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20 Battle for the Mind anxiety flooded into my heart. All the shadows of doubt were dispelled. 1 The name of this young academic scholar was Aurelius Augustine. Augustine would go on to become the Bishop of Hippo in North Africa, a great pastor, and a Christian theologian. His writings would shape the course of Christian theology to this day. a monk encounters the apostle paul In August 1513, an Augustinian monk who was a Professor of Bible in the University of Wittenberg, Germany, was troubled with his spiritual life. For years he had been trying to find peace with God, yet all his religious efforts could not bring the peace and joy that he was seeking. He had no confidence that God accepted him, no matter how hard he tried to please Him. Troubled by his lack of spiritual clarity, he opened the Book of Romans and was reading chapter 1, verse 17, “…The righteousness of God is revealed…by faith…” (NIV). This young monk could not comprehend what Paul was talking about because his mind had been telling him that God’s righteousness judged him rather than saved him. In an effort to penetrate the meaning of Paul’s words, he wrote: I greatly longed to understand Paul’s letter to the Romans, and nothing stood in the way but that one expression, “the righteousness of God,” because I took it to mean that righteousness whereby God is righteous and acts righteously in punishing the unrighteous…. Night and day I pondered until…I grasped the truth that the righteousness of God is that righteousness whereby, through grace and sheer mercy, he justifies us by faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise. The whole of Scripture took on a new meaning, and whereas before “the righteousness of God” had filled me with hate, now it became to me inexpressibly sweet in greater love. This message of Paul became to me a gateway into heaven. 2 I am quite sure you know this monk. His name is Martin Luther. The discovery that he made that day not only changed his life, but would lead
The Street That Leads to Success—Truth From the Book of Romans 21 to the greatest reformation in the history of the Church. When Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the Wittenburg door, he launched revival fires that spread across 16th-century Europe. an anglican’s encounter with the Book oF romans In the evening of May 24, 1738, a young Anglican minister ventured out to attend a meeting with some Moravians who were gathering at Barclays Bank on Aldersgate Street in London. This young man had started his religious career with such high expectations. He had graduated from Oxford, where he had been a member of a radical group of Christians called the “Holy Club,” a club started by his younger brother. From there he crossed the ocean to work with the Indians in the state of Georgia. He then returned to England in despair and disillusionment because of his lack of spiritual power. As the troubled young man walked into the meeting that night, the most notable event in 18 th-century English history was only seconds away. As he was sitting there in the meeting, someone began to read from Luther’s Preface to the Book of Romans, where he describes what happens when people open their hearts in simple faith toward the living God. That young man was John Wesley. In his own style, the young minister wrote these classic words: I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death. 3 The warmth that was generated in his heart that night was about to set all England ablaze with glorious revival. At the age of 35, his life was changed, and there would be no going back to the old ways of religion. The direction for his life was now set on a new path—one that would focus on this message of faith in Christ. He would know for the rest of his life that the God who is reflected in the face of Jesus Christ had come down to earth to visit him and had done for Wesley precisely what he could never have done for himself. His earlier zeal
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