Kingship of Christ in Romans 14:9

The point: Gaze upon the greater glory of Christ, that by the Spirit's blessing, you might behold such glory as to be utterly spoiled for your sin, the world, ambition, pride, and other idols.

Martin uses the never-wearying delight in the physical beauty of a summer morning (blue sky, green trees) to illustrate how much more believers should never grow weary of gazing upon the greater glory of Christ.

I should like to begin our study of the Word of God this morning with asking a question of each of you, and I believe it's a legitimate question, for to my knowledge, none of you present here this morning has been deprived of the faculty of sight, and so I speak to men and women and boys and girls who have eyes that function. You may have to have the help of glasses, as some of us do. And for each one of you who can see, my question is this. Did you find it either difficult or wearisome to drink in the beauty of this summer morning?

0:04 - 0:43 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not adopt a judgmental attitude towards brothers and sisters with differing dictates of conscience on non-moral issues.

He describes how differing consciences on non-moral issues lead to judgmental attitudes and schism within a church, with the weak accusing the strong of being libertines and the strong accusing the weak of being overly scrupulous, directly applying it to Trinity Church.

Now wherever you have differing dictates of conscience on non-moral issues, you immediately have the seeds of a judgmental attitude leading to schism and faction within the church. So that the weak gather together and point their finger at the strong and accuse them of being libertines, and the strong gather together and look at the weak and accuse them of being overly scrupulous. And human nature is no different. It is one of the things we continually wrestle with in this assembly. There are some of you, if you had your way, there are certain practices

13:45 - 14:26 Read in full sermon

The point: Examine if it is true of you that 'we are the Lord's'; if not, you have never received His salvation.

Martin distinguishes between exhorting someone to join the army (to submit to Christ's Lordship for salvation) and exhorting someone already in the army to act according to its rules (implications of existing submission), clarifying Paul's approach in Romans 14.

and are calculated to give directions concerning the implications of that submission. See the difference? You come to one guy and say, hey man, I'd like to get you to join the army. That's one thing. It's another thing to say, hey look man, you're in the army, shape

36:19 - 36:35 Read in full sermon

The point: Contemplate the language of your heart regarding Christ's rule, in light of His agonies on the cross, and allow a saving perception of His death to bring you into willing subjection to His throne.

He challenges teenagers to take a Sunday alone, turn off distractions, and contemplate the true language of their heart regarding Christ's rule, urging them to consider it in light of Christ's agony.

Isn't about time some of you teenagers took a Sunday and got alone in your rooms, kept your record player off, kept your TV off, and sat or lay upon a bed and think, what

47:21 - 47:39 Read in full sermon