The God of Inscrutable Tri-Personality

To explain 'scrutable' vs 'inscrutable,' Martin describes a bank teller carefully comparing a suspect $20 bill against a known genuine Federal Reserve note under a magnifying glass.

In other words, they may not be genuine government paper. That's all the money is now, is paper. But there is a genuine government paper and a counterfeit government. And so what does the bank teller do?

3:45 - 3:57 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Oh God, though this is not irrational, it is suprarational. It goes beyond my faculties to grasp.

Kids run water over their palms for 32 seconds and rush back for dinner — Mom scrutinizes and finds dirt on the backs, under nails, up wrists, and sends them back.

And what you merely did was ran a few water over the palms of your hands. But when mom or dad turns the hands over, lo and behold, dirt is on the back, under the fingernails, up your wrist, under your sleeve. And so after mom or dad scrutinized your wash job, you are promptly sent back to the bathroom to complete it. Now, when they scrutinized your hands, what did they do?

4:55 - 5:17 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Oh God, though this is not irrational, it is suprarational. It goes beyond my faculties to grasp.

Right through high school Martin had his mother scrutinize his ears before he went out the door each morning — he once sat next to a boy with perpetually dirty ears and was so turned off he never wanted to be that boy.

They examined them very carefully. You may laugh at this, but the last thing I always did right through high school when I went out the front door in the morning was to have my mother scrutinize my ears. I once sat next to a fellow who had perpetually dirty ears. And it so turned me off that the last thing I did right through high school when I towered over my mother going out the door was, mom, scrutinize my ears.

5:17 - 5:39 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Every attack upon this doctrine, ancient and modern, arises from a proud, rationalistic mind that will not be subject to the dictums of Holy Scripture.

When you can squeeze the Atlantic and Pacific into your little 15-by-4-foot backyard pool, then you can squeeze the inscrutability of the being of God into your little pea head.

You see, God's truth comes to us in history. There's that little seed in Genesis 3.15, God promising that He will take the initiative to bruise the head of the serpent, that He will take the initiative to bring a Redeemer. The Scriptures tell us in Hebrews 1.1, God, having spoken in times past in many different forms through many, hath in these last days spoken unto us in the last days, spoken unto us in the last days, spoken unto us as the proclaiming voice of the Son of God and spoken unto us in the last days. We are in a process of胸 foundation when God will reveal to us in the end of time t...

30:00 - 30:50 Read in full sermon

A man enjoys his lovely backyard with shade trees, picnic table, bird feeder — never questioning the boundary he mows. Then his neighbor plants trees six feet inside, and he must fetch the title, surveyor, and stakes. So the church only formally defined the Trinity when heretics encroached.

Trinitarian grace, love, and communion. And so the doctrine is not only set before us patently in the New Testament in the pivotal redemptive acts of Christ, in the pivotal redemptive experiences of the people of God as well. And then thirdly, what is latent in the old, patent in the new, has been articulated in the history of doctrinal controversy. You see, what is the recognized consciousness of the people of God, is the consciousness of the people of God, and the consciousness of the people of God is not articulated until it's attacked. Now you've been thinking hard for about 15, 17 minutes...

46:11 - 47:04 Read in full sermon

The point: Anti-Trinitarian movements — Jesus Oneness Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Unitarians — are non-Christian cults, not merely Christians with differences.

Communion with Pastor Martin means communion with the real man — 42, 6 feet, 190 pounds. A version at 5'6 and 122 pounds is 'bogus.' So communion with God must be communion with the God who actually is — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Am I talking to someone who sits here this morning and mocks at this doctrine? My friend, listen. I was meditating on this this morning. It's a frightful thought.

58:45 - 58:53 Read in full sermon

The point: Take the place of Thomas and say, 'Lord, much I cannot fathom, but this I know — if omnipotence had not come to my rescue, I should yet be in my sins.'

One thing is to hold doubts at bay; another is to let doubts flirt and seduce, then take them by the hand and enter intimate dalliance with them — Martin calls this 'a form of spiritual prostitution.'

We worship You as the one true and living God. And we are glad to confess that we find this mystery inscrutable. And we are content to bow in loving reverence before the revelation You have given. And O Lord, we pray for those who sit among us who know nothing of that Trinitarian salvation, for those among us who may be wrestling with the doubts rooted in unbelief or uncrucified intellect.

63:53 - 64:26 Read in full sermon