ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the National Council of Churches.
No one can grasp all the Creation powers at work. Unfortunately, few stop to meaning of so much in the soil, the clouds, the rain, and the millions of creatures.
The Savior is a burden to many people, because of Jesus' speaking. His physical miracles even conjure humanity's own ideas about Him - in many different ways. This did not turn out so well for the Carpenter. When people objected to Him, Jesus became clearer about the message from the Son of God.
The Trinity is consoling about our fragile to speak to us, through the spoken Word, the miracles, the physical gestures (the Feeding of the 5,000) and much more.
No message from Jesus Christ' power will reject Him. In contrast, we easily find excuses against Him, but that opens up their errors much more quickly.
For that reason Jesus was especially effective in showing bystanders how easily they cowered - even better - how they found faith in Jesus and also how they saw the clarity of the Messiah's power.
The Savior is a burden to many people, because of Jesus' speaking. His physical miracles conjure up their own ideas about Him - in many different ways.
