Well, howdy church family, Pastor Mark here in Vartburg, Germany. Really excited to be in the

book of Galatians with you today. We've been in the book of Galatians for most of the summer.

It's been a great study. Next week, I look forward to being with you and finishing up the book

as we get ready for our third birthday on August 11th. What brought grace and I here to Germany

was the new book, When Your War. It comes out in October. It's on spiritual warfare.

And it's a book that we have honestly been working on for decades, pretty much all of our adult

life. We're really excited about the project in October when the book releases. There'll be a

full sermon series and we'll give a free copy to all the visitors at the Trinity Church. And we

were recording the trailer for the book right here in this room. And the obvious question is,

well, why? This is the room in which Martin Luther, the great Protestant performer, sat down to

translate the Bible as a Bible teacher. This is an incredibly historic location. We enjoy the

Bible in our native language. There are innumerable translations available to us in English and

the Bible has become the most translated, distributed, read, and influential book in the history of

the world. But it wasn't always that way. There was a time when the mass, the Church Service on

Sunday, was in the language of Latin. In addition, the translation of the Bible that was available

was called the Vulgate, again in Latin. What that meant was if you wanted to learn about God,

you needed to first learn an entirely new language. Well, there were some who wanted the Bible to

be translated into the language of the common folks so they could read it for themselves.

This includes men historically like Wycliffe. But truly, everything changed with Martin Luther.

As he was studying the Bible, especially books like Psalms, Romans, and also Galatians, which was one

of his favorites, he wrote an entire commentary on it and the series of lectures at his church

on the great book of Galatians that we've been studying. But Luther went back to the original

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