General Description of the Heirs

The point: Scour the pages of your Bibles for any indications that hell could be your ultimate destiny.

Martin states his opinions are 'not worth a wooden nickel' to emphasize that the sermon's authority comes solely from the Word of God, not his personal views.

And that two-fold approach will be the organizing principle of our study tonight. Who will be sent to hell? Not according to Pastor Martin. His opinions aren't worth a wooden nickel.

6:56 - 7:11 Read in full sermon

The point: Are you obeying the gospel right now, denying yourself, taking up your cross daily, and following Jesus?

Repentance is described as 'stacking arms' and 'getting down off the throne of your own power and stop playing God,' illustrating the surrender of self-rule to God.

Have you obeyed the gospel? Are you obeying the gospel right now? Jesus said, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me. Are you obeying the gospel with its call to repentance and then with its flesh-rithering call to faith?

16:50 - 17:10 Read in full sermon

The point: Are you obeying the gospel right now, denying yourself, taking up your cross daily, and following Jesus?

Faith is called 'flesh-rithering' to convey the intense difficulty and self-denial involved in completely abandoning self-trust to rely solely on Christ.

We talk about simple faith. And in a very real sense, faith is simple. But oh, how fleshly. How flesh-rithering it is.

17:10 - 17:17 Read in full sermon

The point: Is the weight of your soul resting down upon Christ crucified?

The physical act of resting one's body on a padded chair is used to illustrate the spiritual act of resting the weight of one's guilty soul upon Christ crucified.

It's a divine command. You obeyed the gospel. Being here tonight, as surely as your body is resting down upon that padded chair, He's the weight of your soul resting down upon Christ crucified.

19:06 - 19:25 Read in full sermon

The point: Parents, take seriously the warning against causing stumbling and doing iniquity, especially regarding role models for your children.

Martin quotes A.W. Tozer's description of 'women with the faces of angels and the morals of alley cats' to condemn professing Christians who choose to watch and emulate immoral role models from media, reinforcing the warning against causing stumbling and doing iniquity.

All who give themselves willfully and deliberately as a pattern of life to a sinful lifestyle. Jesus said they shall be cast into the furnace of fire. And frankly, I don't know how professing Christians can have as their role models such filthy rotten people and voluntarily choose to sit and watch them on television when you know they live like animals in heat. Tozer said women with the faces of angels and the morals of alley cats encourage your daughters to set their standards from them. Take this verse seriously, parent. All things that cause stumbling and those that do iniquity. Who will be...

27:34 - 28:36 Read in full sermon

The point: Examine yourself: are you a righteous person, grieved by sin and longing for holiness, even if weakly?

The life of a righteous person, even when obscured by sin, is compared to a 'blade of grass that sticks up to the concrete in the middle of a concrete jungle in a ghetto,' illustrating that true spiritual life will always find a way to manifest itself.

Their greatest longing has freely given me righteousness in His Son who blames of my sin and who one day when He's done with me perfect me so that I reflect perfectly the moral image of His beloved Son. The righteous, you see, not only have an imputed righteousness but they have an imparted righteousness. They are not only righteous by imputation and the alien righteousness put to their account in Christ, but they are righteous because they have a new heart that has an affinity for holiness and uprightness that is grieved in the presence of sin. Now, my friend, is that a description of you? Ho...

32:44 - 34:06 Read in full sermon