Transcript of the segment on Luther’s Realization of Grace Alone:
But in Luther’s own biography, he described that it is really 1519 that he seized upon the truth of the gospel as taught in Scripture. You see, Luther was raised in that medieval tradition. He was taught that how you come to salvation is through the Church and the Church’s sacraments. To constantly come to the church and avail yourself of these sacraments that would make you more and more righteous. And so Luther was constantly going to confess his sins and do penance. He would constantly attend the Mass in the medieval Roman Catholic church, devoting himself diligently to that system in hopes of his salvation, so much so that his confessor would at times tell him, “Go away. You are coming too many times. You don’t need to come that often.” You see Luther was taught in that medieval system, “Do your best and God will not deny you.” But he had a tender conscience, in which he struggled with that because he wrestled with the question, “Well, what’s my best? How do I know that I’ve done enough?” And it was Luther’s own description of how he came upon the study of Scripture that revealed to him that salvation was not what he was working toward, but what God had given by his grace. Let me read to you what Luther recounts, in terms of his own understanding when he came to that truth that salvation was by grace alone. Luther writes, “Then I began to understand the righteousness of God, as the righteousness by which a just man lives as by a gift of God, that means by faith…”
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