At last, by the mercy of God, meditating day and night.

Thereupon I ran through the whole scripture from memory.

That place in Paul was for me a gate to paradise.

So said Martin Luther.

Luther's discovery of the gospel in Romans 117 unleashed true worship for him for the

first time in his life.

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper continues this three-part series on Martin

Luther, Man of the Book.

This talk was originally given at the 1996 Bethlehem conference for pastors.

He was a family man eventually.

41 years old, he marries Katarina Fumbora.

That would be worth a lecture, but you do that for your own people.

It'll be more interesting than this one, probably.

He knew the pressure and the heartache of rearing and losing children.

Katie bore him, six children, boom, boom, boom, she was 26 years old, not 41 when they

got married.

The first child, Johannes, was born in 1526, Elizabeth was born in 1527, Magdalena, 1529,

Martin, 1531, Paul, 1533, and Margaret, 1534.

Now here, compute with me again.

Between Elizabeth and Magdalena, let me get this right here, yes.

In the birth of Elizabeth, 1527, Magdalena, 1529, is the year that he preached 200 times.

And Elizabeth died that year at eight months old.

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