# “The merciful One” by Martin Luther

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- Published: 2019-02-22T12:00:55-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“Christ came into the world so that He might take hold of us and so that we, by 
gazing upon Christ, might be drawn and carried directly to the Father.

As we have warned you before, there is no hope that any saving knowledge of God 
can come by speculating about the majesty of God; this can come only by taking hold
of Christ, who, by the will of the Father, has given Himself into death for our 
sins.

When you have grasped this, then all wrath stops, and fear and trembling disappear;
and God appears as nothing but the merciful One who did not spare His own Son but
gave Him up for us all (Rom. 8:32).”

–Martin Luther, [_Luther’s Works, Vol. 26: Lectures on Galatians, 1535, Chapters 1-4_](https://amzn.to/2N15Cs7)(
ed. Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Hilton C. Oswald, and Helmut T. Lehmann; vol. 26; Saint
Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1999), 26: 42.

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## Comments

### By: Rick Robertson

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2019/02/22/the-merciful-one-by-martin-luther/comment-page-1/#comment-19412
- Published: 2019-02-24T20:57:04-06:00

Thanks so much for sharing this! Wonderful!