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5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

236. Two Kinds of Righteousness

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

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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