Seven Things Secured by Christ for His People

The point: Call to remembrance again and again these basic biblical truths about Christ's secured blessings, pulling them up from the back drawer of your mind and placing them before the eyes of your soul with fresh acts of faith, …

Martin uses the analogy of pulling truths from the 'back drawer of the file drawer of our minds' and placing them before the 'eyes of the soul' to illustrate the active, fresh remembrance required for the Lord's Supper.

This is the kind of remembrance which we are to remember. And I see such, the kind of fundamental issues pertaining to the kind of remembrance that we are to engage in when we do what the Lord has commanded in the breaking and eating of bread and in the drinking of the cup. And because the scripture tells us in Isaiah 53, 11, that great Old Testament chapter that tells of the sufferings of the servant of Jehovah that he shall see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied, it is good for us in coming to the table of remembrance to remember that which the Lord Jesus has infallibly secured for ...

2:36 - 4:03 Read in full sermon

Driving home: If He spared not His Son then what's the greatest obstacle in securing the redemption of fallen, lost hell-deserving sin-bound creatures? The greatest obstacle is how can God be holy and just and do anything other than d…

When discussing 'all things' in Romans 8:32, Martin clarifies that it doesn't mean material wealth like 'Cadillacs and fifteen-room houses with seventeen baths,' but rather everything essential for God's redemptive purpose, distinguishing spiritual from material blessings.

Look at verse 32 He that spared not His own Son and He didn't spare Him He that spared not His own Son but delivered Him up for us all how shall He not also with Him freely give us all things? Not Cadillacs and fifteen-room houses with seventeen baths but everything necessary to accomplish every facet of God's redemptive purpose. If He spared not His Son then what's the greatest obstacle in securing the redemption of fallen, lost hell-deserving sin-bound creatures? The greatest obstacle is how can God be holy and just and do anything other than damn such? And God must send His own Son His own ...

24:30 - 25:58 Read in full sermon

The point: Look to Christ, lay hold of Christ, flee to Christ, come to Christ, and all that is ours in Him will be yours if you will have Him.

Martin uses the Old Testament account of the fiery serpents and Moses raising the bronze serpent (Numbers 21) to illustrate the simplicity of God's call to 'Look and live!' for salvation, addressing the potential stumbling block of simplicity for unbelievers.

Ah, my friend, don't let the simplicity be a stumbling block to you. It was nothing complicated that God called upon the children of Israel to do when bitten by the fiery serpents in Moses, raises up a serpent of brass and cries out, Look and live! And the Scripture says, The Son of Man must be lifted up, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Looking is no act of a hero, I know.

30:26 - 30:56 Read in full sermon