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  1. Philippians 2:9-15
    9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
    10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth,
    11 And that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
    12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
    13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and do of his good pleasure.
    14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
    15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the mist of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

  2. Another good one.

    Centuries after Ignatius Luther would admonish his readers to consider if they were lax in attending the Sacrament they might not be Christian at all. Christians hunger for the things Christ gives by invitation. They do not run from those who are ordained to deliver them.

    So conventicles are indeed an indication of the rejection of what Christ has ordained, His Sacraments and the Office through which men are ordained to administer/deliver them to us in His Name.

    These chapters also remind me of Jeremiah 44: 25: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: ‘You and your wives have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands, saying, “We will surely keep our vows that we have made, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.” You will surely keep your vows and perform your vows!’ 

    Nothing new under the sun.

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