Kingship of Christ in The Acts, Part 2

A young lady holding up her diamond and turning it this way and that, seeing different lights and highlights — pictures the gospel looked at from the angle of repentance and faith, grace, or the kingdom.

From repentance and faith, the gospel of the grace of God, the gospel of the kingdom. For they're all one and the same thing. It's just looking at the gospel from different dimensions, like a beautiful diamond. Having many facets. Some of you young ladies with diamonds on your fingers. How often have you held your diamond in one direction and then looked at it in another and looked at it in another. And you've seen different lights and highlights and side lights.

38:37 - 39:02 Read in full sermon

The point: Examine whether you are among the multitudes who really believe they have saving dealings with Christ as priest but have never once capitulated to His kingly throne.

Pastor Martin heard, eight rows away, a prominent Bible teacher say 'We need a Savior to get to heaven; we need a Lord to live by on earth' — and denies this is even the gospel.

with his notes right alongside the text of Scripture. And I'm not speaking of a past generation. I'm not making reference to the Schofield Bible. And I heard this teacher say with my own ear, sitting about eight rows away from him, we need a Savior to get to heaven. We need a Lord to live by on earth. And it is not only possible that many trust Christ as Savior and are ready to go to heaven,

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The point: Be honest about your basic problem: it is not intellectual doubts, it is the determination to occupy the throne of your own heart.

Hell was prepared for the devil and his angels — spirits who said 'we will ascend to the throne of the Most High' — and it is reserved for all who share the devil's determination to sit on the throne.

The place to which God consigns those who would rob Him of His throne rights. It was made for the devil and his angels. Those spirits that would say, We will ascend to the throne of the Most High. And God prepared a place for them. And it's prepared for all who share the spirit of the devil. We will sit on the throne.

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The point: Answer the question: what but the moral insanity of sin would keep a man clinging to his chains when Christ offers freedom and liberty?

Clinging to your sin while Christ offers to break your chains is the moral insanity of the sinner — hugging chains that will drag you to hell when a gracious King stands ready to liberate.

Where sin reigns, it exerts its authority. And you're the slave of sin, according to Romans 6. Oh, my friend, what a terrible thing to have such a vicious master who destroys now and in the world to come when he who said, My yoke is easy and my burden is light, bid you come and embrace him. What but the moral insanity of sin would keep any sinner in this place this morning from hugging his chains. That's what some of you do. You'll hug your chains. Chains that will drag you to hell. And Christ says, come and I'll break your chains. Put heaven in your heart now and then take you to heaven with ...

52:45 - 53:39 Read in full sermon