God Requires Perfect Obedience from Man (2)

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

The introductory messages to the Ten Commandments are likened to the foundation of a house, providing support and boundaries for the superstructure (the commandments themselves), emphasizing their essential role for a responsible study.

The following sermon was delivered on Sunday evening, November 12, 1995, at the Trinity Baptist Church of Montville, New Jersey. In the ministry of the Word of God this morning, we began our series of studies in the Ten Commandments. And in starting this series, I stated that I would be bringing, God willing, four to five introductory messages which would function after the analogy of the foundation of a house. And it is the foundation, the slab with its footings, and the walls, either poured concrete or concrete block, that constitute both the support and the bondage. Or the boundaries or the...

0:01 - 1:21 Read in full sermon

Driving home: It is the revealed will of God.

A parable of a king who claims to be just and gracious but does not reveal his laws, yet promises blessing for obedience and punishment for disobedience. This illustrates the injustice of God not revealing His will if He demands perfect obedience.

Back in the days when there were kings and kingdoms, what would you think of a king who proclaimed himself to be a just, a righteous, and a gracious king, whose heart was full of goodwill towards his subjects? He graciously provides for all of the needs of his subjects, and he declares himself to be committed to the well-being of his subjects, but as a righteous king, he demands order in his kingdom. And his rule and his will and obedience to his laws are indeed the framework of the order of his kingdom. Now, what would you think of him if he proclaimed himself to be a kind, a gracious, a righ...

7:55 - 9:03 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin expounds Romans 2, demonstrating that God's will was initially inscribed on Adam's heart and that remnants of this law are still evident in the consciences of Gentiles…

The remnants of God's law in the fallen human heart are compared to ruined Greek temples, where one can infer the original magnificent structure from the remaining fragments, suggesting Adam's original clear inscription of God's will.

Well, obviously, not by societal consensus, and certainly not by the devil. It is like those ruined temples in Greece,

15:35 - 15:47 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin applies the principle to contemporary society, lamenting a generation that, like ancient Israel in Judges, lacks a king (authoritative revelation) and shamelessly does what…

The story of a young man kicked out of the Boy Scouts for being a self-proclaimed sodomite, who shamelessly appealed to higher courts, is used as an example of a generation doing what is 'right in his own eyes' despite God's clear condemnation.

When the young man who was kicked out of the Boy Scouts. For being an unashamed, self-proclaimed pervert. A sodomite. A homosexual.

42:31 - 42:46 Read in full sermon

The point: If you are not in Christ, give yourself no rest till you take the shortest route to get into Christ.

Martin uses the hypothetical example of a listener thinking 'When in the world will this bletherer be done?' during the sermon, to illustrate that God will bring every secret thought to judgment, even in a worship service.

the record of every single deed that was not an expression of perfect conformity to his revealed will? Yes, every deed. The ones done openly, the ones done in secret, there was no eye but the eye of God. Every word, think of it, every word that was not perfect truth, every word that was not spoken in love, every word that cut and wounded, seduced, deceived, every word, every word, every word, but then every thought, think of it, the thoughts that some of you have been thinking right here in this service tonight. When in the world would this bletherer, God will bring that thought out in the day...

59:29 - 60:42 Read in full sermon