Remembering the LORD at His Table

The point: If you feel borne down by lust or sin, focus particularly upon the fact that your Redeemer is mighty to save (El Gabor).

This story highlights Christ's true human weakness and dependence, even needing an angel's succor in His agony, to emphasize His full humanity.

He had to come to his heavenly Father and as a man seek direction and counsel and guidance. And I say it reverently, as he came to the actual experience of the cross, he had to wrestle with the aversion of a holy humanity against abandonment and suffering to the point where he felt to the motions of a contrary human will. And he cried out, Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done. And one of the most amazing statements in the Passion account, when he was in the agony of Gethsemane, that shadow of Calvary and Golgotha, the Scripture tells us that an angel came and strengthened him. Think of ...

11:06 - 12:27 Read in full sermon

The point: If you feel borne down by lust or sin, focus particularly upon the fact that your Redeemer is mighty to save (El Gabor).

An anecdote about Scottish divines discussing their favorite angels, with Rabbi Duncan choosing the unnamed angel who strengthened Christ in Gethsemane, further illustrating Christ's human vulnerability and the significance of that angelic ministry.

A group of Scottish divines were on one occasion talking about a man who had a very strange subject. The subject was who was their favorite angel.

12:30 - 12:40 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Well, the meaning is very simple. It means to turn away divine wrath. It means to appease the divine anger. To placate the divine pure and holy agitation against human sin.

Quoting a familiar hymn line reinforces the doctrine of substitutionary atonement, making it relatable and memorable for the congregation.

In my place condemned He stood. Sealed my pardon with blood. Hallelujah! What a Savior!

22:15 - 22:29 Read in full sermon

The point: If your mind has been sensitized to the horribleness of sin, remember particularly that Christ's death is propitiatory, swallowing up every gram of divine wrath.

Martin uses the simple act of reaching for and drinking water to illustrate the meaning of 'efficacious' – that an action effects its intended purpose – applying it to Christ's death.

my reach was efficacious but I didn't reach it just to hold it I need to drink it my attempts to drink were efficacious I accomplished I effected the purpose for which I gave an illustration and got a drink both at the same time that was an efficacious act my dry mouth is no longer dry I hope you've seen the principle the death of Jesus is not only voluntary substitutionary propitiatory but it is efficacious it actually turns away the divine wrath it actually secures it actually secures and procures the salvation of all of God's elect of all ages for by one offering the writer to Hebrews says ...

26:58 - 28:26 Read in full sermon