When the gospel is at stake, we must be like Martin Luther, willing to “let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also.” In this brief clip, R.C. Sproul reminds us that defending the gospel is worth the cost.
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Transcript
We should be willing to die for those truths that are absolutely essential to the Christian faith—not for every point of doctrine, not for every dispute. I mean sometimes we fight over theological issues that we should never be fighting about. But when it comes to the essential truths like the gospel, then Luther is a hero. Luther was willing to die. Luther stood against the world just as Athanasius had done centuries before him. When it is the truth of the gospel that is at stake, you have to be able to let ‘goods and kindred go, this mortal life also.'
