Analysis of Faith Justifies



By birth, we are Gentile sinners,
Not as any Jew by nature
But Christ has made us all winners,
By becoming a new creature.

We are not justified by deed,
Rather by faith through Jesus Christ;
And in Christ Jesus, we believed,
The reason He was sacrificed.

By works of the Law, we believe,
Nobody will be justified;
But the salvation we receive,
Because He had been crucified.

Seek to be justified in Christ,
We have been found to be sinners;
Let not you ever be enticed,
To become spiritual winners.

If I rebuild what is destroyed,
I make myself a transgressor;
Repeating what had been employed,
Turning into an aggressor.

For I died because of the Law,
So that I might live unto God;
Confessing about any flaw,
And worship to honor and laud.

I have been crucified with Christ,
It is no longer I who live;
Because Jesus Christ has enticed,
Finding mercy as to forgive.

By my faith in the flesh I live,
In Jesus as the Son of God;
Mercy and grace for to forgive,
His Spirit cleans where I am flawed.

I do not nullify His grace,
Because Jesus has a purpose;
For He does righteously embrace,
To guide with the moral compass.

Copyright ©2023 Richard Newton Sherrer


Scheme ABAB XCXC DEDE CACA FBFB GHGI CJCK JHKI LMLM B
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110 11101110 11111110 10100110 1111011 10111101 00110101 0101110 11101101 11110 10010101 0111110 1111001 11111110 11110101 101100010 11011101 1110010 01011101 10011010 11101101 11111101 01001101 01011001 1111011 11110111 01101101 10101101 11100111 01010111 10011101 11011111 1111011 01101010 11110001 11101010 10101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,169
Words 257
Sentences 10
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 37
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 21

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Freedom from the Law Galatians 2:15-21

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Written on April 07, 2023

Submitted by sir_ricky on April 06, 2023

Modified on April 06, 2023

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Richard Newton Sherrer

I was born and raised on a farm in Pennsylvania. It was a small family farm that was handed down through 8 generations of Sherrer men until my father; Newton just could not make a living from it any longer. He thought that I would make a better living away from the farm. So, I decided to join the Air Force in 1969 upon graduating from high school. I gained quite a bit of experience and insight on life while in the service. Even though I was only stationed on the east coast of the US, my Air Force career took me to Germany and Korea. After 20 years wearing of the blue uniform, I decided going in a different direction and found myself becoming very diverse in many different fields. Something still seemed missing to me after being separated from the service for about 10 years. The Air Force was a way of life for me, but really missed life in Korea. I found myself changing careers again. Poetry was an interest of his since my days in high school. With returning to the Lord, I felt motivated to write of my Christian beliefs. I started looking at Bible verses and reflecting on my own personal experiences. The Bible was found to be as true today as to when the various books were written. I could see much of what the Bible is teaching us as valid as every in modern time. It felt only natural to me on using his personal experience based on Bible verses and see much of my own life written in the Scriptures. God inspires me what to write about though. I do not claim to be an expert on God or the Bible. I am just a Christian who has become enlightened to write poetic verses from the Holy Scriptures. more…

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