Excuses for Going Papal - Dress Like the "Early Church?" - Nope

 

 The Very Reverend Bishop James Heiser, Philippines.

 Where are the Almy costumes?

Was the miter (fish hat) hidden in the suitcase?

Here are the Almy costumes. The "Early Church" dressed up like Halloween? The Apostles could not afford it.

The so-called High Church (Society of the Holy Trinity, only Latin STS) gained a foothold with Cardinal Newman, who led the English Episcopal clergy to Rome. Some did not leave but walked the tightrope, sinu-flecting toward Rome, a delightful term for slithering back and forth like a snake.

The Protestant denominations have their papalist factions and glorify the clergy who have left the Reformation in favor of the Jesuit brand. ELCA was out in front, yet behind the rapidly shrinking Episcopalians.

Smells and bells, extolled at the two LCMS seminaries, are literally a smoke screen, to hide their blasphemies and lies behind a cloud of incense.

Hebrews - Daily Verses - "How Shall We Escape, If We Neglect So Great Salvation?"

 

KJV Hebrews 2

1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?

7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

Explanation

If the angels speak the divine truth, how much greater is the proclamation from the Son of God? Verse 2 reminds everyone of the Word (Logos) spoken from the angels. If that Word is glorious, how much greater is the preaching of Christ Himself!

If the angelic declarations at Mt. Sinai were powerful and effective, how much greater are the direct commands from the Messiah? 

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - "If You Are Proud Toward the Sinner And Despise Him, You Are Utterly Damned."

 

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6. This we clearly see in the two sorts of people here presented to us as examples. In the first place, we have the Pharisees and hypocrites who are exceedingly pious people, and were over head and ears in holiness. In the second place, we have the open sinners and publicans, who were over head and ears in sins. These, therefore, were despised by those shining saints, and were not considered worthy of their society. Here, however, Christ intervenes with his judgment and says that those saints are to stoop down and take the sinners upon their shoulders, and are to bear in mind that, with their righteousness and piety, they are help to others out of their sins. But, no! That they will not do. And this is indeed the way it goes.

7. A truly Christian work is it that we descend and get mixed up in the mire of the sinner as deeply as he sticks there himself, taking his sin upon ourselves and floundering out of it with him, not acting otherwise than as if his sin were our own. We should rebuke and deal with him in earnest; yet we are not to despise but sincerely to love him. If you are proud toward the sinner and despise him, you are utterly damned.

8. These, then, are great and good works in which we should exercise ourselves. But no man pays attention to them. Such works have entirely faded away and become extinct. In the meantime, one resorts, in the name of the devil, to Saint James, another proceeds to build a church, a third provides for the saying of masses, — this one does this, the other does that, and no one thinks of praying for the sinner. It is therefore to be feared that the holiest are in the deepest hell, and that the sinners are mostly in heaven.

But it would be a truly Christian work, if you received sinners, if you entered into your closet and there said, in earnest prayer to the Lord: “Oh, my God! of such a person I hear so and so, he lieth in his sins, he hath fallen. Oh, Lord, help him to rise again,” etc. This is just the way in which to receive and serve the sinner.