Tag Archives: righteousness

Herrenhuter readings for Sunday, the 25th August 2013

The LORD comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity. ( Psa 98:9 NIV) “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.”  … Continue reading

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Löhe on 2.Corinthians 3:9

If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness! (2Co 3:9 NIV) The office of the ministry has clarity and grants clarity too. Yet those brethren carrying the yoke of this … Continue reading

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Herrenhuter readings for Friday, the 26th July 2013

Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers righteousness on you. (Hos 10:12 NIV) Put on the new self, … Continue reading

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Löhe on Romans 6,23

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 6:23 NIV) Just as serving sin brought about dying and eternal death so serving righteousness faithfully brings about sanctification … Continue reading

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Lutheran Order of service in isiZulu/seTswana

The Lutheran Order of Service for the 8th Sunday after Trinity is available here in isiZulu and seTswana. Today it comes with a sermon based on God’s word from the gospel of the evangelist St. John in the 9th chapter … Continue reading

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Löhe on Romans 6,22

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. (Rom 6:22 NIV) The apostle St. Paul puts the then and … Continue reading

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Löhe on Romans 6,21

What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! (Rom 6:21 NIV) St. Paul clarifies clearly what is past and what is present. The Christians were slaves of … Continue reading

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Löhe on Romans 6,20

When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. (Rom 6:20 NIV) Nobody what’s to be a servant or slave. Everybody prefers freedom. Yet there is nobody really free and not in servitude. Or who … Continue reading

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Löhe on Romans 6,19

Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. (Rom 6:19 NIV) Let’s consider these words some more. Impurity … Continue reading

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Löhe on Romans 6,19

Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. (Rom 6:19 NIV) In apostolic times the entire population around … Continue reading

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