The Cup He Will Yet Drink

In this part of the sermon: Pastor Martin introduces the sermon, noting his return to the pulpit after an absence, and offers a prayer for God's Spirit to illuminate Christ through the message, resting on…

Martin uses the analogy of a schoolchild saying their first poem to describe his own fear and weakness returning to the pulpit after an absence, casting himself on God's grace.

It's been four Lord's Days and five weeks since I stood in this pulpit, and I feel like a schoolchild saying his first poem before the class. And in my fear, I'm casting myself upon God, and I trust you will pray with me and for me that God may be pleased to bless his word to all of our hearts. Let us pray. Holy Father, God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the God who has promised that they who wait upon you shall renew their strength.

1:53 - 2:30 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin emphasizes the gravity of Christ's words 'Verily I say unto you' by comparing it to a trusted friend underlining a phrase in a letter, indicating peculiar importance and…

Martin illustrates the special solemnity of Christ's 'Verily I say unto you' by comparing it to a trusted friend underlining a phrase in a letter, signifying peculiar importance even when all their words are true.

Let me try to illustrate what our Lord is doing. Imagine with me that you've received a letter from a very intimate trusted proven confidant and friend. This is a man or a woman you've known perhaps for many many years two or three decades and in all of that interaction. You have never known that person to seek to deceive you.

11:32 - 11:57 Read in full sermon

Driving home: It will be a new drinking in the messianic feast of the consummate glories of redemptive privilege and experience.

Martin uses the analogy of a child receiving a 'new' replica teddy bear (new in time) versus a 'new' panda bear (new in kind/quality) to explain the Greek words for 'new' and clarify that Christ's future drinking will be 'new' in quality and form.

Maybe you don't like to be reminded that you had special little stuffed animals. My wife still has a whole bunch of them.

24:11 - 24:17 Read in full sermon

The point: See in these words the ground for our unquestioned faith in the salvation procured by the cross. Once you commit yourself into the hands of such a Savior, He is committed in all the perfection of His work and in all of t…

Martin quotes a poem (doggerel, as he calls it) to emphasize that salvation is entirely by Christ's finished work, not by human 'doing,' and to encourage unbelievers to trust in Him alone.

Here is the ground for our unquestioned faith in the salvation procured in the cross. Our Lord Jesus procured a full, complete salvation that takes the sons of the kingdom of darkness and brings them to sit at His messianic banquet table and hear me, my unconverted friend, once you commit yourself into the hands of such a Savior. He is committed in all the perfection of His work and in all of the plenitude of His power to bring you to sit with Him, to drink with Him in the kingdom. I found just today in a piece of literature handed to me this very simple, some would call this poem doggerel, bu...

36:34 - 37:53 Read in full sermon