The Feast of Pentecost - 2024

 

The Day of Pentecost, 2024

Bethany Lutheran Church

10 AM Worship

Pastor Gregory L Jackson

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The melodies are linked in the hymn name. 

The lyrics are linked in the hymn number.

• The melody site is linked here.
• TLH Lyrics are linked on the Bethany Lutheran Hymnal Blog

The Hymn #1         Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty    
The Confession of Sins
The Absolution
The Introit p. 16

Introit

The Spirit of the Lord filleth the world: Hallelujah!

Let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Psalm. Let God arise; let His enemies be scattered: let them also that hate Him flee before Him.

The Gloria Patri
The Kyrie p. 17
The Gloria in Excelsis
The Salutation and Collect p. 19

Collect

O God, who didst teach the hearts of Thy faithful people by sending to them the light of Thy Holy Spirit, grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things and evermore to rejoice in His holy comfort; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, who with Thee and the Holy Ghost liveth, etc.

The Epistle

Gradual 

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Thou sendest forth Thy Spirit, they are created: 

and Thou renewest the face of the earth. Hallelujah!

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of the faithful: 

and kindle in them the fire of Thy love.

The Gospel 
Glory be to Thee, O Lord!
Praise be to Thee, O Christ!
The Nicene Creed p. 22
The Sermon Hymn # 224   Luther - Come Holy Ghost, God and Lord 

The Communion Hymn #227       Come, Holy Ghost, in Love 
The Preface p. 24
The Sanctus p. 26
The Lord's Prayer p. 27
The Words of Institution
The Agnus Dei p. 28
The Nunc Dimittis p. 29
The Benediction p. 31
The Hymn #309       Kingo - O Jesus Blessed Lord

In Our Prayers

• Hebrews 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. God has called from our midst Randy Carlson. His memorial will be in October. He is survived by his wife Ivy, his daughters Andrea, Avelin, and Aimee.
• Prayers continue for Dr. Lito Cruz' surgery, Lori Howell, Pastor Jim Shrader and Chris Shrader, and Sarah Buck.
• Five Super Large Print and ten Large Print KJVs were delivered Saturday to be distributed for prison ministry and retired people.
• Veterans Honor Rose on the altar, with Enchanted Peace. David Austin: Poet's Wife yellow; Queen of Sweden pink; and a two color. 

KJV Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, 10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. 12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? 13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

 From Norma A. Boeckler

KJV John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. 25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. 30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

Keeping His Words

KJV John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

This passage should be a turning point for teachers, pastors, and various salaried managers (circuit pastors, district presidents, synod presidents, and bishops). However, it is not and seems to be mysterious to all those who pose as servants of the Word of God. Claiming "this is what they taught me" cannot stand the test, because the Scriptures are the ruling norm of the Christian Faith. No one has the authority to usurp the Word but that is done on a daily basis. As a result, few people understand the work of the Holy Spirit and therefore become more likely to drift into man-made ideas in conflict with the Scriptures.

Abode is an antique word but not mysterious, we use it in a favorite hymn - Abide With Me. Where people live is an abode, where people stay, unlike a visit or a lodge. So first of all, Jesus teaches the disciples about the Father and Son abiding in the disciples. But the Spirit is promised for the future. The disciples enjoyed their fellowship with Jesus, but they would be without Him for a little while until - the Spirit came upon them.

I was very puzzled by all the strange and conflicting statements from people who claimed to be experts in the Christian Faith. Hoenecke, who was a Biblical theologian wrote this, "The Spirit never without the Word, the Word never without the Spirit. That is sound doctrine." A liberal district president said off-handly - "It only happens through the Word." That left the pastors puzzled silent and deaf, because the Trinity is typically omitted from modern theology. The hip guys and girls only accept God in some, small trifling way. The Trinity is dark to them.

25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. 26 But the Comforter (or Advocate), which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

This is essential, crucial. The Father and Son sent the Holy Spirit to the apostles, who sent the Spirit to their audience (faith comes by hearing) through adult and infant baptism. That also meant that the New Testament Scriptures were guided 100% by the Holy Spirit. 

1. The Father will send the Spirit in the Name of Jesus. (Trinity)
2. He will teach all things to the Apostles
3. He will cause the Apostles to remember all things.

That is why the Scriptures are called efficacious, effective, always united with the Holy Spirit, which is why unbelievers and apostates cannot understand them and remain indifferent or even deaf to the Word. That is also why the Spirit's work is primarily to condemn the world of its unbelief. The condemnation can wake people up.

KJV John 16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

These passages teach us about the power and primacy of the Word of God. We can open the Bible at any point and know with certainty that the Spirit is at work in what we are reading and remembering. In the Old Testament too, there is such a wealth that we cannot learn it in a lifetime but those Spirit-given words will shape and bless our thinking, our words, our prayers.

Faith is required to listen, read, and understand through the Holy Spirit. There is something for our benefit and our troubles all through the Bible, and in directly related sources. Hymns are a great source of spiritual medicine. So are sound books.

Some Biblical passages are quite difficult and they deserve our efforts in clarity. It can take decades to learn what is there and what has been tangled, mangled, and Fuller-angled. 

It means the Spirit is teaching us about God the Father and God the Son. 

27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

God answers our prayers according to His will. We should never ignore that blessing, and always keep in mind, God is fulfilling that request before we even ask - Ephesians and Isaiah.

KJV Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Isaiah 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Tis funny that people put so little stock in God's will and action, but they count on their own gimmicks and attractions. Ancient Rome kept people relatively happy with free bread and Coliseum sports and spectacles. Everything was going downhill after Christ was born, crucified and raised from the dead. Rome had limits on its empire but the Christian Faith spread across the world by people believing in the King of Kings. 

28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. 

Comforting can come later. Trials and difficulties fill our minds, but the presence of the Holy Spirit is always there to guide believers. Jesus carefully guided the disciples so they would not be completely lost, though they did use a locked room for safety. The disciples were given layer upon layer of proof of Jesus' divinity, and that comes to us as well. Their shortcomings encourage us because they were ordinary men in a harsh political system, and Jesus fulfilled His many promises.

29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. 30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

And so, we must see in this Gospel - that everything is in God's hand. 

Pentecost Monday Text
KJV John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry - Alec Satin - Dr. Martin Luther - Dr. Walter Maier

 

Luther's Galatians Commentary Complete and Unabridged by Martin Luther

Martin Luther

April 2024  Lutheran Library Publications

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“‘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

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• Foreword to the First English Edition by Edwin Sandys, Bishop of London
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• Luther’s Preface
• Introductory: The Argument of the Epistle
• The Commentary
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6

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The Big Five - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) Were Already Feeding On the Carrion of Apostasy in 2007

 

I began this blog - warning about apostasy - 17 years ago, and yet there are no acknowledgements. Apostates are those who once believed in Jesus Christ but now have abandoned the Savior by 

1. using cute sayings, 
2. casting grand visions of the future,  
3. promoting hatred of the only worthwhile Bible - the King James Version,
4. coveting the Church of Rome  - or Fuller Seminary -  or both.

The Big Five leaders are like maggots, which have some value. The wiggling white worms look disgusting while they devour carrion and leave healthy flesh alone. The maggots turn into flies and fly off to reproduce more of their kind. The Big Five are examples of maggots making maggots making maggots, the real story behind "making disciples" - the favorite slogan of the Big Five. A WELS professor and pastor argued - "Making disciples who make disciples who make disciples," a false translation of the Great Commission, but who cares?

They even have Giving Counselors, who visit grandparents and sell them Irrevocable Charitable Annuities. What a blessing from their Father Below! An annuity signature takes a large sum away from the elderly and gives it to the synod forever. One widow gave away a profitable business and the synod bankrupted it, causing her to go to court for mishandling the estate. The synod lost the court case and said, "We have to be more careful about the gifts we receive." Yes, they said that out loud, without bursting into laughter.

God has a purpose for everything, although we do not see that purpose in the present. The maggots of apostasy are destined to go away and leave behind those who believe in Jesus Christ and the Scriptures. The remnants do not need the trappings of the synod, even when they are ridiculously small, like the ELS and CLC (sic), more obviously in the downhill spiral.

Every group of believers can gather around a pastor through the Internet. Our little group has gone from Ustream to Vimeo to Zoom, the last one being ideal and relatively inexpensive. My father had a very small business and he was always calculating how stores were created overnight with all the decorations of a thriving business. He would drive the new malls and say, "The rent is going to eat them alive!" The glamorous malls and new discount stores were glittering to us, but pathetic in a few decades.

Any potential or surviving church can get cable, find music, and work on using Zoom. The cost is minimal, especially compared to a building that is very needy but hardly used.

The Big Five will soon be the Barely Alive Three.

WELS, ELCA, and LCMS

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Pentecost 3 - "Yet, in so far as faith holds fast to the Word, it is nevertheless joy, until faith overcomes and the experience follows that Christ has not forsaken us, but, seated at the right hand of the Father, protects and helps us out."

 

Third Sermon: The Promise of the Holy Spirit to those who Love Christ, and his Comfort because of his Departure; or Christ Gives his Disciples a Five-Fold Promise

91. Yes, if ye rightly loved me, as ye think, ye should be glad that I now go away from you, for it is in truth to your best interest, and from the heart ye should be pleased, both for your sake and mine, and should not want to see it otherwise. For my departure does not mean that ye will lose me, or that I or ye shall suffer any hurt; but it is alone for your sake that I should enter into my glory, in my Father’s kingdom, and, sitting at the right hand of the Father, should become a mighty Lord over everything in heaven and upon earth, where I can protect and help you against everything that seeks to injure you. This I cannot do now, upon earth, in my humility and littleness, where I have been sent to suffer and die.

92. For what he says — the Father is greater than I — is not said of the personal, divine essence of his own nature nor of his Father’s as the Arians have falsely interpreted this passage, not wishing to see why or whereof Christ so speaks here; but concerning the difference between the kingdom which he shall have with his Father and his service or servile state in which he was before his resurrection. Now I am small, he wishes to say, in my work and station as a servant; as he says in Matthew 20:28: “The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” That is making one’s self little, and, as St. Paul says in Philippians 2:8, humbling one’s self, or casting one’s self beneath all things and letting sin, death, devil and world tread upon one. But this littleness shall not continue, he says, for that would be a complete undoing; it shall only be a passageway, the way and means by which I come to the Father, where I shall no longer be little, but great and powerful, as he is, and where I shall rule and reign with him forever.

93. That this is the plain, simple meaning of this text appears from the fact that he is speaking here properly of that which he calls going unto the Father. It is not a change in his person or essence. In that sense we do not say of him that he goeth unto the Father, or that he went forth and was separated from the Father, for he is and remains one with the Father, in one divine essence, without beginning or end, to eternity; he dare not ascend higher nor grow greater. But he is speaking concerning the change of office, from his state of service to that of glory and eternal dominion.

94. Therefore, what is said here about going to the Father and about the Father’s being greater, means nothing else than the glorification of Christ, and is said that it may appear what and who he is; not what he in his person should or could be, for that he was already and from eternity, though it was not yet revealed and could not be known, since he was still in the servile, suffering, dying state. The Father was greater than he; not according to the essence of the two persons, by which God is Father and Christ is the Son, but according to dominion and glory. As the schools state it: not by the first act but by the second etc.

95. Therefore, he says, ye should much prefer to see me lay aside this little, humble state and this form of a servant and enter into my own dominion in the character of ruler, which I have enjoyed with my Father from eternity. For this present state upon which I entered through my incarnation of the virgin, necessitates suffering and abasement; but there I shall enjoy supreme authority, with all things under my feet.

96. Now this was said not alone to the disciples, but also to all Christians; for the experience of the apostles is that of Christendom at all times. Christians find themselves in fear and anguish, without comfort and help; with the apostles, such a state would be called a going away of Christ. Such going away grieves in truth; and doubtless the apostles were sorely hurt; they fell into such despair that they all denied Christ and were scattered. This is the hour of deep mourning, when laughter and joy are precious, and there is nothing but need and misery. Here, says Christ, we should rejoice and be glad. Yes, if any one could do it. Flesh and blood, of course. cannot. St. Paul confesses in 2 Corinthians 7:5, that in the flesh he had no rest even though he rejoiced in spirit and in faith and boasted o/f tribulation and of his weakness. And Christ himself says concerning this, in Matthew 26:41: “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” The flesh cannot judge nor think otherwise than it feels, and it prefers not to feel, but to get rid of all that oppresses and torments it.

97. If you would learn the art of dominating your feelings and living above them, you must listen, and hear and grasp the word which Christ utters:

Dear Christians, do believe me, it will not be to your injury, but for your good. My departure does not mean that ye will be forsaken by me, but that I, through this going away, shall conquer, and that ye may experience my power and might as I, seated at the right hand of the Father, rule over your sin and over your enemies, the devil, death and hell; then none of these shall touch you by a hair’s breadth, except at my will, and shall not hurt you, but rather serve and benefit you.

Therefore, do heed my Word above your feelings. If I have told you the truth, saying that I shall go away, which ye shall now be able to prove, so also will I not deceive you in the other matter of my coming again; ye shall be able to say: I did not believe that my Lord Christ would be so near to me and would have helped me in such a wonderful manner; now I could not wish that he had not gone from me.

98. Behold what comfort it is in the hour of greatest need, when Christ seems altogether lost, that one may have the victory if he still holds on to the Word of Christ as to a life saving plank, until he gets out of danger! Thus, he does not sink when the flood of trouble overwhelms horse and wagon. That is what it means, then, to rejoice over the departure of Christ; according to the flesh, altogether a weak and very secret joy. Yet, in so far as faith holds fast to the Word, it is nevertheless joy, until faith overcomes and the experience follows that Christ has not forsaken us, but, seated at the right hand of the Father, protects and helps us out. But none can know this except he experiences it. As the saying is, when the water runs into his mouth, he must learn to swim. “And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe.”

99. This, of course, is said concerning experience. I, indeed, say it to you now in words, but it does not at all enter into you, nor become effective, as yet. I say it in order that ye may, nevertheless, have a little comfort when ye think of it and recall that I had told you beforehand that thus it must be; when ye have once been helped, your faith will be strengthened and ye may also contend further and overcome. “I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me; but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.”

100. Come, then, says he; now we must part. The devil is coming on. He will seize me and think that if he only gets me, then it will be a sorry case with you. As prince and lord of the world, he has destroyed so many that he thinks to continue lord and prince over you. He will also get me between the spurs and undertake to vanquish me. But he shall fail and shall find me to be another than he supposed. With others, he has indeed a claim upon them; he finds them in sin and guilty of eternal death. But in me he has no right of claim and thereby he passes judgment upon himself that, with death and hell, he must lie at my feet, and, moreover, secure nothing from those who are mine.

101. Thus, in the hour of his greatest conflict, he gathers courage and boldness for himself from the strength of his innocence and his advantage over the devil and death, wherein they must meet their ruin by him and forfeit their claim upon those who believe in him and for whose sake he surrenders himself. Thus, by his blood and his death, he takes revenge on the devil for all other blood and death. This blood, which cries for vengeance, is, as the Epistle to the Hebrews says (Hebrews 12:24), far different blood from that of Abel, which cried to God against the murderer.

That is a type of this blood which pronounces condemnation upon the devil and death for all the shed blood of his believers since the beginning of the world. Thus Christ seeks, not alone by his divine power, but also by the weakness of his suffering and death, to despoil the devil of his power and dominion over the Christians, so that he must be cast out, as he says in John 12:31, and leave him the prince and captain of salvation.

102. Why, now, does he do and suffer these things? The devil has no claim upon him and he could easily escape him or could vanquish him. But it must be done, says he, that the world may realize that I love the Father and fulfill his commandment. This is the comforting word by which he reveals to us the Father’s will and heart, that we may see all this which he does and suffers for our sakes was so determined by the Father’s good will; that thus he, as the true, faithful mediator, might appease all of the wrath and displeasure of God, and assure our hearts of his fatherly grace and love.

For how should God yet be angry with or condemn us, since he has so earnestly commanded his Son to divest himself of all his divine glory and might and, for our sakes, cast them under the feet of the devil and of death? But oh, Christ says, if the world but knew and believed that I do not do this of myself, but out of great love, giving my body and life remains of the old birth, still rough and uncouth, is being out of obedience to my Father! Whoever can believe that, is saved already, rescued from the devil and death.

Paul Kelm, DMin Could Do For the Church of England What He Has Done for WELS

 

Face the Issue - The Big Five - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) Are Incompetent

Whether it is the Big Sister (ELCA) or the Waltherian Four (LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC), the synodicals are bound together, whether chasing Thrivent for more money or expressing their malignant dogma. 

Allow me to explain the toxic theologians and their slippery grasp of the Bible, like someone washing the fine china with slippery hands and watching the crockery crash to the floor, angry words exchanged.

KJV Romans 4:25 - Has everyone heard this a thousand times? 

4:25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification!

Is this a question? It is incomplete, like saying "Who was writing..." 

But now it has been recited wrongly for ages, and the illiterate leaders keep parroting the words. Deliberate or just dumb?

Let's make sense out of their nonsense.

Romans 4

KJV Romans 4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

Their LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) opinions collapse from their ignorance and lack of language skills.

Pleased note - or nota bene - Justification by Faith immediately follows this section we call Romans 4, which is all about Justification by Faith starting with Abraham, Genesis 15:6. Let that bounce around in those empty heads - Justification by Faith began with Abraham and ended with the LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic).

1 Timothy 3

A large amount of Objective Justification is based upon Jesus absolving the entire world. Because the OJers have very little  analytical capacity, they only use one phrase of Paul's hymn or poem or statement in 1 Timothy 3:16.

KJV 1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: 

1. God was manifest in the flesh, 
2. justified in the Spirit, 
3. seen of angels, 
4. preached unto the Gentiles, 
5. believed on in the world, 
6. received up into glory.

This is a clear and powerful confession of faith in the Son of God. Therefore, justification in the Spirit means that Jesus' resurrection - by itself - proved His divinity. Nothing in this beautiful statement suggests "the whole world was declared righteous." Only a numbskull would claim that, a sorry example of Waltherian density. 

The new mission plan has been a breakout success.

Remember, acolytes of Saint Walther the Pietist, he learned his OJ from Bishop Martin Stephan STD, who took his followers to America, already convicted of his gross sins and debauchery. The Stephanite leaders knew the truth and lied about their knowledge of Stephan seducing young women who caught his syphilis. 

Walther was so Stephanite stupid that he collapsed the Atonement of Christ into the General Absolution of the entire world.

The foolishness from the Waltherian Four is ridiculous because they constantly search out Scriptures - used in error - to back up their Objective Faithless Justification.

 

Walther hisself loved the two justifications, which only supports his false teaching borrowed from a Halle University professor. This statement comes from a famous American Calvinist who translated Knapp's German work, the translation used extensively in America for about 90 years. The double justification formula will never cease because the Four Waltherian sects love it so dearly. 

Oh No! Quenstedt was a favorite of Dr. Robert Preus. Perhaps the truth slowly came out. All of us have been subjected to similar errors. The Waltherian cults cannot let go of their foolishness.

Note the harmony between Knapp, Rambach, and the Waltherian Four.