thredj,

If I understand your question... you are asking if God can/will use a person in the act of sin for His glory.

Well, my first thought is that God cannot sin. So God is not glorified in sin, since sin is directly opposed to His will. However, God uses sinners to bring glory to himself.

God is glorified for His righteous justice in punishing sinners such as Herod who in Acts 12:22-24 who in his pride accepted for himself the praise that belongs to God alone. Immediately after hearing the people shout to him, "The voice of a god and not of a man!" and not giving God the glory he was eaten by maggots.

The Bible is filled with people like Rahab the prostitute who hid the spies. Or how about Abraham who lied about Sarah being his wife and God closed all the wombs in Egypt. And then there's Mary Magdaline who was delivered from seven demons and will always be remembered for how she annointed the feet of Jesus with an expensive perfume prior to Christ's crucifiction. She also was the first to behold the Lord after His resurrection. How about Saul who persecuted the Church of Jesus Christ and was converted into the Apostle Paul who wrote half the New Testament.

If however, you are looking for support for Luther being drunk when he wrote the 95 thesis I can't imagine how that would happen. Since the 95 statements were spiritual in nature how could the alcohol have been helpful. (See Eph. 5:18)


Wes

When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died, my richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride. - Isaac Watts