A Christian Is Never In A State

Exhort Your Household To Learn [the Ten Commandments] Word For Word, That They Should Obey God…for If You Teach And Urge Your Families Things Will Go Forward.

Spare The Rod And Spoil The Child - That Is True. But, Beside The Rod, Keep An Apple To Give Him When He Has Done Well.

In Romans 7, St. Paul Says, "the Law Is Spiritual." What Does That Mean? If The Law Were Physical, Then It Could Be Satisfied By Works, But Since It Is Spiritual, No One Can Satisfy It Unless Everything He Does Springs From The Depths Of The Heart. But No One Can Give Such A Heart Except The Spirit Of God, Who Makes The Person Be Like The Law, So That He Actually Conceives A Heartfelt Longing For The Law And Henceforward Does Everything, Not Through Fear Or Coercion, But From A Free Heart.

For They Who Think They Make An End Of Temptation By Yeilding To It, Only Set Themselves On Fire The More.

Unless I Am Convicted By Scripture And Plain Reason-i Do Not Accept The Authority Of Popes And Councils, For They Have Contradicted Each Other-my Conscience Is Captive To The Word Of God. I Cannot And Will Not Recant Anything, For To Go Against Conscience Is Neither Right Nor Safe. Here I Stand, I Cannot Do Otherwise. God Help Me. Amen.