Motherhood/Homemaking & Redemption (a)

The point: Counter the prevailing cultural climate regarding marriage, motherhood, and homemaking by preaching and living according to God's Word.

Comparing the obviousness of cultural enmity against God's design to proving that ice is cold or water is wet, emphasizing that the manifestations are self-evident and require no statistical proof.

and gross expression of that enmity against God and insubordination to the law of God. To take the time to cite statistics and describe the manifestations of this fact is as unnecessary as to take up your time to prove to an irrational being that ice is cold, water is wet, and that the sun shines. I hope you would feel insulted were I to try to demonstrate to you that water is wet, that the sun shines, and ice is cold. Just reach out your hand and touch them.

9:00 - 9:42 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin explores indications that Adam understood this promise, specifically his renaming of his wife from 'Esha' to 'Eve' (living) after hearing God's judgments and the promise of…

Adam's experience naming animals and finding no suitable helper, highlighting his unique relationship with Eve as his counterpart, contrasting with his later renaming of her to 'Eve'.

Are you feeling the strangeness? Are you with me? Are you feeling the strangeness of it? He turns and says, no, Esha is what I named her when God said, when God formed her from my rib, brought her to me, and I saw my counterpart, what I didn't find in all the animals.

26:28 - 26:51 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin then examines Eve's response to Cain's birth, 'I have gotten a man with Jehovah,' suggesting her faith that Cain might be the promised seed who would crush the serpent…

Imagining Eve's unique experience of her first childbirth without prior knowledge or support, to emphasize the profound impact of Cain's birth and her subsequent declaration.

They've seen suckling animals with their mothers. But now, Cain comes as Eve is drawing near her nine months. And she thinks, I will greatly multiply that pain. Is this what God meant?

36:21 - 36:46 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin then examines Eve's response to Cain's birth, 'I have gotten a man with Jehovah,' suggesting her faith that Cain might be the promised seed who would crush the serpent…

Describing the 'exquisite indescribable moment' of holding a firstborn, to convey the depth of Eve's joy at Cain's birth, despite the pain.

And then she comes to those final contractions. And whatever she did, expressing the pain, outbursts this little one. And she sees, for the first time, a human being born. Now, many of you can relive that exquisite indescribable moment when you first held that firstborn in your arm.

37:24 - 37:53 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Eve's experience with Cain, who became a murderer, brought deep sorrow, contrasting with her initial joy. Her subsequent joy with the birth of Seth, seen as an 'appointed'…

Comparing Cain's act of fratricide to being an 'image bearer of his spiritual father, the devil, who was a murderer from the beginning,' to highlight the depth of Eve's sorrow and the perversion of her hope.

He becomes the perfect image bearer of his spiritual father, the devil, who was a murderer from the beginning. And that's the very thread that John picks up in 1 John. What she thought was the promised seed and deliverer shows that he's very much aligned with the serpent. Jesus said, you are of your father the devil, and the lust of your father you will do.

50:27 - 50:55 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Mary's experience is presented as the New Testament paradigm: initial ecstatic joy at the angel's announcement, followed by Simeon's prophecy of a sword piercing her soul…

Imagining Mary's heart breaking 'under the sheer expansive weight of mingled, joy and awe and wonder' at the angel's announcement, to convey the intensity of her initial joy.

And one day an angel comes to you and says, you are going to be the vessel through whom all of those promises are going to be fulfilled. If ever, if ever the human heart would have broken under the sheer expansive weight of mingled, joy and awe and wonder, it would have been the heart of young Mary.

57:34 - 57:59 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Mary's experience is presented as the New Testament paradigm: initial ecstatic joy at the angel's announcement, followed by Simeon's prophecy of a sword piercing her soul…

Tracing the 'sword' of sorrow from Simeon's prophecy, touching the 'external folds of her heart' at Jesus's childhood actions, to being 'plunged into the very bowels of her heart' at the cross, illustrating the progressive nature of her pain.

Touches the external folds of her heart. When. At age twelve. She's a bit wounded.

61:29 - 61:37 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Mary's experience is presented as the New Testament paradigm: initial ecstatic joy at the angel's announcement, followed by Simeon's prophecy of a sword piercing her soul…

Describing Mary standing at the cross, barely recognizing her son's disfigured face, and recalling the angel's promises, to convey the profound depth of her sorrow and the fulfillment of Simeon's prophecy.

There hangs. Your thirty three year old son. You hardly recognize his face. It's been so confused.

62:55 - 63:04 Read in full sermon