God's Unique Method of Justification, Part 3

In this part of the sermon: To clarify the concept of pacification, Martin distinguishes it from merely calming a baby, defining it as calming someone who is angry or full of wrath. He provides two biblical…

Martin uses the common understanding of a 'pacifier' for a baby to distinguish it from the biblical concept of pacification, which specifically means calming someone who is angry or full of wrath, not just quieting a need.

And as I begin. To lay out before you the provision, the divine provision for pacifying God himself, there's one thing that I need to say to you this morning, and that is, I need to enlarge or show you the concept of pacifying someone. What does it mean to pacify someone? Well, we often and I'm reminded of this by the presence of my little two month old daughter.

13:22 - 13:53 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: To clarify the concept of pacification, Martin distinguishes it from merely calming a baby, defining it as calming someone who is angry or full of wrath. He provides two biblical…

The story from Esther 7 is used to illustrate how a king's intense anger (wrath) was pacified and appeased only by the execution of the offender, Haman, on the very gallows he prepared for Mordecai. This shows that pacification requires a deserved consequence.

Book of Esther and chapter seven. I'm simply trying to show you the idea of pacifying someone when they're mad. Now, the situation is that this evil man named Haman in Esther chapter seven has set his heart upon the destruction of the people of God. But little did he know that one of God's people was the queen.

16:03 - 16:39 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: To clarify the concept of pacification, Martin distinguishes it from merely calming a baby, defining it as calming someone who is angry or full of wrath. He provides two biblical…

The story from Genesis 32, where Jacob sends numerous valuable gifts ahead of him to Esau, illustrates an attempt to appease or propitiate an angry brother who had purposed to kill him. This shows a human attempt to calm anger through a costly offering.

I mean Genesis. Genesis chapter 32. Now in Genesis chapter 32, Jacob is going home. And that wasn't an easy thing for Jacob to do.

21:22 - 21:41 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin asserts the absolute necessity of propitiation due to the reality of God's wrath upon human sin. He explains that God's wrath is both present and future, righteous…

Martin uses the imagery of a person encountering a hungry lion without any means of defense or escape (Psalm 7:2) to convey the terrifying fierceness and inescapable nature of God's wrath, which tears people in pieces.

Look at the idea. Here's a person who meets up with an angry, hungry lion. He's got no gun. He's got no knife.

39:02 - 39:13 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Continuing to describe the fierceness of God's wrath, Martin uses additional biblical metaphors: an angry sea, a consuming fire, and an incensed warrior sharpening his sword and…

God's wrath is compared to a storm at sea, evoking the 'horrible dread' of being overwhelmed by angry waves and billows, illustrating its destructive and inescapable power.

It's described like a storm at sea. I've been told that unless you've actually been in the midst of a storm at sea, you can read about Jonah, you can read about Paul, and their shipwrecks, but you can't really understand the horrible dread of being in the midst of an angry sea. But God's wrath is like an angry sea. All the billows, all the waves of your wrath are gone over me.

40:46 - 41:22 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Continuing to describe the fierceness of God's wrath, Martin uses additional biblical metaphors: an angry sea, a consuming fire, and an incensed warrior sharpening his sword and…

The metaphor of God as a 'consuming fire' and the 'lake of fire' is used to describe the ultimate, burning, and destructive nature of God's wrath, like being thrown into an open fire.

And God's wrath is not only like a hungry lion. God's wrath is like an angry sea. And God's wrath is also like a fire. For we read in the book of Hebrews that we ought to render Him service with fear and awe because our God is a consuming fire.

41:22 - 41:44 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Continuing to describe the fierceness of God's wrath, Martin uses additional biblical metaphors: an angry sea, a consuming fire, and an incensed warrior sharpening his sword and…

God is depicted as a soldier sharpening His sword, bending His bow, and preparing fiery arrows (Psalm 7:11-13) to illustrate His determined, personal, and vengeful readiness to fight and bring down His enemies.

It's like an angry sea. It's like an open fire. It's like a hungry lion. And the wrath of God is like an incensed warrior.

42:07 - 42:16 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The only thing that's going to pacify God is your head. It's you hanging. That's the only thing that's going to pacify Him for what you've done. That's the only thing.

Martin uses the biblical description of a jealous husband's rage over adultery (Proverbs 6) to illustrate that some wrongs cannot be appeased by gifts or money, but demand vengeance. This parallels the impossibility of humans appeasing God's wrath for sin.

It's like a man who has someone commit adultery with his wife. Scripture speaks about that. And it says if you commit adultery with another man's wife, you're the biggest fool in the world. You know why?

49:37 - 49:50 Read in full sermon