Can you keep the law?
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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God be praised for His Word!
Thank you for the video. It was a helpful lesson and parable.
One of the aggravating things about discussing this with evangelicals is that they argue that the inability to keep the law is only a pre-conversion issue.
Try discussing it with Lutherans... both Wolf and Fiene blocked me for asking them to talk about this stuff.
They say one thing on the screen, but when you actually meet them, they are all for show and will cast you out the second you ask questions.
@@CarolusInciusEtScoti and what was your question? You don’t seem to be blocked by Pastor Wolfmueller at the moment.
@@Outrider74 Ah, very good, I will check now.. Thank you for your advocacy and exhortation of our pastors to a fulfillment of their Godly vocations. And I explained what my question was earlier.
My question to you is what does the 8th commandment say?.
@@Outrider74 Did you call and ask him? The Reformation is here...
@@Outrider74 Remember that God loves you Mr. Dean... and that you cannot keep the law. It is not about being right, it is about being repentant.
All theology must be approached in repentance... for it is not to explain justification of God by man, rather the justification of Man by God.
I really think humility is something that I could spend another year meditating on more intentionally. It's so misunderstood in so many ways. At least that's my impression. Thanks for this reminder of Truth, Pastor Wolfmueller!
Yep... These Pastors won't actually talk to you about lutheranism if you actually ask them to. Both Fiene and Wolf blocked me because they like their light safely under a basket.
pray for them... or join in.
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join the talk. this is reformation.
Thank you Pastor Wolfmueller. You’re perspective is always eye-opening.
If only he would open his own eyes. He won't even talk to me anymore. Him nor Fiene. Both blocked me because I asked questions they didn't like...
And what would those questions be?
@@judithtaylor6713 Why he and Fiene block fellow lutherans and make a mockery of our doctrine privately whilst professing it publicly? They become quite hostile when asked any question actually it seems...
what is the answer for the hope that is in you? are you ready to give it now?
that would be a great question.
God loves you Judith. And He loves all of us and gave us the wonderful right doctrine here in Lutheranism... if we don't throw it away.
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@@judithtaylor6713 My questions for him would be why did the LCMS slander me and literally leave me to die in the actual desert? I thank them for blessing me by the beatitudes... but at this point I am still a member in good standing. They need to either excommunicate me or allow me to come to confession and absolution... they literally will not even look left or right...
I have Cathy Harrison's line too if you want it...
@@judithtaylor6713 Show love to the LCMS pastors and this church that I love so much too... These men are good men, but we have become so obsessed with being right we forgot to repent...
it is not about being righteous... it is about being made righteous by Christ and His great love for us...
The LCMS doesn't have an unbelief problem... we have a refusal to look problem... what good is sola scriptura is you ignore the bible like a baptist? what good is the formula of concord if your input numbers are incorrect because you didn't even look at the problem?
Hi Pastor Bryan,
Sure enjoyed seeing you and Kerry last Sunday!
Dave
"yet as the law must be fulfilled
or we must die despairing
Christ came and has God's anger stilled
Our human nature bearing
He has for us the law obeyed
And thus the father's vengeance stayed
Which over us impended"
We keep the law by abiding in Christ like a branch abides in the vine (John 15), and we allow God's grace to change or reorient our lives around Jesus Christ's righteousness, life, and salvation so that we may become more like Him. We allow the righteousness of Christ (which has fulfilled the whole nature of the law) and live in Him as to abide within a "law abiding" way. By allowing God the Father to help us through the person and nature of Jesus, we become "law abiding citizens" in this life and in the life to come. I don't know if that is what you mean by what you are saying, Pastor, but that's how I interpreted it. I pray this helps somebody understand that by being in Christ, we have been fulfilled and completed in the law by only being in Him. Praise be to God
This was so good!
Thanks!
Thank you pastor. God be praised!! 😊😊😊😊😊
Thanks for posting. This doctrine is important in apologetics when dealing with other denominations and doctrines, and is a part of "embracing the paradoxes of Scripture". It also helps in understanding the pietism of say, Methodism, and the resulting cultures it creates.
Happy Luther's Reformation Day. 📖✝️🕊
Martin Luther who said, “I can only choose to adhere to the Word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I ever make any recantation, since it is neither right nor safe to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.”
Luther went through many stages of Faith in Christ.
And finally realized Christ did it all.
“But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.”
Titus 3:4-7 NIV
Thanks for the preaching....
The Law reminds us we need God's Grace in Christ.
if only modern lutherans like wolf and fiene had spines and would actually give an answer for the hope that is in them instead of blocking fellow lutherans for asking to be taught... these men are hypocrites... once more there are more papists in the church that need to be corrected...
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Amen brother, great illustration!!
I really really hope that this is all true.
I kept waiting for the little boys older brother to come home from college; lift up the boy and let him dunk the ball.
Can anyone at any age become a Luthern?
Just as anyone at any age can become a Christian. I was baptized as an infant, and my parents sang and spoke to me of my Savior long before any child psychologist would say I understood. My testimony is that from my earliest memories, Jesus was always my Savior. There was never a time he wasn't.
My grandfather-in-law didn't become a Christian until he had severe dementia. One day two years ago, for the last time, my father-in-law asked him, "Will you please join me in the Lord's family." He'd asked thousands of times for decades. This time he said, Yes!
@@Mygoalwogel I'm Christian, just not Luthern.
Absolutely
If you believe that you are saved by Christ alone, you could be a Lutheran. If you believe Scripture word for word, you might be a Lutheran. If you believe Mark 16 where Christ says if you believe and are Baptized, you shall be saved, you might be a Lutheran. If you believe, as it says in 2 Peter, that Baptism now saves and you love seeing babies get Baptized, you are very likely a Lutheran ...
@@jakobnath3466 Thank you.
That was really helpful. Thankyou Pastor.
great stuff! Question: what is the difference between the law and the Law (capital L)?
Happy Reformation Day! I think you could say it’s “possible” for a free human to keep the Law. Our first parents could’ve kept the law but were deceived by the serpent. Since then, no human being has been entirely free, since we are all slaves to sin.
Yes, I hope Pastor Wolfmueller follows this up with a video on the four states of the will. In this video he is clearly talking about the second state, since the Fall.
yep... happy reformation day indeed... Both Wolf and Fiene love the UA-cams but will block and refuse to talk to you if you talk to them in person. they care not for anything but their own egos... don't take my word for it!
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join the talk. The reformation isn't over, friends.
Pastor, can you tell us why you don’t mention Martin Luther on reformation day? Wouldn’t it be safe to say that without Martin Luther there wouldn’t be a reformation day?
Just playing devil’s advocate.
Isn’t the problem in this analogy that the son has been created (by the father) such that he is incapable of willing to eat his vegetables and obey his parents? Or isn’t the problem that his will is by nature bent toward disobedience, for which he is punished? Like punishing a leopard for having spots? It seems like the first analogy works, but the same “problem” arises with the explanation.
Thank you for these videos, pastor!
I don't have to. I'm saved by Grace. However the OT Saints under the Law were able to keep it. What they could not do was not sin. God gave the provisions of Temple worship so they could keep the Law. If they did what the Law instructed, they kept the Law. It was a bit like today; speed, get a ticket, you broke the law. Pay the fine and your back in good graces with the law.
Too many religions today have created things their members must do. Basically those religions are trying to control the membership by lording over their salvation.
I walk my cat
Can we keep the admonishment/ command of Jesus to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, visit the sick, etc., or He will say, when they tell Him how many good works they did in His name, "Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity, I never knew you."? It sounds like this is something we're not forgiven for by grace.
That's an interesting thought. It seems the people who did those good things mentioned them to show themselves to be good. But no amount of good deeds we do is ever even close enough to make ourselves good. Only Christ's finished work on the cross is enough. Do the good work, but be clear about it that our work does not wash away our sin or make us justified. Sorry, I'm no theologian.
@@dnzswithwombats The people mentioning themselves were boasting about the Ministerial works they had done in Jesus' name. He rebuked them for not having done His Missionary works. There's a contradiction of some kind here, one way or another.
@@dorinamary7863 where does it say that, please?
@@dnzswithwombats Matthew 25:31-46
31When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
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So, can we as Christians just shrug that off and say we're forgiven for these sins of omission because of Christ's work on the Cross? I would say Jesus is telling them that a true conversion will produce the Father's heart in faithful believers and followers. Jesus demonstrated what that was in His special love for and ministry to the afflicted and oppressed, the outcasts and downtrodden. Shouldn't a true conversion produce that in us as well?
And Matthew 7:21-23 -- remember the "will of the Father".
21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.