The daily Luther
3rd August
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
John 16 (ii)
Supposing God intends to allow me to fall into sin, may God allow me to fall only into that kind of sin which I can understand and recognise as sin and not into those other kinds of sins that are not regarded to be sins but to be great virtues or even signs of sanctity. There is nothing more annoying to Our Lord God when people defend their sins by claiming to have done no wrong as was the case with Saul.
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