{"id":203,"date":"2012-05-15T17:07:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=203"},"modified":"2012-05-15T17:10:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:10:55","slug":"no-thanks-from-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/05\/15\/no-thanks-from-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"No Thanks from the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In great part we serve, teach, admonish, suffer, give consolation, and do things commanded by God for unworthy men.\u00a0 Here we gain nothing for our services but hatred, envy, and exile; and our whole life is nothing else than the loss\u00a0of kindness.\u00a0 Therefore, you must never hope that the world will acknowledge and remunerate your faithfulness and diligence; for it does the opposite&#8230;.Set another goal, therefore, for your service and your life than the thanks of the world.\u00a0 Its gratitude is suddenly changed into fury.&#8221; Martin Luther, <em>Lectures on Genesis<\/em>, Luther&#8217;s Works, vol. 7, pp. 97.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Luther\u00a0gave sound advice in relation to worldly accolades in his lectures on Genesis.\u00a0 Here he considers Genesis 39:19 and Joseph&#8217;s tribulations in Egypt. He particularly warns future pastors to expect some to be grateful and others to want to take their\u00a0lives.\u00a0 However, this idea can apply to anyone who teaches for\u00a0worldly approval.\u00a0 Luther exhorted his students (most of whom became pastors)\u00a0to serve and teach even the wicked and ungrateful in imitation of God (Matthew 5).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In great part we serve, teach, admonish, suffer, give consolation, and do things commanded by God for unworthy men.\u00a0 Here we gain nothing for our services but hatred, envy, and exile; and our whole life is nothing else than the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/05\/15\/no-thanks-from-the-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-martin-luther-history","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}