The 5 Solas | Solus Christus - Pastor Matt Baker - 9-20-26

Now during the Reformation, which was a period in the 1500s in church history, where the church was going on course and got kind of lost in its own traditions and rituals, something that's happened in church history at various points.

Remember the church or the people of God getting lost lost in their own traditions and rituals happened during the time of Jesus.

Remember, in the Gospel of Mark, we read about Jesus challenging the Pharisees and the Sadducees, saying, you've made your traditions, which are but rules taught by men, and you've made them equal with God.

And he said that as a criticism to them.

He said that Our traditions, as human beings, though they might be good, they're not equal to the Word of God.

And so our traditions are subject to the Word of God.

There is a hierarchy of things, and for the true believer in Jesus Christ, at the top of that hierarchy, our standard is Scripture, the Word of God, and the Word of God alone.

And so we looked at that in the first week.

And the word of God was the word of God when it was spoken.

You gotta remember those early Christians, they didn't have a physical Bible or a Bible app like you and I have today.

But the word of God was still the word of God when men, as Peter said, carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke the word of God to people.

Acts was Acts before it was written down.

Are you with me, okay? Peter preached that sermon, and it was the word of God, and the Christians wrote things down, and the word was passed orally, and then eventually it was written down.

But even when it was written down, we have different cultures that have happened throughout the ages.

Today, you probably have multiple Bibles in your house.

You probably have one Bible app, if not multiple Bible apps.

Matter of fact, my Bible app loves to guilt me.

If I don't open up my Bible app for three days, on day four, it's like, we haven't talked in a while, God.

And I'm like, quit shaming me, Bible app.

I got a physical sword, all right? And I read my real physical Bible, okay? I love the Bible app, but Bible app, chill, come on.

And so we have an abundance of opportunity to read the Bible today.

And in the time of the reformers, you know, the Reformation isn't really because of Martin Luther and John Calvin and William Tyndale, though they are central figures in the Reformation.

But Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press is the device that is the catalyst for the Reformation.

Gutenberg, if you were to research this stuff, you'd find Gutenberg talking about his motivation in making the printing press.

He wanted to get the Bible into the hands of everyday people.