They are not conditions to be met before God is their
God but rather because He is their God. They will live as His children
according to these absolute laws. The laws were written on two tablets of stone
by the finger of God indicating that the laws come from God and not from social
development. The two tablets refer to the division of the laws as they relate
to God and to people.
What then, if
a homicide seek refuge with a Christian, or if he see where the homicide have
taken refuge, and be questioned of this matter by him who seeks, in order to
bring to punishment a man, the slayer of man? Is he to tell a lie? For how does
he not hide a sin by lying, when he for whom he lies has been guilty of a
heinous sin? Or is it because he is not questioned concerning his sin, but
about the place where he is concealed? So then to lie in order to hide a
person's sin is evil; St.
Augustine—On Lying
Collect for
the Third Sunday in Lent—O
God, whose glory it is always to have mercy, be gracious to all who have gone
astray from Your ways and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast
faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of Your Word; through
Jesus Christ, Your Son, on Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy
Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen[1]
03 March 2021
[1] Collect for the Third Sunday in Lent © 2006 Lutheran Service Book, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis
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