Lessons: God's Character Revealed

Driving home: even in the age in the new heavens and in the new earth in the perfected state of glory that the most comprehensive the most clear and supplied beams of God's self-disclosure Cayman's when he behold on his throne he beho…

Martin suggests that even in the new heavens and new earth, the most comprehensive beams of God's self-disclosure will come from beholding the Lamb in the midst of the throne, implying the cross's eternal significance.

God and completely reveals his character as does Lord Jesus Christ from the cross of their burst forth the most clear the most comprehensive the most intensified beams of divine disclosure to be found at any time of God's universe and in meditating upon this fact I was struck with a very strong suggestion that even in the age in the new heavens and in the new earth in the perfected state of glory that the most comprehensive the most clear and supplied beams of God's self-disclosure Cayman's when he behold on his throne he beholds the land in the midst the throne and when I didn't activity or d...

7:44 - 9:08 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The first strand of God's character revealed in the abandonment is His burning holiness and inflexible justice. Martin supports this with passages from Hebrews, Isaiah, Habakkuk…

God's burning holiness is likened to a fire that is thirsty for oxygen and combustible material, actively consuming all that stands in its path, to explain His opposition to sin.

He is described as devouring and everlasting burning. Well, the answer is essentially this. God in himself is utterly apart and separate sin. That's the positive side of what it means to say he is a consuming fire god of burniness.

17:20 - 17:46 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The first strand of God's character revealed in the abandonment is His burning holiness and inflexible justice. Martin supports this with passages from Hebrews, Isaiah, Habakkuk…

Martin states that with God, there is 'no plea bargaining behind closed doors,' 'no greeting of the palm,' and 'never wrong judgment,' to emphasize His absolute and inflexible justice.

God is a God of inflexible justice. And these assertions tell us that God will always be in the strictest justice in the administration of the moral government of the world. With God, there is no plea bargaining behind closed doors. There is no greeting of the palm.

23:58 - 24:22 Read in full sermon

Driving home: And when he looks at his son, all of judgment due to his people, God now deals with his son in a way that makes the treatment of men appear by comparison as kindness.

Martin quotes Professor John Murray's perceptive words on Romans 8:32, explaining that God 'spared not' His Son means He did not alleviate or withhold one whiff of the full judgment due to the sins Christ bore, illustrating God's inflexible justice.

not but positive delivered him up for us he spared not he delivered him up listen as i read the very perceptive words of the late and beloved professor john murray in a sermon on this very text found in his collected writings negative sparing applies to suffering that may be inflicted children when they do not inflict the full measure of the chastisement due for the offense committed judges spare criminals when they do not pronounce a sentence commensurate with the crime committed it is the opposite of this kind of sparing that the apostle proclaims suffering was inflicted upon god's own it wa...

31:27 - 32:56 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The understanding and how narrow the perspective of those who think that the infliction of wrath is inconsistent with the exercise of infinite love. The opposite of love is not wrath, but hate. God did not hate His Son. …

Martin quotes Gardner Spring's statement, 'Justice burned with wrathful fury at the cross,' to vividly portray the intensity of God's justice being satisfied.

Spring fishing for words expressed it this way. Justice burned with wrathful fury at the cross. Justice burned with wrathful fury at the cross. Professor Murray goes on to comment, and I read just a few sentences of the positive.

34:14 - 34:38 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The understanding and how narrow the perspective of those who think that the infliction of wrath is inconsistent with the exercise of infinite love. The opposite of love is not wrath, but hate. God did not hate His Son. …

Martin quotes Professor Murray again, stating that 'The condemnation is abandonment,' and that Christ's abandonment was unique because it was in pursuance of the Father's commission and had an end, unlike the eternal abandonment of the lost.

And then the professor goes on to write, The condemnation is abandonment. This was the cry of the Son of God upon the hill of Golgotha. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? It was only because the Son was the object.

36:18 - 36:36 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Now here in the cross, these seemingly contradictory characteristics of God meet, and they kiss one another.

Martin quotes Gardner Spring's 'The Attraction of the Cross,' describing how justice and mercy, which started apart in Eden, now 'meet and kiss one another' at the cross, illustrating their reconciliation through Christ's atonement.

Only the infinite love of God and power bring it to pass. And now God offers freely, without restraint, all the benefits of that work that his son accomplished for sinners in the gospel. He says to all men, this is yours again. I say again, my listener, behold the glory of God bursting forth from the darkness and the cry of abandonment. Behold him on the one hand as the God of burning holiness and inflexible justice, and yet wonder of wonders intertwined in that manifestation of infinite love and unfathomable mercy. Now here in the cross, these seemingly contradictory characteristics of God me...

50:51 - 52:15 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Now here in the cross, these seemingly contradictory characteristics of God meet, and they kiss one another.

Martin personifies Justice and Love, depicting Justice jumping and shouting 'Blessed be God!' when a sinner flees to Christ, and Love singing a triumphant song for winning the rebel, to illustrate the harmonious satisfaction of both attributes at the cross.

Garden of Eden. Mercy and justice now meet at the cross. There in the part through the atonement of the guiltless one, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now when sinners see the first couplet, the first part of that couplet, that God is a God of burning holiness, all is and all that is in him is totally and utterly opposed. He is a God of inflexible justice. Every sin, must and shall. When taking the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus C...

52:15 - 53:45 Read in full sermon

The point: Run to Christ, hide in the Savior, and ask God to accept and pardon you for the sake of His Son, granting you Christ's righteousness.

Martin uses the metaphor of 'playing Russian roulette with your soul' to convey the extreme danger and foolishness of not running to Christ for salvation.

You're playing Russian roulette with your soul. Run to Christ. Hide in the Savior. Ask God for the sake of his well-beloved to accept you and pardon you.

59:15 - 59:31 Read in full sermon