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"Blessed Assurances' Pastor William Flippin Jr.(Sermon/Interview)

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Channel: BrothaRollins · 2011 · People & Blogs

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Pastor William Flippin Jr.
St. Matthew Lutheran Church
Columbus, Georgia

In the bleak realities of life today, there are found blessed assurances of the Trinity as found in the Father (Mother), Son, and Holy Spirit. From these divine persons there is good news! Amidst humanity's sin, God has provided a solution to our problem. The solution is God's Son, Jesus Christ. Through the sonship of Christ and his redeeming work, the apostle Paul draws out assurances of a new life. The first benefit of our salvation is "Peace with God." In chapter 5:1, Paul writes, "Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Paul writes with conviction that we have been "justified by faith." God has declared us righteous.

Justification is a pardon from the death penalty. It's like sitting in the electric chair and having the phone ring five seconds before the switch is to be thrown. The message comes over the phone that you have been pardoned; you are free to walk out of prison. That would be something to celebrate!!! If that happened to you, you wouldn't just yawn and say, "That's nice." Not when you were in the electric chair! We ought to be celebrating the fact that we have been justified because of Christ's death. The word "peace" refers not so much to an inward peace, but a relationship characterized by God's peace toward the sinner. A Divine peace that David felt and allowed him to walk through the valley of the shadow of death yet fearing no evil. Peace (I tell you) will allow you to be like Elijah and stay by the "Brook of Cherith" until God tells you, "It's time to move on." There is nothing like Divine peace and assurance. On this Trinity Sunday, and as Lutherans understand it, the Trinity speaks of that peace which is found in the persons of Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier.

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