Complete Sermons of Martin Luther Volume 4.1-2, The
Edited by John Nicholas Lenker
Number of quotes: 7
Book ID: 337 Page: 26
Section: 3D1
Trinity Sunday2. Upon this subject the foolishness of God and the wisdom of the world conflict. God’s declaration that he is one God in three distinct persons, the world looks upon as wholly unreasonable and foolish; and the followers of mere reason, when they hear it, regard every one that teaches or believes it as no more than a fool.
This sermon was first printed in 1535, at Wittenberg.
Quote ID: 7852
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 337 Page: 93/94
Section: 2D3B
Third Sunday Before Lent24. “Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.”
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1. This lesson is a part of the long four-chapter instruction Paul gives the Corinthians. Therein he teaches them how to deal with those weak in the faith, and warns rash, presumptuous Christians to take heed lest they fall, however they may stand at the present. He presents a forcible simile in the running of the race, or the strife for the prize. Many run without obtaining the object of their pursuit. But we should not vainly run. To faithfully follow Christ does not mean simply to run. That will not suffice. We must run to the purpose. To believe, to be running in Christ’s course, is not sufficient; we must lay hold on eternal life. Christ says (Mt 24, 13), “But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.”
Quote ID: 7847
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 337 Page: 99
Section: 2A2
THIRD SUNDAY BEFORE LENT“For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them.”
13. In other words, they believed in the same Christ in whom we believe, though he was yet to come in the flesh; and the sign of their faith was the material rock, from which they physically drank water, just as we in partaking of the material bread and wine at the altar spiritually eat and drink the true Christ. With the outward act of eating and drinking we exercise inward faith.
Quote ID: 7848
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 337 Page: 167
Section: 2A6
FITH SUNDAY IN LENTBut Christ, in God’s sight, purifies the conscience of dead works; that is, of sins meriting death, and of works performed in sin and thereafter dead. Christ purifies from these, that we may serve the living God by living works.
Quote ID: 7849
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 337 Page: 208
Section: 2D3B
TENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITYThe same is true of other factions—the Anabaptists and similar sects. What else do they but slander baptism and the Lord’s supper when they pretend that the external Word and outward sacraments do not benefit the soul, that the Spirit alone can do that?
Quote ID: 7853
Time Periods: 27
Book ID: 337 Page: 243/244
Section: 2A1
SUNDAY AFTER EASTER25. Secondly, that this cleansing of sin may be effected in us through baptism, something more than mere water must be present. Mere water could effect no more than do ordinary washings, and no more than Jewish and Turkish baptisms and washings effect. There must be a power and force accompanying the water effective to work inward purification, the purification of the soul.
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Thus, the blood of Christ is so effectively mingled with the baptismal water that we must not regard it as mere water, but water beautifully dyed with the precious crimson blood of our dear Saviour, Christ. Baptism, then, cannot rightly be regarded a physical cleansing, like the Mosaic ablutions, or like the cleansing the bathhouse affords; it is a healing baptism, a baptism or washing with blood, instituted by none but Christ, the Son of God, and that through his own death.
Quote ID: 7850
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 337 Page: 281/282
Section: 2E2
THIRD SUNDAY AFTER EASTER17. Therefore, they who presume to run out of the world by going into the desert or the wilderness; who, unwilling to occupy the inn but finding it indispensable nevertheless, must become their own hosts—these are great and unreasonable fools.
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HOW TO ESCAPE THE WORLD
18. But how are we to flee the world? Not by donning caps and creeping into a corner or going into the wilderness. You cannot so escape the devil and sin. Satan will as easily find you in the wilderness in a gray cap as he will in the market in a red coat. It is the heart that must flee, and that by keeping itself “unspotted from the world,” as James 1, 27 says.
Quote ID: 7851
Time Periods: 7
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