Five Minutes a Day with Luther - 05-24-2012
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Five Minutes with Luther
May 24, 2012, 8:05:01 AM5/24/12
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FIVE MINUTES A DAY WITH LUTHER
** Now available in book form: http://lcmssermons.com/about5mins.php **
May 24
Gal 6:7 Do not be deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a
man sows, that he shall also reap.
* * *
Paul now adds to his former correction and exhortation a
threatening: "Do not be deceived; God is not mocked." He touches
to the quick the perverseness of those who despise the ministry.
"God is not mocked," that is to say, God does not suffer Himself
to be mocked in His ministers. For He says: "He that despises
you, despises Me" (Luke 10:16). And to Samuel He says: "They
have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me" (1 Sam 8:7) .
Therefore, although God may defer His punishment for a season,
yet when He sees fit, He will locate the mockers, and will
punish their contempt of His Word and bitter hatred which they
bear against His ministers. Therefore they deceive not God but
themselves. They shall not laugh at God, but He will laugh at
them (Psalm 2). They shall feel, when death approaches,
whether they have mocked themselves or God's ministers, or
rather, not God's ministers, but God Himself, as Paul says here.
All these things work to this purpose, that ministers should be
nourished and maintained. Men must be admonished about this,
that they may know that they ought to yield to their pastors
both reverence and a necessary living. Our Savior teaches the
same thing: "Eating and drinking what they give you: for the
laborer is worthy of his hire" (Luke 10:7). And Paul says in
another place: "So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the
gospel to get their living from the gospel." (1 Cor. 9:14).
Whatever, Lord, we lend to Thee,
Repaid a thousand-fold will be;
Then gladly will we give to Thee
Who givest all.
---
Cuda.
aka Pastor Robin Fish
Lutheran to the core -- and just a little beyond.
View online at http://lcmssermons.com/5mins.php?d=2012-05-24
These daily readings are now available in book form;
read about it at http://lcmssermons.com/about5mins.php.
** Now available in book form: http://lcmssermons.com/about5mins.php **
May 24
Gal 6:7 Do not be deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a
man sows, that he shall also reap.
* * *
Paul now adds to his former correction and exhortation a
threatening: "Do not be deceived; God is not mocked." He touches
to the quick the perverseness of those who despise the ministry.
"God is not mocked," that is to say, God does not suffer Himself
to be mocked in His ministers. For He says: "He that despises
you, despises Me" (Luke 10:16). And to Samuel He says: "They
have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me" (1 Sam 8:7) .
Therefore, although God may defer His punishment for a season,
yet when He sees fit, He will locate the mockers, and will
punish their contempt of His Word and bitter hatred which they
bear against His ministers. Therefore they deceive not God but
themselves. They shall not laugh at God, but He will laugh at
them (Psalm 2). They shall feel, when death approaches,
whether they have mocked themselves or God's ministers, or
rather, not God's ministers, but God Himself, as Paul says here.
All these things work to this purpose, that ministers should be
nourished and maintained. Men must be admonished about this,
that they may know that they ought to yield to their pastors
both reverence and a necessary living. Our Savior teaches the
same thing: "Eating and drinking what they give you: for the
laborer is worthy of his hire" (Luke 10:7). And Paul says in
another place: "So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the
gospel to get their living from the gospel." (1 Cor. 9:14).
Whatever, Lord, we lend to Thee,
Repaid a thousand-fold will be;
Then gladly will we give to Thee
Who givest all.
---
Cuda.
aka Pastor Robin Fish
Lutheran to the core -- and just a little beyond.
View online at http://lcmssermons.com/5mins.php?d=2012-05-24
These daily readings are now available in book form;
read about it at http://lcmssermons.com/about5mins.php.
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