Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Intrepid Lutherans - Pastor Paul Rydecki Suspended...":
Martin Luther talked about these last days and the persecution of Christ's Church by those who war against the Triune God in his excellent Commentary on Galatians.
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.
15. ...You see how they make faith of no value to themselves, and so must regard as heresy all doctrine based upon it. Thus they do away with the whole Gospel. These are they who deny the Christian faith and exterminate it from the world. Paul prophesied concerning them when he said (1 Tim 4, 1): "In later times some shall fall away from the faith." The voice of faith is now silenced all over the world. Indeed, faith is condemned and banished as the worst heresy, and all who teach and endorse it are condemned with it. The Pope, the bishops, charitable institutions, cloisters, high schools, unanimously opposed it for nearly four hundred years, and simply drove the world violently into hell. Their conduct is the real persecution by Antichrist, in the last times. 22. Now, the Cain-like saints have not, as they themselves confess, the Christian faith which would assure them of being the children of God.
http://www.trinitylutheranms.org/MartinLuther/MLSermons/Galatians4_1_7.html
DP Pastor Jon Buchholz and those who teach, promote and defend the false gospel of Objective Justification while anathematizing one Justification solely By Faith Alone are spoken of in Matthew 24:
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Isa 19:2 Mark 13:8 Luke 21:10
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
May the everlasting grace, peace and mercy of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ strengthen and preserve Pastor Rydecki and his family and the individuals who by God's will risk their lives for Christ's chief and central doctrine.
In Christ,
Brett Meyer
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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Walther Is the Template for SynCons: Pietist, Enab...":
God's Word brings the cross, but also comfort. The comfort makes the cross more bearable. The Lutheran Hymnal has many fine hymns in that section. Luther was willing to face death rather than recant JBFA. Being a politician means that you are willing to trust in your own conniving and backstabbing to get ahead. It may also mean that your heart has been hardened to the point where you have no conscience.
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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Intrepid Lutherans - Pastor Paul Rydecki Suspended...":
Pastor Paul Rydecki has behaved and presented himself admirably. He has spoken with Scriptural clarity.
On the other hand, his betrayer is the confused. Those who confuse the grace of God upon the sinner and God the Holy Spirit’s activity of bringing the sinner to saving faith, would, and do eliminate the Holy Spirit, personal faith and belief. That, confusion DP Buchholz illustrates in his sweeping edict action against one of [now former] WELS most gifted pastors. Shame on Buchholz! He and other head cheese ecclesiastical higher-ups are the WELS blind leaders who molest Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, Sola Christus and Sola Scriptura!
It is very clear that certain WELS leaders are digging their own graves of unbelief. Those in this leadership, along with DP Buchholz, have acted foolishly against Pastor Rydecki. They are not worthy to be called Lutheran Christians. They have demonstrated by this one cowardly action that they deny the central teaching of Scripture and have eschewed the Lutheran Confessions. Luther would have nothing but invectives for them.
Ichabod:
Can't you secure another pic of Buchholz? You should replace that pic with one which shows him side by side with Judas Iscariot.
Pastor emeritus Nathan M. Bickel
Bay City, Michigan
Bethel Lutheran – WELS – and, ashamed of it……
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
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raklatt (http://raklatt.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Intrepid Lutherans - Pastor Paul Rydecki Suspended...":
WELS Officialdom has now lost all credibility. It is clear publicly that WELS does not teach the Gospel and therefore is neither Evangelical nor Lutheran. Laymen who realize that, arise. Support the faithful pastors. Where there is false teaching it is time to return to Lutheran Doctrine. Make it happen. And vote NO for the new NIV.
