Through Him by One Spirit

Driving home: There is no doubt that we are looking at and considering, speaking of this text, one of the greatest and most glorious statements that is to be found in the whole range of scripture.

The analogy of Mount Rainier, seen in its setting (foothills and companion mountains) and then in its solitary grandeur above the clouds, illustrates the two ways the text will be studied: in its immediate context and then in its independent glory as a profound truth.

Then we shall consider secondly, the message of the text in itself. And as I was thinking of the difference in those two things, my mind went back to an experience that I had a few years ago when I was privileged to minister way out in the northwest corner of our country, out in the Seattle area. And when flying out of the Seattle area, when we were gaining altitude, we found cloud covered about 8 or 9,000 feet, completely covering the sky. And then one of the most astounding sights that my eyes ever beheld opened up before me.

6:17 - 6:50 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin presents an extended parable of Simon (a Jew) and Demetrius (a pagan) in Ephesus, detailing their animosity, individual conversions through Paul's preaching, and their…

An extended fictional narrative of Demetrius (a pagan Ephesian) and Simon (a dispersed Jew) illustrates the animosity between Jews and Gentiles, their individual conversions through Paul's preaching, and their subsequent shared, intimate access to God as Father through Christ and the Spirit, both privately and corporately. This serves as the 'living proof' of Ephesians 2:18.

as I describe something that could very well be true. that could very well be true. that could very well be true. that could very well be true.

10:35 - 10:38 Read in full sermon

Driving home: I am the way the truth and the life no man no man sincere pagan sincere adherent of a false religion earnest devotee of a system of religious thought that is not rooted in the Bible no man no man no man to thee father bu…

The secular usage of the Greek word for 'access' describing an 'official introducer' appointed by a king to bring inferiors into his presence, illustrates Christ's role as the sole mediator who grants access to the Father.

tell us well it tells us that indispensable necessity number one is that we have to if we are to know God or approach him is the mediation of Christ the absolute necessity of Christ mediation if we are to know God or to approach God and this word for access is a rich word and the most astute Greek commentators and students of the language kick back and forth whether they have the right to read into it all of the significance it had in the secular world in the secular world it comes from a word that describes a man whom we would entitle the official introducer he was the man appointed by the ki...

37:21 - 38:05 Read in full sermon