Isaiah 53:6

Driving home: Sir, until you have trembled before the funders of Sinai, you will nothing of the winsomeness of Calvary.

A preacher's series on the Ten Commandments made people uncomfortable, leading one to ask for 'the winsomeness of Calvary.' The pastor replied that until one trembles before Sinai, they will know nothing of Calvary, illustrating that understanding bad news precedes appreciating good news.

He Watching this down to the extent in which believe that We are real, of the bad condition, then and only disposes as Good news the announcement of his glorious provision in Jesus Christ. On one occasion, a certain preacher was bringing a series of sermons on the Ten Commandments, and he was opening up those Ten Words of Moses

6:36 - 7:10 Read in full sermon

Driving home: I think it's one of the most tragic verses in all of the Bible. The creature made to know God, made to hold loving communion with God, made with that capacity to reciprocate love towards God and to receive it from Him, n…

A contented cow cannot 'moo her praises to God' or desire communion, highlighting man's unique capacity for delightful, conscious communion with his Creator, which sets him apart from other creatures.

No matter how contented the cow may be, or cudd under a tree in Eden, that cow can never moo her praises to God, nor express desire for communion, nor desire for communion with God. All it takes is this inglorious capacity to enter in to conscious, joyful, delightful communion with the God who made him. And the whole climate of Eden was a climate that we may rightly describe as delightful, open-faced communion between God the Creator and man the creature. There is not the slightest suggestion, as we read Genesis 1 and 2, There is not the slightest suggestion, as we read Genesis 1 and 2, There ...

12:06 - 13:25 Read in full sermon

Driving home: I think it's one of the most tragic verses in all of the Bible. The creature made to know God, made to hold loving communion with God, made with that capacity to reciprocate love towards God and to receive it from Him, n…

The common tension or uneasiness felt when God's name is introduced in social settings, contrasting with Adam and Eve's comfort in God's presence before the Fall, illustrates man's post-Fall aversion to God.

There wasn't that nervousness and that uneasiness There wasn't that nervousness and that uneasiness that we sense if in a given group of our friends at work or at school or in another social situation we introduce the name of God and immediately we sense that the air becomes tense. I mean, you just don't talk about God except in church and other religious places. That's fine, but there's this innate sense that men feel uneasy in the very mentioning of the name of God. But none of that uneasiness, in the very mentioning of the name of God, But none of that uneasiness, in the very mentioning of ...

13:25 - 14:00 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The second aspect of the 'bad news' is humanity's rebellion against God's law as the governing standard of thought and conduct. Martin highlights that man was created for joyful…

Martin recounts never having to teach his children how to pout or say 'no,' but having to teach them manners, illustrating the innate rebellion and opposition to God's law present in every human heart from birth.

from the dawning of consciousness there is manifested in each one of us not only the fact that our hearts are set supremely upon God and his person as the object of love and devotion but that our hearts are set in opposition to his law and to his rule over us. I have only one of my three birds left in the nest I have a 24 year old son who is married a 21 year old daughter who is married and a 20 year old who is hoping to be within a year or so and of the many things that I had to teach my children it's amazing I never never had to teach them how to pout how to say no how to be manipulative how...

22:25 - 23:54 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Will God, who will by no means clear the guilty, who is of purer eyes than to look upon iniquity, will he say, well, poor helpless man has gotten himself into such a mess and he can't get himself out and I'll have to acc…

The question of whether God views humanity's sin with indulgent smiles, like 'boys will be boys' or 'men will be men,' is posed and rejected, emphasizing God's righteous wrath against sin.

of pleasing circumstantial the common denominator is this commitment for the conclusion of this message please turn your tape to side two and the prophet says that's bad news we've gone astray like a flock of sheep we have turned each one of us to his own way and before we leave that statement of the bad news this question must be addressed how does God view this vast flock of sheep who have left him as the object of supreme love and devotion how does he view this vast flock of sheep that has left his law as the governing principle of thought and conduct how does he view all those individuals ...

29:19 - 30:47 Read in full sermon

Driving home: But you see, the true significance of the cross is not in what these people did to our Lord, nor is the true significance found in the horrible physical sufferings that He underwent when He hung upon that cross. ... but …

The agony of Gethsemane, where Christ recoiled from the 'cup,' is interpreted by Golgotha, where He drank the cup of God's fury, illustrating the depth of Christ's substitutionary suffering.

That's why it takes Golgoth to interpret Gethsemane. For ye, I read that mysterious interaction of Gethsemane and found somehow was shrouded in beyond all measure of mystery. What was there that focused in this cup which when our Lord faced it caused Him to stagger, to sweat as it were a great draught of blood, to crowd in agony? Oh, my Father, if it be possible, let this in consolation of His disciples find again focusing upon the cup of which caused Him to die. My soul is exceeding to think about the lips of our Lord Jesus Christ. And when it was put to His lips according to the Prolentary

42:44 - 44:13 Read in full sermon