The Required Confession
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 105 minutes
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When the world demands that we speak falsely about the faith, we are required to speak the truth; when the world demands that we speak truthfully about the faith, but neglect certain truths, then it is those very truths the world tells us to ignore that we must profess all the more loudly. Satan, although he is the father of lies, does not always lie; where it is possible to do so, it is often far more effective to mislead with the truth — to lie by omission. This is what the world so often demands of Christians today.
If the world says we must call slavery sin, then we affirm that Scripture does not call slavery sin and even commands it in places. If the world says we must tolerate homosexuality or false religions, then we affirm that Scripture condemns such things as abomination. If the world tells us that it is fine to say that our sins crucified Christ, that the Romans crucified Christ, and that Pilate crucified Christ, but that we must not say that the Jews murdered Christ, then we affirm in no uncertain terms that the Jews murdered Christ.
There are no optional parts of Scripture — we, as Christians, are required to affirm the full counsel of God. To deflect with an irrelevant truth is no less a lie than an affirmative false statement. Whether you are fated to be a confessor or a martyr is in God’s hands, but it is in your hands to decide whether you will follow God or yield to the world.
There is no promise of salvation for those who apostatize by denying the Word of God.
If I profess with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christianity. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace to him, if he flinches at that one point.
— St. Martin Luther, Confessor
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Show Notes
- Scripture readings from the end of the episode:
- Acts 7:51–53
- John 8:34–47
- Matthew 12:14
- John 5:18
- John 7:1
- John 7:19–20
- John 10:31
- John 11:8
- John 11:53
- Matthew 26:3–4
- John 5:16–17
- Acts 2:22–25
- Acts 2:36–41
- Acts 3:14–15
- Acts 5:27–33
- 1 Thessalonians 2:14–16
- Luke 23:13–16
- Matthew 27:20
- Luke 23:18–23
- Matthew 27:24–26
- HB 1076 (the South Dakota law mentioned in the episode) [PDF]
- IHRA definition of “antisemitism” (with examples)
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The word “masturbation” is used once in the middle of the episode.
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| 0:00.0 | The The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.7 | And I'm still, whoa. |
| 0:44.9 | It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps to be throughout the whole kingdom, |
| 0:51.3 | and over them three high officials, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these |
| 0:56.1 | satraps should give a count, so that the king might suffer no loss. Then this Daniel became |
| 1:02.0 | distinguished above all the other high officials and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him, |
| 1:07.6 | and the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. Then the high officials and |
| 1:12.1 | the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, |
| 1:17.3 | but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error |
| 1:22.9 | or fault was found in him. Then these men said, we shall not find any ground for complaint against |
| 1:29.3 | this Daniel, unless we find it in connection with the law of his God. Then these high officials and |
| 1:35.1 | satraps came by agreement to the king and said to him, O King Darius, live forever. All the high |
| 1:41.6 | officials of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the councillors and the governors, are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an injunction, that whoever makes petition to any God or man for 30 days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. Now, O King, establish the injunction and sign the document, |
| 2:03.2 | so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be |
| 2:08.5 | revoked. Therefore, King Darius signed the document and injunction. When Daniel knew that the document |
| 2:15.3 | had been signed, he went to his house, where he had windows in his upper chamber, opened toward Jerusalem. |
| 2:20.3 | He got down on his knees three times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously. |
| 2:28.3 | Then these men came by agreement, and found Daniel making petition and plea before his God. |
| 2:33.3 | Then they came near and plea before his God. |
| 2:38.1 | Then they came near and said before the king concerning the injunction, |
| 2:44.0 | O king, did you not sign an injunction that anyone who makes petition to any God or man, |
| 2:49.0 | within 30 days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. |
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