When they put their trust in Christ, the righteousness of Christ is transferred or

counted or

imputed to the believer by faith. And for this this was Luther's great discovery.

He said when I understood that the righteousness that Paul is talking about in Rome is the doors of paradise

swung open and I walked through.

Can you remember when the doors of paradise swung open for you?

Martin Luther's study in Romans and rediscovery of the gospel changed the course of his life,

but it also changed the course of church history and the Lord used it to save countless sinners in his day and our own.

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham and I'm glad you're with us for this Friday edition of Renewing Remind.

Martin Luther in the 16th century was used by God to spark what we call the Protestant Reformation

and Reformation is where we get the reformed in reformed theology.

As we conclude a week long study of reformed theology after considering the sovereignty of God,

the importance of covenants, the work of Christ and his holiness,

today, Rc. Sprawl takes us back to the 16th century to give us the context of Luther's day,

the corruption and the distortion of the gospel. Here's Dr. Sprawl.

Well, we've looked at the crises that Martin Luther had.

As I said in a cyclical manner every five years, 1505, 1510.

We're going to look this morning at 1515. I'm not going to get into 1520,

which was the year he was excommunicated by the papal bull, Xerje Domino,

or his great crisis in 1525 when he was engaged to Catherine von Bura.

But that's another story for another time.

But I think the supreme crisis for Luther that shaped his entire life

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