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Our Preaching Does Not Stop With The Law. That Would Lead To Wounding Without Binding Up, Striking Down And Not Healing, Killing And Not Making Alive, Driving Down To Hell And Not Bringing Back Up, Humbling And Not Exalting. Therefore, We Must Also Preach Grace And The Promise Of Forgiveness - This Is The Means By Which Faith Is Awakened And Properly Taught. Without This Word Of Grace, The Law, Contrition, Penitence, And Everything Else Are Done And Taught In Vain.

-Martin Luther

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Our Preaching Does Not

Martin Luther

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Our Preaching Does Not Stop With The Law. That Would Lead To Wounding Without Binding Up, Striking Down And Not Healing, Killing And Not Making Alive, Driving Down To Hell And Not Bringing Back Up, Humbling And Not Exalting. Therefore, We Must Also Preach Grace And The Promise Of Forgiveness - This Is The Means By Which Faith Is Awakened And Properly Taught. Without This Word Of Grace, The Law, Contrition, Penitence, And Everything Else Are Done And Taught In Vain.

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Man Is Man Because He Is Free To Operate Within A Framework Of His Destiny. He Is Free To Deliberate, To Make Decisions, And To Choose Between Alternatives. He Is Distinguished From Animals By His Freedom To Do Evil Or To Do Good And To Walk The High Road Of Beauty Or Tread The Low Road Of Ugly Degeneracy.

The Offering Of [the Body] Is Called A Spiritual Sacrifice Because It Is Freely Sacrificed Through The Spirit, The Christian Being Uninfluenced By The Constrainst Of The Low Or The Fear Of Hell.

I [i.e., God] Have Given You Baptism As A Gift For The Forgiveness Of Sins, And Preach To You Unceasingly By Word Of Mouth Concerning This Treasure, Sealing It With The Sacrament Of My Body And Blood, So That You Need Never Doubt. True, It Seems Little And Insignificant That By The Washing Of Water, The Word, And The Sacrament This Should All Be Effected. But Don't Let Your Eyes Deceive You.

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You See Then, That Diatribe Truly Possesses A Free Choice In Her Handling Of Scriptures, So That Words Of One And The Same Type Are For Her Obliged To Prove Endeavor In One Place And Freedom In Another, Exactly As She Pleases.

God Foreknows Nothing By Contingency, But That He Foresees, Purposes, And Does All Things According To His Immutable, Eternal, And Infallible Will. By This Thunderbolt, "free-will" Is Thrown Prostrate, And Utterly Dashed To Pieces.

The Works Of The Righteous Would Be Mortal Sins If They Would Not Be Feared As Mortal Sins By The Righteous Themselves Out Of Pious Fear Of God.

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We Are At Fault For Not Slaying The Jews.

Many Have Been Deceived By Outward Appearances And Have Proceeded To Write And Teach About Good Works And How They Justify Without Even Mentioning Faith.... Wearying Themselves With Many Works, They Never Come To Righteousness.

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, A Bulwark Never Failing; Our Helper He, Amid The Flood Of Mortal Ills Prevailing: For Still Our Ancient Foe Doth Seek To Work Us Woe; His Craft And Power Are Great, And, Armed With Cruel Hate, On Earth Is Not His Equal.

No One May Forsake Their Neighbors When They Are In Trouble. Everybody Is Under Obligation To Help And Support Their Neighbors As They Would Themselves Like To Be Helped.

Help And Support

God Is Not A God Of Sadness, Death, Etc., But The Devil Is. Christ Is A God Of Joy, And So The Scriptures Often Say That We Should Rejoice ... A Christian Should And Must Be A Cheerful Person.

Either God Must Be Unjust, Or You, Jews, Wicked And Ungodly. You Have Been, About Fifteen Hundred Years, A Race Rejected Of God.

The Confidence That God Is Mindful Of The Individual Is Of Tremendous Value In Dealing With The Disease Of Fear, For It Gives Us A Sense Of Worth, Of Belonging, And Of At Homeness In The Universe.

Blessed Is He Who Submits To The Will Of God; He Can Never Be Unhappy.

I Have Lived To See The Greatest Plague On Earth -- The Condemning Of God's Word, A Fearful Thing, Surpassing All Other Plagues In The World; For Thereupon Most Surely Follow All Manner Of Punishments, Eternal And Corporal.

Then They Began To Say: 'yes, But How Can We Know What Is God's Word, And What Is Right Or Wrong? We Must Learn This From The Pope And The Councils.' Very Well Then, Let Them Conclude And Say What They Please, Yet I Will Reply, You Cannot Put Your Confidence In That Nor Thus Satisfy Your Conscience, For You Must Determine This Matter Yourself, For Your Very Life Depends Upon It. Therefore God Must Speak To Your Heart: This Is God's Word; Otherwise You Are Undecided.

Come, Let Us Sing A Psalm, And Drive Away The Devil.

Poverty Hath Slain A Thousand, But Riches Have Slain Ten Thousand. They Are Very Uncertain, They Promise That Which They Cannot Perform, Neither Can They Afford A Contented Mind.

Medicine Makes People Ill, Mathematics Make Them Sad And Theology Makes Them Sinful.

Despair Makes Priests And Friars.

Being By His Faith Replaced Afresh In Paradise And Created Anew, He (the Believer)does Not Need Works For His Justification, But That He May Not Be Idle, But That He May Exercise His Own Body And Preserve It. His Works Are To Be Done Freely, With The Sole Object Of Pleasing God.

The Secret Of Contentment Is The Realization That Life Is A Gift, Not A Right. Next To Faith This Is The Highest Art - To Be Content With The Calling In Which God Has Placed You.

There Are Three Conversions Necessary (for The Christian Life): The Conversion Of The Heart, The Mind, And The Purse.

If There Is Anything In Us, It Is Not Our Own; It Is A Gift Of God. But If It Is A Gift Of God, Then It Is Entirely A Debt One Owes To Love, That Is, To The Law Of Christ. And If It Is A Debt Owed To Love, Then I Must Serve Others With It, Not Myself.

I Have So Much To Do That I Shall Spend The First Three Hours In Prayer.

I Am Of A Different Mind Ten Times In The Course Of A Day. But I Resist The Devil, And Often It Is With A Fart That I Chase Him Away. When He Tempts Me With Silly Sins I Say, 'devil, Yesterday I Broke Wind Too. Have You Written It Down On Your List?

A Wicked Tyrant Is Better Than A Wicked War.

Many Demons Are In Woods, In Waters, In Wildernesses, And In Dark Poolly Places Ready To Hurt And Prejudice People; Some Are Also In The Thick Black Clouds, Which Cause Hail, Lightning And Thunder, And Poison The Air, The Pastures And Grounds.

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