other than freedom, righteousness, eternal life and salvation. However that is why He became a law against the Law, […]

19 March If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. 2 Corinthians 5:17. I have frequently said that one must with diligence distinguish between a pious person and a Christian. We do of course also laud a person for being pious, and there is nothing praise worthy on earth that is not also a gift of

18 March What was impossible for the Law to do (since it was weakened by the flesh), God did and sent His own Son in the form of sinful flesh and condemned sin in the flesh through sin. Romans 8:3. When I feel that sin is biting me in my conscience, I then lift up my

17 March Truly, truly, I tell you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you. John 16:23. If you don’t want to pray until you know and feel that you are worthy and qualified, you then must never pray, for our prayer must never be based upon our

16 March We know that the Law is spiritual. Romans 7:14. God’s commandment calls not only for outward essence and appearance, rather it grabs into the heart and requires perfect obedience of it. Therefore it also not only requires of a person external change and conduct, but also internal change from the bottom of one’s heart; however

15 March In the days of His flesh He with strong cries and tears offered up prayers and pleas to Him Who could save Him from death, and also was heard because He held God in high esteem. Hebrews 5:7. We should comfort ourselves with such suffering and prayer. For just as He suffered, He also prayed, not only

14 March It is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and discard the intelligence of the intelligent. 1 Corinthians 1:19. If you want to know what is just and unjust before God, the Holy Spirit’s conclusion and judgment is this: Everything that reason judges before God is flesh and blood and is worthless. Everything that is innate

13 March Away with this One (Jesus), and gives us Barabbas free. Luke 23:18. Thus it wanted to go, thus it went and thus it still goes all the time. For that is the world’s custom and way of doing things. For the more noble the treasure and goods are, the more hostile the world and the

12 March He was wounded for our transgressions and crushed for our sins. Isaiah 53:5. Here you see the strict and unchangeable seriousness of God over sin and sinners, in that He also did not want to spare His only, most dearly beloved Son, unless he made the heavy propitiatory atonement for sinners. What will the

11 March Judge for yourselves whether it is right for us to listen more to you than to God. We indeed cannot allow that we should not tell what we have seen and heard. Acts 4:19-20 We probably still could suffer it if in a case of emergency we had to be robbed of our temporal goods,