Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history.

Last week we were looking at Luther's 95 theses and I ended by reading numbers 92 and 93.

Well, we didn't get enough time last week to expand upon that, and they're so important,

so crucial to the Reformation, and also so crucial to Luther, that I thought we needed to spend

one more week on Luther.

So we've called this the 95 Theses Take Two.

For those of you who weren't with us last week,

let me go back and read.

This comes from the end of the 95 Theses and this is numbers 92 and 93 and this is what

Luther has to say away then with all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, peace, peace, and there is no peace.

Blessed be all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, Cross, and there is no cross.

Luther here is actually quoting from the Old Testament.

He's quoting from Jeremiah chapter 6, verse 14.

And there, Jeremiah is talking about false prophets who say,

here's the way to peace, you know, peace, peace.

But in reality, that false way doesn't lead to peace. Well Luther made a clear connection

between what was happening in Jeremiah's day and what was happening in his day in

the church.

So he was saying, beware of those false teachers

who will say, peace, peace, but there's no peace there.

Instead, what Luther wanted to do and what he was mentioning here

and number 93 he said to the folks you need to listen to the prophets who say

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