The Reformation changed the world 500 years ago and is worth remembering. Back then the Five Solas helped Christians summarize the Bible’s teaching on key issues and today still help mark the difference between true biblical teaching and the dangerous doctrines of false teachers.

• TEXT: Matthew 7:15; 1 Timothy 6:2-4
• SERIES: The Gospel of Matthew
• SPEAKER: Jason Dollar
• DATE: October 23, 2011

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Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

1 Timothy 6:2-4 Teach and urge these things. If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy…

INTRODUCTION

• The Five Solas of the Reformation
• False Prophets
• “Sola” excludes

Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone Is the Foundation for Our Faith)

Proverbs 30:5-6 Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.

Matthew 15:5-7 But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God. You hypocrites!

Sola Christus (Christ Alone Is the Mediator Between God and Man)

1 Timothy 2:5-6 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

Sola Gratia (Grace Alone Is the Method God Uses to Save Guilty Sinners)

Romans 3:22-25 For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.

Sola Fide (Faith Alone Is the Means by which God Applies Grace)

Romans 3:25 …to be received by faith.

Hebrews 4:2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

Sola Deo Gloria (The Glory of God Alone Is the Goal of Our Faith)

1 Corinthians 10:31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Philippians 2:9-11 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

HOW THE FIVE SOLAS HELP EXPOSE FALSE TEACHERS

CONCLUSION: Work carefully through your beliefs concerning the Five Solas and seek to refine your theology (understanding of God and His works). This will help you see if you still need salvation and it will protect you from the false teachers who would lead you astray.