Reformation: The Ongoing Battle for Truth and Faith
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“Isaiah 5:20 says: ‘Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.’ Now if that is not a commentary on our times, I don’t know what is. It is also a summation of the Gospel, isn’t it? Jesus was the evil one, and we’ll crucify Him on the cross, when in fact He is the Light of the World.” [00:01:36]
“Dorothy Sayers, she was a colleague in the Socratic Club, which was a debate club at Oxford, and they would debate theism vs. atheism and evolution and Darwin and things like that, and they would bring various folks in, but we think of her much more as a literary person. She is sort of the matron of crime fiction in the first half of the twentieth century, Lord Peter Wimsey and all of that.” [00:06:29]
“She responds by warmly encapsulating the essence of the Gospel. Listen to this. ‘Too much dull doctrine? The fact is the precise opposite. It is the neglect of dogma that makes more dullness. The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man and the dogma is the drama. This is the dogma we find so dull, this terrifying drama in which God is the victim and the hero.’” [00:07:34]
“The Gospel of Jesus Christ is everything. This is why we need the drama of the Reformation, my assigned topic for today. Twenty-seventeen is going to mark another great event. Another young person, for another book – tell me what is October 31, 2017 going to celebrate? Young person? You’d be surprised! Are there people out there? Oh, you’ve got it. Come and get a book.” [00:09:34]
“Luther’s affirmation of ‘Scripture alone’ as infallible underscores the authority of God’s Word over human traditions. This principle challenges us to prioritize Scripture in our lives, allowing it to guide our beliefs and actions. ‘I affirm that Scripture alone is infallible.’ ‘There, you are a Husite.’ The crowd explodes, shouting in the castle.” [00:14:06]
“Was it not Hus who had said, ‘seek the truth, listen to the truth, teach the truth, love the truth, abide by the truth and defend the truth until death?’ Those who would destroy a man so in love with the truth, they must hate the truth. I’m so weary, yet tomorrow I must face Eck and answer his accusation Husite. Am I the Saxon Hus?” [00:16:21]
“‘On this Rock I will build my church’ so declared Jesus, but what is the rock upon which Christ promised to build His church? On Peter? On the scandalous parade of Popes on down through the centuries who claim succession from Peter? Is Rome Christ’s church with all her vacillating counsels and decrees? If Christ builds His church on the Pope, which Pope?” [00:23:08]
“Christ alone is the Rock of His Church, the soul foundation upon whom she is built, built by the pre-determined plan and unshakable purpose of His Father – hence the true church. Cannot finally be overthrown by the gates of hell or by the assault of persecuting tyrants, for mightier is Christ the King of Heaven, the Bridegroom of the Church than the prince of this world.” [00:23:37]
“Jerome gets really anxious about his friend and he feels that he’s maybe gone too far, and he’s worried, maybe he’s denounced the errors of the church too strongly. Hus replies, ‘We are in God’s hands not in theirs. Fear not, Jerome, they can but kill the body. I would rather suffer the penalties of a terrible death’ says Hus, ‘than affirm anything outside of the faith alone in our Lord Jesus Christ.’” [00:26:05]
“Luther had to discern between loyalty and identity with his Saxon roots, or his identity with Jesus Christ, and he realized that. So he goes in the next morning and he said, ‘I am Husite.’ I’d like to challenge you today. In a room this size with this many people here, there’s probably three kinds of unbelievers in the room, maybe more.” [00:29:13]
“Your loyalty is to yourself, to your life here, to good works, so you imagine – but you don’t know Jesus, you haven’t trusted wholly in Christ. Well do so today. Let’s give Luther the last word here. Luther is wrapping up his whole ministry and he’s asked ‘what was going on in this Drama of the Reformation? What was going on?’ And he responds: ‘I simply taught, preached and wrote the Word of God. I did nothing. The Word did everything.’” [00:31:09]
“July 6th, 1415, Hus was led out in front of the cathedral in Constance – it’s there today, you can see the spot. And he’s tied to a stake and he dies trusting in Christ. He dies singing, chanting, one of the Bethlehem Chapel hymns in Czech – Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me. And then he prays: O Lord Jesus Christ, into Thy hands I deliver my soul which Thou hast redeemed with Thy blood.” [00:28:17]
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“Dorothy Sayers, she was a colleague in the Socratic Club, which was a debate club at Oxford, and they would debate theism vs. atheism and evolution and Darwin and things like that, and they would bring various folks in, but we think of her much more as a literary person. She is sort of the matron of crime fiction in the first half of the twentieth century, Lord Peter Wimsey and all of that.” [00:06:29]
“She responds by warmly encapsulating the essence of the Gospel. Listen to this. ‘Too much dull doctrine? The fact is the precise opposite. It is the neglect of dogma that makes more dullness. The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man and the dogma is the drama. This is the dogma we find so dull, this terrifying drama in which God is the victim and the hero.’” [00:07:34]
“The Gospel of Jesus Christ is everything. This is why we need the drama of the Reformation, my assigned topic for today. Twenty-seventeen is going to mark another great event. Another young person, for another book – tell me what is October 31, 2017 going to celebrate? Young person? You’d be surprised! Are there people out there? Oh, you’ve got it. Come and get a book.” [00:09:34]
“Luther’s affirmation of ‘Scripture alone’ as infallible underscores the authority of God’s Word over human traditions. This principle challenges us to prioritize Scripture in our lives, allowing it to guide our beliefs and actions. ‘I affirm that Scripture alone is infallible.’ ‘There, you are a Husite.’ The crowd explodes, shouting in the castle.” [00:14:06]
“Was it not Hus who had said, ‘seek the truth, listen to the truth, teach the truth, love the truth, abide by the truth and defend the truth until death?’ Those who would destroy a man so in love with the truth, they must hate the truth. I’m so weary, yet tomorrow I must face Eck and answer his accusation Husite. Am I the Saxon Hus?” [00:16:21]
“‘On this Rock I will build my church’ so declared Jesus, but what is the rock upon which Christ promised to build His church? On Peter? On the scandalous parade of Popes on down through the centuries who claim succession from Peter? Is Rome Christ’s church with all her vacillating counsels and decrees? If Christ builds His church on the Pope, which Pope?” [00:23:08]
“Christ alone is the Rock of His Church, the soul foundation upon whom she is built, built by the pre-determined plan and unshakable purpose of His Father – hence the true church. Cannot finally be overthrown by the gates of hell or by the assault of persecuting tyrants, for mightier is Christ the King of Heaven, the Bridegroom of the Church than the prince of this world.” [00:23:37]
“Jerome gets really anxious about his friend and he feels that he’s maybe gone too far, and he’s worried, maybe he’s denounced the errors of the church too strongly. Hus replies, ‘We are in God’s hands not in theirs. Fear not, Jerome, they can but kill the body. I would rather suffer the penalties of a terrible death’ says Hus, ‘than affirm anything outside of the faith alone in our Lord Jesus Christ.’” [00:26:05]
“Luther had to discern between loyalty and identity with his Saxon roots, or his identity with Jesus Christ, and he realized that. So he goes in the next morning and he said, ‘I am Husite.’ I’d like to challenge you today. In a room this size with this many people here, there’s probably three kinds of unbelievers in the room, maybe more.” [00:29:13]
“Your loyalty is to yourself, to your life here, to good works, so you imagine – but you don’t know Jesus, you haven’t trusted wholly in Christ. Well do so today. Let’s give Luther the last word here. Luther is wrapping up his whole ministry and he’s asked ‘what was going on in this Drama of the Reformation? What was going on?’ And he responds: ‘I simply taught, preached and wrote the Word of God. I did nothing. The Word did everything.’” [00:31:09]
“July 6th, 1415, Hus was led out in front of the cathedral in Constance – it’s there today, you can see the spot. And he’s tied to a stake and he dies trusting in Christ. He dies singing, chanting, one of the Bethlehem Chapel hymns in Czech – Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me. And then he prays: O Lord Jesus Christ, into Thy hands I deliver my soul which Thou hast redeemed with Thy blood.” [00:28:17]
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