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Today we enter into a 5 week study on the 5 Solas of the Reformation.
Now you may have no clue what this means or you may have been anxiously anticipating this study
Either way, we are going to be diving into a most important topic: The topic of Salvation.
More specifically, how we understand Salvation.
Each session, Lord Willing, will have a study guide.
I encourage everyone to follow along and fill in the blanks as we come to them.
There is also going to be a time of discussion where you will be invited to participate in this study.
For those watching at home, feel free to pause the video when we get to the discussion parts and write down your thoughts.
Then continue the video to hear others share as well.
While this study is about Salvation, it is not just about Salvation,
but also how we are to hold fast to the truths given to us from God about Salvation.
Every generation, including ours, need to not only know the truths God has given us,
But also stand firm upon truths.
Not only acknowledge the truths but be able to defend the truths.
This is not just the responsibility of the pastor, the evangelist, or the apologist, but the responsibility of the Christian.
Thus, this is a study that we should find most beneficial and most encouraging,
but also a study that should encourage us to defend and proclaim the good news of our savior, Jesus Christ.
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So, what are the 5 Solas of the Reformation and what on earth is a Sola anyway?
The 5 Solas are as follows: Sola Scriptura, Solus Christus, Sola Fide, Sola Gratia, Soli Deo Gloria
If it sounds like I’m speaking another language, you would be right.
These are Latin phrases: Sola in Latin is translated into the English as the word Alone.
thus we have what follows as this:
Salvation is by grace alone (sola gratia), through faith alone (sola fide), in Christ alone (solus Christus), based on Scripture alone (sola scriptura), and for the glory of God alone (soli Deo gloria).
And everyone says: This Is the Way!
Hopefully, everyone here, will resonate with these words and agree with them.
For this is what the clear teaching of scripture displays to us.
But, it wasn’t always this way.
Winston Churchhill famously paraphrases a saying credited to George Santayana.
He says, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
Now hold on, is this a History Lesson or a Bible Study?
The answer is Yes.
The point is that if we do not know our history, and know the issues of our history, then we will repeat the same problems found in our history.
The hope is that we learn from our mistakes, we learn from our failures, we learn from the past to change the future.
If we do not learn from, or worse, do not even know our past, then we are liable to commit the same failures those before us did.
The Solas come to us through Church History in the 1500s during the reformation.
The Protestant reformation came about through the protesting of the Roman Catholic Church.
A protestant is someone who is making a public declaration against something he opposes.
Therefore, the Protestant reformation was protesting all of the issues of the Roman Catholic Church, and there were a lot of them.
Now, I don’t want you to think that we are here to be mean or to bash random people’s beliefs.
What we are to do is hold fast to the truth that God has given us and stand against anyone or any organization or any spirit who wants to pervert that.
This Sunday we will be speaking to this very end when we continue our journey through 1 John.
So, our goal is not to hurt anyone, discourage anyone, or ridicule.
But, in love, in truth, and for the good of the individual, we must be willing to proclaim the Gospel.
The Greatness of God, the sinfulness of man, and our hope is in Christ alone.
We should seek unity in secondary and tertiary issues, but when it comes to a primary issue, the Gospel, we cannot concede.
We must stand firm, strong, and fully against anyone or any organization that goes against the Gospel.
However, I am adding a caveat here as a warning and a caution.
In our zeal we can stand against people who are naive, who do not understand, or not even aware of biblical issues.
We can do much harm when we do not approach issues with grace, love, and a desire for the good of the one we are speaking with.
There is a difference between your every day Catholic who loves Jesus, and the organization of the Catholic church.
Illustration: Maria, is one of my favorite stories of Confessors of Christ Church.
She came one Sunday and declared when I greeted her that she is a Roman Catholic and will die a Roman Catholic.
But, said she was here protesting the Catholic Church due to their corruption and the child grooming w/ priests molesting boys.
I smiled and told her she came to the right place, because we are protesting them, too.
To this day, I’m not 100% sure whether she knew that she was at a reformed church that traces itself back to the reformation or not, but she became one of the most wonderful person I have had the honor of meeting.
I have no doubt that she is a true believer, and I believe there are many catholics like Maria who are true believers.
With that said, there are also grave issues with the Catholic church that caused the protestant reformation
and a desire to get back to the truth of God over man made traditions.
When it comes to the protestant movement.
You are either Catholic, or you are Protesting Catholicism.
Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Methodist, Baptist, Congregationalist, and more are all Christian protestant.
Thus in protest against the Catholic Church.
At this point, you are probably wondering what was happening in the 1500s and why such a strong response.
And we are almost there.
But I want to ask you to engage now in this topic as I ask this question and open the floor for dialogue before we continue.
Here is my question.
For what reasons do we or others protest today?
Do you think protesting is a good thing or a bad thing?
What are a couple of protests that have happened recently and how do you feel about them?
If you are watching from home, go ahead and pause this video and think through these questions yourself then when you are ready come back and listen to others responses.
Let’s open the floor and dialogue briefly about what it means to protest.
For us to understand why the 5 Solas made their way into the protestant reformation we need to understand what was happening.
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The church prevented the Bible from being translated into the common language of a community: Biblical Illiteracy.
2.) The Catholic Church taught that only the church could understand and interpret the Bible: Experts
3.) In order to read the Bible you must be able to read Latin, but even if you could read Latin, The Catholic Church that prevented people from being able to read the Bible on their own: Censorship
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Not being able to read the Bible meant that you were not able to test the Pope and the Priests to make sure what was being said was truly the Words of God: Accountability
What resulted from this was all sorts of heresies, there were not biblical, in which the church used to manipulate people.
It is in this time frame that a man arose that would challenge the church from within.
Martin Luther was an Augustinian Monk in the Catholic Church who struggled greatly with reconciling the churches practices
With what he discovered in the Scriptures.
One of His greatest issues, though He had 95 issues in total, was the sale of indulgences.
The church came up with a concept not known in the Bible called Purgatory.
Where someone would spend an undisclosed amount of time in order to purify themselves so they could go to heaven.
The Church in this time was building a new Cathedral in Rome and needed more money.
To fix this problem, they would sell indulgences which would free a loved one from purgatory based on the amount of money they gave.
So, the church created something unbiblical, then used it as a scare tactic to get money out of their followers, to build a cathedral.
Tetzel a Roman Catholic who went around and sold indulgences famously stated:
“As soon as the gold in the casket rings, The rescued soul to heaven springs.”
Meaning as soon as the coins are heard in the coffer then a soul in purgatory is released.
You can see how manipulative and awful this was.
Yet, the common person, you or I, if we lived in this time, would not know any difference and would have to trust what was being said.
This was just one of many issues that were happening and were happening because of manipulating God’s Word.
The issue is a Gospel issue.
It isn’t money that can pay for sins.
It isn’t ourselves in this life or the next that can pay for sins.
It is Jesus and Jesus alone that can pay for sins.
But Solus Christus is for another week.
Today we begin with Sola Scriptura or Scripture Alone.
The reasons why this was not stopped sooner was because none of the priests dared confront the Pope on this matter.
You would never confront the Pope because in Catholic tradition, the Pope is put forth as the Vicar of Christ.
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