Oh, welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. It's really my pleasure to have a special guest on our program

And that is our friend Dr. John MacArthur Dr. MacArthur. It's really good to see you. It's an honor Steve. Thank you for inviting me

Well as we look over the Mount Everest of church history Luther Calvin Edwards

I'll even throw in Spurgeon

Which one figure besides those?

Do you find intriguing and inspiring that maybe sometimes gets a little overlooked?

That's a little bit difficult, but I guess I have to land on for this occasion anyway John Huss

Obviously, I would love to talk about tindale

Wickliffe because of the commitment they made to the word of God

But Huss stands out because of the fact that he's a hundred years or so ahead of Luther

Luther is highly influenced by Huss by what Huss took issue with namely the indulgences of course

But I just think the story of Huss is so amazing. He's basically coming out of a town called Husseneck, which means goose and

He is a priest like everybody else in the clergy

But he comes to the conviction that Christ is the head of the church and not the Pope

Which is revolutionary so he's not only attacking indulgences and calling for other reforms in the church

But he's striking at the head of the whole system the Pope

He had been appointed because it was such a gifted preacher to preach at the Bethlehem church

In Prague he began to do something that you weren't allowed to do

He began to preach in the people's language

so that he wasn't just mumbling in Latin and

He was preaching the word of God and he was basically

Violating all the protocols. He was politically incorrect

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