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Tuesday of the Third Week after the Epiphany
Today’s Reading: Romans 1:8-17
Daily Lectionary: Zechariah 8:1-23; 2 Timothy 1:1-18
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” (Romans 1:16-17)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Sometimes the English language just doesn’t cut it. Most translations say the Gospel is the “power” of God for salvation. It’s not a bad translation. We know what that means. The Gospel is the power that gives salvation to us. But the Greek is so much better. The word is dunamis, the same word from which we get dynamite!
What a great word for Epiphany. The Gospel is God’s dynamite! An explosion of light and salvation. That’s what Epiphany is all about: Jesus revealing the Gospel. Jesus revealing that He is the promised Savior of the Old Testament. Jesus revealing that His Word is the dynamite, flash-bang grenade of God’s grace. Boom! Your sins are forgiven. Flash! Bang! The darkness of your sin is swallowed up in the Light of Christ’s death and resurrection.
Where we deserved to be blasted away by God’s wrath, Jesus took our sin and death on Mt. Calvary. Where we deserved the darkness of the grave for our sin, Jesus reveals the light of His resurrection for us and an endless day in the new creation. Where we deserved to die in unrighteousness, Jesus gives and reveals His righteousness for us in the Gospel.
This is the same righteousness that comes to you by the power (dynamis) of the Gospel in the Sacraments. So Baptism is the power of God to save you. Absolution is the power of God to announce, “Your sins are forgiven!” The Lord’s Supper is the power of God to deliver salvation right into your mouth. By the Gospel in action in Word, water, Body and Blood you are righteous. And the righteous live by faith. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
It is the pow’r of God to save From sin and Satan and the grave; It works the faith which firmly clings To all the treasures which it brings (The Gospel Shows the Father’s Grace, LSB 580:4)
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By Higher Things®Today’s Reading: Romans 1:8-17
Daily Lectionary: Zechariah 8:1-23; 2 Timothy 1:1-18
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” (Romans 1:16-17)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Sometimes the English language just doesn’t cut it. Most translations say the Gospel is the “power” of God for salvation. It’s not a bad translation. We know what that means. The Gospel is the power that gives salvation to us. But the Greek is so much better. The word is dunamis, the same word from which we get dynamite!
What a great word for Epiphany. The Gospel is God’s dynamite! An explosion of light and salvation. That’s what Epiphany is all about: Jesus revealing the Gospel. Jesus revealing that He is the promised Savior of the Old Testament. Jesus revealing that His Word is the dynamite, flash-bang grenade of God’s grace. Boom! Your sins are forgiven. Flash! Bang! The darkness of your sin is swallowed up in the Light of Christ’s death and resurrection.
Where we deserved to be blasted away by God’s wrath, Jesus took our sin and death on Mt. Calvary. Where we deserved the darkness of the grave for our sin, Jesus reveals the light of His resurrection for us and an endless day in the new creation. Where we deserved to die in unrighteousness, Jesus gives and reveals His righteousness for us in the Gospel.
This is the same righteousness that comes to you by the power (dynamis) of the Gospel in the Sacraments. So Baptism is the power of God to save you. Absolution is the power of God to announce, “Your sins are forgiven!” The Lord’s Supper is the power of God to deliver salvation right into your mouth. By the Gospel in action in Word, water, Body and Blood you are righteous. And the righteous live by faith. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
It is the pow’r of God to save From sin and Satan and the grave; It works the faith which firmly clings To all the treasures which it brings (The Gospel Shows the Father’s Grace, LSB 580:4)