God's Sovereignty Over Eternity

The point: Express gratitude for the ministry of the word by lifting up your heart in prayer to God, rather than clapping.

A young man in ministry shared how Trinity Pulpit Tapes altered the whole direction of his ministry, illustrating God's use of weak things to confound the mighty.

I met a young man who's been in the ministry for some years now who pointed to a specific concept. And this is a conference and series of ministries that God used to alter the whole direction of His ministry. And I do thank you for taking the time to come and to express your gratitude. It has filled my heart with a sense of wonder that God does indeed take the weak things and the things that are not to confound the mighty and to bring to naught all that would militate against His glory.

1:23 - 1:55 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The first two activities of the sovereign are described: a universal convocation where all nations are gathered before Christ, followed by an infallible separation of the sheep…

Martin uses the analogy of goats learning to imitate sheep by making sounds or growing wool to illustrate that outward appearance does not change their true nature, emphasizing Christ's infallible knowledge of hearts.

that have the appearance of sheep from those that are goats but because he shall set the sheep on himself he stole what he has chosen for himself in the story of thiswegen bin I sing an Jak that the وجd κιk hlingu he knows the secrets of men's heart and the lord knows those with an infallible knowledge he will mark out all of his sheet and set them in his right hand and all of the goats Oprah's who may have learned by imitation to make the sounds of a sheet and by some kind of alchemy may have had even learned how to grow orawl and buildings Derbyshire such that the goal that

21:08 - 21:46 Read in full sermon

Driving home: it is a solemn thing to have been created a human being with a indestructible existence that god thinks so much of that which he made in his image

The phrase 'it is a solemn thing to have been created a human being' is used to convey the profound significance and indestructible existence of human beings, made in God's image, who will face eternal destinies.

spoken to the sparkling diamond-like glittering stars that are above us they'll not be spoken to the whales that are above us they'll not be spoken to the whales that are above us they'll not be spoken to the whales that are above us they'll not be spoken to the whales that are above us they'll not be spoken to the as i have meditated in preparation for this message today the words that have haunted me are these it is a solemn thing to have been created a human being it is a solemn thing to have been created a human being with a indestructible existence that god thinks so

25:52 - 26:36 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The scriptures everywhere teach us that by grace are we saved through faith and that not of ourselves. It is the gift of God not of works that no man should glory.

The righteousness that gains acceptance with God is described as 'fabricated entirely upon the loom of the perfect life and the substitutionary death of our Lord Jesus Christ,' emphasizing that human doings contribute nothing to it.

grace having provided in the righteousness of another a title to heaven which will obligate God to receive into his presence all who possess that righteousness. The scriptures everywhere teach us that by grace are we saved through faith and that not of ourselves. It is the gift of God not of works that no man should glory. By the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight. The scriptures clearly teach us that the righteousness that gains existence

29:24 - 30:03 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The punishment of hell will be conscious, unending, non-terminated suffering. Would to God I never had to utter those words. But if I am to be true to my commission to preach the word, I can say nothing. Nothing else.

Martin explains the imagery of the worm never dying and the fire never quenched in hell by contrasting it with natural worms and fires that eventually cease, highlighting the unending nature of suffering in hell.

Jesus uses the imagery in Mark chapter 9. It is the place where the worm never dies and the fire is never quenched. Why? When the worm has consumed the carcass on which it feeds and consumes the energy derived from it, the worm dies. It has no more.

38:58 - 39:18 Read in full sermon

Driving home: there is no more deadly injury no more wanton cruelty which any man can perpetrate upon a fellow creature than that which the theological reformer is in danger of when against the clear meaning of God's word the unanimou…

Martin quotes A.A. Hodge on the 'superficiality and essential cruelty of that mock charity' which disguises or explains away the reality of eternal punishment, underscoring the danger of softening biblical warnings.

And when we turn to the book of the Revelation, and we read that the devil is cast into hell, we read that he has no rest day nor night. And in Revelation 1410, we are told that, Revelation 1410, we are told that, Revelation 1410, we are told that, and they have no rest day nor night I can only say because he said it better than I in the words of A.A. Hodge answering those who in his day tried to cut off the right angles and the sobering reality of this doctrine he said this more than all of this we should recognize the superficiality

40:34 - 41:18 Read in full sermon

The point: Give yourself no rest until you are certain that Christ will say to you, 'Come, you blessed one,' and enter the kingdom prepared for you.

Martin commends Robert Peterson's book 'Hell on Trial' as the finest on eternal punishment, using it as an example of sound scholarship against contemporary departures from historic orthodoxy.

has been a tragic defection among men known for their sterling evangelical stance in so many other areas and I want in this connection to commend with all my heart a book written by a professor at Covenant College Robert Peterson hell on trial the case for eternal punishment it is the finest book I have in all of my personal library and that I have ever read on the subject bringing into sharp focus the biblical issues the theological issues and dealing with contemporary departures and he names such men as Philip Hughes no

42:36 - 43:18 Read in full sermon

The point: Be heavenly-minded, excited by the clear truths about heaven, if the root of the matter is in you.

Martin shares a personal experience of his body surging with energy while his soul is dull, or his spirit yearning while his body is weak, to illustrate the glory of heaven where soul and body will be perfectly glorified and aligned in service to God.

my body surges with energy and strength but my soul is one clod of dullness and indifference to god other times when my spirit yearns after god and longs to serve him and honor him and praise him and yet this body is weak and dull and lifeless and tired and weary this is the glory of heaven to have a spirit purged from every last vestige of sin so that in all of the fact that we have a water of a spirit of sin faculties of the inner person, God will be loved supremely with all the heart, mind, soul, and

46:51 - 47:32 Read in full sermon

The point: Be heavenly-minded, excited by the clear truths about heaven, if the root of the matter is in you.

The common image of 'sitting half asleep and drowsy-eyed on a cloud plunking a harp' is used to contrast with the true, active, and unsinning service of God in heaven, making the point that heaven is not boring.

strength. And then that soul will have a body ready to come to the service of all of its sanctified yearnings. That's going to be heaven. This idea of sitting half asleep and drowsy-eyed on a cloud plunking a harp, that doesn't excite me. But to think of loving God with an unsinning heart,

47:32 - 47:57 Read in full sermon