Because the Son speaks so sweetly and lovingly to us, it is impossible that the Father should be angry with us. Only believe this firmly and surely. For if the Son is for us, who sits at the right hand of God and represents us, who can be against us?
You are now clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
Both, our life and our work, are unclean because of our person, as long as we live. But if God's word, which is pure, yes, purity itself, which cleanses and sanctifies everything, remains in us, the same makes that not only the remaining sin that clings to us is not imputed to us for Christ's sake, but that we are also considered and are pure before God. Therefore St. Paul also says Titus 1:15: "To the pure," that is, to those who have and love God's word and live according to it, "all things are pure. But to the unclean and unbelieving nothing is pure."
V. 5. I am the vine, you are the branches 2c.
From this it follows that all that is done apart from Christ is in vain and lost. For they cannot be branches in Christ, but are thorn hedges that belong to the hellish fire.
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you will ask whatever you want, and it will be done to you.
This is and is called a great glory and freedom, that we may pray to God confidently and boldly, and all things shall surely come to pass.
1) This year is only in Walch.
hear him, where we also hear him and his word beforehand, and stay with it.
And it is indeed a beautiful change: If you hear me, I hear you. But if you do not hear me, I do not hear you again. One thing after another, as you wish.
How wretched then are the enemies or despisers of the word of God, who have no God; and though they pray much, yet he heareth not, Ps. 18:42: "They call, but there is no helper; to the Lord, but he heareth not."