Sunday is Reformation Sunday. There is no better way to remember it than to hear the great doctrine of salvation through faith in Christ from the lips of Martin Luther in his commentary to the Galatians.
Faith... embraces and wraps in itself Christ the Son of God, delivered to death for us, as Paul here teaches, who being apprehended by faith, gives unto us righteousness and life. And here he sets out most lively the priesthood and offices of Christ: which are, to pacify God, to make intercession for sinners, to offer himself a sacrifice for their sins, to redeem, to instruct, and to comfort them. Let us learn to give true definition to Christ... that he is the Son of God, who, not for our desert or any righteousness of ours, but of his own free mercy, offered up himself a sacrifice for us sinners, that he might sanctify us forever.
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