Sending a Zoom Link to Everyone on the List - Tomorrow - Need More Time

 

This is a beautiful graphic for our first trial Zoom. It will take place TOMORROW and be casual. Zoom will create a video, which I will try to post here and also on the Reformation Lectures page.

I will play some organ music so people can see if Zoom compares favorably with Vimeo. We have members and friends who are working on what we need for audio.

I expect to send out links Thursday and Friday, so feel free to respond. Send me an email at greg.jackson.edlp@gmail.com.

When Christina created a chapel in the little hallway in Phoenix, and Brett Meyer sent a video camera, all this started, with increasing complexity and quality. Thank you all for the encouragement. The efficacious Word of God accomplishes God's will.

 Luther and Melanchthon taught Martin Chemnitz.
These three are the heart and soul of the Reformation.

Watch the LCMS And Its Friends Paint and Perfume the Walkout from 50 Years Ago

 

Robert Preus was the younger brother of Jack. He was very encouraging about us leaving the LCA, before the ELCA merger. His last book, Justification and Rome, was aimed at his own faculty in Ft. Wayne. Christina and I saw him many times and enjoyed his company, including the dinner when he installed his son at the Sanford, Michigan LCMS congregation.

Christina and I met Jack Preus on the streets of Chicago, late at night. We were headed back to the hotel, and he was a guest speaker. We later talked to him at the Indianapolis LCMS convention, where he denounced Herman Otten and signed my copy of Chemnitz. Supporting and denouncing the editor was a regular ritual in the LCMS. Matt the Fatt was the latest example.

Note the lopsided Jeske smile. I spoke with ALC President David Preus at the Michigan Synod LCA meeting where he conceded the merger which would form the ELCA. The Seminex cluster manipulated the merger to have more than their share of power, but the Left wanted that. ELCA was formed out of the LCA, the ALC, and the radicalized LCMS Seminex called AELC. David was a cousin to Robert and Jack. Their grandpappy was the governor of Minnesota and an insurance magnate.

Let us put to rest the deception that LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) have major differences or that the ELCA is much different from them. 

The Big Five share the same blasphemy of Objective Faithless Justification. Just to show how untrustworthy they are, consider this: The Big Five teach that everyone is already forgiven, contrary to anything in the Bible (except the New NIV paraphrase). The Great Wayne Mueller told the kids at a WELS young convention that "Evangelism is easy. Just tell everyone they are already forgiven." I guess that applied to the WELS youth who dropped a bottle from the dorm and caused $700 damage to the car below. No one admitted it. 

The Big Five share in the confusion and conflicts of several types of Universalism. One is based erroneously on 1 Timothy 3:16 - Jesus was justified in the Spirit. His resurrection meant He was and is the Son of God, because ordinary humans die from being sinful. Jesus was not. He was the Angel of the Lord in the Burning Bush, foreshadowing the Two Natures of Christ, Exodus 3.

So the Lutheran wise acres say, as the Calvinists do, "I was saved 2,000 years ago." 

The Big Five also rely on snip and clip in the Pauline literature. Often they emphasize grace without engaging "faith in Jesus Christ" as access to grace, Romans 5:1-2.

The LCMS Brief Statement of 1932 was canonized for eternity, copyright Their Father Below. It reveals the OJ faction's duplicity, repeated endlessly by Rolf Preus - "raised again for our justification!" However, the complete sentence is the opposite of what Rolf was trying to promote.

Romans 4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

The ending of Romans 4 is clearly a transition to Romans 5. The ancients did not have chapter headings and the verse numbers, but they clearly revealed the clarity of God's Word, not wandering around and bewitching people as the modern seminary professors do.

5 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Therefore means Paul is summarizing Romans 4, a clarion proclamation of Justification by Faith, which gives us peace. 

The amazing grace people tend to forget faith in Jesus Christ in favor of feeling mellow, good, tingly.

By whom also we have access by faith into this grace - access is a simple word. God drowns our sin in an ocean of His grace (Luther). That grace is not instant and universal, as the false teacher Eduard Preuss wrote. Missouri still eats that up, ignoring the fact that Preuss turned Roman Catholic and became prominent in promoting the Church of Rome. No access means no grace, so faith is the way by which we receive God's forgiveness, without works on our part, because Jesus has already paid the price.

Some of the numbskulls still bray - "Do not make faith a work!" They scowl as they say this, as if their lupine teachers are manipulating them at that moment. Truly, the Big Five Conglomerate are anxious to slander faith.

KJV John 6:28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. 

John 6 is another reason for the apostates to hate the Fourth Gospel, with its emphasis on faith in Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, the pure Word of God teaches against Walther, and the Big Five - even ELCA - with his dogmatic ignorance. 

The Great Kidnapper and Thief, CFW Walther, taught:

1. God has already forgiven everyone in the world, without faith, without the Word.
2. Jesus absolved the entire world when He was raised from the dead.
3. Now you must make a decision for Objective Faithless Justification.

The Big Five are in the same bed together, awkward but the best way to snap at the money given by Thrivent, not to mention irrevocable trusts they sell through Thrivent and their "giving counselors," a call from God.

The Walther side pretends to be holier than thou because they keep mindlessly quoting the Great Walther instead of reading faithful Bibles. 

The obvious apostates occupy ELCA but also flourish in the other four sects, whose banner is the rainbow, not the Means of Grace.

 

Is It Worth the Fight? Yes.

Long ago and far away, two people from different parts of the country continued in their support of Objective Faithless Justification. That was many years ago. As Luther stated many times before, the opposition is good for us because without it, we would become indolent, lazy, and lax in our study of the Scriptures.

Recently, those two people - coming from various parts of the country - have emphasized the blessing of Justification By Faith.

I can list many pastors and some laity who saw the light, embraced the "Chief Article of the Christian Religion," and walked themselves back into Objective Faithless Justification. One pastor was very clever and managed to secure calls at a Lutheran Masonic church and congregations belonging to the Anything Goes United Church of Christ. I found his last location in the obituaries. 

Another pastor divided his congregation and became an atheist, mocking his family whenever they went to church. The mission board chair had been hotter than Georgia asphalt for that pastor to come to Ohio.

One bishop promoted Objective Faithless Justification and knowingly formed alliances with  OJ Lutheran clergy. He stated on film lately that he was shocked, shocked - just recently learning about OJ! The same person sat next to me years before and was appalled that the speaker denied OJ.

KJV James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Whatever we claim to be, the only source of truth is the Scriptures, which teaches faith in Jesus Christ, our Good Shepherd. Those who pretend to be pastors are wolves in sheep's clothing, using dogma to set the trap and destroy the faith they hate so much. Or - maybe they just enjoy lying. The Wisconsin Sect has a cluster of declining schools where they teach verbal and physical abuse. Their key initiation rite upon entering the seminary is to wade in sewage water, undress outdoors, and smirk about the fun of using contradictory statements - GA. Lying and shunning are the two sacraments of WELS.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Last Sunday Before Lent - "Those, however, who would silence and scold him are the teachers of works, who wish to quiet and suppress the doctrine and cry of faith; but they stir the heart the more. For the nature of the Gospel is, the more it is restrained the more progress it makes."

 

Complete Sermon -  The Sunday Before Lent - Luke 18:31-43. Christ’s Passion and the Faith and Love of the Blind Man

20. This blind man represents the spiritually blind, the state of every man born of Adam, who neither sees nor knows the kingdom of God; but it is of grace that he feels and knows his blindness and would gladly be delivered from it. They are saintly sinners who feel their faults and sigh for grace. But he sits by the wayside and begs, that is, he sits among the teachers of the law and desires help; but it is begging, with works he must appear blue and help himself. The people pass him by and let him sit, that is the people of the law make a great noise and are heard among the teachers of good works, they go before Christ and Christ follows them. But when he heard Christ, that is, when a heart hears the Gospel of faith, it calls and cries, and has no rest until it comes to Christ. Those, however, who would silence and scold him are the teachers of works, who wish to quiet and suppress the doctrine and cry of faith; but they stir the heart the more. For the nature of the Gospel is, the more it is restrained the more progress it makes. Afterwards he received his sight, all his work and life are nothing but the praise and honor of God, and he follows Christ with joy, so that the whole world wonders and is thereby made better.