A BLOG FROM LUTHER....Understanding important truths from the Bible….

Martin Luther lived from 1483-1546.  He is credited with being the volcano which erupted into the Reformation.  Whatever one thinks of Luther, it must be admitted he was fearless in his defense of Scripture.  Please read this carefully.  The criticism of Luther is equally applicable today.

We have within us many sins against our Lord God, and which justly displease him: such as anger, impatience, covetousness, greediness, incontinence, hatred, malice, etc.  These are great sins, which everywhere in the world go on with power, and get the upper hand.  Yet these are nothing in comparison of contemning of God’s word; yea, all these would remain uncommitted, if we did but love and reverence that.  But, alas! The whole world is drowned in this sin.  No man cares a filip for the Gospel, all snarl at and persecute it, holding it as no sin.  I behold with wonder in the church, that among the hearers, one looks this way, another that; and that among so great a multitude, few come to hear the sermon.  This sin is so common, that people will not confess it to be like other sins; every one deems it a slight thing to hear a discourse without attention, and not diligently to mark, learn, and inwardly digest it.  It is not so about other sins; as murder, adultery, thieving, etc.  For, after these sins, in due time follow grief, sorrow of heart, and remorse.  But not to hear God’s word with diligence, yea, to contemn, to persecute it, of this many makes no account.  Yet it is a sin so fearful, that for the committing

it both land and people must be destroyed, as it went with Jerusalem, with Rome, Greece and other kingdoms.

Table Talk, Harper Collins Fount Classics, Reprint 1995 Pg 124-125, Martin Luther, Translated by Robert Von de Weyer.