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REFORMATION SUNDAY
FRIDAY, JULY 28
2 Chronicles 34:1-7, 14-19

John 17:17

 

“Thy word is truth.”

 

REFORMATION SUNDAY
 
Once a year, our church sets aside the last Sunday of October as Reformation Sunday when we give thanks to God for the 16th Century Reformation. We thank and praise the Lord for raising His godly servants like Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin, and John Knox. The Reformation was vital for the Truth which has to be proclaimed. In those days people did not have the Word of God in their own languages and in their hands; as a result, they were misled by unbiblical doctrines, practices, and traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. Their salvation was not by grace through faith alone but mixed with good works, their worship was not in spirit and in truth based on God’s Word alone but mixed with human traditions, unbiblical rituals and sacraments, their loyalty was not to the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and to God’s Word alone but to the Pope, to his words and to the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), etc. If we were under such bondage today, how miserable we would be!
 
We thank God for giving His servant Luther strength and courage to stand alone for God’s truth and even to contend for his faith in God’s Word against the RCC. If Luther had compromised and worked with the RCC to reform it, God would not have used him. Ironically, today we see many compromising and desiring to go back to Rome, even thinking that the 16th Century Reformation was a mistake! Disappointingly, many take God’s Word for granted with their spirit of compromise, ecumenism and even apostasy!
 
We thank God that through the Reformation we have our English King James Bible today, which was translated by godly and talented servants of God from His perfectly inspired and perfectly preserved texts (Traditional Masoretic Hebrew text for the OT and Received Greek Text for the NT). Sadly, many so-called Christians even leaders and scholars question and criticise God’s Word!
 
THOUGHT: Our battle today is for the verbal plenary preservation of the Bible.
PRAYER: Father, I thank Thee for the 16th Century Reformation and for the KJB.

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