236. Two Kinds of Righteousness

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

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Where does the spiritual fruit that we bear in our Christian lives come from? Today on our journey back through the archives, Dr. Stephen Nichols discusses a noteworthy sermon that Martin Luther preached on two kinds of righteousness.

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0:00.0	Well, it's still October, and we are still celebrating Reformation Month.
0:04.6	We're going back to the archives of 2017, and we were pulling another episode.
0:09.7	It was so much fun to be there in Germany and visit those Luther sites, and I wanted
0:13.6	to share that with you.
0:14.8	So I hope you enjoy this episode on Martin Luther and the Reformation.
0:19.8	Thanks so much for listening.
0:22.4	Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.
0:25.3	We are continuing our trek through Luther's life, and once again, we are on location.
0:30.6	We are in Vittenberg, and we are right at St. Mary's Church.
0:34.6	This is the church where Luther preached from 1512 to 1546, and on this episode, let's
0:41.4	look at one of his sermons in particular.
0:44.6	It was preached at a very important time.
0:46.7	It comes right in between the posting of the 95 theses and the diet of worms.
0:51.8	He preached this sermon on Palm Sunday on March 28, 1516, from the pulpit here in St. Mary's
0:59.6	Church.
1:00.6	It was then published in 1519.
1:03.2	The title of the sermon is a sermon on two kinds of righteousness.
1:08.5	The first righteousness that Luther preaches on in this sermon is what he calls an alien
1:13.6	righteousness.
1:14.6	Now, Luther does not mean by that, that it comes to us from outer space.
1:18.8	What he means is that it comes outside of ourselves.
1:21.6	The Latin expression here is extra, noce.
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