Reformed Baptist Congregation Exaltation | Edification | Evangelism
“We receive Christ and the Scriptures by faith. Faith reaches out in a single act to the person of Christ as well as to Scripture. It embraces Christ as Savior and Scripture as the Word of God.”
Herman Bavinck
Luther said – “the Scriptures are the cradles in which Jesus Christ lies.”
“So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.”
(John 8:25)
I love Martin Luther’s comments on this passage. “They…desire to know who he is, and not to regard what he says, while He desires them to first listen, and then they will know who he is. So listen and allow the Word to make a beginning; then the knowing will nicely follow. If, however, you do not listen, then you will never know anything. For it is decreed: God will not be seen, known or comprehended except through his Word alone. We are to read his Word, to think and speak about it, and to study it. It is certain that he himself is speaking with us in it.” (What Luther Says; An Anthology)
Now you know who he is! Right!
Luther’s famous dictum (probably not his exact words-but certainly his conviction) is still true for us today:
“Justification is the article by which the church stands and falls” (justificatio est articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae).
Don’t let anything stand in the way of this great point. Don’t add anything to it either. God imputes the righteousness of Christ to us through the instrument of faith only. this is how we are right with God.
Happy Reformation Day!