The Pilgrim Path---Romans 1: 16, 17
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
“THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL LIVE BY FAITH”
On this day in 1517 an Augustinian theologian named Martin Luther began to shake the world. He posted 95-Theses on the castle church door at Wittenburg, Germany. This is how you called for debate in his day. He took issue with the Church selling papers that offered forgiveness of sin to the buyer. Luther’s path would forever clarify the biblical view of salvation by grace through faith alone---in Jesus Christ the LORD. The printing press would providentially spread his theses across Germany within two weeks (across Europe in two months).
Luther was not a perfect man, but he was an individual of heroic faith. Here are some Luther quotes for Reformation Day 2024:
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
The kingdom of Christ is a kingdom of grace, mercy, and of all comfort.
No man understands the scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the cross.
We should always be ready when God knocks, prepared to take our leave of this world like Christians.
We cannot vex the devil more than by teaching, preaching, singing, and talking of Jesus.
The right, practical divinity is this: Believe in Christ and do thy duty in that state of life to which God has called thee.
Truly, if God were to give an account to every one of his works and actions, He were but a poor, simple God.
When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.
Where human help is at an end, God’s help begins.
He that can humble himself earnestly before God in Christ, has already won.
Without Christ, God will not be found, known, or comprehended.
The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that He sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.
If a man serves not God only, then surely, he serves the devil.
God only, and not wealth, maintains the world; riches merely make people proud and lazy.
All the wisdom of the world is childish foolishness in comparison with the acknowledgement of Christ.
I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth---the condemning of God’s Word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the world.
The Word is sure, and fails not, though heaven and earth must pass away.
Grace & peace in Jesus, The Only Redeemer of broken and wretched souls, Pastor Jason