Today’s devotion is based on 2 Peter 1:2-11

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Thanks be to God that even though we might not be able to be in church today, He still gives us His Word.

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Around the Word Devotions for 3.20.20

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O Lord, save us from this outbreak of disease. Grant us to remember your Son, our Savior Jesus, who sits at your right hand with all things under his power. Safeguard our faith by your Holy Spirit and grant us joy in your abundant blessings which you have not withheld form us. Do not take your Word and Spirit from us, we beg. As we are strengthened by your mercy, teach us also to remember the needs of our neighbors and to pray for them. Hear us for the sake of the sufferings and death of your beloved Son who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

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As rumors of the COVID-19 virus continues to spread, the anxiety gripping the hearts of our neighbors can threaten to overcome our own. Rather than submitting ourselves to extreme measures for the sake of emergency, we should examine our hearts, be instructed by God’s Word, and fulfill our obligations to one another in love.

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When you come to Bible Study, you’ll learn about where the books come from, who wrote them, and how they fit into Jesus’ story. You’ll learn about the two chief teachings of Law and Gospel and how to distinguish them. You’ll learn about how the Bible’s history is the world’s history. You’ll discover that amid the rise and fall of civilizations, God remained faithful to his people by giving them his Word. You’ll learn about how real people were saved by God’s grace through faith. Their lives are examples for us. Hearing about their faithfulness strengthens our own faith. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin, which clings so closely, and run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1). And again St. Paul writes, “Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of ages has come” (1 Corinthians 10:11).

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In hearing about these great mysteries of redemption, the Holy Spirit has caused us to lift up the eyes of faith to our merciful Lord Jesus in heaven. No sin, death, or devil can stand between us and his saving works. Nothing can prevent his conception, birth, temptation, agony, cross, burial, and resurrection from helping us. For these reasons we cry out in the certain trust that our God hears and will answer

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If we look at ourselves, faith is always failing. Sin is always quenching the faintest glimmers of true Christian love and good works. Which is why it’s so important that you see what John does in his weakness. He doesn’t brood. He doesn’t draw inward and sulk. The object of his preaching hasn’t ever been the strength of human souls. The object of his faith has never been in himself. John the Baptist turns toward Christ, the Lord whom he preached. He turns his heart towards the Lord whom he announced with joy from his mother’s womb.

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The church is founded on the Man who never changes. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). Though the world changes and continues its long decline towards death, our Lord’s love continues to lift sinners to life through his unchanging Word. And for that reason we have hope.

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What is the Reformation and what does it have to do with Christians? The Reformation of the Lord’s church isn’t merely a commemoration of Luther’s opposition to Papal injustice on October the 31st, 1517. Nor is it a day to celebrate the history of Lutheran identity and tradition.

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The difference between the law that kills and the freedom of the Spirit’s fruits is faith. Only the Christian can safely handle the law. Only the Christian can bear the fruits of the Spirit. The most virtuous pagan can’t. He doesn’t know the justification of the sinner by faith. He hasn’t abandoned the self-righteousness of the law. But you have faith, the Holy Spirit, and Christ dwelling in your heart.

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St. Paul says that we do not grieve “as others do who have no hope” (1 Thessalonians 4:13). Our Lord lives. Death and grave, our old enemies that used to devour everything, have been put under his feet (1 Corinthians 15:25). The nature of our hope and what we can say about our Christian friends and family who have died in the faith is the subject of this brief article. There are three passages that I want you to know and with which I want you to become familiar. Knowing them will help you think and speak about death as a Christian. You won’t have to utter the same empty platitudes about “going to a better place.” You’ll be able to speak an articulate hope founded on the Scriptures and made real by Jesus’ victory over the grave.

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The Lutherans make a key distinction to help us understand the difference between legalistic worship and God’s gospel worship; sacramental and sacrificial. The gracious actions from God to men are “sacramental.” The thanksgiving and praise that come as result of having been blessed are “sacrifice.” We give these praises to God. That is to say, the only sacrifices we make in the divine service are in response to God’s works and blessings. We never sacrifice to earn anything. That is called “propitiatory sacrifice.” There is only one such sacrifice that has been made that God found wholly pleasing and acceptable payment for grace, his Son’s blood. God offers up his Son to obtain his kindness for sinful men.

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Inspired – The Scriptures are God-breathed throughout. 2 Sam. 23:1ff - “The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel: “The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me; his Word is on my tongue…””

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