2:8 For by grace you are saved 19 through faith, 20 and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; 2:9 it is not from 21 works, so that no one can boast. 22
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This is the scripture used in the movie about the martyrdom of the Christian Jan Hus (John Huss). Hus was burned at the stake for heresy in part for teaching the word of God in everyday language so that it could be understood by the common man.
He was an educated man and served as rector of the University in Prague in the early 1400s. Part of what struck me about the story of Hus is that he thought he could reason with men who also claimed to be Christian, but soon learned that the truth had never been the issue. Certainly not the truth of the Bible or of the forgiveness of Christ.
All that Hus had to do to be released by the council was to denounce the things he had been teaching. Jan felt to do so would be to deny Christ's calling on his life, thereby denying Christ.
They took him out and burned him at the stake on July 6, 1415.
My question today to all of us is this. If you were told that today you were going to be burned at the stake for your beliefs in Christ, but you could save yourself by denouncing them, would you?
