Reformation Day

Give it up for the moms that are just working hard to make their kids look crazy at Halloween.

But we couldn't call it Halloween, it was Reformation Day, it was All Saints Day, we were remembering the saints that died and Martin Luther King, people were like, what? And then my dad, he would take us around the neighborhood and we couldn't say trick or treat, we would say blessings, please.

And people were like, what's going on with the New King James Version kids over here? We were like, blessings, please.

God loves you.

It's the Reformation Day Drive to Church podcast.

Dear saints of St. Paul Lutheran Church, God's peace be with you.

It's exciting that we, Reformation Day, we had it at St. Michael's a couple weeks ago, but now at Reformation Day, the sense that the festive season is upon us.

So October 31st, it's always the Sunday before Reformation Day that gets the Reformation Day celebration because November 1st is All Saints, so it's November 1st or the Sunday after That gets all saints.

We kind of move those feasts to the appropriate Sunday.

So October 25th, today, but we have Reformation Day today.

A couple of beautiful things to make note of.

First of all, we're using Divine Service Setting 5, which is...

for us as we now come to Your Word on Reformation Sunday.

We ask, O God, that You would bless the preaching of Your Word.

We come, O God, as sheep who are hungry, who need to be fed.

Amen.

Well, if you have your Bibles with you, please turn to Psalm 60 as we will be continuing our study in the Psalms today.

Today is Reformation Sunday, and I have a tradition that goes back about 10 years.

of preaching some Reformation doctrine on Reformation Sunday.

And today is not going to be an exception.

And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.

I find it remarkable this morning that Of all weekends, this marking Reformation Sunday, although it's not to the 31st of October, but it's always the Sunday, the weekend before, where it is remembered as Reformation Weekend or Reformation Sunday, that it has been announced that Pope Leo XIV has been made Royal Confrateur of St. George's Chapel in Windsor by King Charles.

Now, I told you that months ago, do you remember? Remember? And it means he was made a papal confrater when he visited last year over in Italy by the Pope.

And I told you this was happening, that it was already actually done.

It just hadn't come out yet.

And I told you when I preached on when the king did evil in the sight of the Lord, that message some months ago.

Well, it's come out strangely on the Reformation Sunday.

And this is one worldism coming together.

I remember reading the biography of William Farrell, who was a reformer, the very first generation of reformers.

Good to remember this Reformation Day.

And in the 1500s, he was in Switzerland and he had gone in and William Farrell had been preaching in the highways and the byways and in the dallyways because they would not let him into the church.

They had security up to kill him if they saw him.

May that be the gift that never gets old.

Happy Reformation Sunday.

Amen.

And now may the peace of God which surpasses all understanding guard your hearts and your minds through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Well, this is a glorious day, as we said, this incredible Reformation Sunday.

It is one that we should all celebrate well and embrace in all what God has for us.

As Matt mentioned, these five solas mean so much.

The Protestant church.

Why is it that today, 500 years ago, we sit here on Reformation Sunday, not praying to or with saints, not deifying a pope, not buying and selling our way into heaven or out of purgatory with indulgences, because it is through faith that a righteous person has life.

And because of what the faith is focused on.

Amen.

Let us worship God.

Welcome to our Hymn Festival! Today our Hymn Festival falls on Reformation Day, and so we are celebrating the Lutheran tradition of hymn singing.

Lutheran hymns are known as chorales, and they spring directly out of the ideals of the Reformation.

You could probably write a good history of the Protestant Reformation purely through the lens of music.