Five Minutes a Day with Luther - 12-17-2009
Five Minutes with Luther
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December 17
Psalm 119:105,111 Thy word is a lamp to my feet, And a light to
my path. . . . I have inherited Thy testimonies forever, For
they are the joy of my heart.
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I prove that the Bible is the Word of God as follows; All things
that have been and now are in the world, including how things now
stand and transpire in the world, these things were written in
some detail at the beginning, in the first Book of Moses
concerning the Creation. And just as God made and created it,
even so it was, and even so it stands to this present day. And
although King Alexander the Great, the kingdom of Egypt, the
empire of Babel, the Persian, Grecian, and Roman monarchs, the
Emperors Julius and Augustus, most fiercely raged and swelled
against this book, utterly to suppress and destroy it; yet
notwithstanding, they could not prevail at all: they are all
gone and vanished; but this Book has remained throughout time,
and will remain unmoved, in full and ample manner, as it was
written at the first. But who kept it and preserved it from
such great and raging power, or who defends it still? Truly no
human creature, but only God Himself, who is the right Master
thereof; and it is a great wonder that it has been so long kept
and preserved, for the devil and the world are great enemies
unto it. The devil (doubtless) has destroyed many good books in
the Church, as he has rooted out and slain many saints,
concerning whom we have now no knowledge. But the Bible he has
left untouched. Homer, Virgil, and others like them, are
profitable and ancient books, but in comparison with the Bible,
they are as nothing.
But still Thy Law and Gospel, Lord,
Have lessons more divine;
Not earth stands firmer than Thy Word,
Nor stars so nobly shine.
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Cuda.
aka Pastor Robin Fish
Lutheran to the core -- and just a little beyond.
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