The Scriptures press us to humble ourselves under God’s glory, to boast in God’s glory, to eat and drink for God’s glory. We’re told to work toward God’s glory and to speak for God’s glory. We can’t really escape it. Everything is about God and his glory.
Jesus Christ needs to remain at the center of our faith, because it’s all too easy for us to come up with a distorted version of Christianity that fixates on something else.
Grace, grace, and more grace – sola gratia – grace alone. That’s what God’s putting on display here.
The fact that God declares us to be righteous with the unshakeable righteousness of Christ, all through faith – it is an incredible gift.
God’s plan and pattern for setting down a rule of faith for his people rested on sola scriptura – Scripture alone. Whatever interpretations, truths, and traditions God wanted to be binding for his people, he was careful to hand down in the sacred writings.
He gives us his peace by His Spirit, to be displayed in our hearts, and in the Church.
For people who aren’t mindful of God, loving him and trusting him, but who are instead living for fleshly intimacy, for false idols, for furious individualism, and for futile indulgences – people who practice such things will be cut off from the kingdom.