on October 31st 1517 a German monk stood on biblical convictions against the Roman Catholic church and its leaders through this man a movement was born a Reformation was born a Revolution was born for in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for Faith as it is written the righteous shall live by faith there I began to understand that the righteousness of God is by which the righteous lives by a gift of God namely by faith as this monk stood before the church leaders he planted his feet firmly upon the unchanging truth of
God's word and put his life on the line for the sake of the Gospel I am bound to the scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the word of God I cannot and will not retract anything since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience once eclipsed by a dark cloud of superstition and church Politics the light of the Gospel began to shine again the truth was affirmed that Mere Men are not the Agents of reformation but servants and stewards of God's Reformation of God's word a most pernicious error widely
prevails that scripture has only so much weight as it's conceded to it by the consent of the church as if the Eternal and inviable truth of God depended upon the decision of man throughout the years the church was reminded that against the steadfast forces of a lost and Dying World Faithful Men Must continually reform according to scripture always leading the church back to the immovable foundation of the Gospel the old truth that Calvin preached that Augustin preached that Paul preached is the truth that I must preach today or else be false to my conscience and
my God from Century to Century the battle has raged on but through the Relentless Defenders of the gospel message the church continues to hold her ground Reformation doesn't mean scrapping the whole of the Bible and putting up your own ideas and theories it means the exact opposite it means returning to the Bible every Reformation has been a return to the new test that is the only hope tonight and in this present age today the Gates of Hell continue to wage war on the precious truth brought back into the light in the 16th century with contemporary
challenges arising from within and without the church the need for reformation is as great now as it ever has been We Now find ourselves on the underside of a moral Revolution unprecedented in human history and as long as there are departures and biblical truth we must continue to reassert the call to faithfulness that was famously proclaimed 500 years ago until Jesus comes again the Reformation is never over the church must be it must always be reformed according to the word word of God
