Emphasis Preaching Journal
Sermon Illustrations for Easter 2 (2022)
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Acts 5:27-32
On the importance of making the testimony of Justification by Grace, famed 17th-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote:
Then Jesus Christ comes to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves, that it is their passions that cut them off from God, that he has come to destroy these passions, and to give men his grace. (Pensées, p.164)
Martin Luther added more about the benefits of this teaching:
On the importance of making the testimony of Justification by Grace, famed 17th-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote:
Then Jesus Christ comes to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves, that it is their passions that cut them off from God, that he has come to destroy these passions, and to give men his grace. (Pensées, p.164)
Martin Luther added more about the benefits of this teaching:
