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Luther’s life was one of tempest and calm. Empire and church were out to murder him, but in the mercies of Yahuwah, he married a wonderful lady who had left the nunnery. He tried to marry her off, but she said, “I will marry no one but Dr Luther,” and she did.
Because of his wife, his home life was very calm. However, his life apart from home was very stormy. He died prematurely.
The Book of Romans is like Luther's life. It is a rainbow with both dark, sombre colours and bright, cheerful colours. The rainbow, after all, is a combination of rain and the sun.
The book of Romans is about the storm of Yahuwah’s wrath against evil. God loves the sinner, but he hates the sin. And then the sun shines through –
“This man,” the Son, “receiveth sinners.” “He has gone to be a guest with him who is a sinner.”… Woman, has no man condemned you?” “No man, Lord.” “Neither do I condemn thee.” And he said to the penitent thief, who was as far gone as anyone could be, “You are going to be in paradise with me.”
Luther learned from the book of Romans that Yahuwah is a God who justifies the ungodly. We would not have expected it to read like that… We are stunned and say, “Yahuwah, you should only justify the godly! What are you up to?” But this book says in the 4th chapter, 5th verse, that our God justifies the ungodly.
Could I mention something you may not have thought about? Very few preachers preach on Ananias and Sapphira. Here are two church members, who are in good and regular standing, and who are struck dead! Why?
Not because they retained some of the money from the sale of the property, not at all! Peter said to them, “That was in your hands.” They were struck dead because they misrepresented their spiritual condition before Yahuwah. They came into his presence as though they were holy and sinless, and Yahuwah struck them dead.
You know, mercy and misery go together. It is a sad rule in our world that it is chiefly when misery has emptied our hands of “things” that we can receive the grace of Yahuwah. Mercy and misery go together, and this is why the first three chapters of Romans are dark and sombre –a series of thunderclaps –
“All have sinned, all come short of the glory of Yahuwah. There is none that doeth good; there is none that seeketh after Yahuwah, they have all turned out of the way. And whatever the law says, it says to them that are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world will become subject to the judgment of Yahuwah.”
That is stormy! Fancy, to be told that to fall short of the glory of Yahuwah is to be under condemnation.
This is a non-WLC article by Dr. Desmond Ford.
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