God Requires Perfect Obedience from Man (1)

Driving home: There are four things necessary to be known by all that would see heaven.

Martin describes the common presence of the Bible, Westminster Standards, Pilgrim's Progress, and Thomas Boston's 'Human Nature in its Fourfold State' in godly Scottish homes, highlighting the historical importance of these works for spiritual understanding.

Now there was a time in the country of Scotland, a land so richly blessed with gospel blessing in bygone days, when if you or I were to go, into the average home of a professing Christian, we would have found in many, if not most of those homes, three or four very well-worn volumes. The first, of course, would have been a Bible. In the stately old, what we would consider antiquated language of the authorized version, that book would have been central to the life, literally, of tens of thousands of families in that land that knew in past days such gospel blessing. And then the second book you w...

2:29 - 3:51 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Man, as created by God, is under an inescapable obligation to render perfect obedience to God.

The introductory studies are likened to the concrete slab, footings, and block walls of a house's foundation, which support and give shape to the superstructure (the study of the Ten Commandments), emphasizing their crucial role.

When the contractor brings in the bulldozer and digs a hole in the ground, and there in that hole preparation is made to pour a concrete slab, and when at the edges of that slab there are deeper trenches for what we call the footings, and after the concrete is set, he comes in and lays up block walls, we say the contractor has constructed the foundation for the house. And what's the function of that foundation? Well, all of you know, you kids know. It is to support the superstructure and to give shape and form to the superstructure. The superstructure, for the most part, will take its dimensio...

11:46 - 13:07 Read in full sermon

The point: Recognize the solemnity of being a human being, a creature obligated to render perfect obedience to God.

Modern generations are compared to a spider spinning its web from its own belly, illustrating how people today derive their moral standards and purpose from within themselves rather than from God's revealed will.

I am under an in in in in in in in in obligation to render to the God who made me perfect obedience did you say pastor none of us has rendered it what do we that's a question we're not addressing right now I said I had one issue I wanted to drive at and drive home and with the prayer that the spirit of God would ingrain it into the very texture of your soul and it is that truth that you and I as creatures made by God his special creatures are under solemn obligation to render perfect obedience to God and I say by way of application under this heading and if I get no further than this first hea...

47:17 - 48:46 Read in full sermon