Biblical Framework of All Thinking, Part 1

In this part of the sermon: Martin refutes deism, which posits God as a distant creator, by asserting that God not only created but also presently, actively, and imminently sustains and governs all things.

Martin uses the analogy of winding an alarm clock and leaving it to run on its own power to explain the deistic view of God's relationship to creation, contrasting it with the biblical view of God's active sustenance.

I wound up my alarm clock last night. My little travel clock. I was so tired I didn't trust my little beeper on my watch. And I wound up my little travel clock and then I left it to work out its cycles of minutes and hours until the appointed time when it would trigger the alarm under the power inherent in that spring which I had put in by the energy of my arm and my fingers.

17:30 - 17:58 Read in full sermon

The point: Be not conformed to this age. This age thinks and judges and concludes and pronounces and acts and reacts all within an assumed framework of evolution. Evolutionary perspective.

He quotes a line from 'The Sound of Music' ('Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever did.') to illustrate a theological truth about creation, while also distinguishing it from the song's heretical context of self-justification.

have you seen Sound of Music? Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever did. Well, there's a good bit of little theology in that.

26:42 - 26:50 Read in full sermon

The point: Lord, teach me to think in every single relationship, in every single concern, I am dependent upon the will of God for my existence. I am a created reality. Therefore, it is my creator who designed me, who gave me the va…

Martin uses the metaphor of a 'bowl of beans' to describe the dehumanizing implications of an evolutionary worldview, where there is no essential difference between humans and other life forms, leading to treating people as disposable.

You see, if there is no essential, essential difference between you, your dog, and the lima beans you eat this afternoon, no essential difference, only some accidental differences in the evolutionary process, we're in big bad shape. Because if you think there's no essential difference between you and a bowl of beans, then you may start treating yourself and others like a bowl of beans. That's right. Take the leftovers and throw them in the garbage.

31:59 - 32:27 Read in full sermon

The point: I cannot know what true manliness is by watching the beer ads.

He uses the example of beer ads depicting 'macho' men to illustrate how the world defines manliness in sinful, unbiblical terms, contrasting it with true manliness as an image-bearer of God.

Now, that's not how you learn what a man is.

34:49 - 34:52 Read in full sermon

The point: You all came through a woman's womb. You owe a tremendous debt to womanhood. Don't demean them.

Martin uses the humorous analogy of God having storks drop babies down chimneys to highlight that God could have chosen any method of human procreation, but He chose the current one to ensure men cannot demean women, as every man (except Adam) came through a woman's womb.

And all this back to Christ. And the way God designed it, we should get here. God could have ordered it so that he made us up in heaven and had storks drop us in diapers down the chimney. I mean, God could have done that.

37:18 - 37:31 Read in full sermon