Episode 168 - Where is Your Faith?

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham.In Rome, one can visit the Scala Sancta, the twenty-eight marble steps that supposedly once led into Pilate’s judgment hall in Jerusalem. These are the steps which Jesus used as He was taken to His trial before the Roman governor. According to tradition, they were moved to Rome in the early 300’s and since that time, millions of people have climbed those steps on their knees as an act of penance. In 1511, it is said that Martin Luther was performing that ritual hoping to gain God’s favor when the words of Romans 1:17 sprung into his mind: “For therein is the rightesouness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” It was then he realized that salvation does not come through a church, but through faith in Christ’s sacrifices for our sins.