In Jesus' Work on the Cross, We Are Justified

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Speaker Notes

What Luther Says: An Anthology, Vol. 2, compiled by Ewald M. Plass, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1959, p. 704:

“This doctrine [of justification] is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God; and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour”

Martin Luther, Galatians (Crossway, 1998), pp. 57-58:

“The matter of justification is brittle—not in itself, for it is most sure and certain, but in respect to us, within us. I myself have experienced this, for I sometimes wrestle in hours of darkness. I know how often I suddenly lose the beams of the Gospel and grace. It is as though thick dark clouds obscured them from me. So I know about the slippery place in which we stand, even if we are experienced and seem to be surefooted in matters of faith. . . .

So, let every faithful person work hard to learn and retain this doctrine: and to that end, let us pray humbly and heartily, and study and meditate continually on the Word.”

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