The War For Souls

[Frank]

The war for souls is raging,
and the world seems oblivious.
Christ gave the Scriptural Gospel
once again to the world
to end the deception
by the counterfeit church
and its counterfeit "gospel",
so that people could again be saved,
and to enable the Protestant Reformation.
But after centuries of onslaught
by the world led by the deceiver,
the Gospel has once again been driven
almost from the face of the earth,
and in its place once again is the counterfeit
"gospel" of "salvation" by surrender,
that saves no one at all
but makes people feel saved
so that they do not seek the real Gospel.
The Gospel is still here, in this remote and lowly
worldwide open forum of Christian newsgroups,
disregarded, mocked, and opposed,
by the world that seeks to destroy it here too.

But Christ has overcome the world,
and he imputes both
his righteousness and victory
to those who believe the Gospel
so that he regards those
as righteous and as overcoming the world too.

This is the Gospel that saves souls:

The moment Christ gives us faith to stop trusting our
"righteousness" and start trusting him to be our Righteous
Substitute so he regards his righteousness and victory ours,
we have eternal life.
(Romans 4, Ephesians 2, Philippians 3, Colossians 1,
John 6, 1 Peter 1, Preface to Luther Latin Works)

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