H. B. Charles Jr. on Why Sola Scriptura Matters

Sola scriptura matters 500 years later just as much as it did during the days of the Reformation in 16th century because the same issue is at stake the matter of authority by what authority do we know truth by what authority do we understand God by what authority do we defend the gospel only God's Word is the perfect revelation and carries the authority of God himself in it and in the day that we live in that's just as much an important matter as it was in the days of the Reformers connected to that it's not just a matter of authority but the matter of sufficiency Sola scriptura affirmed that the Word of God is enough for us to reach the lost change the culture nurture the Saints we need that desperately in our day not just confidence in the exclusive authority of the sacred scriptures but confidence in its total sufficiency to reach this generation with the good news of Jesus Christ [Music] looking back over his life Martin Luther once said I opposed indulgences and all papists but never by force I simply taught preached wrote God's Word otherwise I did nothing and while I slept the word so greatly weakened the papacy that never a prince or Emperor did such damage to it I did nothing the word did it all out when when I hear that quote from Martin Luther I the first thing that I recognized in that is someone who is so gripped by the power and majesty of God's Word right you you you can sense the the that he feels like the the word is explosive yeah it's dynamite in in in the hands of God's people but there's also something there that leads into this first very important Sola scriptura is because you you have him him taking the Word of God and he is he's standing over against the papacy the the the church tradition at that time and so it's not simply that statement as a statement about the power of God's Word in general it's of the authority of God's Word over all other things so that leads us to this first Sola Sola scriptura Kevin how would you define this Sola of the Reformation it's really foundational I think in simplest terms it means that the Bible has the final say on everything that the Bible means to say something about [Music] you

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Length: 2min 56sec (176 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 15 2017