\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDownload Audio\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\tText: II Corinthians 11:1-4<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nI. In the late 1300s lived a man named John Wycliffe in Oxford, England, where he taught\nin Balliol College.\n
A. He was a theologian and a lay preacher, strongly advocating evangelism.<\/p>\n
B. This man found many things wrong with Roman Catholicism<\/p>\n 1. The Bible was the supreme authority and not the church and he believed it\ncould be understood by the masses – I Timothy 3:14-15\n 2. He called into question the idea of papal infallibility, and he even had the\nnerve to declare that a worldly pope ought to be removed from his position\n– I Corinthians 5:9-13\n 3. He stated that salvation did not depend on a connection to a visible church\nor a priesthood but was based on a person’s relationship with God –\nRomans 5:9-10\n a. The church itself was “invisible” being made up of only the chosen\nof God. Officials in the “visible” church could not decide who was\na member of the true church.\n b. He opposed infant baptism and declared that children who died\nwere safe. Thus, also reject the idea of original sin – Ezek 18:20\n 4. He also taught that officials should be respected for their character and not\nbecause of some position they held.\n 5. He also spoke out against the practice of selling indulgences (getting\nforgiveness prior to committing a sin) and holding mass for the dead –\nboth money making operations of the Roman Catholic church.\n
C. He is best known for translating the Bible into English from the Latin Vulgate<\/p>\n D. He died December 31, 1384. He was so hated by the Roman Catholic Church that\n30 years later he was condemned on 267 counts. 43 years after his death, his body\nwas dug up and burned in the mistaken idea that this would prevent his\nresurrection.\nII. Wycliffe had students from Bohemia and Moravia, which now are a part of Czech\nRepublic. They brought Wycliffe’s teachings back to their country.\n A. There a man name Jan Hus, dean of Philosophy at Prague University began\nreading and translating Wycliffe’s writings.\n
B. Jan Hus became a popular preacher and drew large crowds.<\/p>\n C. His reputation for unblemished purity stood in sharp contrast with the corruption\nand worldliness of the existing religious clergy. \n 1. Hus wrote, “The church shines in its walls, but starves in its poor saints; it\nclothes its stones with gold, but leaves its children naked.”\n 2. Hus wanted a higher level of morality in the priesthood. As matters stood\ndrunkenness, fornication, and financial abuses were common in the\nleadership of the Roman Catholic Church\n D. He taught that popes and cardinals were not the church and wrote, “Not every\npriest is a saint, but every saint is a priest.” – I Peter 2:9-10\n 1. Hus taught that the Bible was to be followed over church traditions. That\nincluded Wycliffe’s writings.\n 2. He called for preaching and readings to be done in the language of the\npeople – I Corinthians 14:9\n 3. He also insisted that all Christians receive the full communion and not just\nthe bread – I Corinthians 10:16-17\n E. Like Wycliffe, Jan Hus opposed the sale of indulgences and the doctrine of papal\ninfallibility.\n F. In 1408 the Roman Catholic Church became aware that Wycliffe’s writings were\ncirculating in the region of Prague. In 1410, the pope ordered the surrendering and\nburning of all of Wycliffe’s writings, but Jan Hus refused and as a result was\nexcommunicated. Hus ignored it and continued preaching.\n 1. That same year he denounced the pope for selling indulgences to finance a\ncampaign against the king of Naples.\n G. By 1412, he lost all support from the church and the university, but he continued\nto preach in fields, forests, and marketplaces. About this time he wrote that for\none, “to cease from preaching, in obedience to the mandate of the pope or\narchbishop, would be to disobey God and imperil his own salvation.” – Acts 5:29\n
1. He remained a popular preacher<\/p>\n H. Tricked into going to Constance with a guarantee of safety, he was arrested. He\nfell ill in prison, but he refused all efforts to make him recant. On July 6, 1415 he\nwas executed by burning while singing and praying. He wrote on the night before\nhis death, “I shall die with joy today in the faith of the gospel which I have\npreached.”\n
III. Martin Luther <\/p>\n A. When Luther was defending his 95 Thesis against the Roman Catholic Church in\n1517, he was charged with being a Hussite. He initially rejected the claim\n B. However, by 1520 after researching Jan Hus’ teachings, he changed his mind. “I\nhave taught and held all the teachings of Jan Hus, but thus far did I not know it . . .\nIn short, we are all Hussites and did not know it.”\n C. Luther found Jan Hus’ example and teachings significant and often quoted him.\nHe also wrote many prefaces to reprints of Hus’ works.\n
IV. Pietism<\/p>\n A. Moving another century ahead to the late 1600s, we find the Lutheran Church\nbecome more like the Roman Catholic Church that it broke away from\n 1. The earlier teachings of Hus, the willingness to go against the established\nchurches, the living of an exemplary life and to tell people that they can\nlearn directly became the foundation of this system of belief\n 2. What seems to have been lost is the strong love for truth and doing things\nthe biblical way. Instead, personal experience took the lead.\n
B. Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705) is typically seen as the founder of Pietism<\/p>\n 1. He began small group studies in Frankfurt, Germany. The focus was for\nlay people to learn the Scriptures without the need for clergy to be present\n C. A student of Spener, August Hermann Francke, emphasized the necessity of\nhaving a “born again experience” to be an authentic Christian.\n D. Pietism quickly fragmented, but some of its hallmark teachings were:\n[https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rogereolson\/2010\/11\/reclaiming-pietism-part-3]\n 1. An emphasis on experience of God over a merely sacramental spirituality\nor orthodoxy, \n
a. This is a departure from Wycliffe, Hus, and Luther earlier<\/p>\n b. It is the teaching of the Scriptures, not an experience that gives a\nperson faith – Romans 10:17\n 2. promotion of lay involvement in small groups for Scripture reading and\nspiritual formation, \n 3. an emphasis on personal piety and holiness alongside justification (so,\nregeneration and sanctification which they believed were neglected by the\northodox state churches of their time). \n
a. The idea of being holy is taught by the apostles – I Peter 1:13-16<\/p>\n b. While most earlier leaders believe in the necessity of baptism as\nadults, they believed that without an extra experience of piety that\nChristians would fall away\n c. Falling away is a potential problem and worldliness can be cause –\nMatthew 13:22\n d. However, it is not through a religious experience that a person\nbecomes holy or sanctified\n
e. Holiness comes from abstaining from sin – I Thessalonians 4:3-7<\/p>\n
E. Other features:<\/p>\n 1. The Bible was to be read and understood by all Christians, which the state\nchurches, such as Roman Catholic and Lutheran, forbade at that time.\n 2. Belief in emotional experiences of God what transforms a person’s life\nand thus holy living was evidence of the Spirit dwelling in them\n a. It is actually the other way around. Because the Spirit is to dwell in\nus, we ought to be holy – I Corinthians 6:18-20\n
3. Talk of Jesus as a personal friend<\/p>\n
4. Many Pietists were premillennialists<\/p>\n F. From this movement, the Brethren churches, Evangelical Free, and Covenant\nchurches formed\n 1. There is also a group of German, Danish, and Swedish Baptist churches\nthat hold Pietist beliefs, but they are fading into other Baptist groups.\n 2. But notice that many Pietist beliefs have worked their way into various\nProtestant denominations.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOrigins of Denominations\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Jeff Hamilton Download Audio Text: II Corinthians 11:1-4 I. In the late 1300s lived a man named John Wycliffe in Oxford, England, where he taught in Balliol College. A. He was a theologian and a lay preacher, strongly advocating evangelism. B. This man found many things wrong with Roman Catholicism 1. 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