Hi and welcome to the Hymn We Proclaim podcast. I'm Josh Montez. Today we have a special series and some special guests coming up on the podcast as we bring you highlights from the Reformation Conference 2025 that was held at Paramount Church in Jacksonville, Florida earlier this year. The theme was rediscovering and proclaiming the five solas today. In this first message, we hear from the Reverend Canon Dr.
Ashley Null. Dr. Null is an internationally respected Anglican theologian and was recently elected and consecrated as the second bishop of the Diocese of North Africa in the province of Alexandria. He's known for his groundbreaking work on the theology of Thomas Cranmer. Particularly, Cranmer's understanding of Scripture and repentance.
His famous quote captures the heart of Reformation anthropology. What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies. in his message on by scripture alone. Dr. Noll shows us how scripture stands as our ultimate authority, not tradition, not emotion, not popular opinion.
This message is a powerful call to return to God's Word as the source of faith, freedom, and formation. Here's Dr. Noll to start off this special series for us. Heavenly Father, we Would see Jesus. Tonight.
Heavenly Father, we would hear. Jesus Tonight. Heavenly Father, we would be moved. To love? and serve.
Jesus Tonight, Amen. I grew up in western Kansas. Amidst horizon wide fields of wheat, and countless clusters of grazing cattle scattered across seemingly endless acres of slightly rolling plains. Emphasis on the slide. One of my most favorite things to have ever written is a contribution to a collection of essays in a book called.
150 years of Kansas beef. No, no, no. My chapter? Cowboys, Cow Towns, and Cattle Trails of Kansas. Why did I explore something as far afield from my academic interest in Cranner and the English Reformation?
I wanted to write something my family would read. In short, I think it's fairly accurate to say that I grew up in rural America. Yeah, in all my years in Kansas All my years, I never saw A horse. Pushing a cart. Poland, sure.
But pushing? I never saw that note, not even once. After all, a horse's head? Not really designed the triangle to put maximum pressure, but the shoulders. or so stout That a hundred and 50 years, 120 years after we stopped using horses as pack animals to move things?
When we talk about a car, we ask what? How many? Horsepower. Does it have? It doesn't make any sense.
to put the cart but for the horse. But when it comes to Christianity, We do it all the time. Let me explain one of the most basic principles in Christianity is to get straight. Who comes first? God Or us.
Do we initiate and God responds? Or does God initiate? And we respond. Do we take one step towards God and consequently He takes a step towards us? Or does God come to us?
Embrace us, hugging us tight with his love, so that we find ourselves instinctively drawn. to put our arms around him in return. Because our heart longs For the fullness of the love, what she is imparting to us. I cannot help. tonight, but think.
How incredibly crucial this distinction is. Today How many countless young people? are lost. Looking for love, looking for truth in all the wrong places. thinking that they have to Find God.
I'm despairing. that they can't. Because they don't know. Don't know how to see. Don't know how to hear.
That God Almighty is literally moving heaven and earth to find them. Mm-hmm. That there Desire For something more. Is his quickening In them. That they are not alone.
In their pursuit. Because he is pursuing them. And what about The method. God has set aside where he can be found. The Bible.
Is it a book? That tells us what we must do. Or is it a book? that tells us what God is doing. In through.
And for us. Is it a rule book? Giving us a ladder. Of good deeds and better behavior by which we can climb up to heaven and be with God. Or is it a promise book?
Of how he comes to us. Both In Jesus on the cross. And Jesus in his resurrection. And because he lives He can Pursue. Find, save, sanctify, sustain, and carious in his arms.
to heaven. when the time comes. These are crucial questions. They're perennial questions. There are questions.
We as a church face in trying to help folks find their way. By helping them see. They are found by God. And it is at the heart. of the Reformation.
Thomas Cranner.
Now, it is one of the Humbling aspects of my life that I am a specialist on a man whose name I routinely mispronounce. I do my best, but the proper way is cran. Myrrh. Cranberry Cran myrrh. If I don't say that...
Ignore it, please. Mm-hmm. Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, and thus the spiritual leader of the Church of England during the time of the Reformation. believe that the Bible uniquely revealed The God who comes to His creatures with promises of salvation and sanctification. And that message then inspired them.
to embrace their Lord. How was this possible for Scripture to tell saving truth and then empower people to respond? According to the official teaching of the sixteenth-century Church of England. It's because Jesus spiritually indwells. The message of the Bible.
Just think about it. If I had bad breath, How would you know that?
Well, if I'm talking to you. With My words Go my breath, right? With God's Word. Goes. God's breath The Holy Spirit Let's hear what they say about the power of the Word of God.
during the Reformation in England. Christ images made in wood, stone, or metal.
Some men, for the love they bear to Christ, Do garnish and beautify the same. with pearl, gold, and precious stone. But shouldn't we much rather and embrace and reverence the sacred Bible? Which does represent Christ unto us more truly than any statue. A statue can but express the form or shape of his body.
If it can really do that. But the Gospel doth represent and express the quick and living image of His most holy mind. And Christ himself speaking, healing, dying, rising again, and to conclude all parts of him. To use a really twenty-first century anachronistic. Per um analogy.
What they're saying is that the Bible is divine software. That the fall has erased. And when you put God's Word with God's Spirit in you, It begins to rewire you. Rightly.
So you begin function. as God has intended, Now, if you notice, I use that word begin several times because it's not a work that's completed in this life. But the power of scripture to begin to restore us. to who we really are intended to be. Because through The Spirit quickening those promises and our trust in Christ.
we have greater union with him and union with Christ enables us to be gosh. Who would have thought? More crash-like? Mm-hmm. According to the English reformers, since God indwelt his word and worked through it to send forth his Holy Spirit, Scripture alone.
does two things. tells us what we need to know. and turns our heart to embrace it. It's often taught that scripture alone tells us what is true. The English reformers absolutely believe that.
But there is more to Scripture alone. It also is God's power. to enable us to begin to embody what we have been told is our true Card. a calling from God.
So Tonight, we are going to go through both of those two aspects of sola scriptura. in the English Reformation. Yeah.
Solo scriptura, the telling side. The medieval church reasoned that in every act of sin, a person broke both God's law. and did harm to the world God created. Since God was an eternal being, Those who rebelled against him were guilty of an infinite A fitness. and each infinite offence deserved an infinite punishment.
Can you guess what an infinite punishment? For breaking uh an for committing an infinite offence against an infinite God was? Hello. Eternal damnation. As a result, sinners can never, ever do enough to make up for doing God wrong.
But in His mercy God had provided a way out. Sinners could submit themselves to a priest, Confess their sins, and He would pronounce forgiveness of their guilt in God's name. Once released from their sins by a priest, A priest were no longer under threat of Eternal. Punishment. In addition, remember there were two consequences?
Two people you offended? God. And human culture? In addition, a person's sin also involved misusing God's creation and all too often to hurt other people. If I asked the gentleman in the front row to open his wallet up and I took $10, who have I offended?
Him, right? But also One of the Ten Commandments. God Infinite? You're not infinite. I hate to I hate to tell you that you're finite.
Okay. Yeah.
As a fellow member of the Created Order, A penitent could make reparations for the harm he had caused in the world.
So, how can I make reparations for stealing $10 from him? I could like give it back. I could do something. To repair what I had done to offend him. Therefore, in addition to declaring a sinner forgiven of his offense against God.
A priest was required to assign What's that magic word? Penances. By which the sinner would work off his second lesser debt. to the people around him. This teaching Of immediately creates a pastoral problem for deathbed confessions.
Can you guess what that was?
Well, how do they work it off if they're dying? There's no time left, right? Does that mean they're not going to go to heaven because they have this leftover lesser debt? to the to the created order? Could they still be saved?
Well meaning theologians decided yes. Such people could still be saved, but only because God had established an intermediate stage. Between death and heaven, where the penalties that they should have worked off while alive. Could now be worked off through suffering. Since these punishments purged the forgiven Christians from the remaining stains of sin, the place was called.
Purgatory. whatever penances these Christians failed to perform in life, they would have to fulfill their after death.
Now, do you catch What's going on here? This is actually, purgatory begins as an attempt. to be pastoral. And to give people hope. That even though because of human limitations God has found a way.
To make it possible for them to get rid of the punishments. that they have to pay.
Well, If that's the situation, what awaited the average Christian? The Bible offered vivid descriptions of what heaven and hell would be like, and in fact, they were painted across the front of every English parish church. The medieval church believed that God would fill the grant, the gap, by granting many holy people visions. Of what the torments were as awaiting for others. Because does the Bible talk about purgatory?
But God, in his power, gave visions to help people know and to warn them of what was coming. Take S. Brigitte of Sweden. In her vision, she saw, among other things, that the proud had an iron band. tightened on their head.
Until their eyes were hanging on their cheeks. and their brains oozing out their nostrils and ears. Their ear lobes were burnt. Their teeth smashed. their arms rendered as limp As hip rope.
Their rib cage broken up. their shoulders broken and hanging down, and their bones drawn out as if they were on a thread. and it doesn't get any better going further down. No wonder, in the eyes of the reformers, what had originally been intended. as good news ends up being Bad news The default of the church Is always shame.
and fear to get people to do. in their own strength. what only the Holy Spirit can do. Repent it. In the end.
for all the best intentions. The medieval church went beyond scripture. to provide a pastoral solution. to people's anxieties. But in the end They ended up teaching that people had to earn the right to get into heaven.
and through pain and suffering in the process. Naturally, such teaching horrified Martin Luther. First, the church. require people to earn a personal work worthiness beyond their reach.
Something Luther had decided the Bible didn't teach, and then when people realized they could not merit heaven on their own, the church offered them another false doctrine: indulgences, so they could, in effect, buy an easier way out of purgatory, mocking the very standard of worthiness the theologians said was required. And all the while greedy church officials We were able to exploit people's fearful consciences for their own gain? And yet, as scandalous as the teachings on purgatory and indulgences were. Luther realized that the root of the problem was deeper. The medieval church's willingness to base its teachings on other sources.
Besides the Bible. Good intentions. Holy visions. Academic reasoning. Venerable traditions even church councils.
None of these had authority to supersede the plain sense of God's word. Human pride might lead people to think they could eventually merit God's approval. But that wasn't the true gospel. God's Word clearly proclaimed free salvation of the unworthy in Jesus Christ. Luther decided to respond to such teaching by writing up his famous Ninety five Theses and, it is said, nailing them to the door of Wittenberg's Castle Church on the thirty first of october, fifteen seventeen.
Any guess why we have founded the Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies in Wittenberg, Germany? Thomas Kramner agreed. He put into the official teachings of the Church of England. That The The medieval Roman Catholic superstitions as purgatory and masses for the dead were ungodly and counterfeit religions. He thought priests who asked widows to pay them to say prayers to rescue loved ones out of purgatory deserved the rebuke Christ gave to the religious leaders of his day.
Woe be to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, you devour widows' houses under the color of long prayers, therefore your damnation shall be the greater. He too condemned indulgences, lamenting that they were so esteemed and abused to the great prejudice of God's glory and commandments, that they were made most high in holy things whereby to attain eternal life or remission of sin. Most importantly, Kramner also believed that the medieval church was able to permit and even defend such practices. Because her leaders had hidden the light of God's word under the bushel basket of human tradition. In fact, in the 15th century society in England, the basic teachings of the church were required to be taught to everyone in English.
but it was illegal for anyone to possess an English Bible without a special license from the local bishop. For Kramner, this eclipse of Scripture was responsible for the doctrinal darkness which demanded human achievement to the detriment of God's glory. an exalted human ability at the expense of God's grace. Kramner realized that the Church needed to be free, needed to free Scripture from the smothering effect of centuries of misguided interpretation. Only the Bible alone could illuminate the gospel truths needed to heal the pastoral disaster.
of medieval teaching. Here is the official teaching. Of the 16th century Church of England under Edward VI and Elizabeth the Queen. In Holy Scripture is contained God's true word. Whatsoever truth required To salvation is there for in Holy Scripture is fully contained what we ought to do, and what to avoid, what to believe, what to love, what to look for at God's hands.
Therefore as many as be desirous to enter into the right and perfect way unto God, must apply their minds to know Holy Scripture, without the which they can neither sufficiently know God in His will, nor neither their office in duty. Why are so many people lost and looking for love and truth in the wrong places? Because the church has lost confidence. Let the gospel is the answer. to the human condition.
and its struggles. For only in the light of the witness of Scripture do people realize. We have offended against God's holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. and there is no health no spiritual wholeness in us.
Only through studying Scripture do people understand the source of their unhappiness in life. And only through biblical study. Did they learn this solution? Anybody here have a car? Yeah.
Anybody a really good car mechanic? Anybody like me? really like the manufacturer's guide? to the car in the glove compartment. Mm-hmm.
I do a lot of car rentals. And one of the most interesting things about renting cars is how many different places they can put the button to unlock the gas cap. And many times, after trying everything that I thought would be the answer. And the airport time for my flight, and to drop the car getting closer and closer, what do I do? I get the manufacturer's guide out, and it will tell me the solution to my problem where that button is.
The Bible. Is the manufacturer's guide. to the human condition. It tells us what the problems are. And what to do about it so that we will run.
As we are Intended. Once he became the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cramner urged Henry VIII to permit the printing of Bibles in English. His request was granted with the Great Bible of 1539. a copy of which was required by law to be put out for public use in every parish church in the country. Summing up his solution to the theological model.
of the late church. Kramner urged his fellow countrymen to make use of this hard one privilege. Let us diligently search for the well of life in the books of the New and Old Testament, and not run to the stinking puddles of men's traditions devised by man's imagination for our justification and salvation. Did you notice that phrase? Stinking puddles.
Do you have any idea what that refers to? What was sewage? In health Sanitation in 16th century England. Have you ever noticed how the houses go out like this and lean out over? Do you know why?
Because the upper windows you open and you take the chamber pot and you throw it out the window and you want it away from your foundation.
So in the street, you literally have stinking puddles. That's what Kramner is comparing. our own ideas. about how To find peace. and happiness.
apart from God's revelation. in His Word. According to Krabner, The Bible is like the rich soil of a garden bed. Eternal life springs up from being planted in that soil alone.
Sometimes, however, even good clods Even good soil can get clumped together. and to make use of the nutrients locked in those clumps, good gardeners use spades and hoes to break them up and mix their soil into the rest of the garden bed. Likewise, when readers come across a difficult passage in the Bible, They need to think prayerfully about the relationship of this passage to the rest of Scripture. Had to consider what Um how people in previous centuries have wrestled with it. and maybe they can shed some light.
Nevertheless, while reason and tradition may help to clarify difficulties, They can never contradict. the bi the biblical witness. To suggest that either reason or tradition has the authority to overrule the plain injunction of Scripture would have had as much sense to the sixteenth century reformers as saying, I want to plant petunias. in the handle of my spade. Mm-hmm.
In their view, all-saving truth sprung from the garden bed of scripture. Alone.
Solda scriptura It's turning. The year is three eighty-six AD. The place Milan, Italy. The capital city of the current Roman Emperor of the West. Standing at the crossroads of his life, Saint Augustine of Hippo faced a seemingly irresolvable dilemma.
At thirty one years of age, he had managed to overcome his rural North African background and even its provincial accent.
Now he was on the brink of professional prominence both as the city's orator and with an upcoming marriage to a high society heiress. Yet Augustine was also on the verge of accepting the teachings of the Christian faith for which his mother had so long prayed. Since the Emperor himself was a Christian, adopting faith in Jesus was by no means a bad career move for an ambitious young man. and Augustine was clearly looking to get ahead. After all, he had already put away his long standing mistress, the mother of his only child, and a woman he freely acknowledged he dearly loved.
just so he was to be in a position to marry his way in to respectability, and financial comfort. No, the problem Christianity presented Augustine was the truths in Scripture, what it revealed about God and human beings. In their light he saw for the first time that the current course of his life especially in sexual matters. Both displeased God and and the weight ate away at his own soul. He knew what the truth was.
He just didn't think he could embrace it. Have you heard that wonderful quip by Mark Twain? It's not the parts of scripture I don't understand that causes me problems. It's the parts that I do. Augusta now understood only too well how his desire to make a name for himself had merely left him enslaved to a never satisfied longing for self gratification.
nor was he able to shrug off the problem as before. He used to tell himself, There's no point in trying to be any different until I know for sure what is right. Upon reading scripture, however, Augustine realized he could no longer cling to that self-serving excuse. He had to admit that at last he had encountered the truth. Yet frustratingly so, for he also realized that he did not have the power to act differently.
even though now he actually wanted to do so. Naturally, Augustine was torn in two. He realized he was in bondage to emptiness. But he could not free himself to serve God. He could hear the urgings of the Holy Spirit to lean on the Almighty for help.
It even then to turn and trust. remained beyond his power.
So God himself intervened, Augustine discovered that when he thought he was pursuing God, The God was actually pursuing him. The full realization of Augustine's miserable helplessness hit him while sitting in the garden of his house in Milan with his best friend since childhood. uh Alypius. Embarrassed at his own emotional turmoil, Augustine wandered off to weep in private. And what happened next we know from his own autobiographical book, The confessions.
At that point, I heard a voice from a neighbor's house. Whether it was a boys or girls, I do not know. But the child was singing. and often repeating the phrase. Take up and read.
Take up and read. Pondering these words, I fought back my flood of tears and got up. I decided that this was a divine command that I should open the scriptures and read the first passage that I found. Therefore I hurried back to where Olypius was sitting, since I had laid a copy of Paul's writings there when I had left him. I snatched it up and opened it.
In silence I read the first place where my eyes fell. Romans thirteen, thirteen and fourteen. Not in carousing and drunkenness. Not in sexual pride and its shameless practices, not in jostling rivalry and jealous ambition. But be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ.
and do not make plans to gratify the lusts of the flesh. Unquote. I did not read any further, nor did I need to do so. Immediately as I finished this very sentence, assurance streamed into my heart like a light. dispelling the darkness of all my doubts.
So you, O Lord, turned me to you. You threw those worthless desires out of my heart, and in their place came inside yourself instead. At last my soul was free from that gnawing need to search around for advancement and strive after possessions.
Now I no longer have to wallow in sin, And scratch. My itching lust. Unquote. From Augustine. After his encounter, he was a changed man.
Strengthened by the spiritual power of God's presence in his heart, he followed a different road. He repudiated his professional career, abandoned his marriage plans, and submitted to Christian baptism. From that turning point onward, Augustine's dedicated himself to making the same, making the name of Jesus to be praised among all peoples. Not his own. Augustine's dilemma was caused by a very common mistake made throughout human history.
the erroneous belief that while true religion teaches you how to live right, In the end, it's up to you to make yourself do it. The Bible as a rule book. The Bible as a ladder. This approach to religious faith assumes that humankind's principal problem is merely a lack of knowledge, although it is. A lack of knowledge.
It's more than that. Romans seven tells us I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do. But what I hate, I do. When the truth of Scripture revealed to Augustine the depth of his ambitious envy hiding in his heart, he finally understood what Paul was talking about.
He realizes that he was helpless to free himself from his selfishness.
Okay. The problem What human beings? is The weakness frailty and deceitfulness of human nature. And if we are the problem. The solution cannot start with us.
The Bible has to be a rule book. in the sense of tellingness of what is true and what's wrong with us. But it also has to be much more than that. It has to be a promise book. That has the power to do in us what it calls forth.
that we cannot do in our own strength. The English Reformation. Leaning on the Lutheran Reformation. wholeheartedly agreed. Painfully honest about human nature, Cramnart realized that the source of so many human problems lies not in the stars.
or in others? But deep within ourselves. Apart from the guiding governance of the Holy Spirit, quote, the devices and desires of our own hearts, unquote. only lead us away from God. And by rejecting his ways, not only do we trespass against God's divine order, we violate our own nature.
And since God designed us as human beings to need His love in our hearts to be whole, every step away from Him merely deepens within us. the spiritual wound with which we were born.
So tragically, when we listen to the siren call of our own hearts. We end up in Cramner's words miserable sinners Sinners whose sin has made us miserable. When we tell young people to look into their heart to find out their direction in life. God have mercy. Daryl?
Was a high school senior. in the nineteen seventies. And Daryl was gifted with awkwardness. He decided to go to the prom. And in those days you only went with the date, right?
The idea of going stack? Incomprehensible. He managed to convince a freshman girl. To attend with them? A week before, she recognized the social cachet of going to the senior prom as a freshman with with was not worth the social embarrassment of being there with Daryl.
And so she dumped him. But he had his ticket. His baby blue tucks with white lace frills. It was the seventies. He whipped.
Hello. And while he was sitting against the the wall as one big Melting white carnation, wilting white carnation.
Someone took pity. and offer to let him dance with his state once, so at least he could have danced. At the senior prom, right? After the end, Yes. The original date comes up.
Yeah.
They go back together. Daryl comes back on the dance floor. and tries to cut in. Mm. The The gentleman asks his date if she was willing.
She agreed, and so they danced another round. But he said, This is the last time. Dance is over, he comes back up. They start dancing and guess what happens? Darryl comes back up.
and tries to cut in. But this is just Daryl being Daryl, right? You try to be nice to him and he keeps pushing and pushing. And so he was told to get lost. Seven years later, they run into each other in their home town in Burger King.
Haven't seen each other since graduation from high school. And the first words out of Darryl's mouth were You know I have never forgiven you. for what you did to me on the night of the senior prom. Hello? What are you talking about?
You know. how I was quietly minding my own business, along the wall. And you lured me out onto the dance floor.
so you could publicly humiliate me. But I got even. I embarrassed you. By cutting in. What's the point of the story?
Car hurts. and paint. Our senses of rejection Can be such an overpowering narrative in our lives. Tag. When we listen to our heart, it can deceive us.
So that genuinely Kindness. becomes Seeing as a threat. And the rejection cycle, even when it's not true. is perpetuate it. What is the only hope?
Uh Okay. The turning side of scripture. According to the 16th century formulas. The words of Holy Scripture are the power to convert our souls through God's promise. and they be effectual through God's assistance.
Whoever is diligent to read God's word and in his heart to print them. To hear to print that he readeth, the great affection to the things of this world will grow smaller in him. and the great desire for heavenly things that be promised of God shall increase in him. Nothing is better for establishing our faith and trust in God. Nothing does more to turn us to innocency and pureness of heart.
As the continual reading and meditation of God's Word. For the perpetual reading and diligent study of the Holy Scripture engraves its promises so deeply on human hearts, that over time these truths become almost instinctive, The hearing and keeping of Scripture maketh us blessed. sanctifies us and maketh us holy. Little wonder then Kramner urged that these books ought to be much in our hands. Hands, in our eyes, in our ears, in our mouths, but most of all.
in our heart. The only thing that breaks Through the lies we tell ourselves The lies our culture tells us Is not only the truth of God's Word? but how the Spirit applies us It's promises. that the glory of God is to love the unworthy. Cramner bet the whole Church of England.
on this one sentence. Only God's unconditional love for sinners. can inspire sinners. to love God More than sin. Not fear, shame, duty Only the unconditional love of God for sinners.
inspire sinners to love God. more than the sin. And he so believed that that at the very heart Of the Lord's Supper, the principal service. In the sixteenth century, Sunday worship. In the middle of that, Right before it says, lift up your hearts in prayer to heaven.
Kramner puts Four. Gospel promises. Because he believes these promises will draw our wayward human hearts. back to God. By showing us how How much he loves us.
And those are not only good for us, who know the love of God? They're also powerful for those who don't.
So we I would like to close by reciting them. Come unto me, all ye that travail. and are heavy laden, and die will refresh you. Does? The comfortable words begin with sin, judgment, hell, any mention of that?
It begins with human longing to be rescued. How many. People. Today Our laboring underlies And I know they are burdened. and they're looking For rest.
for their souls. First comfortable word. Second comfortable word. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that all that believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. We still haven't used the S word, have we?
What have we used? The L word. If human beings long to be rescued. God because of his love, longs to rescue us? And everything else, it happens between this dynamic.
of human beings longing for rescue. and it being the nature of God too long. to rescue us? This is a true saying and worthy of all men to be received. That Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.
Whoa! We now have finally mentioned the S word. But it's in the context of divine love, and now we know that our. Restlessness. Our burden is because we are dealing with sins that we cannot atone for.
And all too often cannot lay aside. in her own strength. And that's why. Jesus came into the world. To solve the problem that we can't.
Salvation. Human longing, divine longing, salvation from a human point of view. the last comfortable word. Epidemians and We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. and tea is the propitiation for our sins.
What does salvation look like for from God's perspective. The immortal dying for the mortal.
So that the mortal can become immortal. No greater love has us than to lay down his life for his friends. You know. If Adam and Eve had persisted in faithfulness, That may have been a good thing. But you know what we would have never known.
the depth of God's love. For Adam and Eve. By God Himself dying, for their progeny. And it's in the Revelation. Of God's willingness to die for us while we were yet His enemies.
That it's the glory of God to love the unworthy, the exact opposite. of the well-intentioned but deeply flawed teaching. of the medieval church. That we find how our true worth and value. And find a grateful love arising in our hearts.
that unites us to God. And one another? and guides our choices to healthiness In the light of Kramner's covenant words, what can we conclude about the Bible and the English Reformation? Kran Cranmer puts so the scriptura. Both its unique power to tell the gospel and its unique power to move human hearts to embrace it.
at the very heart of historic English language worship. The mission. Vitality and expansion of the Church today would be well served. if we would do likewise, in our time. Thank you so much for your attention.
Thank you so much for listening to the Hymn We Proclaim podcast. We hope this special message from the Reverend Canon Dr. Ashley Null, by scripture alone, has stirred your affections for Christ and renewed your confidence in the power and clarity of God's Word. Dr. Null's insights into Thomas Cranmer and the heart-driven nature of true repentance remind us that Scripture is not just our foundation, it's our lifeline.
If you're ever in the Jacksonville area, we warmly invite you to worship with us at Paramount Church. We're a gospel-centered community focused on proclaiming Christ in all of life. You can find resources, connect with our ministries, or plan your visit at paramountchurch.com.
Next time on the podcast, we'll continue our special Reformation Conference Series with Dr. Jonathan Leinbaugh. And his rich message on By Grace Alone, you won't want to miss this deep dive into the free and undeserved favor of God that transforms everything about the Christian life. Until then, keep your eyes on Christ and keep proclaiming Him.
