Sin of Bloodguiltiness

In this part of the sermon: Martin uses the analogy of a mountain range to describe national sins, distinguishing between 'foothills' and 'high peaks.' He identifies two 'mighty, shameful mountain peaks' of…

This analogy illustrates that national sins vary in severity, from 'foothills' to 'high peaks,' helping to categorize and prioritize the most egregious national transgressions.

for our most aggravated national sins. You see, the sins of any nation are like a mountain range. Those of you who are familiar with mountain ranges know that you first of all have the foothills, of the mountain range. You may have been driving across a vast section of our country where everything was flat, and then you begin to see off in the distance little hills, the foothills of a mighty mountain range.

12:02 - 12:34 Read in full sermon

Driving home: I am asserting that if we think biblically more than many of the other sins that receive so much attention in our churches, in Christian literature and in popular preaching, it may well be that this sin of our nation may…

God's vivid image of Abel's blood turning into a 'mouth' and 'tongue' that cries to heaven powerfully conveys the active, persistent nature of innocent blood demanding divine justice.

kid brother how should i know he's a big boy go ask him where is your brother i don't know i am not my brother's keeper and he said that is god said what have you done now notice the language the voice the voice of your brother's blood cries unto me from the ground and here god uses a vivid image of speech the place where cain rose up and if he used a sharp instrument and stuck it into the back of the heart of abel by whatever means the blood was spilt that blood dropped to the ground and no doubt a pool of it collected where his murdered body lay and now god says every drop of that blood that...

20:52 - 22:14 Read in full sermon

Driving home: And the woolly-headed evangelical theologians who are trying to impose upon the state the individual ethics of the Christian believer are cooperating with liberals and humanists to bring innocent blood upon us to the pla…

By asking if God loves heifers, Martin highlights the seemingly cruel ritual of sacrificing a heifer for an unsolved murder, underscoring the extreme seriousness with which God views unrequited blood, even demanding a life for a life when the guilty party is unknown.

In the original creation He beheld all that He made, and it was good. God loves His creatures, even poor dumb heifers. Why would God tell them to do such a cruel thing, break the neck of this young heifer, then go through a strange ritual of washing their hands in clear water, over the broken neck of that heifer? God is saying to them, in ways that they could not mistake, the blood of the murdered cries for vengeance.

41:50 - 42:29 Read in full sermon

Driving home: And if there is a pool of blood from the children and adults wantonly murdered whose murderers are not put to death, then surely there is an ocean of blood from the murder of unborn children in their mother's wombs.

This metaphor vividly portrays the cumulative guilt of a nation that fails to execute justice for murderers, suggesting a vast accumulation of unrequited blood.

This land is polluted with blood. Not just a few clods from the blood of one innocent able slain at the hand of Cain. Not just a few clods of blood. There, because a few murders have gone unrequited, that I suggest it is nothing less than a pool of blood from the children and adults who are wantonly murdered and whose murderers are not put to death.

46:14 - 46:53 Read in full sermon

Driving home: And if there is a pool of blood from the children and adults wantonly murdered whose murderers are not put to death, then surely there is an ocean of blood from the murder of unborn children in their mother's wombs.

Building on the 'pool of blood' metaphor, this image dramatically conveys the even greater scale of guilt from millions of abortions, emphasizing the enormity of this national sin.

And if there is a pool of blood from the children and adults wantonly murdered whose murderers are not put to death, then surely there is an ocean of blood from the murder of unborn children in their mother's wombs. I say if the one constitutes a pool, the other constitutes nothing less than a river, with cold and calculating statistical analysis, we are told last year, 1.5 million registered state-condoned murders in mother's wombs in our nation. Oh, the blood that cries from the trash bins of our sterile operating room. The blood that cries from the soaked sterile of the Dempsey dumpsters at...

49:38 - 50:55 Read in full sermon

Driving home: And if there is a pool of blood from the children and adults wantonly murdered whose murderers are not put to death, then surely there is an ocean of blood from the murder of unborn children in their mother's wombs.

This hypothetical scenario of a madman machine-gunning premature babies in a hospital nursery is used to shock the audience into recognizing the horror of abortion by drawing a parallel to the destruction of unborn life, highlighting societal hypocrisy.

What an outrage there would be if on the front page of all of our papers tomorrow we read something like this. Mad man goes berserk in hospital in New Jersey. Nearby us there is a very advanced medical center called St. Barnabas Medical Center with a very large nursery and within that nursery unusually advanced equipment to care for little preemies, some of whom hardly weigh a pound and a half or two pounds.

50:55 - 51:37 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin applies the doctrine to the US, declaring the land polluted by a 'pool of blood' from unpunished murderers and an 'ocean of blood' from millions of abortions, which he…

Martin contrasts the world's outrage over the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust with the even greater number of unborn lives slain through abortion, exposing a profound moral inconsistency.

This is the generation that is trying to rub the conscience of the world raw because of Dacha and Buchenwald and all the rest where they say six million Jews were killed over a period of those years we've long since exceeded the slaying of unborn life.

56:00 - 56:24 Read in full sermon