Theological Implications of the Resurrection #3

In this part of the sermon: The sermon transitions to the resurrection's implications for the world at large, specifically addressing the question 'Who's in charge?' in a world that appears both orderly and…

An analogy of a building inspector finding both perfect order and utter chaos on a construction site, prompting the question 'Who's in charge?', illustrates humanity's similar perplexity when observing the world's order and disorder.

Suppose you were a building inspector and you were to make your way to a certain construction project with a view to making certain inspections required by the codes of that particular town or city. And when you arrive, on the construction site, you saw certain aspects of that site in which there appeared to be perfect order. All of the brick were laid with almost unbelievable precision in that particular part of the site. All of the beams seemed to be in perfect symmetry one with another, equidistant.

13:07 - 13:50 Read in full sermon

Driving home: And you see we must not impose on the language of scripture our own concepts and when that terminology was used it was used because the day of the official coronation of a prince in which he formally was instituted as ki…

The empty tomb is presented as the 'wardrobe chamber of the king,' where Christ put on the 'royal garments' of resurrection life, awaiting His official coronation at the Father's right hand, signifying His new mode of existence and authority.

disorder and we say who is in here we stand by the empty tomb the answer comes the one who is no longer here but is risen from the dead and has been taken back to the right hand of the father officially installed as messianic king with all authority in heaven and earth him it is this risen Christ who holds the reigns of the government of the entire world in summary we regarded the empty tomb in a previous message as Christ's debtors prison he went into it laden with the debts of all of his people whom he came to save and when he came out of that tomb when he was raised from the dead he was rel...

36:07 - 37:34 Read in full sermon

The point: Refuse to be restrained by the pronouncements of unbelieving evangelical pragmatists.

Martin cites an article about 'Spring Meadow Presbyterian Church' in Las Vegas as an example of 'unbelieving evangelical pragmatism,' where worship is made 'low key and low commitment' to attract the unchurched, compromising biblical principles for comfort.

listen for an hour to somebody up there who chit chat and seek as old Baxter said to screw the word people's conscience by close said that he's ordained to do his work that way but that's alright God doesn't holler when we snub him so we can just find another method you say you're building up straw men am I no folks I don't have time to fight straw men but I do read I do keep my eyes and ears open a few weeks ago I received the quarterly publication of a well known seminary that even has the word reformed in it and I read the feature article spring meadow presbyterian blooms in Las Vegas deser...

50:07 - 51:34 Read in full sermon

Driving home: the message is Christ is king and he is victor that's it in the seven letters they all end with the promise to him that overcomes will give even as I overcame then in the visions they start with a throne in chapter four …

Martin shares his joy and confidence in sending Arif and Cathy and their family back to Pakistan, a Muslim-dominated country, trusting that the reigning Christ will gather His elect there despite the demonic opposition, using spiritual weapons.

triumph of the cause of Christ he did not conquer sin and death by dying and rising again only to be frustrated in pursuing the ends for which he died and rather he reigns to make good purchase to every last drop of his precious blood and he'll do it in the midst of all the machinations of the devil a subtle seducing world and even his people with their remaining sin I tell you as I thought of Arif and Cathy and the family going back to Pakistan I got shouting happy in my own heart how can we send them back into the midst of that climate where Islam rules and you can feel it pulsing with demon...

66:10 - 67:38 Read in full sermon