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On this

on this episode of five minutes in church history,

we are talking about the 95 theses.

We introduced these last week as we talked about Luther and Reformation day.

And we're calling this the top five of the

95 take two. Well the reason for that is we've already done the top five of the

95 and I should have been more specific that was the top five of the 95 back in 2013.

Well now we have the top five of the 95 for 2015.

And what that means to me at least if my count is correct, we can do this for

another 17 years. So here we go. The top five of the 95 for 2015.

The first one is thesis number four.

And thesis number four, Luther says,

the penalty of sin, therefore, continues so long as hatred of self, or true inward

repentance continues, and it continues until our entrance into the kingdom of heaven.

What was after he wrote the 95 Theses that Luther wrote another document called

The Explanation of the 95 Theses, where he elaborates and expands upon each one of the

95 theses and in his explanations he clarifies what he means here and this notion of

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