Be Ye Doers of The Word (radio broadcast)

The point: Do not merely listen attentively to what is preached; implement the word of God to avoid condemnation.

Martin describes a hypothetical scenario where a preacher's congregation talks about his sermons all week, fills the pews, and listens intently. This sets up a contrast with Ezekiel's experience, showing that even this ideal scenario is insufficient without obedience.

Well, what more could you ask? What more could any preacher, ask for, than to know that throughout the week, amongst all the houses of all his people, the topic of conversation was going to hear the preacher the next Lord's Day. That'd be heady stuff for most preachers, wouldn't it? And then to find that when the Lord's Day came, the parking lot was full, and the pews were full, and the people were sitting there, riveted, listening to the word of God.

5:47 - 6:14 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The second negative example comes from Luke 6:46-49, where Jesus confronts those who call Him 'Lord, Lord' but do not do what He says. Martin explains that merely professing…

Jesus's analogy of building a house on a rock versus on sand is used to illustrate the difference between those who hear and do His words (wise) and those who hear but do not do (foolish), especially in the face of trials and judgment.

In a section that has many parallels to what we commonly identify as the Sermon on the Mount recorded in Matthew chapter 5, 6, and 7, toward the close of our Lord preaching similar themes, we read in verse 46, and why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Every one that comes unto me and hears my words and is doing them, I will show you to whom he is like. He is like a man building a house who digged and went deep and laid a foundation upon the rock. And when a flood arose and the stream broke against that house and could not shake it because, it had been well built, bu...

8:33 - 9:57 Read in full sermon

The point: Prior to hearing the Word, engage in renewed acts of repentance, putting away all filthiness and wickedness to properly digest and assimilate God's Word.

Martin uses a humorous personal anecdote of claiming to be the long-lost heir to the British throne to illustrate the concept of self-delusion. He argues that just as his claim would be delusional, so is believing oneself to be a true follower of Christ without implementing His Word.

And then he goes on to illustrate and to enforce that directive in terms of a common illustration of a man looking into a mirror and beholding his countenance, etc. But I want us to focus upon verse 22 which comes in a form that unmistakably lays before us the positive command to be implemented in the ears of the word that we have received with meekness in a prepared heart. And the first thing we note in the text is that it is possible, it is perfectly possible to be a hearer, not a doer, and in so to make myself a deluded person. I can engage in activities which put me in the path of self-del...

18:15 - 19:38 Read in full sermon

The point: Prior to hearing the Word, engage in renewed acts of repentance, putting away all filthiness and wickedness to properly digest and assimilate God's Word.

James's analogy of a man looking in a mirror and immediately forgetting what he saw is used to illustrate the self-deception of a hearer who is not a doer, highlighting the transient nature of hearing without application.

And then he goes on to illustrate and to enforce that directive in terms of a common illustration of a man looking into a mirror and beholding his countenance, etc. But I want us to focus upon verse 22 which comes in a form that unmistakably lays before us the positive command to be implemented in the ears of the word that we have received with meekness in a prepared heart. And the first thing we note in the text is that it is possible, it is perfectly possible to be a hearer, not a doer, and in so to make myself a deluded person. I can engage in activities which put me in the path of self-del...

18:15 - 19:38 Read in full sermon