The Law of God; Call to Repentance

The point: Dare not look out and take an opinion poll or a popularity census of the contemporary gospel to determine whether or not it is the true gospel. Come to the touchstone of scripture and judge everything by the inflexible s…

The analogy of measuring a man who is seven feet six inches tall by an inflexible standard is used to illustrate that the contemporary gospel must be measured by the objective, inflexible standard of God's Word, not by human opinion or popularity.

He said, Then he proceeded to tell me that the only way we could judge if a man is seven feet six inches tall is to measure him by an inflexible standard. And if we are to discern whether or not the contemporary gospel is the biblical gospel, we must bring that contemporary gospel to the objective inflexible standard of the word of God, to the law and to the testimony. If they speak not according to this word, there is no light in them. And I must warn you.

3:11 - 3:40 Read in full sermon

The point: Dare not look out and take an opinion poll or a popularity census of the contemporary gospel to determine whether or not it is the true gospel. Come to the touchstone of scripture and judge everything by the inflexible s…

The modern trend of computerization, capsule forms, and condensing information (like Reader's Digest) is used to illustrate the 'minimizing mentality' that has infiltrated the church, leading to a desire to preach 'how little' gospel is necessary.

You see, everything in our day is computerized. Everything comes in capsule form. Someone told me recently they saw a cartoon of what it would be like a few years from now. And there's a man sitting at a table with a bib on, and he's cutting up a cube of some kind of concentrated vitamins and minerals.

4:23 - 4:40 Read in full sermon

Driving home: But it will never become that unless the law of God has its proper place in our thinking. An old saint of God once stood with Professor Murray ministering the Lord's Supper to some saints of God in Scotland. And almost i…

A friend of Threesinger's embarrasses people in evangelical churches by asking them to turn to the Ten Commandments without giving the reference, revealing their ignorance of where they are found. This highlights the lack of familiarity with God's law.

Yeah, I think they're found in the Bible somewhere, aren't they? That's right. Where about? A friend of Threesinger says that he's embarrassed people in evangelical churches.

18:39 - 18:48 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: He distinguishes between mere psychological guilt and a Holy Ghost-wrought sense of guilt before God, using a personal anecdote. Martin argues that the law is God's instrument to…

Martin recounts a personal story from his childhood where he would weep uncontrollably when his parents confronted him about his bad behavior, illustrating the difference between psychological guilt (fear of being found out by parents) and a true, Holy Ghost-wrought sense of guilt before God.

He must first of all corral the whole of humanity and bring humanity before the bar of eternal justice and pronounce it, notice, duty before God in turn breaking his law. Now that's all the difference in the world between psychological or natural guilt. I want to illustrate from personal experience. Having a mother and father who were deeply concerned for my spiritual condition as a child and still concerned for my spiritual condition as an adult, when they would get wind from the neighbors that I had been cursing or maybe that I had been doing some things I shouldn't, my mom and dad would sit...

28:08 - 28:52 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Expounding Luke 24:45-47, Martin shows that Christ's commission to His disciples included bearing witness to the necessity of His sufferings (the cross), His resurrection (the…

Martin uses the example of visiting a 'gnarled olive tree where Jesus supposedly prayed' in the Holy Land to illustrate that physical locations or experiences do not inherently make one more spiritual; true spiritual growth comes from understanding and applying biblical truth.

Second great area of truth clusters around His open tomb. And to rise from the dead the third day, we must declare to men, we must receive and believe and appropriate for ourselves, and then declare to men the fact of the resurrection. There's an open tomb somewhere in Palestine. I don't know if it's the one they take you on the tours.

42:00 - 42:21 Read in full sermon