Ones, pay attention, I'm going to do here today, a historical approach, and very basic, for some, it's the same message that I preached on Monday, now in the town of Cascia, Minas Gerais, you know that Monday is day 31 of October day 31 of October, and how important is this date for us Christians? For we Protestants? Is 31 October 2016, the Protestant Reformation started by Martin Luther, celebrated 499 years, so we were in October, the month of the reform, we are in the year of 499 years of the Protestant Reformation, next year, the Protestant Reformation 2017 will complete half a Millennium , five centuries ago, 500 years.
And maybe you members here of the Church, or those who will watch me, still have no domain, do not yet know, do not know what it was that fact in the history of the Church, not yet know . . .
basically what was the Protestant Reformation, why was it necessary for the Protestant Reformation? What do you mean the word reform? What do you mean the word reform?
Why was it necessary for 499 years ago, reform be made? The word reform basically has a sense of what? Reform, reform, bring back the form, give back the form, bring back the way that you lost your way, that's reform, that's reform, bring back the form, and why is reform needed?
It is only necessary to reform, when occurs a deforms, what is the warps? It's what your way loses was deformed, if deformed, lost your way, that you lose your way, warps, it is necessary to have a reform, bring back the form. But before there is a deformed, there needs to be a way, a form, what is fashion?
Identity, form, profile, default, so before the Protestant Reformation, . . .
the Church first had a form, the Church was born, . . .
and when will the Church have? When is the Church's identity? You know that in the intertestamentário period, which runs from Malachi, Matthew, of Malachi, the last Prophet, the last book of the old testament, to Matthew with the coming of John the Baptist, was a period of at least 400 years without God send a prophet, without God talk to the man, During this period of year, Malachi to Matthew, the Empire that predominated was the Greek Macedonian Empire of Alexander the great, with the death of Alexander the great, the Empire split with his four generals, the Ptolemies and the Seleucids, till in the interim , another Empire begins to grow and be born and grow up and rule the world, the “Roman Empire”, .
. . and after four centuries, of Malachi to Matthew, the Messiah then rises, comes to Earth on the Government of a predominant Empire on Earth at the time, the Roman Empire.
Jesus was born of a Virgin, fulfilling all the prophecies of the prophets of the old testament, and he grows up and begins his Ministry, establishes his Kingdom, with power and authority, dies on the cross, fulfilling all the righteousness of God, risen on the third day, and is a period of 40 days on Earth with the glorified body, resurrected, and He before he gives a mission, to his disciples, the task of the "great Commission", and makes them a promise "Ye shall receive power, virtue, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, until ye be coated power from on high", He was doing a mention too, the fulfillment of another prophecy, centuries before him, the prophecy of Joel; "And be it in recent times, the past few days, I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh", in acts Chapter 2 what occurs? The descent of the Holy Spirit on the feast of Pentecost. What is Pentecost?
It's a party that happened 50 days after Easter, so the term; Penta, five, 50, Pentecost, then it's a party that celebrated the first fruits, the first crops, in this period of this Jewish holiday, Pentecost, is where the Holy Spirit descends, and there begins the first conversions, so the parallel with the Pentecost, the first crops, the first harvest of souls, and there rises the Church of Christ, it begins there is, is, is, take their first steps in Acts Chapter 2 says: "when the day of Pentecost, (what is? Is the Jewish feast of the harvest, in the fiftieth day after Easter, on this date), were all gathered in the same place; And suddenly came from the sky a noise like a strong wind and impetuous, and descended upon that place, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit ", there rises the Church of Christ, there she is born, with the descent of the Holy Spirit, about those brothers, in verse 42 of the same chapter says: "And continued with one unanimous, in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship, ' and in the prayers and the breaking of bread, and all eat together at home with gladness and singleness of heart, falling in the grace of the people and praising God, and the Lord added every day , the number of those who would be saved. "In verse 42 on, the Church is born here at 2:1, in 42 she begins to take shape, and your continued steadfastly in the Apostles ' doctrine, the church now will have way, will have a base, you're going to have standards, will have a profile set, and she takes shape based on the doctrine of the Apostles, which is the doctrine of the Apostles?
The teachings that the Apostles received from Jesus Christ, while he was with them, three and a half years, there he introduces your Kingdom, and along with the Kingdom gives the Constitution of the Kingdom, raises the standard of the law, it gives a deeper understanding of the law, He his Apostles doctrine then the Apostles subsequently will teach the converts, will teach the Church, with it receiving the Lord, this is called the doctrine of the Apostles, the foundations, the foundations of the Christian faith, the Foundation of the Christian Church, the Church needs a stone to be founded, She is Christ, she need bricks, the Apostles and the rest of the converts, in Acts Chapter 9, the Church continues taking your way, she continues to grow, but in Acts Chapter 9, she will . . .
occurs the conversion of a man of Cilicia, a Pharisee of Pharisee, of the tribe of Benjamin, a student of Gamaliel, Saul has an encounter with the Lord, going on the road to Damascus There he becomes, then, the man who will be responsible for the Theology of the Church, the man who will be responsible for writing the backbone of theology, Paul, he writes his Epistles, which are all of doctrinal character, being Romans and Ephesians, the more deep, now the Church will complete the doctrinal and theological form your, she takes your order, she now will be founded on Justification by faith alone, a man may be justified, pardoned, his sins only by faith. Acts Chapter 4:12 says; "There's only one name under heaven, from which we must be saved; Jesus Christ ". Paul will show you that salvation is by grace ", cannot be obtained by observing the law, because it is clear that under the law, no one is justified by the works of the law, so when writing the Ephesians to say; "By grace you have been saved, through faith, that's not you, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast", so the Church takes your order.
She has, she has, she has she has theology pastor, she has master, she has the Evangelist, she takes your order, she is born in acts 2 and Acts 2:42 it starts your way, with the doctrine of the Apostles, with the conversion and the writings of Paul She gets in your glance, and she has well defined way, indoctrinating your mind. In Chapter 8 of acts, at the end of the 7, a great chase begins on the disciples, so the first martyr of the Church, have him figure of Estevão, the Church is scattered because of this persecution, and she's going to leave the bounds of Jerusalem, and begins to preach in Judea and Samaria, then the Church begins to grow . .
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. the Church begins to grow around the perimeter of the Roman Empire, Saul Paul converted, which is already established, which is already writing the theological basis of the Church, he then proceeds with his missionary journeys, the great pioneer of faith, and now he will spread the Gospel for the whole Mediterranean basin, it will start planting churches in Asia minor, it will start to plant the Church in Thessaloniki, Berea, Antioch of Psidia, Antioch of Syria, he is planting churches in Colossi, so he starts spread in 40 years, the Church has infiltrated all over the Roman Empire, there the Church was born, the Church is strong , the Church is powerful, the Church is large, the Church's firm, the Church has form, the Church is filled, containing the Church is full off Biblical and theological content; Paul is dead, in the year 60, 64, at the behest of Nero, and the other Apostles are dying, Nero is the present Emperor, Nero is considered a, a crazy man, a murderer, however, the Church continues to grow until it reaches 90 year Domitian, the last member of the Apostolic College alive is John, who is stuck on the island of Patmos, and will close the Canon of Scripture, with the revelation of the Apocalypse, even at that time the Church grew, it was big, it was powerful, was advancing, being planted churches in the whole territory, whether Jew, whether Gentile, John also dies , a natural death, and then begins the Patristic period, where the Church follows growing, Polycarp, Irineu de Leon, Ignatius of Antioch, John Chrysostom, and they remain, and in that period until late, late third century, where the Church is your greatest persecution If I'm not mistaken, by Septimius Severus, is where the Church expands, and it grows to the point of Tertullian tell; The Church's blood, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. Until the end of the third century, the Church of Christ is healthy, is growing, it's strong, it's with all your way .
. . , but in the 4th century, in the year 313, what happens?
Constantine's Emperor, and in one of his battles he has a vision, where Christ gives him victory, over the other Emperor Maxentius, because of that victory he enacts the official religion of the Empire, the Empire's official Christianity, in this period, the Church begins to lose your way at the beginning of the 4th century, at 313. He decreed the official religion of the Empire, Christianity, Church and State, becoming head of State and head of the Church, then began a deforms. Start then enter within the Church, paganism and practices of Greco-Roman culture, elements of Greco-Roman culture, Greco-Roman, begin to be inserted into the elements of worship.
We have then, seventh century, the beginning of it, in Year 607, the Emperor Focas, Bishop of Rome, Universal Bishop, starts around one of the greatest heresies of the Church, the Roman Papacy, the Roman Papacy, and that, in a growing Church heresies, and deviation from the Truth, she's paganizing, until in the 12th century , initiating the period called period of darkness, and starts the Inquisition, , the Court of the Holy Office, the witch hunt, tortures are promoted by the Catholic Church, deaths are promoted, slaughter, murder, infanticide, in search of heretics, people are condemned to die in fire, die drowned, being tortured with various elements of torture, whose which, only a small percentage, the Catholic Church released so that we knew what she was doing. Then you note that during this period, the Church of Christ will losing your way, that's what happened, so you know, up to the year 300, the Church of Christ remained healthy, with fights, with Yes, difficulties entering heresies, persecution, martyrdom, but she still was founded in good doctrine, . .
. Sound Doctrine, in the Holy Scriptures, they still kept the Gospels, the copies of the Gospels, copies of the writings of Paul, were being transferred from generations to generations, but in the conversion of Constantine, will begin a deforms, and what is basically a twists? The Church will lose your feature, she will lose your .
. . She's going to lose your doctrinal feature, heresies will if installing, they lose the foundations of which were founded, and then starts becoming a pagan Church, a church heretical, compromising your State, your membership.
And I'll read it to you, the evolution of these heresies, until the period of Luther, which is where necessary, reform, note, I'm speaking of the Protestant Reformation, and what do you mean? Bring back the form, the Church had your way, but after a while she started to lose your way, started to deform, and I'll list here for you, in ascending order, the evolution of Roman Catholic heresies. In fact, Catholicism cannot be called Catholicism, because the word Catholic, means universal Roman Catholic, is the Church of Christ spread in the world, so the Church is Catholic, but she's not, what you see there, when you listen to the Roman Catholic Church actually is Romanism, you must call of Romanism, so see for example the evolution of heresies, to see how the Church was moving away, the truth, and how she lost your way.
In the year 300, began the prayer for the dead, and in the same year, also make the sign of the cross, the name of the father, in the year 320 establishing if the clothing and the use of wax candles, wax candles, being lit at the time of worship, are adopted in the year 320 in the year 375, after Christ, the Church adopts the veneration of angels, Saints and the fabrication and the use of the images, in the year 394, introduces itself to mass, and the mass is made as a celebration of the area. In the year 500, the priests, the priests begin to dress differently, the laity, in the year 593, Gregory I, establishes the doctrine of purgatory, purgatory is a place, as is the term I can use? Intermediary between heaven and hell, the place where the soul goes and to know if she's going to hell or not, she needs to be purging there, their sins, then when you die, neither go to Heaven nor go to hell, she is in an intermediate place , called purgatory, depending on what you do for her on Earth; prayers, masses, or payment of indulgences, this soul can get out of purgatory and go to heaven, or if not done much for her, she can go out and go to hell, doctrine of purgatory, with Gregory I, in the year 593.
See what heresies are installed progressively, and that's what I'm talking about, is the Church of Christ, there was another Church, this was the one, the only Christian Church, and was inserted all this paganism. In the year 600, the Latin is used in prayers and in worship, also by Gregory I, all masses were made in Latin, whether you knew it or not. In the same year, the year 600, prayers begin to be addressed to Mary, as coadjutora, as a mediator and Mediatrix between God and men, in 607, the Roman papacy is introduced, in 786, cross cult worship of images and relics authorised by the Papacy, in the year 850 , holy water is mixed with a little salt, and she is blessed by a priest, sanctifying the location that it is sprinkled, in the year 995 ad, Pope John XV, orders the canonization of Saints, certain people or Apostles were considered, Saints and could make mediation, from the year 998; in the year 1079, the celibacy of priests, the priesthood, this was decreed by Gregory, Gregory VIII, what is celibacy?
In the century, in the year 1079, Catholic priests, were forbidden to marry, so they had to be celibate, they couldn't even form families, collapse. In the year 1090, is introduced the Rosary, prayer mechanics created by Peter the Hermit, the Rosary would be the third, would be the prayer of our father and the Hail Mary, look at the progress. Now we come in the year 1184 which is the 12th century, the Inquisition is hereby established by the Council of Verona.
In the year 1215, Transubstantiation is proclaimed by Pope Innocent III, what is Transubstantiation? At the time of the Eucharist, the supper, the host, she turns in the flesh, in the body of Christ real in the year 1215, the same year of Transubstantiation, is also instituted the confession of sins, the priest headset instead of God, also instituted by Innocent, in the Lateran Council What was the confession? People only had the forgiveness of sins through confession, confess to one ear a priest, a priest, and through the penance imposed by the priest, that sin could be acquitted.
See how distanced himself from the Scriptures, see the Church doctrines of Christ is believing, see that since the 4th century, in the year 315, see evolution, how much, as paganism, heresy. In the year 1229, ban on the Bible to lay people, and placed on the index of forbidden books, by the Council of Valencia, that is, the Bible was allowed to read your just to the high clergy, or only to the priests, and the Cardinals, in the year 1251, was invented the scapular , Simon escoté, an English monk, in the year 1414, already in the 15th century, is forbidden to the people using wine in communion, or the celebration of the supper, if you notice the Catholic Church only makes use of the bread, makes use of the wine, and Jesus commanded , that we would have to “eat from his bread and drink from his wine”. In the year 1439, purgatory is proclaimed as a dogma, by the Council of Florence in 1439 in the same year, is established the doctrine of seven sacraments.
In the year 1508, already in the 16th century, the ave maria, part of the last half was added five years later, and is approved by Pope Sixtus V, at the end of the 16th century, the Hail Mary prayer, this is the evolution of heresies, we arrived in the early 16th century the Church of Christ was that here, the Church of the Apostles, the Church that Jesus helped prepare, the Holy Spirit, the Church that has been indoctrinated by the Apostles, who had your theological basis in "letters of Paul", which expanded the Roman Empire in 40 years , which has grown mightily with the persecution and martyrdom, she became that here, she became what we are seeing here, at approximately 1200 years here of heresy. We arrived in the early 16th century, 1509 where I finished, and the Church of Christ is like that, but we got there in the 16th century, and reach the peak, heresies in your glance, they find the your climax, Pope Leo X, in the 16th century, 1500 and something Pope Leo X, which was the desire of the Pope? To build St.
Peter's Basilica, a big, huge, outrageous, nababesca, Pharaoh, Cathedral, and he needs resources, needs money, and he doesn't have enough, then comes into play, one of the greatest heresies of church history; papal indulgence, created by Pope Leo X. What is papal indulgence? The sinner, any man, could only be saved, could only receive the forgiveness of sins, by purchase, by possession of a document, signed by the Pope, that document called Indulgence, pardon, who possessed the document, signed by Pope, had their sins, forgiven, canceled, and could go to heaven, only this document to be acquired had to be purchased, the person only purchase this document by pruning a payment, then the Pope, for gain, raise money to build the Basilica, he creates this document, so that people could only be saved by the purchase and possession of these documents.
So, the forgiveness of sins was sold, Salvation was through the purchase of a document, upon the signature of a man, through the works, then the Church in this period was called, Medieval period, starting in the 12th century, until the 16TH Century, "dark Period", Paganism, no one had access to the Bible, no one had access to the Bible in your language, no one had access to the masses, the cults, in your anguage, in this period, the Catholic Church dominated, the Catholic Church held the power, not only of religion, but held the power of science , held the power of the arts, held the power of medicine, all created on Science, was what the Catholic Church imposed, all created about theology, religion, the Catholic Church imposed, all created about medicine, was what the Catholic Church imposed then she dominated the arts, dominated the sciences, she dominated the religion, she dominated the medicine, and made the people lived in obscurity ever seen until then, was then called "period of darkness", ignorance, darkness, arriving at your peak, with the sale of indulgence , look where the Church was to stop, look where the Christians were to stop, so there happen to twist; She totally lost your way, she became heretic, heathen, she became ignorant, is so that inside of Germany, in a town called Wittenberg or Wittenberg, God begins to work at the heart of a monk of the order of the Augustinian order, Augustine, called Martin Luther, Martin Luther was a monk, a German Pastor, serving in the Church in Germany, Luther had a lot of trouble with the word justice, many problems with their sins, he found a man God Avenger tyrant, he thought that God put the sin in men, and visited with your Ira He, he hated the word justice, he hated Christ, I thought he was a God, Avenger, badly, and he was trying to obtain salvation, through penances, by means of sacrifices, through flogging, until then, he is sent to Rome to study the Bible He has access to the Bible, and he's going to have a meeting, he will come across with the masterpiece of the Scriptures, the masterpiece of the Apostle Paul, the magna carta of the Apostle Paul, the Epistola to the Romans, and in the first chapter, Luther has a shock , Chapter 1, by the time he arrives in verse 17 he hears these words, he read these words, "him in the Gospel if he finds out the righteousness of God from faith to faith, as it is written: But the just shall live by faith". Luther then believes that salvation is by faith, not works, is not by selling, buying a document called indulgences, is not by penances, pilgrimages, Holy relics, Luther there, you give your conversion, your encounter with God , your Damascus road, so after reading this document, and study the Scriptures, Luther realizes the deviation of the Catholic Church, the deviation of the Roman Papacy, heresies that entered, so the day October 31 1517, exactly 499 years ago, Luther, goes to the Castle Church of Wittenberg , and post, nail, on the church door, his 95 theses against the Catholic Church, this bold, energetic Act of Luther posting the 95 theses, on the door, is home to one of the largest movements, After the coming of Christ, in humanity. "The Protestant Reformation"", why Luther did it?
Because the doors of churches, mostly of this church, which was a University Church, functioned as edicts, murals, so it is not by chance, was not an insane act of Luther, when people wanted to publish important news, they fixed those news written, the doors of the chairs, or in these murals, then Luther did this, knowing that the old church was a church, and knowing that in fixing these theses, they would be propagated throughout Germany, copied and printed, so the ideas of Luther would be propagated throughout the Germany, across Europe, and so was done. What are these theses? Are theses, are refutations of Luther, with biblical basis, against the sale of indulgences, against John Tietzel, against Pope Leo X, against this lurid Act the sale of indulgences, so this Act of Luther, read Romans, to understand that salvation is by faith , paste the 95 theses, 95 theories, polemical, against heresies, of the Catholic Church, the movement that we call "Protestant Reformation", What is retirement?
What was the intent of Luther? Give to your church way, make the Church back to the doctrine of the Apostles, make the Church return to the Apostles ' creed, do the Church again just look to the Scriptures, so the movement begins in Germany, years after this movement, will also , will gain more strength, with John Calvin, a Frenchman who is in Geneva, together with Farel, your mate, he creates there with 24 years, one of the largest theological textbooks, the Institutes of Calvin, which will systematize the doctrine, which will systematize the creeds of the Church. We also have another reformer, Ulrich Zwingli, also begins, another in the Netherlands, Zwingli, in Switzerland, Calvin and Farel also in Switzerland, Erasmus of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, along with Luther, will give body to the reform, the reform now begins to have a theology, systematically begins to disappear, starts getting louder, and she conquers all over Europe.
Luther appears in 1521, at the diet of Worms, where Luther's Wormes or Yes, sentenced, where he is summoned to attend, to appear before a Council, to appear in court, where he is summoned, to repeal their theses, his writings against the Catholic Church. Luther no, Luther does not revoke, Luther continues to insist he is excommunicated from the Church, he is threatened with death, hides in a castle, if, if, if, masquerades as a man named "Knight George", and in this castle, hidden, it will translate the Bible into German, so this whole movement, Luther excommunicated Luther translated the Bible into German, the Church is born Protestant, the Church out of the Catholic Church, now she has the Bible in your language, now she's doctrine, now she's reformers, now start this movement, it is the reform, bring back the form. For you to understand better the reform, the reform was synthesized in five points, synthesized short for you would understand what was the proposal of reform, what are the ideas of the Reformation, in counterpoint to the Catholic Church, it was synthesized in five points, in Latin; Solas Scritpuras, Sola Fide, sola Gratia, Solus Christus, and Soli Deo Glory, What was the summary of the reform?
Only the Scriptures, Only faith, Only funny, only Christ, and only give God Glory, it is the reform, it was the idea of the reformers, that they bring back the form, make sure that the Church could be healthy, Biblical , Santa, powerful, Escrituristica, as it was when he was born in acts 2 and when she was finished with the Epistles of the Apostle Paul, that is the Protestant Reformation, that message she is not made for doctors, it's a message that I prepared for the laity, so that they have an idea basic, who we are, where we came from, as I said here the pastor Marco Granconato, we have here in our context, ideas of, of, of Luther, Calvin, doctrines doctrines of Zwingli, they remain until today, permeated throughout the Christian Church throughout the world since the Century XVI, so it is necessary for you to know. I'll finish reading this, the reform was synthesized in five points, the first was the sole Scritpura, only the Scriptures, a rebuttal against the teaching of the Catholic Church, because the reformers say? Only the Scriptures, because the Catholic Church was the use and taught .
. . to your audience, to their faithful to the Scriptures, part of them, with a mistaken interpretation, suppressed, hidden, but were the Scriptures and also the tradition, the tradition had the same value of the Scriptures, they taught the Scriptures and also the papal bulls, what were bulls?
Documents made by the popes, and these documents were canonical value, were the bulls and the Scriptures, they also taught the encyclicals, documents written by the Popes and Cardinals, enato had the same value the documents, the encyclicals, Bulls, and the Scriptures. Also had the infallibility of the Pope, the Pope spoke to the Pope decreed was canonical order, had the same value, had an even greater relevance than the Scriptures, then the power of the Catholic Church, the tradition of the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church's documents were above the Scripture, had the same value of the Scriptures, and were stronger than the Scriptures, in a few moments, came the reformers saying; No! the Bible is not down the tradition, the Bible does not submit the orders of men, men, the Bible is infallible, inerrant, inspired, absolute and only, we do not need other revelations, we do not need any document, sole Scritpura, she is the rule, it is the basis and is the reason for our faith, it is the instrument of theological truth, the Scriptures and only the Scriptures.
Will we need today that first? Five Soles? Sola Scripture, is that today's reform requires going back to the Scriptures?
Today what we have? In paganism, is, is. .
. Christian Paganism; visions, prophecies, revelations, which have more authority than the word, people who guide and underlie the doctrine, your your profession of faith, in visions, prophecies in revelations given by foreign "Angels", in this modern Gnosticism, and uphold their doctrines, to base your doctrine, Ecclesiological, new revelations, we must return to Scripture, Sola Scriptura, only Scripture, Scripture is closed, the will of God is revealed, the word of God is revealed, "it is not necessary to add or a J or a tilde the law", John warns, if we add something to this Book, the plagues written in it, will also be added, the Church needs to return to a Biblical Reformation, Biblical revival is needed, and only the Bible has to be the doctrinal basis, the basis and reason for our faith; We don't need comments, we don't need new translations, we don't need all these new visions, and these contemporary elements, that misrepresent, and hurt the truth of Scripture. The second sole, the Protestant Reformation also promoted, was the Sole Fide, Sola Fide, only faith, had to have faith, the Catholic Church taught?
Yes, but it was faith, followed by works . . .
in one of the books of the Apocrypha, appended by the Catholic Church, say so; the alms make Atonement for sin . . .
What is Expiation for SIN? Is Sin covered, forgiven, the Catholic Church teaches that the alms make Atonement for sin, salvation is through, you have to do penance, you have to make sacrifices, you have to pay a price, here comes the reform and says; No! only faith, Salvation can be obtained for works, Salvation cannot be achieved by human effort, it's just faith, we don't do works to be saved, the works are required?
Yes, the works are Biblical? Are, but we don't do works to be saved, we do works because we are saved, we don't do works to be saved, we do works because we are already saved, Ephesians 2:8-9, "by grace you have been saved, through faith, (by faith), and this not of yourselves , it is the gift of God. Not of works, Salvation cannot be achieved by the works, she not depends on my effort .
. . does not depend on my sacrifice, will we see this today too?
Will the Sola Fide has to be applied? Then the reformers came to refute; the Catholic Church says; without processions, without penance, no confessions, no human effort, only faith in Christ, justification is obtained by faith, is resting on the merits of Christ, in Christ, and be justified by reliance on Christ . .
. nothing works, is to us the same thing is being taught today, the same thing is being taught, the Apostles contemporaries, modern theology, teaches man, that only faith is not enough, people seem to want to obtain salvation for worthiness, want to obtain salvation by your effort, I know people when talking to them, praying not to die that day, or to Jesus did not return at that time, because if you don't they will go to hell, because they are not well, i. e.
the salvation lies in the hands of them, depends on the effort of them, depends on their performance they understand that they must believe that salvation is all the time on your hand, in your control, not ones, we rest on the merits of Christ accomplished on Calvary, and we we place our faith, only she, in the work that God has done through your Son , only the faith, and the third point of the reform, sola Gratia, sola Gratia, what is it? Only grace, Ephesians 2:8 again "by grace you have been saved," the word there is Cháris, dom, unmerited favor, benevolent God, what the Catholic Church taught? That salvation was obtained through indulgence, the purchase of a document, the observation of Holy relics, Salvation was in control of a man, men could manipulate it, sell it, was obtained through the effort, pay, sacrifice, and come the reformers and say ; No.
Psalm 46; "The redemption of the soul is expensive, no one can afford it", there is no merit in us, we are not saved by our merits, we are saved despite our demerits, when God looks at us, look at our works, it looks like rag of filth, as Isaiah 56. There is no improvement, we can do, there's nothing that can attract the attention of God, is by grace, God wanted to do is for the love of God . .
. then the reformers say, only the Free, there is no need to observe there is no relic pilgrimage needs There is no need to buy forgiveness, indulgences or documents, you rest in the love and grace of God, are we seeing this today? Is it necessary to Sola Gratia, Sola Gratia today?
Is this happening in the churches, they're bargaining faith, forgiveness, Salvation, bargaining bargaining bargaining mercy, for example; What's normal in today's cults the cult revolve around supply, the cult revolves around how much you contribute, how much you contribute, will your lifestyle . . .
Christian success goes as you are liberal in giving . . .
Christian success depends on how much you are liberal in giving. The forgiveness of God, God's blessing, the miracle of God, is, is, is given by the sacrifice at the time of the contribution, Sola Gratia . .
. salvation is not in the hand of man, does not depend on the effort of man, there is this, that it teaches that salvation Pelagianism depends on the will of man, the effort of man, and the man wanting, no, salvation is a sovereign God, performed by grace only. We have to go back to being a church that relies on Sovereignty, in power, in Mercy, in the love of God for salvation and not the man.
Another point that synthesizes the reform, I'm saying . . .
what was the carcase? What was the proposal of the Church in the 16th century? .
. . what was the scope of the reform?
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The idea of the reform was to get back to the Foundation of the Apostles, and they did it in five points, the other point the room is Solus Christus, only Christ, what the Catholic Church taught? Christ, but Mary also media, Christ saves, Maria also is co-redemptrix with Christ, Christ media, but Pedro media also, Paulo media . .
. so Apostles, Saints, priests, Cardinals, and Popes, that make mediation. The Catholic Church in the Vatican said that Mary is co-redemptrix with Christ .
. . Mary is co-intercessora with Christ.
Hebrews says; "Without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins", in which cruz Maria spilled your blood? There is no record of how Mary died, Mary was not crucified, Mary did not remain a Virgin forever, Mary was conceived without sin, Mary was assumed into heaven, Mary has no power, to mediate the man and God. .
. , so the reform will say; No. Only Christ!
Actos 4:12 "There's only one name under heaven, from which we must be saved; Jesus Christ ". 2 Timothy 2:5, "there is only one mediator between God and men Jesus Christ, man," He is the mediator of a new and everlasting Covenant . .
. today do we need Solus Christus? My dear, we have today men who do mediation between us and God, pastors, bishops, Apostles, which we have to confess our sins by by .
. . to receive forgiveness .
. . men that we mediate, men who subjugate, dominate by force and teach that without them, without their passage without their presence, without the mediation of them we can't get fully to God, and comes to say reform; No!
SOLUS Christus, only Christ, there is salvation in no other man, there is no salvation in any other Church, there is salvation in no other religion, there is no salvation in any other, doctrinal form spurious, "only Christ". "I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the father, if not for me". And to close, the last, the last of the five solas sola, Soli Deo Gloria, Soli Deo Gloria, only to give God Glory, why?
Because the glory was being funneled to santa Chair, the glory was being, resting the head of Roman, Pedro, the glory was therefore on the Vicar of God, Peter's replacement on Earth, the Pope. They were stealing, usurping the glory which belongs only to God, came the reformers and said no, the Church does not deserve glory, the Cardinals do not deserve glory, the Apostles do not deserve glory, the bishops do not deserve glory, the Popes do not deserve glory, only God the glory He is the author of an eternal Salvation, . .
. in him we move, we exist and we live, and it comes to life, "and because of him, . .
. for him and for him are all things, glory because He forever, Amen. " Do we need a Soli Deo Gloria, today?
Today what we're seeing, are Christians, cults, churches, anthropocentric, what is Anthropos and Center? Man, the man is the Center, the cult revolves around the man, the cult is for the glory of man, the praise is for the glory of man, the popes, bishops and Apostles and modern Messiah receive glory, are anointed, are infallible, are untouchable your church , its foundations, their doctrines receive praise, honor, glory. .
. , we have to go back to a reform that says; "of God and only God is the glory, to God and only God is the glory and praise "we are all like" rags of filth ", . .
. we are all as unclean, and all our works such as rags of filth" . .
. the Bible says so . .
. look, "by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this not from yourselves, not of works, lest anyone should boast" it is the gift of God, because it is to God the glory, glory cannot be funneled in anything, or anyone, but only in the author of salvation . .
. that was. .
. the proposal of reform . .
. it is necessary a new reform, study about it, study the history of Christian thought , study the history of Christianity, buy books on church history, patristics, the church fathers, buy books on the Church of the dark ages, 12th century, middle ages, buy books that talk about Reform after reform, which goes up to the Puritans, Spurgeon, read to you know where the Evangelical Church was lost . .
. She lost your way, and my plea here for you, to you who hear me, is that a new reform, but a reform that send us to Christ, that send us to the Apostles, that send us to the new testament , to the Gospels, the letters of Paul, for Biblical doctrines, simple, deep, but that save, to heal, to release the man of sin, that's what we need. Let's close our eyes and bow our heads.
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