What He Will Do with His Own, Part 4

In this part of the sermon: Martin contrasts the individual glorification of saints with the corporate reality of the church as Christ's bride. While God's purpose includes individual transformation…

An incomplete and nonsensical illustration about 'pure Motorsport.geo.net' is mentioned, but the content is garbled in the transcript, making its purpose unclear beyond being an example of something with 'almost zero practice'.

In the hopeful evidence how Christ died as a God, it is an assertion that there is no end to physical life. This life, he wants to live the life he wants to live the life that it is necessary for. In 1 Corinthians 1, there is some of the main terms that are our thought here. One is what is called pure Motorsport.

7:19 - 7:30 Read in full sermon

The point: No longer walk as the Gentiles also walk in the vanity of their mind; live a radically different lifestyle.

Martin illustrates the context of Ephesians by imagining someone entering the homes of Ephesian believers and immediately seeing a radically different pattern and ethos compared to pagan families, due to the Apostle's instructions.

beginning in verse 9. And so the setting of the passage read in your hearing is this burden on the heart of the people of God. The heart of the Apostle that there at Ephesus in this bastion of paganism of idol worship the center of the worship of the goddess Diana that if anyone were to go into the homes of any of these believers they would see immediately that the whole pattern and chemistry the whole ethos all of the dynamics of those homes were radically different from those of the average family there at Ephesus.

10:27 - 11:10 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin unpacks the first purpose clause: Christ gave Himself up to sanctify the church, setting it apart for Himself, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word…

Martin creates a hypothetical scenario where one stands at Golgotha, beholding Christ on the cross, and asks 'Lord Jesus, why are you doing this?' Christ's answer reveals His purpose to sanctify and cleanse His church.

of the second purpose clause so basically two central units of thought brought together by these three purpose clauses you children what we're doing is this if we could be sent back two thousand years and brought to stand at Golgotha and see what the disciples witnessed from a distance and what Mary and John apparently saw closer at hand and we were to behold the Lord Jesus upon the cross look up at the darkened heavens and see his blood spattered contused bruised and beaten body and we were to say Lord Jesus why are

20:45 - 21:30 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin unpacks the first purpose clause: Christ gave Himself up to sanctify the church, setting it apart for Himself, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word…

Martin alludes to Ezekiel 16, where God likens His covenant with Israel to a husband setting his love on an unwashed babe, and the tradition of a bridal bath symbolizing purity before marriage, to explain Christ's cleansing of the church.

dethrones the reign of sin in which God takes us out of the realm of wrath and bondage to sin and to the devil and we are translated into the kingdom of his own dear son and Christ died in order that the church that he loved in all of its unloveliness would be set apart unto him sanctified having cleansed it with the washing of water in conjunction with the word the word and promise of the gospel some see in this an allusion to what you heard several Lord's days ago from Ezekiel chapter 16 you remember when God

24:28 - 25:13 Read in full sermon

Driving home: what is glory glory is the outshining of the perfections of God where God manifests himself in a concentrated display of who he is and what he is that's called the glory of God

Martin uses the common experience of discovering crow's feet and wrinkles as one ages to illustrate the concept of 'no wrinkles' on Christ's perfected bride, emphasizing her perpetual youthfulness and freshness.

present the church to himself glorious that means no spots no imperfections no blemishes upon her face or upon her garments and then it says no wrinkles you women remember the first time you discovered your crow's feet and you said oh father times beginning to crack me down your skin began to lose some of that fresh youthful look and the crow's feet came in some of us had deep wrinkles in our brow when we were still teenagers my old Swedish grandmother used to say to me Albert the wrinkled brow bespeaks the serious mind

31:11 - 31:56 Read in full sermon

Driving home: what is glory glory is the outshining of the perfections of God where God manifests himself in a concentrated display of who he is and what he is that's called the glory of God

Martin shares an anecdote about his Swedish grandmother saying, 'Albert, the wrinkled brow bespeaks the serious mind,' to add a personal touch to the discussion of wrinkles.

present the church to himself glorious that means no spots no imperfections no blemishes upon her face or upon her garments and then it says no wrinkles you women remember the first time you discovered your crow's feet and you said oh father times beginning to crack me down your skin began to lose some of that fresh youthful look and the crow's feet came in some of us had deep wrinkles in our brow when we were still teenagers my old Swedish grandmother used to say to me Albert the wrinkled brow bespeaks the serious mind

31:11 - 31:56 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not remain in your filth, defilement, and hell-deservingness; become a Christian and be part of Christ's holy bride.

Martin uses the common experience of marrying someone because of lovable and lovely qualities in them to highlight the contrast with Christ's love for the church, which was unlovely and undeserving.

self might present us to himself glorious no spot no wrinkle nothing in the category of imperfection holy and blameless my unconverted friend wouldn't you love to be a Christian and know you're going to be a part of that you don't need to remain in your filth in your defilement in your hell deservingness that's where we were he didn't say now get your act together and I'll see if I find something lovable and lovely in you most of us could testify we've married because we saw something loving and lovable in our spouse isn't that true I don't think there's a person here who said oh

46:07 - 46:52 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not remain in your filth, defilement, and hell-deservingness; become a Christian and be part of Christ's holy bride.

Martin uses the vivid imagery from Ezekiel 16 of 'unwashed babies lying in a ditch weltering in our blood' to describe the church's state before Christ's love, emphasizing that His love was not based on inherent loveliness.

no I married because she was ugly she was nasty she was the most unreasonable no no you saw something that drew out your love did you not and you gals you may not tell your husband that but there was something about him that you thought if you stretched the word was handsome attractive desirable I doubt there's any married person here who cannot say that which led me to a wedding day was something lovable and lovely in the object of my love you saw us like unwashed babies lying in a ditch weltering in our blood and if you're offended by that language tell your offense to God he uses

46:52 - 47:37 Read in full sermon