Summary
So as we walk the walk of discipleship, walk the walk of faith, we are simultaneously saint and sinner, always wrestling with those two natures that make us who we are. deceit is the sin, is the lie that we tell ourselves that tempts us in our pride to think that we are pretty good, that we can do it on our own, that when we stumble, we have the ability to pick ourselves up and be righteous and be good and be right before the Lord. In our baptisms, we were born again by the spirit giving us two natures, simultaneously, saint and sinner, natures the spirit and the flesh. Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, God made man entered into creation, simultaneously with two natures, though not one of them is the nature of a sinner. And it is not the pastor, it is not your brother or your sister who is forgiving you, it is Jesus Christ Himself who comes in that word and says, up you go and sets us upright before the Father saying, He or she is righteous because I have lifted them before you, because I have borne their stumbling. Lifted when we stumble because Christ loves you, Christ has had mercy on you, Christ forgives you and Christ leads you in the walk of discipleship.
Video citations
- "Stumbling" 5-4-25 — If you would please open your Bibles to the first letter of John, this is in the New Testament. If you are using a Pue edition of the Bible, it is on page 211 in the New Testament, where in the…