The Salvation of Man

God's works are like a forest with trees numberless — but the work of salvation is the one tree that points upward and stands towering above all others. You cannot look at that forest without seeing that one tree.

reveals that there is a particular aspect of God's work that stands above all other of His works. and it is that work of rescuing, delivering, and restoring sinners. To use an illustration, if all of the many works of God recorded in Scripture are like a forest with trees numberless, the work of salvation is that one tree which stands above all others, so that whenever you look at that particular forest, you not only see the numberless aggregate of the many trees, you cannot look upon that forest without seeing that one tree

5:45 - 6:30 Read in full sermon

The similarities between man and beast do not prove evolution — they simply demonstrate God's economy. Aircraft designers don't redesign the wing concept for every new bomber because it has been proven through billions of hours of flight.

after our image and after our likeness. Now there are many similarities between man and other forms of life. And these similarities do not prove evolution. They simply demonstrate the wisdom of God. When God hooks into a good design for part of the physical structure of a creature dependent upon the earth for its sustenance, and that's common both of man and beast, why should God design a totally different gastrointestinal system? I mean, God economizes, as any good businessman does, as any good producer of any product does. When they're about to build a B bomber if they ever get around to it ...

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If evolution were true, David should have gone and stood by 'some remnants of the primordial pool of slime' and said, 'O pool of slime, thou art guilty for what I did — I spit in the pool of slime.' Instead he said, 'Against thee, thee only, have I sinned.'

Without this, you'll never have man the creature praying in the language of Psalm 51, And David has been indicted for his sins of adultery and murder by proxy. And when his heart is pierced with the arrows of conviction, he cries out, O God, against thee and thee only have I sinned and done that which is evil in thy sight. If evolution is true, David was all wet. He should have found some remnants of the primordial pool of slime and stood by the pool of slime and said, O pool of slime, thou art guilty for what I did.

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'If your mind ever feels dull and narrow and you want it stretched, meditate upon Mary's womb' — infinite Godhead compressed in a virgin's womb, Creator of the universe sustained by the placenta.

I say it reverently, you meditate upon Mary's womb.

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We show family pictures with pride — my great-uncle twice removed, my second cousin, my great-grandfather. But every human has one common relative: Adam. Whether we like it or not, we stood in him.

Now sometimes we get together and we talk about our relatives. Or we may show pictures. We're going through a picture album. We say, well, that's my great-uncle twice removed by marriage and all the rest.

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'Every time there's a full moon, I shake my head and say, I know it's true, I know it isn't a big hoax, but somebody's been up there making footprints on that thing.' What a noble creature is man — and yet what a beast.

Think of the productions of this noble creature that raise him far above, infinitely above the most highly developed of the beasts. What a noble creature is man. Any creature that can produce from a technological standpoint the ability to take man the creature and put him up there on the moon. I still, every time there's a full moon, shake my head and say, I know it true I know it isn a big hoax but I still can believe it somebody been up there making footprints on that thing somebody actually made some footprints If you and I were going we see them What a creature is man who can penetrate the...

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The point: Parents: do not think of your children as born innocent — Romans 5 proves their guilt in Adam because even infants die. Their age of accountability is already past.

What angers Martin most is not shock at immorality but that his own pinched tax money goes to pay for a political leader's paramour — a raw illustration of man fallen in Adam.

I know what's in my own heart to know that but for the grace of God, I would abuse any position of influence to pander to my flesh. What aggravates me is that having to pinch my pennies and live on a budget, my tax money goes to pay for his paramour. That's the thing that gets me upset more than anything.

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Man's inner being was once like sparkling mountain water — no matter where you dipped, pure love to God, to righteousness, to his fellow man. Sin has invaded every part so that every ladle brings up what is defiled.

Man, this creature whose inner being was once like pure sparkling mountain water. No matter where you would dip in, it was pure. There was pure love to God. There was pure love to righteousness.

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