Not for Anything Done by Us

Driving home: There's something more important to God than the sinner's well-being. It is the honor of his own name. It is the undiminished, untarnished manifestation of his glory.

God would rather allow the world to perish as a monument to His justice than stain His glory by pardoning sinners unjustly, emphasizing the supreme importance of God's honor over the sinner's well-being.

And the ground or the basis of God's justifying act is perhaps one of the most critical issues that we can ever wrestle with. You see, God would sooner allow the world to perish in its sin as a mother, as a son, as a mother, as a mother, as a mother, as a mother, as a mother, as a mother, as a mother, as a mother, as a mother, as a mother, as a mother, monument to his justice than stain the glory of his justice by pardoning sinners in an unjust way. Do you follow me? There's something more important to God than the sinner's well-being.

5:49 - 6:23 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin offers three reasons why human performances cannot be the ground of justification: they cannot satisfy the law's demands for past sins, they lack the necessary perfection…

An old writer's quote that people are indifferent to justification because they doubt the severity of the law or the sincerity of the gospel, highlighting the need to take God's law seriously.

You see, if we doubt the severity of the law, this will make no sense to us. But if we take serious God's holy law, which says, perfect, perpetual obedience is essential if we're to have life from the law. And if we fail to render anything but perfect, perpetual obedience to the law, we are liable to death. And you see, no matter what a condemned criminal may do in conformity to the law, it never has power to make amends for the law that he previously broke. Let me illustrate. And it's a crime that we can no longer illustrate from our own society. We have moved so far from Biblical concepts, t...

27:00 - 27:55 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin offers three reasons why human performances cannot be the ground of justification: they cannot satisfy the law's demands for past sins, they lack the necessary perfection…

A story of a condemned murderer who undergoes a transformation of heart and desires to obey the king, but whose good deeds cannot satisfy the law's demand for his previous crime, illustrating that no amount of good works can atone for past sins.

You see, if we doubt the severity of the law, this will make no sense to us. But if we take serious God's holy law, which says, perfect, perpetual obedience is essential if we're to have life from the law. And if we fail to render anything but perfect, perpetual obedience to the law, we are liable to death. And you see, no matter what a condemned criminal may do in conformity to the law, it never has power to make amends for the law that he previously broke. Let me illustrate. And it's a crime that we can no longer illustrate from our own society. We have moved so far from Biblical concepts, t...

27:00 - 27:55 Read in full sermon

Driving home: No amount of his good deeds has any power to satisfy the demands of the law that he previously broke.

The saying 'almost counts only in hand grenades and horseshoes' is used to emphasize that God's law demands perfect obedience, and 'almost' is not enough.

in the implementation of his law. So you see, our performances can't add anything because it's against the whole nature of law. Secondly, because none of our performances partake of that perfection which is necessary unto life. You see, the law says, if you keep me perfectly, I will reward you with life. But who among us would dare claim that he has kept the law of God perfectly? Take the first commandment. The essence of it is, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, mind, soul, and strength. The second is like unto it, love thy neighbor as thyself. Failure to love God with the w...

34:22 - 35:41 Read in full sermon

Driving home: No amount of his good deeds has any power to satisfy the demands of the law that he previously broke.

The Pharisee who boasted of his works and was not justified is used as an example of someone with a damning confidence in his own works, whose self-praise would be a 'sour note in the song of heaven.'

In the colloquialism of According to Eph. 1,6, it is so that we should не пр helpful that we should not glorify Christ, but rather, be easy on His face and face, to make His glory a life. So it is in this prayer that I'm hoping to show you, as I tell you in the various sources, him glory in the Lord. Well, you see, if anything done by us formed any part of the ground of our justification, it would mean that the end of God's grace would be to glory in the Lord plus ourselves, plus our performance, plus something. But God says, no, I reserve all the glory to myself. That's why the Lord said of t...

36:36 - 37:30 Read in full sermon

The point: Submit to the righteousness of God: Venture solely upon Christ, repudiating all your performances as the ground of salvation.

Imagining black clouds over those with subtle confidence in their own performance, contrasting with the desire to count all things as loss for Christ.

Realize before our very eyes that condition, and over every man, woman, boy or girl, who's sitting here this morning has some subtle confidence in his own performance. If God were to allow,

43:37 - 43:51 Read in full sermon