Summary
I say, no, if the Lord ever, ever blesses you with children, to set up these stones, because every time we went on Sunday, every time they didn't verbalize it, but what they were doing was they were pointing to the stones and saying, there's a reason why we're here, because God calls us and gathers us as His people, because He's got something to give us, word and sacrament. The Holy Spirit was working through Paul, working through Barnabas, working through Titus, through Timothy, for the good of those that would be stirred by the Holy Spirit to know the truth and to know salvation. The modern church admits that the faith is the foundation of salvation, but oftentimes, and I say the modern church because this is found across all denominations of the Christian church, that added cause that faith can save only when it's furnished with good works. Not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy, see the mercy flowing out of the love again, but according to His mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal, by the Holy Spirit, there's baptism. But because we have experienced the mercy of God Almighty through the Lord Jesus Christ, we are sent out then to be a merciful people to show mercy in a world where mercy can be so absent, and it's off to work we go. It tells us that when one comes to faith, it is by operation of the Holy Spirit, that when one comes to faith, the Holy Spirit in dwells in that person, where there's faith, there's the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
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