Evangelizing Sinners Verbally, Part 1

Driving home: Any individual, any church committed to biblical evangelism will be like a bonafide, properly minted coin. It will have two sides with the proper images and words on both sides.

Martin uses the analogy of a properly minted coin with two sides and the act of breathing (inhaling and exhaling) to illustrate that biblical evangelism requires two inseparable elements: manifesting the Gospel by life and proclaiming it verbally. Neglecting one leads to spiritual death or ineffectiveness.

By every biblically sanctioned means of verbal communication. Whether the word communication is the sign language we hopefully will see tonight, whether it is the printed page, whether it is your radio picking up radio waves, or the television picking up television waves, verbal communication, that is the Gospel broken down into vocables that either impinge upon the ear or the eye and convey to us the saving mercy of God in Jesus Christ. Now, I'm done with my review. We come to take up this morning this whole matter of the second side of the coin. Any individual, any church committed to biblic...

7:08 - 8:23 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin elaborates on the nature of the Gospel message, defining it as 'divinely revealed, objective, inscripturated truth.' He explains each term, using Galatians 1 and Colossians…

Martin uses his own physical attributes (height, weight, age) as an example of 'truth' – what really is – to contrast with fantasies or effusions of a 'fevered brain,' emphasizing that truth is objective reality.

The truth is that I stand before you as a man, 5 foot 11 in my stocking feet, 6 feet in my shoes, 197 pounds, 66 years old. That's the truth. That's what it is. Now, if I stand before you, and I think, that I'm 20 years old, and that I have the stature of an interior lineman in the NFL, that I'm 6 foot 5, 287 pounds, and that my name...

15:42 - 16:10 Read in full sermon

Driving home: You see, the gospel is not a nose of wax to be bent any way, pulled out into any shape that men want to do it and still call it the gospel.

Martin uses the metaphor of a 'nose of wax' to illustrate that the Gospel is not something that can be bent or reshaped to suit human desires while still retaining its identity, reinforcing its fixed, objective nature.

Paul says, take it in hand, lay it alongside the pattern, the size and the shape of the gospel I preached and that you received. And if it doesn't match, chuck it. The curse of God is upon it. You see, the gospel is not a nose of wax to be bent any way, pulled out into any shape that men want to do it and still call it the gospel.

18:06 - 18:31 Read in full sermon

Driving home: You see, the gospel is not a nose of wax to be bent any way, pulled out into any shape that men want to do it and still call it the gospel.

The truth of God is compared to Mount Everest, standing firm and unaltered despite wars, societal trends, or philosophical theories, to emphasize its immutability and steadfastness.

Truth is truth. Like Mount Everest, it stands. Before wars and after wars, amidst tumultuous overturnings of whole nations, Mount Everest stands. God's truth stands.

18:48 - 19:03 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin elaborates on the nature of the Gospel message, defining it as 'divinely revealed, objective, inscripturated truth.' He explains each term, using Galatians 1 and Colossians…

Martin uses the simple example of counting two oranges plus two oranges to make four to illustrate truths that can be discovered without special divine revelation, contrasting it with the Gospel which requires such revelation.

It is a message comprised of divinely revealed truth. Now there are some truths that we are left free to discover without any special revelation from God. Let me ask you children, if I put up on the pulpit two nice, big, fat, juicy oranges here, and I put two more big, fat, juicy oranges here, I ask you, how many oranges will be on this front plane of the pulpit if I put these over here and these over here? You know how many oranges would be right here.

20:38 - 21:15 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin elaborates on the nature of the Gospel message, defining it as 'divinely revealed, objective, inscripturated truth.' He explains each term, using Galatians 1 and Colossians…

Martin uses the analogy of only an individual knowing their own unspoken thoughts (until expressed) to explain that only the Spirit of God fully knows the mind of God, and thus divine revelation is necessary for us to know God's thoughts concerning the Gospel.

Verse 11. Who among men knows the things of a man save the spirit of a man which is in him? Let me ask you. Who can tell you what you're thinking right now?

24:00 - 24:15 Read in full sermon

Driving home: That almighty God has let his wrath be vented upon his son. That he might justly and righteously pardon. That's good news. That's enough to make old men feel young again when they preach it.

The command 'Son, take out the garbage' from a father is used as a clear, non-negotiable example of an 'imperative' to illustrate the authoritative nature of the Gospel's commands to repent and believe.

When dad says, son take out the garbage. You better regard that as an imperative because that's what it is. If you scratch your head and say well, you know I've been thinking dad that maybe someday I'll... No, no, no. He says take out the garbage. Feet. Time to move. That's an imperative.

36:10 - 36:26 Read in full sermon