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The Lord Is in His Temple!

In which sense are our churches really and truly houses of God? In which sense are they places of the real and essential presence of Christ? We can desire nothing more beautiful and greater for our houses of God than that they be places where the Holy Supper is celebrated according to the institution of Christ, and a believing congregation is gathered about the altar to receive the true body and the true blood of our Lord. Only then will the church of the Gospel, the church of the pure doctrine remain among us. Only then will it remain, but it will truly remain, "and the gates of hell shall not overpower her" (Matthew 16:18)

And everywhere a congregation is gathered about her altar in the deep faith in the one who is her Lord and her Head because He is her Redeemer, where she sings the Kyrie and the Gloria and lifts her heart to heaven and with all angels and archangels and the entire company of heaven sings, "Holy, Holy, Holy" to the Triune God - there will her church be a true house of God, a place of the real presence of Christ in the midst of a boisterous and unholy world. And this text will apply to her: "The LORD is in His temple! Let all the world be silent before Him!" (Habakkuk 2:20) (Hermann Sasse 1895-1976 from "The Lord Will Answer, a Daily Prayer Catechism" for Saturday, Epiphany 6 pg 128)

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