Heart of the Biblical Gospel, The

The point: Give serious, undivided attention to the subject of the biblical gospel because it is in your own best self-interest for your personal well-being and eternal destiny.

Used to illustrate the natural self-interest that should compel serious attention to the gospel, just as one would avoid physical harm.

then you must give serious and undivided attention to this subject and to this text. If you have any of the concern that is expressed reflexively, if you happen unthinkingly to put your hand upon a hot stove and draw it back immediately, certainly. Any concern that would cause you to avoid knowingly and deliberately imbibing poison. This is what I mean by your own self-interest demands a consideration of this subject.

6:16 - 6:55 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: This section examines the phrase 'both to Jews and to Greeks,' demonstrating that it encompasses all humanity, regardless of cultural, ethnic, or religious background. Martin uses…

Compares a doctor with only one remedy for all sicknesses to a 'quack.' This sets up the argument that Paul was not a 'religious quack' for preaching one gospel to diverse people, because their underlying spiritual ailment was the same.

And so the Jews stood out in stark contrast to the masses of the Gentiles. masses of the Gentile pagan nations the Greek there is the pagan Roman some cultured some uncultured as we read in Romans chapter 1 but throughout that world idolatry ignorance debauchery marking this class of humanity described in Ephesians 2 verse 11 and 12 as without hope and without God those who are afar off in their spiritual deadness and ignorance and yet Paul says he testified this one gospel to the broadest spectrum of humanity and all of the tremendously real differences that existed now let me ask you a quest...

27:44 - 29:05 Read in full sermon

The point: Recognize that despite all external differences, you are fundamentally one with every other human being in your need for the one remedy of the gospel.

Describes a hypothetical scenario at the UN where people of all nations suffer the same stomach ailment and receive a common remedy. This illustrates why Paul's 'one gospel' for 'Jews and Greeks' was wise, as all humanity shares a common spiritual condition.

if you went with tendinitis of the elbow same remedy if you went with a gallbladder attack same remedy if you went with a tumor in your left ear same remedy it wouldn't be long before he'd no longer be a practitioner of medicine everyone would cry out he's a quack well was Paul some kind of a religious quack think of the diversity in the Jew and in the pagan think of the broad spectrum of religious ethnic social cultural diversities among all the existing people in the Roman world and yet Paul testified one and remedy in the gospel well was he a quack no no he was a quack he was a quack he was...

29:05 - 30:30 Read in full sermon