Hi, this is Justin. Today on Theocast, we are going to have a conversation about the distinction

between the law and the gospel. And I recently was sitting with a group of pastors, and we were all

talking together about how coming to this understanding about the law and the gospel has been as

important as anything that we have ever come to understand

biblically and theologically for our lives just as husbands as dads and certainly as pastors we were talking about how

martin luther said that anyone who can rightly distinguish between the law and the gospel is a doctor

of theology and how charlesurgeon said effectively the same thing. Anybody who can distinguish between

these two things is a master of divinity. So this is a really important thing for Christians to

come to see in the scriptures. It is quite literally a life-changing thing.

And so this conversation today, we hope, will help you come to a better and more clear understanding of the distinction between the law and the gospel.

Stay tuned.

Prayer. Before I say anything else, some of you either intrigued about what I'm going to say or you already feel ashamed, knowing that what I'm about

to say is probably going to guilt you and shame you into praying more. The exact opposite.

I would like to do a class for the Theocast community where at the end of the class, you have the

joy of Christ in your heart, which is causing you to see prayer in a whole new light versus prayer being something

you wake up every day, realizing I'm a failure. This is why all this happens in my life. My life is a

disaster because I don't know how to pray. The exact opposite. God gave prayer as a means of grace,

of hope and joy. I'm going to do a live class where I'm going to teach you through

the basics of how the gospel fuels our prayer. It really liberates us to pray. It causes us to run into

his presence looking for mercy and grace. Most of us run into the presence of God,

offering him a way to earn back his favor. His favor does not remove.

It's always the same. So how does that work? Well, that's what this class is going to be about.

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