Oratio, Mediatio, and Tentatio in today's Worldwide Bible Class

Dear Friends,

I’m prepping for today’s Worldwide Bible Class, and it will be a good one. Luther has a lot to say about our Christian life.

Join us if you can. The class starts at 10a central time (in about 30 minutes).

You can join class here: https://zoom.us/j/380267421

(You can always find the up-to-date-ish info here: www.wolfmueller.co/bible.)

Luther on Jacob’s coronation into suffering:

Therefore this example should be set before men’s eyes to show how Jacob is appointed king and priest, and how he is invested with his rule and priesthood. For such is the wretched pomp and ritual connected with anointing and investing this king. He is not clothed with a royal robe, is not adorned with a fillet or a royal crown. No scepter is put into his hands. But he is equipped with a bag and a staff and is driven into exile. The blessing, however, is left to his brother Esau, to whom it did not by any means pertain. But finally, after Jacob has been mortified through faith in the invisible God, the visible blessing follows, the seed of Jacob takes possession of the land, and Christ is born from that seed—Christ, the eternal King and Priest whose kingdom and priesthood is contained in this blessing.

Luther talking about the Christian on the way of the cross:

Thus we who believe the Word of God are the church. We have a most certain promise, into which we have been called and baptized, and by which we are nourished and sustained; we have the Sacrament of the Altar and the power of the Keys. But we are not Christians and have not been baptized in order that we may get possession of this land. Nor have we been baptized V 5, p 186 and born again into this life; we have been baptized and born again into eternal life. But what happens in regard to us too? Surely this, that when the church must be glorified and brought to those eternal joys which it awaits in the Word and in hope, then it is subjected to countless persecutions of tyrants and devils; it is harassed and torn by false brethren in many most pitiable ways. This is not what being led to eternal life means, is it? Indeed, it means being exposed to eternal misery. Yet hearts must be buoyed up and strengthened against this way of the cross.

If you can’t join us live, the recording will end up on the Worldwide Bible Study playlist, and What-Not, The Podcast.

See you soon!

PrBW