Sublime

God never requires something of us that He keeps us in the dark about.

our God is a God of detail.

The justified pastor—the man justified by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone to God’s glory alone, who happens to be a pastor—when taken on his good day or bad day, ministry high or ministry low, will be received with gladness and welcome. Clothed in the righteousness of him in whom you trust, how can you be turned away? You will not

When leaders are afraid and don’t trust God, followers won’t either.

Jehovah Tsidkenu, which means “the LORD Our Righteousness.”

Second, it’s about the element of substitution. Something else is covering the debt for your sins.

Luther was an expert in the law of God, and every day he was in terror as he looked in the mirror of the law and examined his life against God’s righteousness. We are not in terror, because we have blocked out the view of God’s righteousness. We judge ourselves on a curve, measuring ourselves against others. We never judge ourselves according to