The Seventh Sunday after Trinity

The homily explains that God’s perfect holiness reveals humanity’s inability to make ourselves righteous through morality or good works. All people have sinned and deserve judgment, but the gospel is that God graciously justifies sinners through faith in Jesus Christ. Through baptism and union with Christ, believers are freed from slavery to sin and called to live as servants of righteousness. Good works do not earn salvation; rather, they are the fruit of the new life God has given us. The Christian life is therefore one of trusting in Christ’s righteousness, growing in holiness through the Holy Spirit, and responding to God’s grace with grateful obedience while looking forward to the day when Christ will complete his work and make us perfectly holy in his presence.