Appointment of the Son

The point: Be location-conscious of the Word of God, knowing where doctrines are found, even if not able to quote verbatim.

Martin shares a personal anecdote about how verse-by-verse exposition leads to unconscious memorization of whole chapters, demonstrating the blessing of deep engagement with Scripture.

I trust that at least some of you have memorized this paragraph as we've been reading it over each Lord's Day morning. At least you ought to be very conscious of the general content of the paragraph, its relationship to what precedes, as well as its introduction to what follows. One of the great blessings that comes to any minister of the gospel and preacher and teacher who is committed to a verse-by-verse exposition of Scripture is that he unconsciously memorizes whole chapters without even knowing it. And I was discussing this with someone the other night, and I said, well, let's see if that...

0:12 - 1:07 Read in full sermon

The point: Be filled with wonder at our Trinitarian salvation, tracing out the details of God's work.

An analogy of a blind, poor, imprisoned man sentenced to death who wakes up free, healthy, and with sight, finding a book detailing his deliverance. This illustrates the wonder and delight believers should have in tracing out the intricate details of their Trinitarian salvation.

it was assured that all believers would one day be with their redeemer with them with him forever now if that's true it bears some tremendous implications and I want to work out several of those in the time that remains in the first place I hope it fills us all with some sense of wonder at our Trinitarian salvation we are saved by God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit and our hearts should be filled with wonder at a salvation wrought out by the beautiful and if I say it I hope not irreverently the symmetrical outworking of the Triune God Psalm 111.2 says the works of the Lord are great sought...

25:07 - 26:34 Read in full sermon