Anonymouse has left a new comment on your post "Leave the False Prophets Alone During Holy Week":
It's too bad you don't take such words to heart, especially on a day like today. This isn't the first time someone's told you to repent. I pray that you do before you're called out of this world.
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GJ -
Chief of sinners though I be,
I don't post anonymousely.
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Another Pusillanimouse Post
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"Of course, if no one would falsify God's Word, no conflict would be necessary,..."
"Oh, therefore, let us never listen to those who praise and extol the conflict of the Reformation for the pure Gospel but want to know nothing of a similar conflict in our days. God's command: "Contend for the faith!" applies to all times, also to ours."
"That God's Word testifies to us on all pages, and so also the apostle Jude, who has the surname Thaddeus, writes in our text: "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints."
On the basis of these words permit me today to answer the question:
WHY DARE AND CAN WE NEVER GIVE UP THE CHURCH'S STRUGGLE FOR THE PURE DOCTRINE?
I answer:
Because the Pure Doctrine of our Church is Not Our Possession, but a Treasure Only Entrusted to us for Our Faithful Administration;
Because the Loss of This Treasure Would be Something Much More Terrible than All the Strife and Discord Among Men; and finally,
Because this Conflict is One Commanded by God, and Therefore is Certainly Blessed by God in Time and in Eternity."
"Now tell me yourself: Does love demand that a steward give away some of the property entrusted to him, or that he make a reduction of the debt to the debtors of his lord? or that he can calmly take for himself the treasures of his lord which are given to him to guard and keep? Was it, for example, love when that steward, in order to make him his friend, said to a debtor who owed his lord 100 measures of oil: "Take thy bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty?" (Luke 16:6). Was that not rather unfaithfulness, yes, open deceit and theft? Does not Christ for that reason also call him the "unjust steward?" Would it be love if in order to avoid a battle a general would allow merely a small opening to be made for the enemy in the wall of a fortress given to him to defend? Would not such a general rather be called to account and punished as a traitor? Or is it love to steal their possessions from others in order to do good to the poor? and finally, would it be love if Luther would have immediately become silent about the discovered and known truth?"
"Therefore, that the world might see that love is still in us Lutherans, let us in all earthly things show our love so much the more richly; however, in matters pertaining to God, to the pure doctrine of his Word which "was once delivered unto the saints" let Christ's utterance be our motto and guiding star: "He that loveth father, or mother, and he that loveth son, or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.""
http://www.cfwwalther.com/heck/walther19.htm
A faithful sermon by C.F.W. Walther.
Recommended reading for the Anonymous posters who, in their enthusiasm, intend to smother the world with their pillow of love until, lungs gasping, they choke out the very last bit of Confessional Lutheran doctrine.
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