"That's My King!" Of The Five Solas Of The Protestant Reformation!

Christ Alone Is Where We Go

For From His Mouth True Words Do Flow
That We Might Life Eternal Know
He's God And Man Who's Humbled Low
He Died And Rose To Take Our Woe
In Christ Alone Our God Does Show
Salvation's Way To Him We Go!

Jesus Did The Book Of The Law
He Obeyed Without One Flaw
Yet Still He Died As God's Outlaw
Then Rose To Make Our Sins Withdraw
He's The Greatest You Ever Saw
By Faith Alone We Stand In Awe!

That's my King! I wonder if you know Him?!

In Jesus Christ God's Grace Appeared
And Though He Should Have Been Revered
His Name They Smeared And Plucked His Beard
He Died And All The Wicked Cheered
But Then He Rose And We Are Cleared
By Grace Alone Sin Disappeared!

Jesus Brought Us Truth And Grace
He Ran The Perfect, Sinless Race
Then Died And Rose To Rest God's Case
On Grace Alone Salvation's Based
So Turn And Trust And Christ Embrace
With Deepest Joy You'll See His Face!

That's my King!

Only One Gospel Christ Did Bring
To God's Word Alone We Cling
It Tells Of News That Makes Us Sing
He Died And Rose To Crush Death's Sting
Christ Spoke, We Listen, He's Our King
God's Word Alone Is Truth's Wellspring!

Jesus Lived For God's Glory Alone
He's God In Flesh Who Did Atone
Then Rose Again To Take The Throne
He's King, Immortal, Cornerstone
All Glory Be To Christ Alone
He Satisfies Like None You've Known!

That's my King!

Christ Jesus Brought The True Reformation

He Died And Rose For Every Nation

Bore God's Wrath Propitiation

Rose Alive To Stop Damnation

By Grace Alone He Brings Salvation

By Faith Alone There's Justification

In Christ Alone We Face No Condemnation

The Bible Alone Gives This Narration

For God's Glory Alone We Bow In Adoration

So Come And Rejoice With Great Fascination!

That's my King! That's my King!

The Five Solas Of The Reformation

"Sola" is the Latin word for "alone" or "only". These are five major truths recovered through the Reformation, which really point us to the truth that salvation is through God alone:

1. Sola Scriptura (“Scripture alone”): Our final authority for the Christian faith and practice is God's Word alone:

Galatians 1:8-9: But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. 

2 Timothy 3:16-17: All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God(1 )may be competent, equipped for every good work. 

2. Solus Christus (“Christ alone”): We are justified by Jesus Christ alone: He alone is our Lord, Savior, and King:

John 6:67-69: So Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you want to go away as well?" Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God." 

Acts 4:11-12: This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

3. Sola Gratia (“grace alone”): We are justified by the grace of God alone: we cannot work for it or earn it:

Ephesians 2:8-9: For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 

Romans 11:5-6: So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. 

4. Sola Fide (“faith alone”): We are justified through faith alone in Christ alone: we cannot add to what Christ did:

Romans 3:27-28: Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. 

Romans 4:4-8: Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works: "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;  8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin." 

5. Soli Deo Gloria (“God’s glory alone”): These truths and our whole lives should be lived for God’s glory alone:

Isaiah 48:9-11: For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.

1 Timothy 1:17: To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. 

Resources On The Reformation

1. John Piper's Biography Of Martin Luther

2. Luther: The Life and Legacy of the German Reformer by Ligonier Ministries

3. Desiring God Resources On The Reformation

4. Ligonier Resources On The Reformation

5. Monergism Resources On The 5 Solas

God And The Gospel

To learn more about the great and true Triune God, the God-Man, Jesus Christ, His cross, and His glorious Gospel message and everlasting Kingship, please watch American Gospel: Christ Alone. You can watch the full documentary here with a free, 3 day trial.