Third Introductory Principle

Driving home: The carnal mind, the prevailing disposition of heart and spirit in everyone devoid of the Holy Spirit... is enmity against God. It is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.

Martin references the 1970s feminist bestseller 'Our Bodies, Our Own' as a tragic expression of the disposition that says, 'My body is my own, and God has no right to tell me what to do with it,' illustrating willful, impenitent indulgence.

Impenitent indulgence in sexual sin, I mean to describe this disposition that says, My body is my own. I don't care what God says. His thou shalts and shall not are of no account to me. I think it is most tragically expressed in one of the best sellers that came out of the intensification of the so-called feminist movement in the 70s, a book that was read by the millions.

9:18 - 9:50 Read in full sermon

The point: Don't let the devil lay a false guilt trip upon you if you struggle continually and intensely with temptation to sexual impurity but fight against it.

Martin shares the story of a man who confessed to having a 'file drawer of pornography in his own head' and needing to ask Christ for cleansing 'a hundred times a day,' illustrating the intense struggle of a true believer with impurity, which is distinct from willful indulgence.

I am not speaking of the true child of God who may struggle with impurity of mind. He doesn't need to pick up a pornographic magazine. He has got a file drawer of pornography in his own head from his own past or her own past. And may have to do as one man says.

12:57 - 13:19 Read in full sermon

The point: At any cost, stop indulging in lustful thoughts, or you'll burn in hell.

Martin critiques the modern notion of 'innocent' or 'healthful fantasies' fed by soap operas and pornographic magazines, arguing that Jesus condemns such willful indulgence of mental adultery as leading to hell.

You see it with your own eyes in your own Bible. What this generation says are innocent fantasies. That's what they call them. Healthful fantasies.

19:23 - 19:37 Read in full sermon

Driving home: When someone has the audacity to say I've come to such a discovery of the love of God and the love of Christ that I can now embrace my homosexuality with thankfulness and pride and Christ has never been more precious to …

Martin recounts seeing a letter from someone claiming to embrace homosexuality with thankfulness and pride in Christ, illustrating the profound deception that leads people to believe God smiles upon their unrepentant sexual sin.

When someone has the audacity to say I've come to such a discovery of the love of God and the love of Christ that I can now embrace my homosexuality with thankfulness and pride and Christ has never been more precious to me since I moved in with my homosexual lover. I've seen the words with my own eyes. With my own eyes. I wanted to puke on the paper.

36:33 - 37:00 Read in full sermon

Driving home: When someone has the audacity to say I've come to such a discovery of the love of God and the love of Christ that I can now embrace my homosexuality with thankfulness and pride and Christ has never been more precious to …

Martin mentions an English preacher who left his wife and children to live with a homosexual lover, illustrating the shamelessness and deception that can accompany willful indulgence in sexual sin.

That preacher in England a few months ago two greatest mistakes he said I made were getting married and going into the church. Going into the ministry. Leaves a wife and three grown children to live with his homosexual lover. Shameless.

37:09 - 37:27 Read in full sermon

The point: Memorize these passages, load your conscience with them, and be prepared to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them.

Martin uses the analogy of genetic predispositions to alcoholism, anger, or passion to argue that even if a genetic link to homosexuality were proven, it would not excuse the sin, just as other predispositions do not excuse other sins.

As I've told people it wouldn't bother me one bit if it can be unmistakably proven that most homosexuals have some genetic predisposition to homosexuality. Well, it won't bother me at all. Any more than if they discover some people have a predisposition to addiction to alcohol. Others may have a genetic predisposition to punch everything that moves in the face.

38:06 - 38:31 Read in full sermon

The point: Memorize these passages, load your conscience with them, and be prepared to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them.

Martin cites 'Ally McBeal' and teenage sitcoms as examples of media that normalize and trivialize fornication, giving the impression that it is a natural and acceptable physical reaction, illustrating the world's pervasive moral pollution.

In Ally McBeal plots where everybody is neighing after someone else's woman and every woman is neighing after someone else's man.

39:59 - 40:09 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin addresses the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah from Jude 7, affirming that their 'strange flesh' and fornication serve as an example of suffering the punishment of eternal fire, a…

Martin describes American television as a 'huge river of moral pollution' exported to third-world countries like Trinidad and the Philippines, illustrating the global reach and impact of America's sexual impurity.

Sexual impurity is part of the American way of life. Talk to anyone who goes to a third world country where they export American television and it's one huge river of moral pollution. I understand that 80 channels of that pollution funnel down into Trinidad. It's what my son-in-law told me.

43:24 - 43:50 Read in full sermon

The point: When tempted to indulge sexual appetites, remember that the fires of passion are nothing compared to the fires of hell that will consume your body and soul if you give yourself to the life of a fornicator and do not repe…

Martin uses the metaphor of the 'fires of passion' stoked by the devil versus the 'fires of hell' to emphasize the eternal consequences of indulging sexual appetites, urging young people to choose to bear the tension of unquenched passion now rather than face eternal fire.

When the devil stokes the fires of your sexual appetites, young people, and you're tempted to indulge, remember this, no matter, no matter how difficult it may be to mortify the fires of passion stoked by a wicked devil, they are nothing compared to the fires of hell that will consume your body and soul if you give yourself to the life of a fornicator and do not repent.

47:25 - 47:53 Read in full sermon

The point: Get these texts into your soul and pray God that this stuff will become part of the very fabric of your being, so you can stand firm in Jesus Christ like a Daniel, refusing to bend.

Martin quotes a poem (likely by Alexander Pope, though not attributed) that describes sin as a 'monster of such awful mien that to be hated needs but to be seen,' but warns that 'too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace,' illustrating how repeated exposure to sin erodes conscience and leads to acceptance.

It means appearance. When you hear the word appearance, mean, you'll know what mean means. Sin is a monster. Would you agree?

61:24 - 61:34 Read in full sermon

The point: There's no such thing as an innocent exposure to a so-called rather good PG-13 movie with only four sex scenes and only half a dozen... You are tolerating the blatant violation of God's law.

Martin uses the analogy of looking in a mirror and saying 'you're as handsome as Clark Gable' to illustrate that merely saying something is beautiful or tolerable does not make it so, applying it to the world's attempt to normalize sin.

The fact that people say its face is tolerable, its face is half-attracted, its face is beautiful, that doesn't make it any more beautiful than if I look in the mirror and say, you're as handsome as Clark Gable. It'll never come to pass. Saying it, don't make it. You get the message?

62:54 - 63:18 Read in full sermon