The Perfect Son Who Became Our Perfect Savior 3

Driving home: He was experiencing nothing less than the tortures of hell itself. Hell will be God saying, Depart from me, you cursed. You want darkness? You want nothing. You will have nothing to do with me. God says you will have not…

Martin describes crucifixion as one of the most cruel and torturous forms of death, causing intense pain, dehydration, and asphyxiation, to emphasize the physical suffering Jesus endured.

Our text tells us that Jesus is in the midst of being crucified. They were standing by the cross of Jesus. This horrible means of execution, as best as historians can trace it, invented by the Lord Jesus Christ, is a horrible means of execution. It's a horrible means of execution. It's a horrible means of execution. It's a horrible means of execution. It's a horrible means of execution. It's a horrible means of execution. It's a horrible means of execution. And then incorporated into Roman forms of execution and capital punishment, one of the most cruel, torturous, miserable forms of death kno...

10:28 - 11:30 Read in full sermon

Driving home: He was experiencing nothing less than the tortures of hell itself. Hell will be God saying, Depart from me, you cursed. You want darkness? You want nothing. You will have nothing to do with me. God says you will have not…

The 'horrible abyss' of spiritual suffering in Gethsemane, which Jesus recoiled from, is used to convey the unimaginable depth of His internal torment on the cross, which was even worse than anticipated.

And as the temporal and the spiritual condition of our Lord. And as the temporal and the spiritual condition of our Lord. And as the temporal and the spiritual condition of our Lord. cup of his suffering was presented to him in vivid outline in the garden of Gethsemane, our Lord drew back and three times prayed, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. He came, as it were, to the brink of the horrible abyss of the spiritual suffering he would undergo, and when he looked over the edge, he drew back and said, No, Father, anything but that abyss. And now as he's on the cross, th...

12:42 - 13:44 Read in full sermon

The point: Resist with every fiber of your being this throwaway mentality when it touches the care of our aged, infirm and indigent fathers and mothers.

Martin compares modern society's tendency to make and discard goods to the way some treat aged and infirm parents, viewing them as 'throwaway stuff' when they become unproductive or costly.

. . . of his people of all the ages our Lord is sensitive and aware of the needs of his earthly mother and he makes the only provisions possible for him as he hangs upon a cross surely then we have the perfect son perfectly obeying the fifth commandment and thereby becoming our perfect Savior here was obedience to the fifth commandment reaching its farthest bounce but then secondly by way of application here we have a gripping example for each one of us you and I live in our country our society in a throwaway society I I I am amazed and appalled at the things that are made with the intention t...

24:46 - 26:14 Read in full sermon

The point: Resist with every fiber of your being this throwaway mentality when it touches the care of our aged, infirm and indigent fathers and mothers.

Martin shares a personal anecdote about growing up during the Great Depression and WWII, where every scrap was husbanded, to illustrate why he and others of his generation struggle with the 'throwaway culture' and its extension to human relationships.

granted, we've become pack rats with some things. I understand that. If you don't believe it, come and look at ourselves. But when you were reared as a child on the tail end of the Depression and lived through the Second World War when every scrap of metal and every scrap of tinfoil and everything that could in any way go into the war machine was husbanded and channeled into the war machine, it's very difficult to get accustomed to buying things that you buy them with the full intention that when the supply of whatever is in them is gone, you'll be able to buy them again.

26:14 - 26:50 Read in full sermon