TheosGuy

A quote from Marin Luther from one of his earliest published works:

God receives none but those who are forsaken, restores health to none but those who are sick, gives sight to none but the blind, and life to none but the dead…He has mercy on none but the wretched and gives grace to none but those who are in disgrace.¹

1. Martin Luther, The Seven Penitential Psalms, 1515, quoted in On the Grace of God (Wheaton: Crossway, 2013), 25.

Tags: Grace, Mercy

A sermon by Martin Luther on Law and Grace.

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The People of Law and of Grace
Sermon for the Sunday after Christmas; Galatians 4:1-7

By Martin Luther

This text is very characteristic of the apostle Paul. It is not generally understood. Not because of any obscurity in itself, but because the doctrine of faith, a doctrine it is very necessary to understand if we are to comprehend Paul, for his energetic and zealous mind is, in all his epistles, occupied with the subject of faith–because, I say, this doctrine is almost obsolete in the world today. A lengthy exposition is necessary to make it plain. To gain space to treat the subject clearly, we will let this suffice for the introduction.

MAN’S JUSTIFICATION.

We must know it is one thing to handle the subject of good works and another that of justification; just as the nature or personality of an individual is one thing and his actions or works another. Justification has reference to the person and not to the works. It is the former, not the latter, which is justified and saved, or is sentenced and punished.

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Tags: Grace, Justification