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Sola Fide: Faith Alone
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2012 (message contributor)
SOLA FIDE: FAITH ALONE
Sola fide isn’t a license to sin; it’s the motivation to follow your Savior
Now, there was a time in the history of the church, when this doctrine was all but lost. By the fifteenth century the church had become a massive institution of power, and the gospel was polluted. The church was teaching salvation by subjection to the pope, receiving the sacraments, and doing good works. In fact, by the fifteenth salvation was for sale. In order to raise funds for the building of St Peter’s basilica in Rome, the church was selling admission to heaven, even for dead relatives. It wasn’t by faith at all, silver and gold got you into the heaven. In those dark days, God raised up a hero of the faith to stand against the powers of the empire, and the most powerful institution on the planet, to preach sola fide. That hero’s name was Martin Luther.
(From a sermon by Mark Connelly, Sola Fide: Faith Alone, 8/24/2011)
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