Luke 12:51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.

1. The Lord who brings ____________ creates ____________.

2. The peace we have fro heaven is Jesus, who ____________ rebels with His ____________.

3. To have faith in Christ is to be ____________ from the ____________.

Scripture Readings
Jeremiah 23:16-29
Hebrews 11:17-31
Luke 12:49-56

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What more would you have or desire than that He so kindly promises to be yours with every blessing, and to protect and help you in all need?

But, alas! here is the failure, that the world believes nothing of this, nor regards it as God's Word because it sees that those who trust in God and not in Mammon suffer care and want, and the devil opposes and resists them, that they have neither money, favor, nor honor, and, besides, can scarcely support life; while, on the other hand, those who serve Mammon have power, favor, honor, possessions, and every comfort in the eyes of the world. For this reason, these words must be grasped as being directed against such appearances; and we must consider that they do not lie or deceive, but must come true.

The Large Catechism: Appendix to the First Commandment


For wherever there are godly preachers and Christians, they must bear the sentence before the world that they are called heretics, apostates, yea, seditious and desperately wicked miscreants. Besides, the Word of God must suffer in the most shameful and malicious manner, being persecuted, blasphemed, contradicted, perverted, and falsely cited and interpreted. But let this pass; for it is the way of the blind world that she condemns and persecutes the truth and the children of God, and yet esteems it no sin.

The Large Catechism: The Eighth Commandment