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| "There were four lambs playing king of the hay bale and this stout little fellow ended up on top." Photo by Tom Fisher |
Dear Pastor Jackson,
Please post this article and add you comments as you wish. You may use my pictures and videos freely.
Please pray God will heal and fight off the tooth infection until I have oral surgery on May 1.
Please
pray God will help me to write about His Word to strengthen faith in
Jesus without adding our own works. Especially pray God will help me to
share God's Word and my faith in Jesus with my brothers and their
families.
Pastor Jackson I want to thank you for posting my articles on your web site. This gives me encouragement to write.
Modern
day "church membership" replaces Holy Baptism. Why do we trust our own
works instead of God's Work in Holy Baptism? Baptism makes us members of
God's church and gives us the gift of God the Holy Ghost. At Pentecost
God added 3,000 souls to His church by His Word, Will, Name, and Work in
Holy Baptism.
Modern day "church membership"
is actually an unspoken loyalty oath where you promise not to attend
Holy Communion at a different church or Lutheran synod. This completely
destroys Holy Baptism and faith in Jesus. Why do we reject God's Work in
our Baptism by adding our own works, will, endeavoring, devotions, and
loyalty oaths.
Modern day "church membership"
is the same as joining a country club or a football team where you fight
for the team and their uniform and name. The result is complete
destruction of God's Will and Work in Holy Baptism and His efficacious
Word.
God's efficacious Word and His Will and
Work in Holy Baptism must prevail and replace our own works, will,
endeavoring, loyalty oaths, promises, and "modern day church
membership".
Why do we put our trust and
confidence in our "church membership" instead of God's Work in our
Baptism? Why are we afraid and unwilling to say "I am Baptized in the
name of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost instead of saying, "I am
Lutheran."
Today the label of "Lutheran"
actually means you reject justification by faith and cling to
justification prior to and without faith in Christ (Objective and
subjective justification). The label of "Lutheran" means you reject
God's pure Word in the King James Bible and cling to the corrupt modern
Bibles (NIV, ESV, NKJV, NASB, RSV, Beck's, Nestle-Aland, Westcott-Hort,
Vaticanus, Sinaticus, etc ). During the reformation, God clearly
rejected this family of corrupt Bibles and chose the INCORRUPTIBLE
family of Bibles ( Greek TEXTUS RECEPTUS, Ben Chayyim Masoretic Hebrew
Text, Luther's Bible, King James Bible, Russian Synodal Bible, Spanish
Reina-Valera Bible, Czech Bible of Kralice, Portuguese Almeida Recebida
Bible, Dutch Statenvertaling Bible, etc ) that contain NO errors or
omissions.
The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. Psalm 12:6-7
In Christ,
Tom Fisher
