12 September 2021
Living By the Spirit
Your
brother does not cease to be your brother because he slips or offends you; that
is when he has most need of your love. Loving your neighbor as yourself means
that you should not obey the sinful nature, which, when it is offended, hates
and bites and devours. Rather, you should wrestle against it by the Spirit and
continue loving your neighbor, although you find nothing worthy of love in him.
Our righteousness is much more abundant than our sin, because the holiness and
righteousness of Christ our Mediator far exceeds the sin of the whole world,
and the forgiveness of sins that we have through him is so great that it easily
swallows up all our sins, so long as we live by the Spirit.
Martin Luther
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