Resisting the Enemy

In this fourth message in this series commemorating the 500th anniversary of Knox's birth, we examine the crucial moment in the life of Knox and in the Scottish Reformation as a whole when Knox was summoned to the Palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh to be interviewed by Mary Stuart, the Queen of the Scots. She was 19 and he was 56, but she counted on her position of power and prestige to cow John Knox into submission. But Knox, while granting her deference as his sovereign in the civil realm, would not stand by to watch her try to dismantle the work of the Protestant Reformation. Only one man in Scotland had the courage to resist the face of Romanism and it was John Knox.