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The only things they learned from Walther were the Lutheran Papacy and Objective Faithless Justification.

 

The Beast Surfaces (a timeline of central power in the LCMS) by Jeffrey A. Young, Ph.D. Chart & Interpretation received, 4/4/24 LCR pastoral conference.

Introduction to the Beast Surfaces Parts I, II, and III.

 

This history chronicles the events that illustrate the rise of coercive central power in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS). Today the central power of the LCMS defends itself as a money-making enterprise, allows some within LCMS to believe that it is a divine ordinance, and wields her bylaws as a sword of the flesh. A similar masquerade is depicted in Revelations 17 under the name “beast,” but such a beast is not unique to the LCMS. A similar beast is commonly present in many large denominations, e.g. the treasury of the Vatican which feeds the power and primacy of the pope and wields canon law as a sword of the flesh....

CFW Walther signed the document making the syphilitic Martin Stephan the bishop. Walther staged a riot to gain Stephan's episcopacy, gold, property, books, and clothes. Walther anointed himself as Pope and took over the seminary, the sect, publishing, and doctrine. He changed the rules to make F. Pieper (Wisconsin Sect) the seminary president and later synod president. 

Walther only had a bachelor's degree and Latin. His knowledge of Biblical languages was scant.

To this day, Walther's idiocies about Objective Faithless Justification are uttered as sacred, derived from Pietism, Rationalism, and legalism.

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They sink into thy depths with bubbling groan,

Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.

 

The New High Priests Serve No One But Themselves.

 

                        The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,

And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;

And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,

When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

Anyone can figure out who the new high priests are, even if they do not hold any special titles. Listen to how they describe their work, like participants in a business meeting. They get out their statistics and blame various people. They project statistics that declare, "We are all doomed." And they are!

The business model is completely dominant in the Church of Rome, and the so-called Protestants have nothing but admiration for them. For decades they have adopted, little by little, the priestly costumes of the Catholic hierarchy. They demand money from everyone and complain they cannot get enough. One Lutheran sect has $100 million tucked way, perhaps more. They want to lay their consecrated and consecrating hands on more.

Dave (It's OK to pray with pagans) Benke made it clear - his gifts to various institutions have been swallowed up. Suddenly, piles of brick and mortar are worth less than the original buildings, which are sold off for a song. 

Everyone should laugh at the so-called pastors and synodical leaders who rushed off to Fuller Seminary for their business training. The sects also got together with ELCA, just to make sure that they were all in same choir, singing, "Amazing Cash." One self-appointed bishop covets church property and beards, hiding what they teach, as if anyone cares. 

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Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Exaudi - "Priests and monks, as they are at present, are dependent in name, character and works upon human institutions, which the Gospel thrusts to the ground. Hence, they dare not accept the Gospel, and they continue as they are."

 

Complete Sermon ->Luther's Sermons - John 15:26-16:4.
Exaudi, Sunday after Ascension

I. CHRIST’S SERMON OF COMFORT.

7. That we may, under no circumstances, despair, Christ says, I will send you a Comforter, even one who is almighty. And he calls the Holy Spirit here a Comforter; for although both my sins and the fear of death make me weak and timid, he comes and stirs up the courage in my heart, and says:

Ho, cheer up! Thus he trumpets courage into us; he encourages us in a friendly and comforting manner not to despair before death but to cheerfully go forward, even though we had ten necks for the executioner, and says: Aye, although I have sinned, yet I am rid of my sins; and if I had still more, so that they overwhelmed me, I would hope, that they should do me no harm. Not that one should not feel his sins, for the flesh must experience them; but the Spirit overcomes and suppresses diffidence and timidity, and conducts us through them. He is powerful enough to do that.

Therefore. Christ says further: “Whom I will send unto you from the Father.”

8. For he, the Father, is the person that takes the initiative: I am the Son; and from us the Holy Spirit proceeds. And the three persons are one, and one essence, with equal power and authority, as he better expresses it when he says: “The Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father.”

9. That is as much as to say: He who will comfort you is almighty and Lord over all things. How can the creatures now harm us, if the Creator stands by us? Notice how great the comfort of the Holy Spirit is. Now let all the Turks attack us. As long as he is our guard and rearguard, there is no danger. John also says in his first Epistle,1 John 3:19-20: “Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him; because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.” Likewise, in the following chapter, verse 4, he says: “Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.” So the Lord now says, Him will I send unto you, so that nothing can harm you. Is not that liberal comfort? Who would not be fearless and cheerful in view of this?

And Christ calls him “The Spirit of truth;” that is, where he is and comes there is a rock foundation through and through, the real truth. Neither falsehood nor hypocrisy is there, for the Spirit is not hypocritical. But wherever he is not, there is nothing but hypocrisy and falsehood.

Therefore, we fall when the test comes, because the Spirit of truth is not present. Christ now further says: “He shall bear witness of me.”

10. That is, if he is in the heart he speaks through you, and assures and confirms you in the belief that the Gospel is true. Then, as a result, the confession of the Gospel springs forth. What, then, is the Gospel? It is a witness concerning Christ, that he is God’s Son, the Savior, and beside him there is none other. This is what Peter means when he says: “Ye are a royal priesthood, that we are elected thereto, that we preach and show forth the excellencies of Christ.” 1 Peter 2:9: Hence, there must always be witnessing. Witnessing loads upon itself the wrath of the whole world.

Then the cross follows, then rebellions rise, then the lords and princes and all who are great become angry; for the world cannot hear, nor will it tolerate, this kind of preaching. Therefore, the Gospel is hated and spoken against.

11. Reason thinks: Aye, one can, nevertheless, easily preach the Gospel in a beautifully simple and plain way, without a revolution in the world, and then it will be heartily welcomed. This is the utterance of Satan; for if I believe and say that faith in Christ alone does and accomplishes all, I overthrow the monkey play of the whole world; and that they cannot allow. Therefore, Christ’s teachings and man’s teachings cannot stand together; one must fall. Priests and monks, as they are at present, are dependent in name, character and works upon human institutions, which the Gospel thrusts to the ground. Hence, they dare not accept the Gospel, and they continue as they are.

12. Thus, I say that the Christian faith is founded upon Christ alone, without anything additional. The priests will not permit their affairs and institutions to fall; in consequence, seditions and rebellions follow.

Therefore, there must be dissension where the Gospel and the confession of Christ are; for the Gospel opposes everything that is not of its own spirit. If the teachings of Christ and the priests were not antagonistic, they could easily stand together. They are now pitted against one another. As impossible as it is for Christ not to be Christ, so impossible is it for a monk or priest to be a Christian. Therefore, a fire must be kindled. The Lord himself, in Matthew 10:34 and Luke 12:51 says: “I came not to send peace, but a sword.” Then follows in our text: “And ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.”

13. Yes; then, first, when you become certain of your faith through the Holy Spirit, who is your witness, you must also bear witness of me, for to that end I chose you to be apostles. You have heard my words and teachings and have seen my works and life and all things that you are to preach. But the Holy Spirit must first be present; otherwise you can do nothing, for the conscience is too weak. Yes, there is no sin so small that the conscience could vanquish it, even if it were so trifling a one as laughing in church, Again, in the presence of death the conscience is far too weak to offer resistance. Therefore another must come and give to the timid, despairing conscience, courage to go through everything, although all sins be upon it. And it must, at the same time, be an almighty courage, like he alone can give who ministers strength in such a way that the courage, which before a rustling leaf could cause to fear, is now not afraid of all the devils, and the conscience that before could not restrain laughing, now restrains all sins.

14. The benefit and fruit of the Holy Spirit is, that sin will be changed to the highest and best use. Thus Paul boasts to Timothy, when he was converted, that whereas he had lived such a wicked life before, he now held his sin to be so contemptible that he composed a hymn and sang about it thus, in 1 Timothy 1:12-17: “I thank him that enabled me, even Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to his service; though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief; and the grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief: howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief might Jesus Christ show forth all his long-suffering, for an example of them that should thereafter believe on him unto eternal life. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever.

Amen.”