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Dear Pastor Jackson,
America is NOT a Christian nation!!! WHAT!!! How can you say that??
America
is a 'works righteousness' nation that despises, rejects, and mocks
God's work in Faith, Baptism, Office of the Keys, Holy Communion, and
His exact efficacious Word in the King James Bible, Luther's 1545 Bible,
and the TEXTUS RECEPTUS.
America
is a nation that trusts reasoning instead of the all clear Word of God.
Oh my! The yowling favoring reasoning over God's Word is deafening:
"Baptism
is just water that gives nothing. Faith is NOT God's work. Faith is
your work of making a decision for Christ. You MUST do the work of
accepting Jesus into your heart. Infants must NOT be baptized until they
are old enough to do the work of making a decision for Christ and
accepting Jesus into their hearts. Just say, 'Dear Jesus come into my
heart." You must do the work of dedicating your life to God. You must do
the work of getting closer to God. You MUST follow these awesome steps
and techniques to get closer to God. Close your eyes and work yourself
into an emotional frenzy as you feel the 'spirit' move you with the
squalling 'bust a gut' church music. Lift your hands high in the air to
praise God with your own works , reasoning, and will power. You must do
the work of speaking in tongues. Baptism is just water that gives
nothing. Fasting actually attracts God to come to you. God's Word is NOT
efficacious. It is just empty words that do nothing and give nothing.
The Office of the Keys does NOT forgive sins. It is just an empty
nothing. Holy Communion is just bread and wine that gives nothing. Holy
Communion is NOT Christ's Last Will and Testament bequeathing to us
forgiveness of sins and eternal life. YAAA HOOO!!! Cowboy church sure
sounds fun! I just love being a cowboy that can bring his horse into a
church roping arena where what matters most is center stage: cowboys,
horses, and roping. Just keep the Bible submissive to cowboy squalling,
yipping, and yapping, spitting, and chewing. Oh my!! Cowboys love to
mock God and His Word!
Repent
America!! Turn away from trusting your corrupt darkened reasoning and
will. Your reasoning and will have taken you far far away from God your
Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ His only begotten Son. You cannot come
to God. God must come to you. He comes to you in the gentleness of His
infant child Jesus born of the virgin Mary for you.
"Fear
not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be
to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a
Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye
shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And
suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host
praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will toward men." Luke 2:10-14
Reasoning
takes away the truth that this baby born of the virgin Mary is God and
man in one person. He took all our sins upon Himself, was crucified,
dead, buried, and then rose from the dead and ascended into heaven for
us.
"All
we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own
way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53:6
Darkened
reasoning rejects God's grace and forgiveness in favor of works
righteousness. Reasoning and the will is the way Americans " get closer
to God." Surely there is at least a spark of good in our highest and
most noble powers of our reasoning and will.
I
remember graduating with honors from parochial high school. Everything
went well. I even delivered a good speech in spite of my nervousness. I
was feeling encouraged and happy as I received words of encouragement
from friends and family. Then my heart sank as I saw the sad, gaunt,
tortured face of "Mr. Calvinist" purposefully making his way toward me,
eager for malignant debate. He wasted no time pressing his attack
against me. "So you still don't believe there is any good in man, not
even a spark of good?", he snarled. And so the war began with "Mr. Calvinist"
arrogantly and condescendingly pressing forward with his invincible and
superior reasoning while I deftly countered his lies with the clear
Word of God I knew and believed so well.
Reasoning,
the ultimate power and seat of all wickedness and unbelief, attacks us
poor Christians from within our own hearts as well as externally from
apostate heretics and this evil world. Christ our Lord warns us about
having a wrong understanding of His Words when He said,
"The
light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy
whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole
body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee
be darkness, how great is that darkness!" Matthew 6:22-23
"Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness." Luke 11:35
"While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light." John 12:36
Again,
a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in
you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. He
that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness
even until now." 1 John 2:8,9
In
him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth
in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. John 1:4,5
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light." Ephesians 5:8
Our highest powers of reasoning and will is darkness. They lead us farther and farther away from God.
Scripture describes our reasoning and will as deceitful and desperately wicked in Jeremiah 17:9
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
Our highest powers of reasoning and will take us farther and farther away from God.
"For
they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they
that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally
minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because
the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law
of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh
cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so
be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the
Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." Romans 8:5-9
Luther describes the wickedness of our most exalted powers of reasoning and will.
"Therefore,
those most exalted virtues of the best men are in the flesh; that is,
they are dead, and at enmity against God; they are not subject to the
law of God, nor indeed can be; and they please not God. For Paul does
not only say that such men are not subject, but that they cannot be
subject. So also Christ saith, "An evil tree cannot bring forth good
fruit." ( Matthew 7:17).
.....So
that these two sentiments of Paul, that the just man liveth "by faith"
(Romans 1:17), and that "whatsoever is not of faith is sin," (Romans
14:23), stand confirmed: the latter of which follows from the former.
For if there be nothing by which we are justified by faith only, it is
evident that those who are not of faith, are not justified. And if they
be not justified, they are sinners. And if they are sinners, they are
evil trees and can do nothing but sin and bring forth evil
fruit--Wherefore, "Free-will" is nothing but the servant of sin, of
death, and of Satan, doing nothing, and being able to do or attempt
nothing, but evil! (Martin Luther, Bondage of the Will; Associated
Publishers And Authors, pg. 141 )
Our
Baptism in the name of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost crushes and
mortifies our old man of reasoning and will. Jesus said:
"Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the
Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of
the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again." John 3:5-7
God clothes us in the righteousness of Christ in our Baptism.
"For
ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of
you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." Galatians
3:26,27
American
"do it yourself" Christianity rejects true Faith, Baptism, The Office
Of The Keys, Holy Communion, and the true pure Word of God in the King
James Bible. The reasoning of CFW Walther rejected Faith, Baptism, The
Office Of The Keys, and Holy Communion.
According
to CFW Walther, objective universal justification occurred over 2,000
years ago without baptism, without Faith, without the Washing of
Regeneration, without the Renewing of the Holy Ghost.
C.F.W. Walther said, "For God has already forgiven you your sins 1800 years ago when He in Christ absolved all men by raising Him after He first had gone into bitter death for them " (The Path To Understanding Justification, Gregory L. Jackson, PhD; pg. 12; ISBN 9781072530428
Let's
step out of the weeds for a moment and attempt to grasp this highest
blasphemy and mockery against God and His work in Baptism, Faith, The
Washing of Regeneration, and Renewing of the Holy Ghost. Do you see how
they are all permanently tore away from justification. Yes, all of these
most necessary works of God in Baptism, Faith, the Washing of
Regeneration, and Renewing of the Holy Ghost are permanently tore away
from justification. These works of God must come first in
justification.
In
contrast OJ / SJ insists universal forgiveness comes first, prior to
and without Faith, Baptism, the Washing of Regeneration, and the Gift of
the Holy Ghost.
God
does not change. CFW Walther and Franz Pieper taught that God changed
the instant Christ rose from the dead, moving Him to justify the whole
world prior to and without Faith, Baptism, the Office Of The Keys, and
Holy Communion.
"For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." Malachi 3:6
LCMS,
WELS, ELS, ELCA are all stuck with this blasphemous objective universal
justification that has permanently tore away God's work of Faith,
Baptism and the Renewing of the Holy Ghost from justification.
True
justification by faith was given to Abraham 400 years before the law
and thousands of years before CFW Walther's blasphemous objective
justification without faith, without Baptism, without the renewing of
God the Holy Ghost.
CFW
Walther's reasoning even added man's work of personally 'accepting'
Universal Justification as his own without true Faith. CFW Walther said:
"Only one thing remains on your part so that you also possess the gift. This one thing is--faith. And this brings me to the second part of today's Easter message, in which I now would show you that every man who wants to be saved must accept by faith the general absolution, pronounced 1800 years ago, as an absolution spoken individually to him." (The Path To Understanding Justification, Gregory L. Jackson, PhD. ; pg.12; ISBN 9781072530428)Notice how deceptive Walther is when he called man's work of "accepting" true faith. This is justification by the work of "accepting" NOT justification by faith in Christ.God's Word overcame the ultimate lie of Calvinism for me: that there is at least a spark of good in man especially after he becomes a Christian. God's Word grinds this lie to powder in many passages:"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not." Romans 7:18"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities like the wind, have taken us away." Isaiah 64:6"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9Our reasoning and will are the seat of all unbelief and wickedness in us Christians. We are constantly vexed by them and driven to constantly confess that we are sinful and unclean in our highest and most noble powers of reasoning and will. Luther is correct when he said that man is a donkey. He is either ridden by Satan or by God. Shall we as true Christians turn to the most vile and wicked powers of reasoning and will to war against Satan.The war is between God and Satan. God has completely defeated Satan for us in His holy child Jesus, true God from all eternity and true man born of the virgin Mary. He took all our sins upon Himself, was crucified, dead, buried, and then rose from the dead and ascended into heaven for us."Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."Luke 2:10-14O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! Isaiah 40:9
Say unto the cities of America, Behold your God!
In Christ,
Tom Fisher
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| Luther says, with John 16 - "Faith is righteousness." |
