The Way of Forgiveness

The point: Be called to repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Martin expresses a personal yearning to have heard great preachers like Whitefield and Spurgeon, and especially the apostles, to convey the significance of hearing an apostle's sermon.

Now, have you ever wondered what it would be like to have heard an apostle preach the gospel? As I have read biographies, I have wished that somehow I could be shot into a time capsule and taken back to some of the open fields in England and hear the great Whitefield preaching Christ with such passion, with such earnestness and burning, and almost seraphic eloquence. I have wished that I could have heard Spurgeon as I have read his biography and read accounts of everything from the captivating, mellifluous voice with which he spoke to the earnest, tender

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Driving home: Now the gospel is like a many faceted diamond. It has many planes and it shines in many ways. Because our needs as sinners are many.

The gospel is likened to a many-faceted diamond, with forgiveness of sins shining out of its deepest center and radiating to every plane, illustrating its central importance.

To the celestial city the truth that the forgiveness or remission of sins is the central blessing of the gospel. Now the gospel is like a many faceted diamond. It has many planes and it shines in many ways. Because our needs as sinners are many.

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Driving home: It is the unique capacity of faith. To have nothing in itself. Upon which to rest. And to go totally out of itself. Into another. To find all of its needs met. In that other.

Faith is likened to drinking water of life, eating bread of life, and looking upon the serpent of brass, to illustrate its unique capacity to receive from another.

By another. It receives what is provided. By another. Therefore it is likened.

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In this part of the sermon: The third line asserts that forgiveness is received in Christ by faith alone, highlighting faith's unique receptive nature as an empty hand taking a full Savior, without obscuring…

Faith is described as an empty hand that takes a full and adequate Savior, emphasizing its receptive nature and lack of inherent merit.

Because faith alone. Is the empty hand. That takes a full. And an adequate savior.

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In this part of the sermon: The third line asserts that forgiveness is received in Christ by faith alone, highlighting faith's unique receptive nature as an empty hand taking a full Savior, without obscuring…

Faith is described as a parched mouth that drinks of Him who is the water of life, further illustrating its receptive and dependent nature.

Faith alone. Is the parched mouth. That breaks of him. Who is the water.

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Driving home: The crowning damning sin. Is the sin. Of unbelief.

The warning against unbelief is presented as an 'asterisk' at the bottom of the signpost, signifying a crucial and often overlooked caution.

Simple sign post. There's an asterisk. And you know what it says? It says warning.

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