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    The Language of Grace: Learning to Hear the Gospel Well
    The Language of Grace: Learning to Hear the Gospel Well
    The Language of Grace: Learning to Hear the Gospel Well
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    The Language of Grace: Learning to Hear the Gospel Well

    By Joshua Nickel

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    A collection of articles examining the biblical distinction between law and grace and some of the illustrations used by Martin Luther to make this distinction practical and clear to his students.

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    PublisherJoshua Nickel
    Release dateJun 12, 2014
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      The Language of Grace - Joshua Nickel

      The Language of Grace

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      The Language of Grace

      Copyright 2014 Joshua Nickel

      website: joshuanickel.com

      email: joshuamarknickel@gmail

      All rights reserved.

      Smashwords Edition

      All scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Part One: Law and Grace

      Learning the Language of Grace

      The Law Says, If You... Grace Says. Because Jesus...

      How the Gospel Gets Translated into Law

      Grace Will Test Your Faith in Good Works

      Grace Is Hard Work Because Grace Works Hard

      The Way of Cain

      Part Two: Martin Luther's Metaphors

      Trembling at the Sound of a Leaf

      The Law Brings Us out of Our Tents

      Fall on the Earth like Rain

      The Law as an Empty Tomb

      Moses on the Mountaintop Had No Law

      On the Limits of Analogy

      Further Reading

      Introduction

      The same grace of God in Jesus Christ that gives you eternal life also makes your present life more abundant. The grace of God makes problems easier to solve, trials easier to bear, and people easier to love.

      Although the riches of God's grace are unsearchable and its depths unfathomable, there are simple things that you can do to make sure that you are experiencing grace in a practical and effective way.

      You need to hear God speak His grace to you through the gospel every day. Proverbs 2:2 tells us to make our ears attentive to wisdom and to incline our hearts to understanding.

      You can train the ears of your heart to hear the language of grace. But to do so, you also need to hear the language of the law. You need to be bilingual, hearing both languages and keeping them distinct from one another in your heart.

      In the following articles, we are going to look at how to do that.

      I don’t want to reach the end of my life and discover that I could have lived in much more of the grace of God than I ever did. I am learning to hear the gospel well and I invite you to join me.

      Part One: Law and Grace

      Learning the Language of Grace

      Grace Not Only Saves Us, It Also Teaches Us How to Live

      The grace of God teaches us. The apostle Paul summarized its lesson in Titus 2:11-13. According to that summary, however, grace teaches us something that the law also taught. So why do we need two teachers?

      Here is Titus 2:11-13: "For the grace of God that brings salvation has

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