Who is He That Condemneth?

In this part of the sermon: Pastor Martin introduces Romans 8:32 as a 'nugget from that gold mine' of biblical truth, setting the stage for a deep dive into its meaning.

The Bible, specifically Romans 8, is likened to a gold mine, with verse 32 being a 'nugget' of truth, conveying its richness and value.

Gold Mine of Biblical Truth On this week's broadcast, we will be looking together at just one nugget from that gold mine. It is found in verse 32, which reads, He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? If you have your Bible, please open now to Romans chapter 8, as we consider another crucial aspect of God's word to our nation.

0:00 - 0:35 Read in full sermon

The point: Find tremendous buttress to your confidence in God's commitment to bring you through to glory, knowing that if the Son of God loved you and died for you, then God is for you.

The journey of a timid, weak, faltering believer is described as being brought 'all the way through, across the river and into the celestial sea,' illustrating God's commitment to bring His elect to final glory.

And you see, you reason from that faint, that very low, that glimmering, that oft-obscured measure of love to your identity as a child of God, back to the divine purpose, and now it's all rooted in this particular provision that secures the redemption of all those for whom it was made. And so the weakest saint, the most fainting, faltering, fearful, timid, child of God, has a tremendous buttress to his confidence when he can say, if the Son of God loved me, and the Son of God died for me, then God is for me! For me to do what? To bring a timid, weak, faltering, Mr. Fearful, all the way through...

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The point: Do not expect God to give you a new house just because Christ died; rather, expect Him to give you contentment with what you have and deliver you from covetousness.

God's power in effectual calling is compared to His creative power in speaking worlds into being, emphasizing that opening blinded eyes is not the greatest obstacle for Him.

When God was committed to saving rebel, guilty, vile, hell-deserving sinners, what was the greatest obstacle in that salvation? Was it the exertion of his power to open their blinded eyes, to give them spiritual sight as to the great realities of his salvation? No. Effectual calling is an exercise of his own almighty creative power.

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The point: Take your measure by the cross to see God's estimation of human sin, uncleanness, guilt, and undone-ness.

The posture of a publican seeing the agony of Christ on the cross is used to illustrate how an unbeliever should recognize the ugliness of their own sin and native pollution.

And you've never turned from your sin and believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. You have never stood as it were before that cross where the Father spared not his Son, but delivered him up on behalf of sinners. And standing there, taking the measure of your own sinfulness. You've never taken the posture of a publican who's seeing in the agony, seeing in the terrors of the damned experienced by the Lord upon the cross.

22:05 - 22:37 Read in full sermon