Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. We are continuing our trek through Luther's life and once again we are on location.

We are in Vittenberg and we are right at St Mary's Church.

This is the church where Luther preached from 1512 to 1546.

And on this episode, let's look at one of his sermons in particular.

It was preached at a very important time.

It comes right in between the posting of the 95 Theses

and the Diet of Worms.

He preached this sermon on Palm Sunday on March 28, 1516 from the pulpit here in St Mary's Church.

It was then published in 1519.

The title of the sermon is, a sermon on two kinds of righteousness. The first

righteousness that Luther preaches on in the sermon is what he calls an alien

righteousness.

Now, Luther does not mean by that that it comes to us from outer space.

What he means is that it comes outside of ourselves.

The Latin expression here is extra,

nose, it is extra, it is beyond or outside of.

Nose is the Latin word for us.

This is not a righteousness that we can produce.

We are dead, we are sinners.

This is not anything that we can ever in any way shape or form do.

Christ had to do it for us. In fact, Luther will say that it is through faith in Christ, that Christ's righteousness

becomes our righteousness and all that he has, rather, he himself becomes ours.

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