“There are laws
enough in the world, more than people can keep. The state, fathers and
mothers, schoolmasters, and law enforcement persons all exist to rule
according to laws. But the Lord Christ says, ‘I have not come to judge,
to bite, to grumble, and to condemn people. The world is too much
condemned. Therefore I will not rule people with laws. I have come that
through my ministry and my death I may give help to all who are lost and
may release and set free those who are overburdened with laws, with
judgments, and with condemnation.‘”
Taken from the great Reformer’s sermon on John 3, WA 47:27:
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