Scary Day

Today is often associated with scary images. Imagine this…

Tomorrow you wake up and there is no Bible that you can read. In Fact, the only Bible you know of is in the church in town and it is only in Latin (which you don’t know).

This was the situation 490 years ago and it was a little known monk called Martin Luther on October 31^st nailed 95 theses on the door of Schlosskirche (castle church), this was the way that people entered into debates for thought (I guess kind of like web logs today).

It was this young monk that stood up to the powerful church and monarchy of the day. He eventually would spend much time in the room pictured above translating the Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew into modern German. God used Martin and other godly men to bring the Bible to the common languages of the people. How is your time in God’s precious Word lately? Have you ever taken God's Word for granted?

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. -Hebrews 4:12 (ESV)

The first and chief article is this: Jesus Christ, our God and Lord, died for our sins and was raised again for our justification (Romans 3:24-25). He alone is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29), and God has laid on Him the iniquity of us all (Isaiah 53:6). All have sinned and are justified freely, without their own works and merits, by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, in His blood (Romans 3:23-25). This is necessary to believe. This cannot be otherwise acquired or grasped by any work, law, or merit. Therefore, it is clear and certain that this faith alone justifies us ... Nothing of this article can be yielded or surrendered, even though heaven and earth and everything else falls (Mark 13:31)

-Martin Luther