If Ye then Being Evil, Part 1

Driving home: The truth of God is of one continuous thread into a fabric that one of the reasons to extract it from the whole, you know, what will happen is you'll have absolutely nothing left because the truth of God is vitally inter…

Martin compares biblical truth to a knit sweater made of one continuous strand of yarn, rather than a woven fabric. Pulling one thread (doctrine) from a knit garment unravels the whole, illustrating how denying man's sinfulness dismantles the entire system of biblical truth.

Now, this is true of the Bible's faithfulness to itself and its consistency with itself. The Bible sets forth a system of truth in which one thought and doctrine is vitally related to another and this one to another and this to another and so on. Let me illustrate. Most of you have clothes on this morning that are made of material that was woven on some kind of a mechanical loom and then cut and sewed together.

14:10 - 14:44 Read in full sermon

Driving home: the only thing I know I deserve is God's judgment and I can come on a Sunday morning conscious that the only reason I'm not in hell is that God in mercy and grace has moved out to me it's fairly easy to worship then isn'…

He contrasts praising someone who repays a small debt with praising someone who forgives a massive debt. This illustrates that if we feel God 'owed' us salvation, our praise will be minimal, but if we grasp our immense sin and God's free grace, our praise will be profound.

gap that we reach between God holiness positivity and our sinfulness and influence when we take seriously what the Bible says about how bad we are and realize that this God has moved to us in grace why it's an easy thing to worship and to praise him is it not when you praise a God you feel sort of owed your salvation anyway I can't praise a man who's borrowed five dollars from me finally gets around to come and pay it back to me I don't praise him I just say thank you and did what was right if I had a debt of ten million dollars to that man and he came around and said I freely forgive I praise...

22:45 - 24:11 Read in full sermon

Driving home: the only thing I know I deserve is God's judgment and I can come on a Sunday morning conscious that the only reason I'm not in hell is that God in mercy and grace has moved out to me it's fairly easy to worship then isn'…

Martin uses the analogy of a physically blind person suddenly gaining sight to illustrate the miracle of spiritual regeneration. Just as a blind person seeing Pastor Martin would be a miracle, so is a sinner seeing the glory of Christ and having their heart captured by Him.

this is the root of our failure in praise and make a tremendous difference in our evangelism this is what Mr. Dittmar was driving at this morning how bad are boys who come to Camp Tuscar when you say well if you go down to the slums why they'll be worse than the ones you get from North Colva no might not have quite so much civility and decency as far as manners but in the eye of God nice boys from North Colwell are no different from bad boys from the lower east side of New York why because every boy and every girl is a rebel against almighty God a sinner blind to the glory of God in Christ so ...

25:40 - 27:09 Read in full sermon

Driving home: all the gimmicks and gadgets and trappings of modern evangelism have a theological basis and that theological basis among other things is a dismal that's the view of how bad man is that's the basis of it

He tells a story of a man on Bloomfield Avenue who thought he was dressed in his Sunday best but was actually in his underwear due to a mental delusion. This illustrates how a sinner, deluded by sin, thinks they are presentable to God until the Holy Spirit reveals their true nakedness and uncleanness.

the blind eye isn't that the full end of all that God does whether in evangelism or creation for of him and through him and unto him he holy forever so this has some tremendous practical implications and I'm convinced we'll not return to the climate of biblical evangelism praise or worship until we return to biblical concepts of sin if ye be evil I only got through the first point this morning that's as far as we're going to go but I want to ask you to do something this morning you've listened now I want to ask you to do something now trust you listen carefully you're here this morning you kno...

31:35 - 33:04 Read in full sermon