Not Everyone that Says Lord Lord, Part 3

In this part of the sermon: Martin begins by situating the current sermon within the broader study of the Sermon on the Mount, emphasizing its foundational nature and the interconnectedness of Scripture.

The Word of God is compared to a knit fabric, where pulling a string in one place unravels it elsewhere, illustrating the interconnectedness of all Scripture.

We have been some three years studying through this section of the Word of God, commonly called the Sermon on the Mount. We're coming now to the conclusion of this series of studies in which I'm sure those of us who have been here week by week have come to either the initial discovery or the fresh confirmation of the fact that the Word of God is one fabric. It's like that which is knit, and there is a relationship between the first row and the seventh row, and that which you knit, and you pull the string at one place, and eventually you'll unravel it at the other.

0:24 - 1:05 Read in full sermon

The point: Examine yourself whether ye be in the faith. Make your calling and your election sure.

The pervasive role of government in 20th-century America is used to highlight how people might wrongly expect God to do for them what He requires them to do for themselves, like self-examination.

The second reason is that many who stand in that day and are discovered as utterly deceived fail to perform the duty of self-examination. It's a shocking thing to those of us who live especially in the climate of 20th century America where everything is done for us either vicariously or governmentally by Uncle Sam and where as you know pretty soon the government will be there moving the hand of the one who delivers me from the womb and will be there to pile the dirt on me when I die. It's hard for us to believe that God places upon each one of us as an individual responsibility

4:37 - 5:22 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin explains how a proper doctrinal foundation, supernatural power, and abundance of works can still be deceptive, often fueled by a desire to quiet conscience or gain the…

Religious activity is described as a 'salve upon the conscience' for both true believers and the unregenerate, used to quiet nagging guilt rather than confronting sin directly.

The person sitting here this morning who knows testimony of your conscience and what acquaintance you have with the word of God that all is not well between you and your God. And when conscience would nag, you seek to stab conscience by some kind of religious activity. And there is a sense in which the activity acts as a salve upon the conscience. Even the true children of God see this again and again. You've got a

13:23 - 13:51 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin explains how a proper doctrinal foundation, supernatural power, and abundance of works can still be deceptive, often fueled by a desire to quiet conscience or gain the…

Stuffing tracts or extending devotions is presented as an easier alternative to genuine repentance for sin, illustrating how activity can mask a lack of true heart change.

stuff a few more tracks in your pocket and give them out or spend an extra 15 minutes in your devotions than to go down before God and say, Lord, against thee and thee only have I sinned. And to really face our sin for what it is. Now if that's true of us as the children of God, indwelt by the spirit of God and equipped with the grace of God, how much more is the unregenerate man who's simply involved in a whirl of religious activity, how much more prone is he to be captured by the deceptiveness of a sad conscience simply because he's busy. And then again there's the praise of men, especially ...

14:25 - 15:05 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin explains how a proper doctrinal foundation, supernatural power, and abundance of works can still be deceptive, often fueled by a desire to quiet conscience or gain the…

The examples of Peter and Paul in Acts, where people wanted to worship them after supernatural works, illustrate how the praise of men can be a deceptive byproduct of service.

remember in the book of Acts, when Peter was the instrument of God to perform supernatural works, they wanted to fall down and worship him. And unlike his so-called successors who sit on the chair at Rome, he's immediately rose up and repulsed them and said, no, I'm but a mere man. Don't fall down and worship me. You remember when Paul, there in that heathen island, was an instrument of God for a supernatural work that some of the people fell down and wanted to worship him. And so

15:05 - 15:33 Read in full sermon

The point: What do you do on the Lord's day when you're not able to be here? Do you know what it is to be home with God and his word and experience anything that even borders on vital heart communion with Jesus Christ?

The account of Paul and Silas singing praises in prison after being beaten and jailed illustrates genuine Christianity, where vital heart communion with God remains even when all activity is stripped away.

What happens when you're sick and you're laid aside from that class and prayer meeting? What is there left of heart communion with the living God, delight in himself? Paul said in Philippians 3, 3, we are the circumcision who worship God by the Spirit, who glory in Christ's face, Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh. And Paul was a beautiful example of this. Here he was

20:16 - 20:46 Read in full sermon

Driving home: They take and they clean, but in their clean system inflict, and they damn themselves with the Bible. That's what these people did.

Scripture is compared to a doctor's prescription with a delicate balance of chemicals; disregarding the proper proportions can be deadly, just as misinterpreting the Bible can lead to damnation.

Well, you see, the scripture is like the delicate balance in the prescription that your doctor sends in to the pharmacist and involved in that prescription that is made out for your physical well-being is this delicate balance of certain chemicals and the physician or the pharmacist who disregards that balance and simply sees that so much of potassium is needed and so much of this and so much of that and says, well, I'll just put something of each in and pays no regard to the proper proportions. He may give you something that will kill you and that's exactly what the word of God can do. Do you...

24:45 - 25:29 Read in full sermon

The point: Do you want to know that the blood of your soul will not be upon your hands? Then, my dear friend, you've got to accept the full counsel of God.

Salt, made of two deadly chemicals (sodium and chlorine) in right proportions, is used to illustrate how God's promises and demands, when rightly combined, bring spiritual health, but taken separately, are deadly.

Did you know that most of you were already exposed to two chemicals this morning that are deadly poisonous? Probably half of you here use salt in one way or another on your breakfast food. Or in it. Salt is made up of two deadly chemicals. Sodium,

28:39 - 28:56 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The final reason for deception is the failure to realize that the only important thing is a vital, personal, heart-acquaintance with Jesus Christ, not just knowledge or activity…

Diogenes' quote 'I am tormented in these flames' is used to contrast the discomfort of heat with the eternal torment of hell, urging listeners to pay attention to the sermon's serious message.

I've said, and you've said probably 50 times, boy, this heat's uncomfortable.

35:48 - 35:52 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin recounts the story of Aonio Pellierio and his confession of the three causes of salvation, using it to challenge listeners on the true foundation of their own salvation.

The historical account of Aonio Pellierio's trial and his confession of Christ as the sole cause of salvation is used to challenge listeners on the true foundation of their own salvation.

Back in the Dark Ages, there was a man by the name of Aonio Pellierio. As you know by the name, he certainly wasn't Irish.

42:45 - 42:54 Read in full sermon