Christ Shall Have His Rightful Place in His Church

The point: Periodically go back to foundational principles to stir up remembrance of truths already known and established.

The Humanist Manifesto is used as an example of a public statement of intentions or objectives, clarifying what a 'manifesto' means for the church's series.

A manifesto is a formal declaration of what a group of people are out to do or to be. Some of you have been disturbed as you have read portions of the so-called humanist manifesto. In which the human. humanists of our country got together and drafted a statement of what they are committed to at every level of our national life. Well then, we are concerned with this series of messages to set

3:23 - 3:57 Read in full sermon

The point: May God have mercy upon us if we ever budge from this foundation, for other foundation cannot be laid than Jesus Christ.

The physical building's shape being determined by its unseen foundation blocks is used to illustrate how Christ as the church's foundation dictates its entire spiritual form and dimensions.

This building takes its shape from the foundation blocks that are out of sight.

31:47 - 31:53 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not place idolatrous confidence in the means of grace (preaching, praying, Lord's Supper), rituals, forms, men, programs, or plans, as Christ alone is the source of life.

The imagery of the 'river of water of life' from Revelation, flowing from the throne of God and the Lamb, illustrates Christ as the ultimate and exclusive source of all spiritual life.

Curse our idolatry and cut off the springs of life. There is no inherent life in rituals and forms. There is no life in men, the best of them in programs and plans. Jesus Christ himself is the great reservoir of life and only as God is pleased to grant us streams flowing out of him. That beautiful

44:27 - 44:55 Read in full sermon

The point: Bow before Christ and find the benefits of mercy stored up in Him, or stand in defiance of His authority and experience His wrath.

The conversion of Saul on the road to Damascus is presented as a pattern for how Christ becomes Lord of an individual's heart, leading to submission and obedience.

scriptures could be given from many angles but I think perhaps one of the clearest answers is given when we take the conversion of Saul of Tarsus as a pattern of what God does in every conversion not in terms of the external circumstances but the inward spiritual experience there was that man on his way to lay hold of the friends of Christ and to commit them to prison and even to death and you remember the story of how a light shone above the brightness of the noonday sun and he fell to the earth blinded and heard a voice out of heaven saying Saul Saul why persecutest thou me and he knew it wa...

48:40 - 49:23 Read in full sermon

The point: Let Christ's word alone rule and govern every facet of the church's life, living with the conviction that the Bible tells us what to do in every area of our lives.

Martin personifies 'Lord conformity,' 'Lord pragmatism,' 'Lord expediency,' and 'Lord capitulation' as false authorities that tempt the church, emphasizing that none of them 'holds no Bible in his hand,' unlike the true Lord Jesus Christ.

been the book that has shown us how to get to heaven we've sought to live with the conviction it's the book that tells us what we're to do in every area of our lives on our way to heaven and this church if it is to continue with the blessing of God there must be that fresh commitment to Jesus Christ as the unrivaled Lord and master other Lords and masters have sought to take us over Lord conformity occasionally comes by and flirts with us points us to what everyone else is doing sometimes with apparently great blessing and he says

52:19 - 53:02 Read in full sermon