Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Luther's Sermon on Galatians 4:1-7":
As with the majority of Luther's sermons there is so much doctrinal detail, faithful to Scripture, that it would take weeks or longer to thoroughly study each one.
One quote above is also found in the Lutheran Confessions and completely rejects the primary teaching of the false gospel of UOJ.
Luther:
29. You cannot extricate yourself from unbelief, nor can the Law do it for you. All your works in intended fulfilment of the Law must remain works of the Law and powerless to justify in the sight of God, who regards as just only believing children.
This statement is anathema to UOJ.
The Lutheran Confessions:
15] For since Christ is not man alone, but God and man in one undivided person, He was as little subject to the Law, because He is the Lord of the Law, as He had to suffer and die as far as His person is concerned. For this reason, then, His obedience, not only in suffering and dying, but also in this, that He in our stead was voluntarily made under the Law, and fulfilled it by this obedience, is imputed to us for righteousness, so that, on account of this complete obedience, which He rendered His heavenly Father for us, by doing and suffering, in living and dying, God forgives our sins, regards us as godly and righteous, and eternally saves us. BM-NOTE HERE THAT UOJ WOULD CALL THE BOLDED SECTION OBJECTIVE JUSTIFICATION AND YET THE REGARDING OF MAN AS FORGIVEN AND RIGHTEOUS IS ETERNAL LIFE - THEREFORE OJ IS UNIVERSALISM 16] This righteousness is offered us by the Holy Ghost through the Gospel and in the Sacraments, and is applied, appropriated, and received through faith, whence believers have
reconciliation with God, forgiveness of sins, the grace of God sonship, and heirship of eternal life. BM-NOTE AGAIN THAT ALTHOUGH THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IS IN CHRIST IT IS ONLY DISTRIBUTED TO THOSE WHOM GOD HAS CALLED TO BELIEVE IN CHRIST AND ONLY THEN BY FAITH ARE THEY RECONCILED TO GOD.
http://www.bookofconcord.org/sd-righteousness.php
UOJ is eternally opposed to Christ and His Gospel. UOJ is a new and different gospel which is condemned in Galatians 1.
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Luther's Galatians Sermon Overturns UOJ":
This section from Luther's sermon is also a condemnation of UOJ.
12]... As before said, they regard faith of slight importance; for they do not understand that it is our sole justifier. To accept as true the record of Christ--this they call faith. The devils have the same sort of faith, but it does not make them godly. Such belief is not Christian faith; no, it is rather deception.
UOJ's mantra is that the whole unbelieving world has been forgiven, justified by Christ's atonement and declared righteous - ALL WITHOUT THE HOLY GHOST WORKING THROUGH THE MEANS OF GRACE, WORD AND BAPTISM, TO CREATE FAITH IN CHRIST. This they call Objective Justification. Subjective Justification is that the individual comes to believe that in fact by Christ's atonement, and before they believed, they were already declared forgiven, justified and righteous - ALL THE INDIVIDUAL HAS TO DO IS ACCEPT UOJ'S gospel - THEIR RECORD OF CHRIST. This they call Subjective Justification.
UOJ teaches people to believe as the demons do. Because UOJ teaches that faith doesn't do anything but accept what was already declared to be true. According to the (W)ELS faith is an empty beggars hand simply receiving what was already true. Is this not the same faith that the demons have. Satan and his demons accept the record of Christ and oppose it for eternity.
Therefore there is no limit to the foul and blasphemous statements that spew forth from hardened UOJ enthusiasts. A person only needs to read the public discussions between UOJ and Justification by Faith Alone to see the result of rejecting God's Word in those promoting UOJ. It is always a fruitful and God pleasing endeavor though and we should continue at every opportunity to oppose the false gospel of UOJ for it is the chief error of the false teachers in the Lutheran Synods.
