Jesus, The Only Way to God?

In this part of the sermon: Martin explains his two-fold goal for the series: to proclaim the gospel effectively for the conversion of unbelievers and to equip believers to be faithful witnesses of Christ.

Martin uses John Bunyan's term 'Celestial City' from 'The Pilgrim's Progress' as a metaphor for heaven, setting the theme for his sermon series on gospel signposts.

Amen. To begin this evening, a relatively brief series. Messages entitled, Simple Signpost to the Celestial City. In the term, the Celestial City, from John Bunyan's term for heaven in his immortal work, The Pilgrim's Progress.

5:18 - 5:47 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin explains his two-fold goal for the series: to proclaim the gospel effectively for the conversion of unbelievers and to equip believers to be faithful witnesses of Christ.

Martin recounts Southern Theologian Dabney's advice to young preachers to not be reluctant to preach on 'epitomizing texts,' justifying his choice of simple, clear gospel passages.

I plan to preach on some of the most simple and clear gospel texts given to us in the scriptures. In a book by the Southern Theologian and Preacher. The great Dabney. In that teaching, Dabney exhorts the young men under his tutelage not to be reluctant to preach on epitomizing texts.

5:48 - 6:17 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Focusing on John 14:6, Martin begins to unpack Jesus's claims, starting with 'I am the life,' emphasizing that this refers to life in its highest biblical sense, eternal life, and…

Martin distinguishes between mere animate existence (like an animal until it's bagged) and the rich, highest biblical connotation of 'life' that Jesus claims, which is eternal life.

In lets us by the whims of to promote personal claim is given animal that was alive until.

14:59 - 17:45 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The truth is not in us. The truth that not only tells us that we are all by nature lost, tells us that we are all by nature spiritually ignorant and spiritually blind men and women and boys and girls.

Martin refutes the idea that 'each man has in himself the sufficient raw materials' for truth, calling it 'damnable nonsense' and emphasizing humanity's spiritual ignorance and blindness.

merely come to disclose the very am. Each man has in himself the sufficient raw materials,

21:27 - 26:03 Read in full sermon

Driving home: No one comes to the father but by me the me is the christ who is this undeniably excluding for i have five the on the earth and i have five the on the earth and i have five the

Martin contrasts the 'Jesus made up of the stuff of Hollywood stories' or philosophers with 'the Jesus the only Jesus who exists the Jesus the Christ the son defiled' found in the Bible, arguing against fabricated versions of Christ.

made up of the stuff of hollywood stories based upon biblical text and exegesis in your early days it's not the jesus made up of the stuff of philosophers and those who do not believe the word of god it is the jesus the only jesus who exists the jesus the christ the son defiled

43:05 - 43:49 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not give up the Christ of the Bible, for that means giving up salvation.

Martin describes how influences might try to erode a young person's convictions about the Christ of the Bible, suggesting they might be told to be 'more well-rounded' rather than giving up Christ entirely, but that this still leads to giving up salvation.

school class with its Bible stories and catechism instruction and old hymns that were just with doctrine and all of the rest and then that kind of dogmatic preaching and all the rest just wants you to be more well-rounded. I don't want you to give up Christ and give up religion and become a bum or a slut or a no-good. They want to begin to erode your convictions that the only Christ to exist is the Christ to exist in this Bible. Listen to me, kids.

47:04 - 47:37 Read in full sermon

The point: Enter in by the door of Christ to be saved; refusing this door leaves no hope.

Martin quotes Bishop J.C. Ryle's commentary on John 14:6, which powerfully reinforces the sermon's central point that Jesus 'shuts out all ways' to God except Himself, emphasizing the necessity of Christ's atonement and mediation.

Father, undeniably to the Father, hit the nail on the head in some of his comments on gospel portions.

47:59 - 48:42 Read in full sermon

The point: Listen to searching personal questions and honestly consider your standing before God.

Martin asks listeners to imagine themselves sitting alone with God, three feet away, without any other person, to impress upon them the personal and inescapable nature of their accountability to God.

women, go through the next three to four days, and you were sitting down three feet away, and no one else was there, not even your husband or wife. In the light of this text, conceive of yourself as in that setting, I am not here, earning my salary full. It is reduced to me being in this pool with what appears to be earnestness and sincerity,

51:46 - 52:31 Read in full sermon

The point: Believe that reality and truth are what Jesus says they are, no more, no less.

Martin dismisses all philosophical attempts to answer questions about death and the afterlife as 'nothing more than a dung heap of human ignorance,' contrasting them with the reality Jesus reveals.

mummy, what happens when I die, where do I go, and take all that the philosophers have said, and pile it up, and it is nothing more than a dung heap of human ignorance, a dung heap, you say reality is what Jesus says it is.

59:56 - 60:25 Read in full sermon

The point: Grasp and hold fast these truths, using Christ as the way, truth, and life daily.

Martin uses the father's words about the prodigal son ('this my son was dead, but now is alive') to illustrate spiritual death in terms of being alienated from God's ways and fellowship, and spiritual life as returning to His presence and government.

his resurrection, impartation of his spirit, say, do you know what it is to say I once was dead, as the father said of the prodigal, this my son was dead, but now is alive, was dead in terms of his father's ways, and his father's rules.

60:48 - 61:29 Read in full sermon