For Luther, this was the theological crux: “Anyone who can properly distinguish the gospel from the law may thank God and know that he is a theologian.”9 Translating this distinction from hermeneutics to homiletics, Luther writes: “This is the sermon which we should daily study.… In it both imprisonment and redemption, sin and forgiveness, wrath and grace, death and life are shown to us.… The first thing about sin and death is taught us by the law, the second about redemption, righteousness and life