We must not determine the status of our faith on the basis of of our feeling of comfort or spiritual joy. -- Blessed Martin Chemnitz, *Justification* p. 106
"add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love."
Yes indeed, the fruits of faith. What I particularly love is that St. Peter tells us that if these qualities are absent, then the problem is that we've forgotten that we've been cleansed from our sin.
I think when old Luther wrote that we're all enthusiasts by nature he acknowledged that we're all pentecostals in our hearts - we natively rely on those feelings.
Very good. So how do you determine it?
ReplyDelete2 Peter 1:5-9! Living faith produces love; a faith that does not issue forth in love is but a dead faith that saves not a soul.
ReplyDeleteExcellent.
ReplyDelete"add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love."
In other words, good works, yes?
Yes indeed, the fruits of faith. What I particularly love is that St. Peter tells us that if these qualities are absent, then the problem is that we've forgotten that we've been cleansed from our sin.
ReplyDeletePr. Will,
ReplyDeleteThanks for this quote.
I needed that, my Pentecostality sometimes creeps in an needs a corrective.
LPC
Lito,
ReplyDeleteI think when old Luther wrote that we're all enthusiasts by nature he acknowledged that we're all pentecostals in our hearts - we natively rely on those feelings.