Category: HT Video Shorts

When we actually believe what God says about us, that we are one for whom Christ died, who has been forgiven, who has eternal life, an heir of the Kingdom of Heaven…we don’t need to call attention to ourselves, try to get the best seat, one-up someone else. We can be comfortable in who we are (or Whose we are) to let someone else be first, get the limelight, and take the seat of honor.

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How do you convince someone who doesn’t think they’re a sinner that they really are a sinner? Why would you even bother? Today’s Fun Word Friday answers a question submitted by a youth viewer.

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Teenagers are smart! They are learning really hard things in school (that most adults have long since forgotten) and navigating social issues we can barely comprehend. We shouldn’t treat — or teach — them like little children. We should challenge them with clear theology, strong Law, and pure Gospel. We need to teach them what they won’t hear anywhere else in the world: Christ has been crucified for the forgiveness of your sins.

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God sent Jonah to Nineveh to preach repentance to the people. Jonah didn’t just want to go there, he didn’t want those sinners to be saved. And when the people of Nineveh repented for their sins, Jonah was actually angry about it. We have a God who not only forgives sins, but who forgives dirty, rotten, undeserving sinners who are probably just going to go and sin more anyway.

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Jesus with the Widow at Nain shows us what kind of God we have: God has compassion and saves us before we even ask! God isn’t God to help you improve your behavior or be a better person. He takes on your flesh, dies for you, and speaks life into your sin-dead body, just as Jesus does with the widow’s dead son in yesterday’s Gospel reading…and just as your pastor does when he preaches the Gospel in the stead and by the command of Christ.

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You who say you love the Law and think it should be preached more, have you actually *heard* the Law? When the Law applies to other people more than yourself, is used to hem in the Gospel, or obsess about a personal improvement…that’s not actually God’s Law. Only when the pure law is preached with all its severity — when it kills — can the Gospel make you truly alive.

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Worrying has become a way that we show that we care about something. But God has clearly told us NOT to worry. If God’s taken care of the animals, how much more is He going to take care of you? How do you know? The suffering and death of Jesus. Nothing in the universe happens apart from God’s love for you in Christ crucified for you.

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Children don’t die because, “God needed another angel.” Angels and people are two different things. Because of what Christ did for you, you are actually *greater* than the angels. To become an angel after death would be to become something that’s less than what you already are. God sent His Son to take on human flesh. You are one for whom Christ died.

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