Demons also Believe

Driving home: And ignorance to the Bible's answer to that question is inexcusable, because it is not an answer tucked away in some remote part which we might possibly overlook. It is an answer that is stamped upon the face of page aft…

Martin compares ignorance of Einstein's theory of relativity (non-fatal) with ignorance of the Bible's answer to salvation (fatal), emphasizing the ultimate importance of understanding how to find acceptance with God.

And because, because all of us is destined either to know the bliss of heaven or the terrors of the damned in hell, there is no more important question than this question, How can we, sinners who deserve hell, find forgiveness and acceptance with God that we might enter heaven? And the Bible addresses itself to that great and burning question, and the answer of the Bible is, of the Bible to that question is abundantly clear, and its answer has two fundamental or component parts concerning which none of us can afford the luxury of ignorance. We can afford the luxury of ignorance concerning many...

4:23 - 5:47 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Focusing on James 2:19, Martin establishes that demons are 'believers' in the same linguistic sense as Christians, possessing a belief that should shake complacent self-deception…

He references the gospel accounts where demons entered swine, illustrating their spiritual nature and ability to inhabit bodies, reinforcing their identity as spirit beings.

They can inhabit the bodies of human beings or even beasts, as we read in the gospel records when the demons entered into the bodies of the swine and they ran headlong into the sea. And in all likelihood, though we cannot be dogmatic, they are probably fallen angels who with Lucifer, son of the morning, fell in a, a concerted rebellion against God. But this much we do know about the demons. They are the embodiment of all the anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-truth spirit of the devil himself.

16:58 - 17:43 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The sermon details two characteristics of demonic faith: it is orthodox, believing revealed truth about God and Christ (as seen in Matthew 8), and it is disturbing, causing them…

To explain the strength of the word 'shudder' (tremble), Martin uses the common idiom 'the hair stood up on my skin,' conveying the intense horror and emotional upheaval experienced by demons.

Look at the language. Thou believest God is one, the demons also believe. And the word tremble is not strong enough. It should be translated, the demons also believe.

25:57 - 26:13 Read in full sermon

The point: Do you profess to be a believer? Do you profess to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you profess to trust in the Son of God for salvation? Let me ask this question. Have you beheld not with your physical eyes not in t…

He contrasts the demons' 'What have we to do with thee?' with Peter's confession and subsequent love for Christ, even after denying Him, to show that saving faith involves seeing beauty and having loving attachment to Christ.

In other words, it was an expression that there was nothing in the Son of God to which they were drawn as they beheld the beauty of his person. Though they confessed him to be the Son of God, there was a revulsion in their very beings toward him. Whereas when Peter confesses, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, it is that same Peter standing with the disciples when great multitudes forsake the Lord Jesus until Christ turns and says, Will you also go away? And Peter speaking for the others says, To whom else can we go? You see, they saw beauty in the Son of God that caused their hea...

32:25 - 33:47 Read in full sermon

The point: My friend you better not take this as so much preacher's talk I'm asking questions with something of the felt pressure of the last day upon my own heart... let the quern into your conscience you being transformed into th…

Martin provides examples of 'evangelical Christians' who laugh at raunchy jokes, watch immoral soap operas and movies, yet claim to love Jesus, illustrating the lack of moral transformation in a spurious faith.

he is the son of God but they are never made like him the curse of evangelical Christians is men who say they believe in Christ who are not more and more becoming like Christ they have the faith they can laugh at the raunchy jokes at the office they can sit and watch the filth that pours over the television in the soap operas during the day women and men who dare to say they are Christians vicariously entering in by way of fantasy to all of the immorality and infidelity that is woven through the warp and woof of almost every daytime soap opera who can sit down at night and watch movies that ha...

46:23 - 47:46 Read in full sermon

The point: Do you take seriously what the Bible says when it says in Ephesians 6 4 fathers not mothers not parents fathers bring up your children in the chastening and admonition of the Lord I didn't put that there God did do you t…

He challenges men who define their role merely as 'bringing home the bacon,' arguing that a husband's true job, if he loves Christ, is to cultivate a self-giving, sacrificing love for his wife and to be responsible for molding his children.

or is she just something you use sexual itch and it's bedtime the wrong one you use when you're hungry and you need a meal socks are dirty and you need a wash maid is that all she thought deacon and a big shot professing Christian my friend if you love Christ you take seriously what he says about your role as a husband to love your wife as Christ loved the church to sacrifice your own plans your own likes your own natural desires to find joy in saying no to your own plans that you might bring pleasure to your wife you take seriously what the Bible says when it says in Ephesians 6 4 fathers not...

54:57 - 56:23 Read in full sermon

The point: Now listen to me women do you take that seriously with all the din of the so called feminist movement screeching in your ears King Jesus said King Jesus get through all of that and so you bowed his feet and say Lord Jesu…

Martin uses the metaphor of a bird on a tree limb it was never made for to describe 'women's lib' as bondage, arguing that true joy for women is found in accepting their God-given role as a helpmate.

not God that's the least of your jobs your job is to be responsible for the molding of those children so that they can become true men and true women and take their place as useful citizens of two kingdoms the kingdom that shall make us the kingdom that shall never perish and the kingdom that now is now I'm not asking do you claim to be the perfect father the perfect husband all I'm asking you is this do you seek to obey those clear commands that are spoken to you as a husband and a father or do you just treat that like so much religious advice Jesus said if you love me you'll keep my commandm...

56:23 - 57:51 Read in full sermon

The point: Now listen to me women do you take that seriously with all the din of the so called feminist movement screeching in your ears King Jesus said King Jesus get through all of that and so you bowed his feet and say Lord Jesu…

He uses his own example as a husband, admitting he is not perfect but purposes to be, to illustrate that true saving faith leads to a purposeful, though imperfect, obedience driven by real love for Christ.

and though none of us obeys perfectly every true Christian obeys purposefully see the difference not perfectly but with purpose of heart if you would ask me tonight Mr. Martin are you a perfect husband I'd say no and if I dared to say yes you'd just have to put through a phone call to my wife and find out I was lying but if you ask me do I purpose to be a perfect husband I answer with all my heart yes you see my performance falls far below my purpose but my purpose is real because the love is real and when your love to the son of God is real your purpose to please him is real no matter how you...

59:20 - 60:49 Read in full sermon

The point: Pastor Martin I don't know anything about those things I thought just believing Christ died fixed me up and all was well and what you've preached tonight from the scriptures and you've only given us the scriptures it's t…

Martin shares his personal story of growing up with orthodox belief but lacking saving faith until age 18, when he beheld Christ's beauty through the Spirit and the Word, leading him to gladly give up worldly pursuits for Christ.

home a home in which I was taught the truths about God and Christ from my very infancy I don't ever remember a time when I doubted that there was one God that he existed in three persons that Jesus Christ was the Son of God that he died for sinners that he rose from the dead but you know I was not a Christian until I was almost eighteen years of age you know what the big difference was everything I knew about Christ everything I confessed about Christ everything I subscribed to with regard to Christ I saw no beauty in Christ that made me want as a teenager to have him take a place above footba...

62:17 - 63:47 Read in full sermon

The point: Pastor Martin I don't know anything about those things I thought just believing Christ died fixed me up and all was well and what you've preached tonight from the scriptures and you've only given us the scriptures it's t…

He compares his initial infatuation with his wife (blind to faults) to his deepening, realistic love for her over 24 years, contrasting it with his experience of Christ, in whom he has found 'no flaw, no wart, no mold' in nearly 30 years, illustrating the perfect beauty of Christ that true faith beholds.

in your sight and my friend that's been almost thirty years ago and he's more lovely now than I knew him to be then I was swept off my feet when I first met my wife it's a bad basis to begin a relationship let me warn you that I must be honest you see one of the problems with infatuation is it sees no faults in its object love is not blind love is realistic infatuation is blind and as we've shared now almost twenty-four years of marriage I've seen many warts in my wife's character she's seen many more in mine but I love her with a love that I've never known before it's grown deepened but in th...

64:48 - 66:18 Read in full sermon