The Faithless Five - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) - are openly revealed by their precious synods through this Luther sermon. Do you wonder why there is an abyss between the Lutheran fakes and Luther himself?
Here is a little test from LutherQuest, an ironic approach to faith in the New Testament. Perhaps too much Luther has been quoted on Ichabod with clarity. There is no Luther in LutherQuest. The Objective Faithless Justification heroes steadfastly promote the most dense and stupefying declarations, in harmony with CFW Walther and his chosen toadies. No wonder the Queasies hide from the criminal actions and cover-ups of Bishop Martin Stephan STD and the Great Walther.
The ALPB Forum Ovaltines are just as bad, similar to the LutherQueasies. Both groups flounder in their despair.
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The King James Version and Luther's Sermons
Readers only need the KJV Bible for clarity and Luther's Sermons for explanations. Melanchthon and Chemnitz are also great helps in this Age of Apostasy. These four sources are not only ignored by the Faithless Five - they are also ridiculed, rejected, and given the ignominy of faint praise.
Queasies and Ovaltines No Like
2. Paul’s occasion and meaning in writing this epistle was the security of the Corinthians. Conscious of their privileged enjoyment of Christ, of baptism and the Sacrament, they thought they lacked nothing and fell to creating sects and schisms among themselves. Forgetting charity, they despised one another.
8. But with the great mass of the people, how long did faith last? No longer than until they came into the wilderness. There they began to despise God’s Word, to murmur against Moses and against God and to fall into idolatry.
9. Their punishment was wholly the result of their odious arrogance in boasting in the face of God’s Word, of their privileges as the people of God, upon whom he daily bestowed great kindness. “Do you not recognize,” they bragged, “the holiness of this entire congregation, among whom God dwells, daily performing his marvelous wonders?”
13. Truly it is but lusting after the wrath and punishment of God when, in forgetfulness of and ingratitude for his grace and goodness we seek something new. The world is coming to be filled with the spirit of concupiscence, for the multitude is weary of the Gospel. Particularly are they dissatisfied with it because it profits not the flesh; contributes not to power, wealth and luxury. Men desire again the old and formal things of popery, notwithstanding they suffered therein extreme oppression and were burdened not less than were the people of Israel in Egypt. But they will eventually have to pay a grievous penalty for their concupiscence.
15. Where the Word of God is lacking or disregarded, human wisdom makes-for itself a worship. It will find its pleasure in the thing of its own construction and regard it something to be prized, though it may be imperatively forbidden in God’s Word, perhaps even an abomination before him. Human reason thinks it may handle divine matters according to its own judgment; that God must be pleased with what suits its pleasure. Accordingly, to sanction idolatry, it appropriates the name of the Word of God. The Word must be forced into harmony with the false worship to give the latter an admirable appearance, notwithstanding the worship is essentially the reverse of what it is made to appear. Similarly popery set off its abominations of the mass, of monkery and the worship of saints; and the world in turn seeks to set off that idolatry to make it stand before God’s Word.
23. This last point is akin to the one preceding. Paul defines murmuring against God as an open revolt actuated by unbelief in the Word, a manifestation of anger and impatience, an unwillingness to obey when events are not ordered according to the pleasure of flesh and blood, and a readiness instantly to see God as hating and unwilling to help.
For should Satan get hold of you in earnest with his false doctrine and spiritual delusions, his strong temptations of the soul — contempt of God, for instance — such as assailed Peter and many others of the saints, you could not stand. You are yet weak; you are new and untried Christians.
