Lutheran Layman Tom Fisher - On Holy Communion

 

Dear Pastor Jackson,

Tomorrow is Maundy Thursday, the day Christ ate the Passover and instituted Holy Communion as his last will and testament for us sinners. Martin Luther said, "So in this matter, you must above else take heed to your heart, that you believe the words of Christ, and admit their truth, when He says to you and to all, 'This is my blood, a new testament, by which I bequeath to you forgiveness of all sins and eternal life.'" (Martin Luther, LW, Vol 35, pg. 88)  I believe this with all my heart. 

That little word 'testament' is most precious for me.  Martin Luther said, "That little word 'testament' is a short summary of all God's wonder and grace fulfilled for us in Christ." (Martin Luther, LW, Vol. 35, pg. 84)

Now imagine you are in the African bush at night listening to the haunting yells of hyenas on a kill. LCMS, WELS, ELCA are just like the African bush at night. Many of their pastors are hyenas of hell seeking to change Christ's Last Will and Testament into a Calvinistic covenant. 

To my knowledge LCMS is the only synod that retains the word 'testament' in the liturgy for the Lord's Supper. An extremely mangy and noisy hyena of hell at Ft. Wayne seminary works relentlessly to get rid of that little word 'testament' in Holy Communion. He and others have created so much doubt and uncertainty in the word of God in Holy Communion. 

Martin Chemnitz, the second Luther, has sharp words of rebuke for all you mangy hyenas of hell throughout LCMS, WELS, ELCA.  Martin Chemnitz says, "For since Christ instituted His supper in the form of a testament, it is also not allowed at another time to distort even a man's covenant, if it is confirmed, by adding or subtracting. How much greater sin it is therefore, to change or mutilate the testament of the Son of God." (Martin Chemnitz, Ministry, Word, and Sacrament; CPH, 1981, pg. 122) 

God's Word must be taken as a whole. Creating doubt in one part destroys a true understanding of any of God's Word. For example Holy Communion ties into Hebrews 9:15-17 "And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth." So Christ puts his last will and testament into force for us by His death. 

Hyenas of hell in LCMS, WELS ,ELCA are vile popes exalting themselves above Luther, Chemnitz and Christ himself.  Professor Nils Dahl, PhD, will have none of this nonsense when he asserted, " The text! The text! We have the text!" (See pg. 189, King James Version, Gregory L Jackson, PhD, ISBN 9798429093451). Yes we have the text: King James Bible, Luther's Bible and their foundation the TEXTUS RECEPTUS. Do you really want to speak a word against the Holy Ghost who has chosen these Bibles for the reformation and especially now? Remember God the Holy Ghost REJECTED Vaticanus and all corrupt translations from it during the reformation. 

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GJ - Tom's post, above, reminded me that the Chicago Interfaith Trolley is rolling today. People will visit various religions, and ELCA's seminary in Chicago - soon to move to a Catholic campus - is sponsoring and promoting it.

The apostate Lutherans love every religion but their own, every denomination but their own. WELS is especially affectionate toward the Calvinists while the LCMS loves Rome and the Calvinists. Their only dislikes are the KJV, the Apostolic Text (Textus Receptus), and Luther.

Lutheranlibrary.org - without paid ads - consistently dominates the CPH on Google. CPH has become a vanity press operation for faculty seeking tenure and positions on the Roman/Calvinist doctrinal review board.