By condemning envy, hatred, and anger God tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves, to be patient, You'll always be seeking to reflect the holiness of God that the law points to in the lives of those First, praise God that Jesus has already fulfilled your coventantal obligation to perfectly abide by God's Law. and have the desire to follow through; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year,

Because God’s justice and truth demand it: only the death of God’s Son could pay for our sin. Yet God did neither of these. Jesus is God’s intervention for a fallen humanity. Only the Son of God could pay our debt of sin. AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our covenant God, the creator of all that is who has called ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Matthew 8

all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God Christ is not enough but that something else is needed as well is a most enormous blasphemy against God This is good news because God's people had been looking for salvation for millennia. you from your heavenly Father has been atoned (paid for) by Christ so that you now have peace with God even through the present difficulties; A SK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year

Love is one of God's essential attributes, meaning that when we say that God is love, we don't just mean God will be in how they reflect God's love to those around them. AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: God is love. ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Since God loved us, pray for the strength to love one another. ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Matthew 4

Jesus looks at two extremes when it comes to keeping God's law and says 'Nope.' Trying to make yourself right with God on your own is hopeless. Thank God it's not! because you've been included in Christ, now relate to God's law. alone increases, that so will your desire to live according to God's law; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED:

What does God forbid in the eighth commandment? A. But in God’s sight theft also includes cheating and swindling our neighbor by schemes made to appear Even if the theft is something small and no one around will notice, God does. AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: The LORD our God, who detests all dishonesty; ALIGN YOUR LIFE of others; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - John 3

Summary Isaiah 64 captures both the transcendence and immanence of God. The God of the Bible is both of these extremes all at once. So it is with your actions before God. ; ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Thank God for removing your filthy rags and replacing it with the ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Ephesians 5

God grants you salvation apart from the sacraments, but He commands your participation in them. water of baptism is not changed into Christ’s blood and does not itself wash away sins but is simply God : the Passover commemorated the bloody sacrifice necessary to save God's people which we now celebrate They are not magic pills that somehow convey God's grace upon whoever participates in them. to be in relationship with Him; ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Thank God for His gift of the sacraments

Only that which arises out of true faith, conforms to God’s law, and is done for his glory; and not that Summary Throughout this week, it should be becoming clear that God desires genuine repentance and transformed Knowing God leads to worshiping Him in Spirit and Truth (John 4:23–24). our benefit; ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that not only will you 'honor God with your lips, ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - 1 Corinthians 14

Why do you say that by faith alone you are right with God? A. The weaker our résumé, the more it reveals God’s power! And using weakness, God displays all the more His strength. AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: The God whose power to save is found in Christ crucified; ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Boast in what the Lord has done for you in Christ; ASK GOD FOR WHAT