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Luther's Galatians Commentary Complete and Unabridged by Martin Luther “‘The Epistle to the Galatians was a favorite of Luther’s… He found in it a source of strength for his own faith and life, and an armory of weapons for his reforming work… He came to think very little of his earlier commentaries. ‘They won’t do at all for this age ;’ he said, ‘they were only my first struggles against the confidence of works.’ But he rated his later exposition more highly. When the complete Latin edition of his works was in preparation a couple of years before his death, he said: ‘If they took my advice, they’d print only the books containing doctrine, like the Galatians.’” — From the Editor’s Preface Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. Book Contents Foreword to the First English Edition by Edwin Sandys, Bishop of London Contents Editor’s Preface Luther’s Preface Introductory: The Argument of the Epistle The Commentary Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Download the eBook (Optional) If you like the Lutheran Library: Buy the Lutheran Librarian a nice cup of tea Facsimile PDF (large file) This book is only available in PDF format. Publication Information Lutheran Library edition first published: 2023 Copyright: CC BY 4.0 Read more

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Luther's Galatians Commentary Complete and Unabridged by Martin Luther “‘The Epistle to the Galatians was a favorite of Luther’s… He found in it a source of strength for his own faith and life, and an armory of weapons for his reforming work… He came to think very little of his earlier commentaries. ‘They won’t do at all for this age ;’ he said, ‘they were only my first struggles against the confidence of works.’ But he rated his later exposition more highly. When the complete Latin edition of his works was in preparation a couple of years before ... Read more Little Journeys With Martin Luther by William Harley “A real book wherein are printed diverse sayings and doings of Dr Luther in these latter days when he applied for Synodical membership in the United States.” — from the Preface. Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. Book Contents Collect By Way Of Explanation 1 I Rub My Eyes 2 Luther At Church 3 Getting Acquainted 4 The Doctors Disagree 5 Over The Mountains 6 Unequally Yoked Together 7 The King’s Business Requires Haste 8 Brethren Bland And ... Read more Bible History (complete in one volume) by Alfred Edersheim “It is to help the reader of Holy Scripture that the series has been undertaken. In writing it… I have wished to furnish what may be useful for reading in the family… More than this, I hope it may likewise prove a book to put in the hands of young men, — not only to show them what the Bible really teaches, but to defend them against the insidious attacks arising from misrepresentation and misunderstanding of the sacred text.” — Alfred Edersheim Alfred Edersheim ... Read more Fields of Far Renown by Joseph Hocking Joseph Hocking is the Lutheran Librarian’s favorite Christian novelist. Though mostly forgotten now, during his lifetime he was widely read and greatly beloved throughout the English speaking world. Most of his books deal in some way with the struggles and conflicts of living as a Christian in the modern world. The Lutheran Library is republishing many of Joseph Hocking’s novels. If you have any of Hocking’s 50 “lost” books, please contact us. Book Contents 1 ... Read more The Columbus Theological Magazine Vol. 5, Matthias Loy, Editor Vol 5 includes “The Discipline of the Will” by Matthias Loy, “The Fundamental Difference Between Luther’s And Zwingli’s Theology”, “The Will in Conversion” by Matthias Loy, and many other articles. The Columbus Theological Magazine is one of the specially restored collections of the Lutheran Library. Currently available volumes Master index Contents of Volume 5 (Links to facsimile PDF. Scroll to bottom for other downloads.) Principal Author Vol ... Read more The Columbus Theological Magazine Vol. 4, Matthias Loy, Editor Vol 4 includes “The Nature of the Will,” “The Liberty of the Will,” and “The Bondage of the Will,” all by Prof. Matthias Loy. Other articles include, “He Shall Baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire,” and “The Power Of God’s Word, According To The Lutheran And The Reformed Systems”. Much good reading! The Columbus Theological Magazine is one of the specially restored collections of the Lutheran Library. Currently available ... Read more The Columbus Theological Magazine Vol. 3, Matthias Loy, Editor Vol 3 includes “Intuitu Fidei” — “In View Of Faith.”, Wine in the Bible, The Calvinistic Doctrine Concerning Predestination and Election, The Limit Of The Law Of Peace, and many other articles. The Columbus Theological Magazine is one of the specially restored collections of the Lutheran Library. Currently available volumes Master index (Links to facsimile PDF. Scroll to bottom for other downloads.) Principal Author Vol 3 No 1 February 1883 Introductory To Volume III. Matthias ... Read more May God cause his face to shine upon you and bring you peace. From Your Lutheran Librarian editor@lutheranlibrary.org

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Warriors Against Faith in Christ - Look at the Ominous Roll Call

 

Luther's Third Cantate Sermon "Therefore the Holy Spirit rightly and justly convicts, as sinful and condemned, all who have not faith in Christ."

Pietism, Rationalism, Halle University

Georg Knapp was a highly regarded professor at Halle University. His theology textbook was translated into English by a well known Calvinist, who used those double justification words (OJ, SJ) so dearly loved by LCMS, WELS, ELS, and worse.

Walther loved the phrasing in English - OJ, SJ - and those terms went back to Germany to be used there. 

Rambach (Halle University) used the phrasing which wrongly connected the Resurrection of Christ with world absolution. To this day, students and professors of the failing seminaries declare that the entire world was forgiven and absolved (back to Adam) the moment Jesus died, alternately the moment Jesus rose from the dead. Yes, they are that ignorant.

Stephan learned Objective (Faithless) Justification at Halle University and taught it to CFW Walther, who insisted on it all his life.  Walther made sure the Wisconsin Synod's Francis Pieper filled his shoes as Concordia Seminary's president. Pieper next became the LCMS President.

Walther said that Stephan "saved his life" by teaching him Objective (Faithless) Justification.

Walther broke up the Synodical Conference by insisting on faith as a work! Romans 4 makes it clear that justification is by faith or else it is a work. 

KJV Romans 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

The Walther gang continued to promote the bad leaven of OJ through their canonical Brief Statement of 1932. Missouri began to unravel from that point, not because Pieper died but because the Stephan-Walther-Pieper dogma took over.

Cascione still promotes the bizarre OJ essay of Robert Preus, even though it was repudiated by stealth in Preus' Justification and Rome.

This statement above from Calov is one of many in which Robert Preus clearly repudiated Justification without Faith.

I remember Robert Preus talking in class about how much he admired the clarity of Quenstedt. Dan and Rolf, two of his sons, edited the book but failed to acknowledge its clear message of Justification by Faith.

The fatuous Church Growth Movement, spawned at Fuller Seminary, spreading faster than an STD at Halle University, is perfect for Objective (Faithless) Justification. "Everyone knows, anything goes."

According to a Bethany faculty member, the ELS sect will be nothing more than a footnote in a few years. WELS is not far behind that metric.

One big happy family! trading the Scriptures for a little bit of loot from Thrivent.

Gypsy Rose Lee

"Now's your inning. Stand the world on it's ear!

Set it spinning! That'll be just the beginning!

Curtain up! Light the lights!

You got nothing to hit but the heights!

You'll be swell. You'll be great.

I can tell. Just you wait.

That lucky star I talk about is due!

Honey, everything's coming up roses for me and for you!"

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Cantate 3 - "Therefore the Holy Spirit Rightly and Justly Convicts, As Sinful And Condemned, All Who Have Not Faith in Christ.

 

Cantate Sunday - Third Sermon - Link Here

23. Therefore the Holy Spirit rightly and justly convicts, as sinful and condemned, all who have not faith in Christ. For where this is wanting, other sins in abundance must follow: God is despised and hated, and the entire first table is treated with disobedience. For if one does not know God in Christ, he cannot trust him for any good thing, nor call upon him from the heart, nor know his word; but he is entangled in the devil’s lies, persecutes and blasphemes true doctrines, and continues in obstinacy and hardening, even to the degree of slandering the Holy Spirit. In consequence of this he also disobeys the other commandments in his life ,and station, so that he does to nobody what he ought to do, and has in his heart no true love, kindness, gentleness, patience, no delight in chastity, righteousness, faithfulness and truth; but practices the contrary, except where he has reason to fear disgrace or punishment.

24. Lo, how the dragon’s-tail of the devil and all hell must follow unbelief!

The reason is, that he who does not believe in Christ, has already turned away from God and quite separated himself from him. Therefore he cannot have the Holy Spirit, nor originate good thoughts, nor have a true, hearty pleasure in living according to God’s will; notwithstanding he may outwardly assume a different appearance, like a hypocrite, and act so as not to be rebuked or chastised. Just like a bad, ill-behaved servant, who is inimical to his master, and does what he hates to do, only because he is compelled, and as opportunity arises, does evil. Such are the beautiful, precious fruits, produced by this fountain and stem, if Christ is not accepted and heard as the Savior, presented to us by God in order to blot out our sin and to take from us God’s wrath.

25. Hence you see pictured here what the world is, nothing but a great company of wicked, stubborn people, who will not believe Christ, but despise God’s Word, praise and accept the seduction of the devil, and defiantly run counter to all of God’s commandments. They receive all the favors and benefits of God only to repay him with ingratitude and blasphemy. And yet in all this they are unwilling to be convicted or reproved, but wish to be called excellent, pious and saintly people. Such were the Jews, who crucified Christ and persecuted his apostles, and yet wished to claim the glory of having done God great service. Therefore the Holy Spirit must resist this and strive with the world and ever exercise his office of conviction with divine power and might until the last day.

 Jesus raises the young girl to life.

Luther's First Cantate Sermon #1 - This Paragraph Tears Down the Paper Lanterns, Spills the Barrels of Beer and Whiskey, and Sends the Professors Home To Weep

 

Luther's First Cantate Sermon 

2. In the first place, we see here that the world is accused of blindness and ignorance. All those who are without the Holy Spirit, however wise they may be in matters pertaining to the things of this world, are, before God, fools and blind. They do not like to hear this; and when they are told that their doings are of no account before God, it displeases them and makes them angry, because they insist that they are in possession of reason and the natural light, which God created in them. But what does this matter to us? There are the Scriptures and the Word of God plain and clear, that the Holy Spirit is to come to ‘convict the world, because it does not know what sin, righteousness and judgment are.' Thus it is determined, there it stands; let be angry who will, Christ does not care.

3. It is much to be deplored that the world is convicted, not only because of its sin and want of righteousness, not being able to judge rightly, but that it does not acknowledge nor see this, to say nothing of its endeavor to alter the matter. Oh, how completely the praise of all comes to naught, who, while they endeavor to make other people pious, know not themselves what sin is! Let us take, for example, at the present day, all the schools of learning and the learned men and see whether they can tell us what that one little word “sin” is? For who has ever heard that not to believe in Christ is sin? They say, it is sin if one speaks, desires or does something against God’s will and commandment. But how does that correspond with this saying of Christ: It is sin because they do not believe on me? Therefore, they are easily convicted of the fact that they know not what sin is; and if they be ever so learned, they will not be able to explain this text.

4. In like manner, they are not able to know what “righteousness” is. For who has ever heard that a man should become pious and just because Christ ascended to heaven or goes to the Father and we see him no ,more?

There we must say, a fool has thus spoken and not a wise man. For they say, righteousness is a virtue, which teaches man what he owes others.

This is true, but the trouble is, they do not understand their own words, such blind fools they are. Therefore, one needs not be surprised that they rage so much against the Gospel and persecute the Christians. How could they do otherwise? They know no better.

WELS-LCMS-ELS-CLC Have Gone to War against Faith in Jesus Christ

That explains their deep love for ELCA, because they all share a drooling desire for the Bad Bible-Booster Paraphrases - the Evil Four + One. 

The various dogmatic theologies they promoted - Braaten-Jenson, Barth, Pieper - preach against faith in Jesus Christ, in perfect harmony with their Bad Bible-Booster Paraphrases.

One must stand back in awe at the coordination:

The Vatican has always hated and distorted the Bible.

A pope seems to have worked out a deal to reveal the fake Codex Sinaiticus and the laughable Codex Vaticanus. Those two works came from Tischendorf, who began by promoting his Ephraim Rescriptus. 

By calling the fake Sinaiticus "Aleph", to make it first in line rather than last, Tischendorf moved the forgery to the front of the line.

One should always be suspicious of greedy men who keep finding ancient treasures. Tischendorf.

What do we say when one golden hero of such antiquarian gems shows up with three out of three magnificent, perfect, ancient, flawless "oldest and best" codices? I say - "Fraud! Fake! Forgery!" The unifying factor with Tischendorf was his need for approval, fame, and money.

Tischendorf is the bedrock of the "oldest and best" Greek manuscripts. The rest of the team, led by Westcott and Hort, invented hysterical theories to fit their agenda, and 150 years of lying followed.

This genius set of modern translations, which change every week, is not the English wording - because no one agrees. No - they point to their uncertainty about the Greek New Testament. The Received or Traditional Text has too many examples of faith in Jesus Christ and His divinity. 

The Evil Four plus One have scrambled the Bible so no one in the future will be able to quote a passage with certainty - or even the multiple editions of the same Bible. Foolscap off to the

• National Council of Marxist Churches' RSV,
• National Council of Marxist Churches' ESV,
• National Council of Marxist Churches' NRSV,
• Trump Hating Murdoch NIV,
• Money-Making Apostate-Loving Beck Bible.

Daily Lutheran Sermon Quote - Cantate Second Sermon

 

I knew two WELS pastors who were Church Growth fanatics, like Valleskey, and Antinomian (no Law, only their twisted Gospel). Both pastors became 100% atheists. They are not alone - just samples of Objective Faithless Justification.

Link to Cantate Sermon 2 - Fourth Sunday after Easter

11. His way to the Father is his glory. For “to go” means to die, and to pass through death to the Father and enter upon another existence. He glories in his future course when he says: “I go unto the Father.”

Therefore, here righteousness is nothing more than traveling by faith the road through death unto the Father. This faith makes us righteous before God, this faith by which we believe that he delivered us from sin, death, Satan and hell, through his passion, and that thereby God, the Father, is reconciled and our sins are blotted out by his blood. This is also the reason that he mentions his going, when he says, in respect of righteousness, not that he is with the Father, but that he goes to the Father. In this going, sin is swallowed up in righteousness and Christ passes cheerfully through death, so that no one is even aware of it. Therefore it follows: “And ye behold me no more.”

12. The nature and art of faith are here set forth: Faith neither feels nor gropes, nor do the things connected with it require a science; but it bestirs itself cheerfully to believe the things it neither feels nor ‘can measure with all its powers inwardly or outwardly. Paul says in Romans 8:24: “Who hopeth for that which he seeth?” Therefore, the Lord aptly says: “And ye behold me no more.” As if he would say that this way of good works which he is traveling, will not be seen nor grasped by the senses, but it must be believed. Now follows the third and last part of our Gospel.

Using the Rainbarrel Before a Rainy Day or Two

 

Weather alerts always being with "Have you dumped your rain barrels?" I do that for two reasons. One reason is (later in the summer) to thwart the mosquitoes. The second reason is to pour lots of usable nitrogen and unbleached water on the neediest plants.

I got this local advice tonight, with the sun beginning to sink, "It is going to rain tomorrow you know." My answer, "That is why I am using up this rain barrel." I am a magnet for gratuitous advice and modest when handing the results to friends, neighbors, and church members. 

The first plant targets were three Clethra bushes up front - tiny and beautiful, attracting hummingbirds and butterflies - and also two beginners out back. I have lost four others but I count the five survivors as great additions to the garden and their cinnamon fry fragrance. 

Tonight a woodpecker stopped by to drink from the hummingbird feeder.

I also poured plenty of rain water on calla lilies, some late blooming flowers, and the new roses. 

Wood mulch was used last fall and renewed this spring. Fresh mulch is a good way to mark where the neediest plants get extra care, by pruning or watering or de-weeding. I agree with the Queen Elizabeth's policy of leaving stumps and lumps of wood on the soil to foster the bugs that bring the birds that sing in the trees and bushes.

If we cannot learn from God's Creation as foundational, the rest of all knowledge is diluted, misunderstood, and misused. 

I have spent some time and labor building up islands of bee balm, a mint loved by butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds. Now that I have large, healthy clumps in the garden, I can transfer samples to other areas where they will dominate weeds while soaking up the sun.

Likewise, areas front and back are hosting attractive hostas (approved by King Charles III) for background decoration. They are not glamorous but sturdy and attractive - but special treats when their graceful flowers on a stalk invite sipping from the hummingbirds. I often think, "Did He do that on purpose?" The answer is obvious - nothing is random when 

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.

Daily Lutheran Sermon Quote - Second Cantate Sermon - "You Shall Humble Them with the Holy Gospel."

Link to Cantate Sermon 2 - Fourth Sunday after Easter

8. The rod, however, by which the world is convicted and punished, is the divine Word and the holy Gospel, proclaimed by the apostles and preachers, as God the Father says to his Son in Psalm 2:9: “Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” That is, you shall humble them with the holy Gospel. But the world resents such conviction and punishment; yet it punishes severely, and even more severely than the Holy Spirit does. The Holy Spirit takes rods, but the world uses swords and fire. Isaiah also speaks in like terms of Christ our Lord in Isaiah 11:4: “He shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.”

9. What is now the righteousness the Lord means here? Some say righteousness is a virtue that gives to every person his own. Although this is a fine definition, yet it is misleading, in that we do not know how we are indebted to every one, to God and to man. This God desires and demands of us. Therefore, his righteousness is nothing more than the faith and grace of God, by which God makes us pious and righteous. Such righteousness we must have and thus be righteous, if we are to be found righteous and unblamable before God, and not only before man. For the smallest letter or tittle of the Law shall not fail, but all will be fulfilled.

10. Noah was found to be such a righteous man. It is written of him in Genesis 6:8-9: “Noah was a righteous man, and blameless in his generation; he walked with God. Therefore he found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.” It is also written of Job, in Job 1:1, that he was a perfect and upright man, one that feared God and turned away from evil. But that is done only by faith, when one believes that God has strangled and swallowed up one’s sins in his righteousness. For this righteousness is nothing but to believe that Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father; that he is equal with God, possessing equal power; that he has become Lord by virtue of his passion, by which he has ascended to the Father, reconciled us with God and is there as our mediator. This is what the prophet means in Psalm 110:1. “Jehovah saith unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” Therefore, St. Paul calls Christ now a mediator, 1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 8:6; then a throne of grace, Romans 3:25; a propitiation,1 John 2:2, and other like names. God requires this honor from us and faith demands it that we possess him as our Lord and Savior; and this glory he will not concede to any one else, as he says through the prophet: “My glory will I not give to another,” Isaiah 42:8.

11. His way to the Father is his glory. For “to go” means to die, and to pass through death to the Father and enter upon another existence. He glories in his future course when he says: “I go unto the Father.”

Therefore, here righteousness is nothing more than traveling by faith the road through death unto the Father. This faith makes us righteous before God, this faith by which we believe that he delivered us from sin, death, Satan and hell, through his passion, and that thereby God, the Father, is reconciled and our sins are blotted out by his blood.

Norma A. Boeckler's Art Recognized Again!

Norma won the Purchase Prize. 

Norma A. Boeckler's "Single Pink Peony" close up illustrates the beauty of God's Creation.

 This is the Midland area group that won prizes for their art.

 Christians in India recognized Norma A. Boeckler for her beautiful religious art.

Daily Lutheran Sermon Quote - Cantate Sunday - "For This Reason They Will Not Allow Faith To Be Preached; Nay, They Condemn This Doctrine And Banish Its Preachers. Indeed They Have Already Set about It in Good Earnest."

 

Link to Cantate Sermon 2 - Fourth Sunday after Easter

5. What will now become of all the priests, nuns and monks who, wishing to escape sin, run into cloisters and undertake to do many good works without this faith? Unbelief is called sin, as I said, but to believe on Christ — that he takes my sins upon himself, reconciles me to the Father and at the same time makes me his heir of all that is in heaven and earth — this is good works. In John 6:28-29, the Jews asked Christ: “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered: “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” Yea, and should we preach thus, who will then enter the cloisters or contribute anything for them? The purses of the monks would then surely become flat, their kitchens scanty, their cellars empty and neglected. For this reason they will not allow faith to be preached; nay, they condemn this doctrine and banish its preachers. Indeed they have already set about it in good earnest. Christ further says: “Of righteousness, because I go to the Father.”

II. THE HOLY SPIRIT CONVICTS THE WORLD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

6. Here all the learned come armed, yea, the whole world besides, and tell us what kind of righteousness this is. Yes, and they shall err. For the world has never known this righteousness; it does not yet know it, and it does not wish to know it. Hence, the Lord says here that the Holy Spirit will convict the world of this righteousness.

7. But what are we to understand here by “the world?” We dare not understand by it the coarse, outward sins, as adultery, murder, stealing and theft. There are instituted for such characters the wheels and gallows, with which the worldly powers, the kings, emperors and princes, have to do.

But we will interpret “the world” as the subtle and secret sins, of which the Holy Spirit convicts, which the world does not know as sin. Yea, it pronounces them divine works; it applauds them and will not permit them to be called sins. How else can unbelief and other secret sins live in the heart while the heart itself is not conscious of them and knows not that they are sins? But those who convict the world must, on that account, be reviled as heretics and be banished from the country, as we see at present.

Therefore, the Holy Spirit must convict the world.

May Day Warning - Your Abusive Lutheran $ect Has Declared War on the Best English Bible, So They Can Sell Their Tawdry Paraphrases - The Evil Four Plus One

Has anyone else noticed that the King James Version costs so much less than the Evil Four plus One - NIV, ESV, RSV, NRSV + Beck? The synods put their "Bible" profits into their nasty little pockets.

 

The central point of Jesus Christ' teaching in John's Gospel is sin - not believing on Him. 

The Evil Four + One paraphrases - listed above - feature two fatal flaws -

1. Denial of the Savior's divinity.
2. Erasing verses which emphasize or support faith in the Savior.

The Evil Four + One should be commended for their duplicity, dishonesty, and greedy money-grubbing. They vary their errors and terrors in the Greek New Testament so people do not realize the great assault on the Apostolic (Traditional) Text. Using the Biblegateway.com, anyone can see how the Evil Four + One does not march together in a unified way with these errors. Thus Rev. Winebibber DMin can say, "Scholars are divided. These are very difficult topics in Greek."

The Evil Four + One operate as independent to hide one simple fact - they have the same agenda, making money and erasing Biblical text. 

Listen to the short YouTube about the hilariously bad NASB, which the rich sponsor had to reject, much like the Revised KJV of 1881 being dumped by its own apostate promoters.

They must be great, scholarly, precise paraphrases, because they never stop revising everything. The Beck Bible has had more changes than a baby who ate way too many prunes.

Your Abusive Lutheran Sect Preaches Against Faith - WELS, ELCA, LCMS, ELS, CLC - And Against the Bible

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The United World Religion Corporation teaches one thing - assuming we are all simpletons who cannot read - Everyone Is Born Forgiven. They have turned the atoning death of Jesus Christ into universal forgiveness, universal grace, universal salvation. While waving their "sola" signs on Reformation Sunday, they are picking your pockets, emptying your purses, and stealing your mother's estate (Irrevocable Charitable Trust, aka, there goes the farm forever).

The only thing they preach with clarity and energy is We Need More Money To Do His Work. But His means - Their Father Below.

The abusive sects - especially the abusive Lutheran sects - teach grace. They sing Amazing Grace all the time, which may explain why everything and everyone is amazing today. How do we get this amazing grace, some wonder. Simple! Everyone has grace, even before grace, called prevenient grace, that grace which comes before grace, like "Your frozen pizza is coming" although it is not there yet and nobody knows where it is.

The Abusive Lutheran Sects, aka Thrivent victims, claim everyone in the world was forgiven

1. The moment Jesus died on the cross,
2. The moment Jesus rose from death,
3. The moment Adam and Eve were forgiven.

That may sound as confusing as it really is, but the key factor in those claims is this - forgiveness without faith = grace = salvation.

Even the greats - Sam Nafzger and David Valleskey and Mirthless Mark Schroeder - agree to the formula handed down by Calvin and Halle University.

Didja know Halle University, founded on Pietism, was the hotbed for moving away from faith in the Scriptures and into pure rationalism? ELCA calls that "Biblical scholarship" and LCMS-WELS-ELS calls it Universal Objective Faithless Justification.

The Real Message of Grace in Romans 

The abusive Lutheran sects are hotter than Georgia asphalt for grace, so why not find out how we obtain grace in Romans (the recent site of New NIV apostasy in Romans 3 - all are justified)? 

KJV Romans 5:5 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.

I realize many in the readership do not have a decent Bible, like the KJV. However, most people understand these two verses. 

• Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ gives us peace through forgiveness of sin.
• This faith gives us access into this grace. 

Daily Lutheran Sermon Quote - Cantata - Fourth Sunday after Easter

 

Link to Cantate Sermon 2 - Fourth Sunday after Easter

The Lord addresses his disciples thus: “When the Comforter is come, he will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment; of sin, because they believe not on me.”

2. Here we must let that be “sin” which is ascribed to, and included in, sin by the high majesty of heaven. In the text only unbelief is mentioned as sin, “because,” says the Lord, “they believe not on me.”

3. But what is it to believe on Christ? It is not simply to believe that he is God, or that he reigns in heaven in equal power with God the Father; many others believe that: But I believe on Christ when I believe that he is a gracious God to me and has taken my sins upon himself and reconciled me with God the Father, that my sins are his and his righteousness mine, that there is an intermingling and an exchange, that Christ is a mediator between me and the Father. For the sins of the whole world were laid upon Christ, and the righteousness of the Father, that is in Christ, will swallow up all our sins.

No sins dare and can remain upon Christ. Such faith makes me pure and acceptable to the Father. Of this faith the pope and our highly educated leaders know nothing to speak, much less to believe. They teach that man should do many good works if he is to be acceptable to God and be free from sin, and that then God imparts to him his grace.

4. However, here the Lord speaks quite differently, and says: “The Holy Spirit will convict the world in respect of sin, because they believe not on me.” Unbelief only is mentioned here as sin, and faith is praised as suppressing and extinguishing the other sins, even the sins in the saints.

Faith is so strong and overpowering that no sin dare put it under any obligation. Although sins are present in pious and believing persons, they are not imputed to them, nor shall their sins condemn them. This is Paul’s meaning when he says in Romans 8:1: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Their hearts are cleansed by faith, as Peter writes in Acts 15:9. Therefore, whatever they do in this faith, in this assurance is all good, pure and pleasing to God. On the contrary, without this faith all their doings are sin and destruction, though their good works may shine and glitter as beautifully as they will, and ever though they raise the dead. For Paul says: “Whatsoever is not of faith is sin,” Romans 14:23.