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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Now, could God in cutting-edge missionary situations grant miracles and signs and wonders to accredit the gospel as He did in apostolic times? Yes. But that’s not the same thing as having these gifts as a regular feature in the ongoing life of the church. If the signs and wonders of the apostles have returned, we should see the blind receiving their sight, the lame walking, and the dead being raised. God heals today (sometimes dramatically), but the healing of colds, the flu, TMJ, stomach, and back problems, and so forth aren’t in the same category as the healings found in the Scriptures. If people truly have the gift of healing and miracles today, they need to demonstrate such by performing the kinds of healings and miracles found in the Bible.
Thomas Schreiner

Contrariety of legalism to Christian gospel: 1. Legalism is contrary to the Grace dynamic of God in Jesus Christ. 2. Legalism is contrary to faith, our receptivity of God’s activity; a satanic substitute that supplants faith. 3. Legalism is contrary to the Lordship of Christ, wherein He directs and guides our lives. 4. Legalism is contrary to Christian obedience, which is “listening under” the direction of the living Lord Jesus Christ. 5. Legalism is contrary to the Spirit-led Christian life, wherein the Spirit of Christ enables and empowers. (Eph. 5:18). 6. Legalism is contrary to freedom in Christ, and the liberty that is to be realized in present kingdom living. (John 8:31, 32, 36; 2 Cor. 3:17; Gal. 5:1, 17).
James Fowler

Bible – German Luther Psalm Chapter 60:1-12.

Index: German Luther

 

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60:1 (Ein gülden Kleinod Davids, vorzusingen; von der Rose des Zeugnisses, zu lehren; da er gestritten hatte mit den Syrern zu Mesopotamien und mit den Syrern von Zoba; da Joab umkehrte und schlug der Edomiter im Salztal zwölftausend.) Gott, der du uns verstoßen und zerstreut hast und zornig warst, tröste uns wieder.

60:2 Der du die Erde bewegt und zerrissen hast, heile ihre Brüche, die so zerschellt ist.

60:3 Denn du hast deinem Volk Hartes erzeigt; du hast uns einen Trunk Weins gegeben, daß wir taumelten;

60:4 du hast aber doch ein Panier gegeben denen, die dich fürchten, welches sie aufwarfen und das sie sicher machte. (Sela.)

60:5 Auf daß deine Lieben erledigt werden, hilf mit deiner Rechten und erhöre uns.

60:6 Gott redete in seinem Heiligtum, des bin ich froh, und will teilen Sichem und abmessen das Tal Sukkoth.

60:7 Gilead ist mein, mein ist Manasse, Ephraim ist die Macht meines Hauptes, Juda ist mein Zepter,

60:8 Moab ist mein Waschbecken, meinen Schuh strecke ich über Edom, Philistäa jauchzt mir zu.

60:9 Wer will mich führen in die feste Stadt? Wer geleitet mich bis nach Edom?

60:10 Wirst du es nicht tun, Gott, der du uns verstößest und ziehest nicht aus, Gott, mit unserm Heer?

60:11 Schaffe uns Beistand in der Not; denn Menschenhilfe ist nichts nütze.

60:12 Mit Gott wollen wir Taten tun. Er wird unsre Feinde untertreten.