This much is said: You cannot stand before God my Father with your purity or worthiness, therefore you need a mediator and high priest. Flee therefore unto me, and doubt not that ye have pleased God for my sake.
Joh. 16, 27.
He himself, the Father, loves you, because you love me.
Whoever has been given this grace by God, that He is pleased, delighted, loved and rejoiced that the Son came forth from the Father and came to us in the world, that He redeemed us from the devil's power, sin and eternal death, let him thank God with a joyful heart, and know that this is the joy and pleasure of which the angelic hosts sing about the blessed birth of the Lord Christ, and which we human beings desire with all our hearts.
V. 33. Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
Where is now thy raging, O Satan! Where is your wickedness, O world! Where is your battle, O flesh! Here is victory. This is the day,
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which the LORD has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. If God is for us, who will be against us?
Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
Here it is clear that Christ did everything and suffered for us. For he does not say, "Be of good cheer, for you have overcome the world; but this is your consolation, that I, I have overcome the world. My victory is your salvation, believe it.