Divine Wrath in the Old Testament

The point: You and I should learn from this incident of the wrath of God upon the fallen angels, those two great principles.

Martin challenges the subtle conviction that God owes humanity a savior or mercy because we didn't 'cast a vote in Eden,' arguing that God owes nothing but perdition and doesn't need to 'get Himself off the hook' for judging humanity.

And whatever may be the manifold purposes of God in this, surely this is stamped upon the face of it. If angels who stand nearest to God and see most of the glory of God and enter into the privileges of that relationship, if once they sin they come under the wrath of God in a fixed state where no provision or offer of mercy is made, who among all the other creatures of God can say God owes me something once I have sinned against Him. My friend, God owes nothing to you or to me but everlasting perdition and damnation. God does not owe the world a savior. God does not owe the world an offer of m...

17:32 - 19:00 Read in full sermon

The point: If you have the silly notion since we are God's special creatures made in the image of God, we have a dignity and a privilege and a glory above the beast of the earth, surely God would never consign any such creature of …

He refutes the 'silly notion' that humans, being made in God's image, are too dignified for everlasting perdition, by pointing to angels, who are higher in dignity, being cast down to chains of darkness.

If you have the silly notion since we are God's special creatures made in the image of God, we have a dignity and a privilege and a glory above the beast of the earth, surely God would never consign any such creature of such dignity and glory to a place of everlasting perdition. Is that so? If He takes angels and casts them down to chains of darkness and reserves them until the day of judgment of the grave day, Almighty God can justly do the same with any of His other creatures. But now I hasten on to take the second profound illustration of the wrath of God in the Old Testament and it's the w...

19:38 - 20:52 Read in full sermon

The point: You kids when you go to school and you're the only one in your class that thinks it's not smart to say dirty words you're the only one that thinks it's right to respect the teacher and obey mom and dad and all the kids s…

Martin describes the likely horrific details of the flood, with screaming children and people clinging to mothers, to emphasize the terrifying reality of God's incensed anger and judgment.

legitimate necessary physical activities marrying and giving in marriage legitimate expressions of the social order instituted by God and at the disintegration of society man turning against his brother surely it should have been a call at least to reflect upon that which God had revealed to Noah that his spirit would not always strive with man and the intimation of 1 Peter 3.20 is that this was a period of appointed long suffering given to that very generation while Noah prepares the ark though we dare not let our imaginations run away and draw out pictures as evangelists have often done desc...

28:09 - 29:36 Read in full sermon

The point: You kids when you go to school and you're the only one in your class that thinks it's not smart to say dirty words you're the only one that thinks it's right to respect the teacher and obey mom and dad and all the kids s…

He addresses children directly, using the example of being the 'only one in your class' who thinks certain things are wrong, to warn against being lulled by majority opinion into sin, reminding them of the flood.

it was virtually a destruction of the entirety of the race except Noah and seven with him you kids when you go to school and you're the only one in your class that thinks it's not smart to say dirty words you're the only one that thinks it's right to respect the teacher and obey mom and dad and all the kids say ah don't you don't believe that old fuddy-duddy stuff that God hears what you say and God will punish you for bad words and a dirty mouth and a sassy attitude oh you children remember the flood even children who rebelled against almighty God and accepted the majority morals and the majo...

32:27 - 33:55 Read in full sermon

The point: Don't pride yourself that you can now listen to searching sermons and get to sleep in five minutes where once it took you half an hour don't be proud of the fact that you can hear the warnings about judgment now and pass…

Martin shares his personal experience of living in dread of hell as an unconverted sinner, contrasting it with companions who could sleep easily, and expresses gratitude that God did not give him a hardened conscience.

however indifferent to the wrath of God will be exempt from its reality no sinful creature however indifferent to the wrath of God will be exempt from its reality you see the mark of that generation was this it had conned itself into tolerance of certain judgment the text indicates that Noah was a preacher a preacher of righteousness he is called in another place the long suffering of God was waiting in the days of Noah Noah is preaching to get a hook in the conscience of his generation but the hooks were gone it was a generation of a seed that felt the more smug it became in its sin the more ...

33:55 - 35:22 Read in full sermon

Driving home: God says I want them to be a monument of the eternal fire that will come to all who think that their sexual nerve endings are their own property to do with as they please and violate the strong dictates of conscience and…

He uses the vivid metaphor of God turning bodies into 'clinkers' (hard, vitrified residue from burning) to describe the physical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by brimstone, illustrating God's judgment on those who treat their bodies as their own property for sensuality.

to be their playthings for the night and they're so base that they don't even want the two virgin daughters and it isn't until the angels put forth their supernatural power to blind them that the men are preserved and for that sin you know what God did God did something he had never done never did before the bible tells us of the imagery of hell that it is a lake of fire and a brimstone and the scripture tells us God rained down from heaven upon the cities of the plains why? because they had utterly abandoned themselves to a lascivious life they had abandoned themselves to every base form of s...

42:39 - 44:08 Read in full sermon

Driving home: God says I want them to be a monument of the eternal fire that will come to all who think that their sexual nerve endings are their own property to do with as they please and violate the strong dictates of conscience and…

He compares the modern generation's boasting of sensuality to Israel's refusal to be ashamed in Jeremiah 3:3, warning that such brazenness intensifies God's judgment.

the wrath of God none who abandon themselves to sensuality can escape the wrath of God they are set forth as a pattern of those who will live ungodly Peter says they are set forth as a pattern of what God will do with lascivious men and women they are set forth in the language of Jude to show the suffering of eternal fire that awaits the sensuous who give themselves over to continued sensuality in a state of impenitence of impenitence what can one say in the light of this principle as it reflects upon this generation a generation that will be marked as the first one in the so-called civilized ...

45:35 - 47:03 Read in full sermon

Driving home: God says I want them to be a monument of the eternal fire that will come to all who think that their sexual nerve endings are their own property to do with as they please and violate the strong dictates of conscience and…

Martin recounts the modern argument that God judged Sodom for inhospitality, not homosexuality, and the accusation of 'homophobia,' to highlight the dangerous distortion of biblical truth by some Christians.

it is bad enough to sin is to come under an intensified judgment of God God says of Israel in Jeremiah 3 3 you refuse to be ashamed you have the forehead of a harlot and when national athletic figures can go on national television and look straight into a town this generation someone says oh you've got homophobia you boots I've got homophobia because for those upon our land and I'm a part of this land the tragedy is enough to make angels weep if angels do weep that we have people who have the name Christian and Christian teachers and preachers who say that the reason God judged Sodom was not f...

47:03 - 48:31 Read in full sermon