Intro. (His relationship to nations)

Driving home: However, though I make no fanatical claims to direct revelation or special inspiration, if I properly expound and rightly apply this word, it comes to every man, every woman, every boy and every girl in this building, ju…

Compares his preaching to Jeremiah and Isaiah, who spoke 'thus saith Jehovah,' to clarify that he does not claim direct revelation but expounds Scripture.

And their redeemed personalities, their mental faculties, their organs of speech, and all of their faculties became the very instrument by which the living God spoke his infallible word to the nation. And I want to make a disclaimer at the outset. To any notion of a fanatical claim to direct revelation or to special inspiration, all of the raw materials of God's word to our nation as I attempt to bring it to you tonight and tomorrow night, those raw materials are contained within the pages of this book. I speak to you as one who believes that all special revelation. Is now contained within the...

5:42 - 7:00 Read in full sermon

Driving home: And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as a kingdom of heaven and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as a kingdom of heaven nothing and he does according to his will in the army of heaven and among th…

Illustrates national leaders' confusion as being like a man lost in the woods, walking in circles, unable to find a way out, caused by God.

him this great lesson that all of the nations whether they acknowledge the presence of jehovah or not all of the nations are in subjugation to the sovereign rule of almighty god job understood this and gave vivid expression to it in the 12th chapter of the book of job turn there for a moment if you will please for the description job gives of the government of god personification and destruction of sixteenth century as a contrary to bas심But whenakov finally gets to the end of his day and tells that he is in a state of exorbitance that he has to set him free from his guilt and his Bever Pol may...

17:55 - 19:13 Read in full sermon

Driving home: And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as a kingdom of heaven and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as a kingdom of heaven nothing and he does according to his will in the army of heaven and among th…

Compares national leaders' inability to solve problems to a drunk man stumbling through an intricate factory, emphasizing God's sovereign work in their staggering.

confusion it is almighty god who causes them to wander as in a wilderness where there is no way that's the statement of job then listen to what he says they grope in the dark without light and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man and when the leaders of the earth have no more power to sort out the problems of their nations than a drunk man to sort out the complex problems of an intricate mechanized system in a family factory but merely stumbles and staggers left and right job says god has been at work to cause them to stagger like drunk man his sovereign rule over the nations and when w...

19:13 - 20:35 Read in full sermon

Driving home: God does not await for a decision of the Supreme Court to hold the United States of America accountable to himself.

Uses the metaphor of scales to describe God's accounting of the Amorites' sins, waiting until their iniquity was 'full' before bringing judgment.

The Amorites were not a covenant nation. They were a pagan nation. And yet God was taking account of all of their sins. And as it were, God says the scales are not yet full.

26:31 - 26:44 Read in full sermon

Driving home: God does not await for a decision of the Supreme Court to hold the United States of America accountable to himself.

Uses the vivid metaphor of the land 'vomiting out' the Canaanites due to their abominations, emphasizing the severity of God's judgment.

For in Leviticus we read chapter 18, verses 24 to 28, It is for the abominations of the lands of Canaan that the land vomited them out. It became God's feather to tickle the throat of the nations there in Canaan. Because God said, For which they are accountable to me, who have such an aggravated nature that the land vomited out entire nations. Those nations that had never heard the ten words of Moses, those nations that did not know a word of Mosaic legislation, they were answerable to the law of all. When they defiled themselves in every form of idolatry, every form of sexual perversion, when...

27:21 - 28:39 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: This section argues that God has the right to address all nations, not just Israel, using Jeremiah's commission and the story of Jonah and Nineveh as examples, and summarizing…

Recounts the story of Jonah being sent to Nineveh to illustrate God's right to send prophets and His word to heathen nations without their permission.

but to the nations. And Jeremiah had the temerity to stand in the covenant nation and hurl the word of God into the conscience of non-covenant nations. He speaks to Babylon and pronounces the forthcoming judgment of God upon that very nation, that heathen, pagan, non-covenanted nation, and God says, I reserve the right to address the nations. When the synod Nineveh cried out to God, God said to a prophet, go, go to Nineveh and cry unto that city forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. God didn't send a telegram from heaven and say, now you Ninevites, I realize that I've made no special co...

31:14 - 32:16 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: This section argues that God has the right to address all nations, not just Israel, using Jeremiah's commission and the story of Jonah and Nineveh as examples, and summarizing…

Jonah's personal story of being 'a man back from the dead' and brought to Nineveh by a whale's belly emphasizes God's determination to deliver His message.

You're not one of our national prophets. You're not one of our priests. That prophet had one answer. I'm a man back from the dead.

32:34 - 32:48 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin explains the concept of solidarity, where individuals are bound to their nation's actions and consequences, using Adam's sin and Old Testament penitential prayers (Ezra…

Contrasts America's poor mass transportation system with Europe's, attributing it to a 'stubborn, stinking, individualistic people' to introduce the concept of solidarity.

Some of us have traveled in other parts of the world, never seen the world, and I used to be amazed how the nation that can send men into orbit and send men to the moon and accomplish so many marvelous things in the realm of technology can't create a decent mass transportation system. One goes to England, one goes to Europe, and can go almost anywhere on clean, safe, reliable, functional, on-time public means of transportation, but not in our country. country. You know what one of the fundamental reasons is? We're such a stubborn, stinking, individualistic people. We want to catch not the 822,...

35:11 - 36:11 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin explains the concept of solidarity, where individuals are bound to their nation's actions and consequences, using Adam's sin and Old Testament penitential prayers (Ezra…

Uses the example of Adam's sin and the fall of the human race to illustrate solidarity, humorously noting that no one voted for Adam to represent them.

free from nothing unless we can vote about it. And there's an element in that that's good. But ah, listen, listen. God does not deal just with individuals, though he does deal with individuals. You were born as an individual, you'll die as an individual, you'll go to judgment as an individual. But God deals in solidarity. That is, he deals with men in ordained groups of men. One man's actions affect men. One man's actions affect men. One man's actions affect men. One man's actions affect men. One man's actions affect many. And he did this from the very beginning. Romans 5, 12. Wherefore, as th...

36:11 - 37:12 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not opt out of solidarity when it comes to national sins, but accept responsibility for them as unscriptural, irresponsible, and wicked to do otherwise.

Recalls Achan's sin, which led to 3,000 Israelites losing their lives at Ai, to powerfully demonstrate how one man's sin can affect an entire nation due to solidarity.

I blush, and I cannot look up. We have forsaken thy commandments. We have not kept thy laws. He understood the principle of solidarity. He stood as a member of the nation that had departed from God, and is surely, as every individual receives the blessing when it comes in solidarity, when God has made the nation of Israel through the reign of a righteous king. Many unrighteous people were participants of that blessing because of the principle of solidarity. And when you remember the instance of Achan, when one man sinned, one man sinned, 3,000 Israelites lost their lives at Ai. The whole natio...

40:15 - 41:17 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not opt out of solidarity when it comes to national sins, but accept responsibility for them as unscriptural, irresponsible, and wicked to do otherwise.

References the man with the inkhorn marking those who 'sigh and cry for the abominations' in Ezekiel 9, illustrating the godly remnant's identification with national sin.

For I remind you, in closing tonight, that when God was about to bring judgment upon his ancient people, you have that very unusual incident in Ezekiel 9, in which the man with the inkhorn was commanded to go through the city, and he was to put a mark upon the godly remnant, those who were true Israelites within the nation of Israel. And do you know how they're described? He said, put a mark upon all those who have sinned. Say, and who cry for the abominations that are done in the land. Not only were they different from the rest of their fellow countrymen, by non-participation, non-conformity,...

42:19 - 43:41 Read in full sermon