Anathema Maranatha – a Gospel Curse

Driving home: If any man loves the Lord, let him be anathema. In order to think our way through this arresting, this strange text calling a Gospel curse, we shall follow the following lines of thought.

Explains Paul's use of a secretary (amanuensis) for writing letters and his practice of adding a personal salutation to authenticate his epistles against imposters, highlighting the importance of his final words in 1 Corinthians.

apostle himself has taken pen in hand to write the final words of this epistle to the Corinthians. As many, if not all of you are aware, the apostle Paul very frequently and perhaps in most, if not all of the angels, did not actually write then with his own pen and ink. He used the secretary, if you want to sound learned if you're talking about an amanuensis, well that's just a fancy big word, for a recording secretary, someone who took the words from Paul's mouth and recorded them. Because there were imposters in the religious world then as now, who figured they'd capitalize on the popularity...

3:23 - 4:27 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin brings the sermon to a personal application, asking if listeners can genuinely say, like Peter, 'Lord, you know that I love you.' He uses Peter's denial and restoration to…

Recounts Peter's overconfidence in his loyalty to Christ, his subsequent denial, and his post-resurrection confession of love to Jesus, illustrating the Lord's omniscience and the humility required for true love.

He said, Lord, there's much I don't know about Peter. I thought I knew a lot about Peter a few days ago. If you asked me who Peter was, I'd say Peter's strong pose. Remember what he said?

36:25 - 36:41 Read in full sermon