Revealed Will for Christian Servants #4

In this part of the sermon: Martin begins by reading 1 Peter 2:11-25 and uses the analogy 'all roads lead to Rome' to illustrate that all biblical roads, whether history, biography, or precept, ultimately…

This analogy describes how all roads in the Roman Empire eventually led to Rome, serving as a metaphor for how all aspects of the Bible, whether history, biography, or precept, ultimately lead to Christ.

All roads lead to Rome.

3:13 - 3:16 Read in full sermon

The point: You are in the strength and power of Christ, out of the motivation of love to Christ, to seek to imitate Christ in his response to undeserved suffering.

This analogy compares Christ's example to a writing chart in a classroom or a tracing book, where a pupil is meant to carefully follow and reproduce the given pattern. It illustrates how believers are to imitate Christ's attitudes and actions in suffering.

And here again, we have one of those words, that as Peter is sitting, and thinking, and writing, and the Spirit of God is quickening his thought processes, and guiding him, so that what he actually puts down are the words that God wants, he uses a word found nowhere else in the New Testament. Peter uses a lot of those. But it is used in secular Greek literature. And this word, leaving an example, this is the word you would use, and the classical writers, the secular Greek writers used it this way, that if you were to teach a pupil how to write his letters, you have those charts over there in t...

35:34 - 36:35 Read in full sermon

The point: You are in the strength and power of Christ, out of the motivation of love to Christ, to seek to imitate Christ in his response to undeserved suffering.

Martin recounts childhood memories of making footprints in wet sand or snow and others trying to match them. This illustrates the concept of 'following his steps,' emphasizing the deliberate and conscious effort to place one's life in the track of Christ's example.

We implement it by following in the track of his steps. You remember as a kid, maybe even do it now as an adult. I remember many times doing this. We lived close to Long Island Shore there in Connecticut where I was weird.

39:11 - 39:28 Read in full sermon