Testifying Repentance and Faith

Driving home: Repentance with an arrow that points to God, and faith with an arrow that points to our Lord Jesus Christ. And surely, this captures the very heart of the Apostle's words in verses twenty and twenty-one.

The sermon series uses John Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress' and the 'celestial city' as a metaphor for heaven, with biblical texts serving as 'signposts' guiding the way to salvation.

We come tonight to the tenth message in this relatively brief series of sermons which I have entitled, Simple Signposts to the Celestial City. Using the term celestial city as it is found in John Bunyan's immortal Pilgrim's Progress as a synonym for heaven, I would like to invite you to examine some of those texts in the Bible in which the central issues of the way of life and

2:30 - 3:13 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Repentance with an arrow that points to God, and faith with an arrow that points to our Lord Jesus Christ. And surely, this captures the very heart of the Apostle's words in verses twenty and twenty-one.

Paul's message in Acts 20:20-21 is imagined as a physical signpost driven into the ground, with two lines and symbols, pointing to the way of life and salvation.

with me that we are approaching the place where Paul, having constructed this signpost by the guidance of the Holy Spirit, has driven us to the place of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I want you to its support into the ground, and there the signpost stands, pointing all who will consider what it says to the way of life and salvation, even to the celestial city. As we gaze upon this signpost from afar, it seems to have written upon it, and as we make our way closer

3:53 - 4:33 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Repentance with an arrow that points to God, and faith with an arrow that points to our Lord Jesus Christ. And surely, this captures the very heart of the Apostle's words in verses twenty and twenty-one.

The signpost has 'Repentance' with an arrow pointing to 'God' and 'Faith' with an arrow pointing to 'the Lord Jesus,' visually representing the two core components of the gospel.

to it, we do indeed discern that it has two lines upon it, but rather than the lines being filled with words, each line, one over the other, has both words and a symbol. Fascinated by this unusual signpost that is not all words, but words plus symbols, we draw closer until standing before it, we see that there is very clearly stamped upon this signpost of the celestial city these two lines

4:33 - 5:13 Read in full sermon

Driving home: There isn't a half inch bump for a Gentile, for anyone of any background, of any ethnic, religious identity know this signpost has upon it that it is applicable to all, repentance to I put it in a way that I hope will sh…

Martin imagines various individuals—a fornicator, a patron of a topless bar, an abusive person, an arrogant atheist, and a moral philanthropist—all sitting in the pews, to illustrate the universal suitability of the signpost's message for all.

you, if that on this side of the auditorium in this pew that's empty, someone who acknowledged I've just come from the bed of fornication another who said I've just come from the wretched climate of a topless bar and another who said I've just come from a house full of cursing and brutality and abuse and over here there was an arrogant atheist who laughed and sneered when Pastor Smith read about the literal account of creation in Genesis 1 next to him an upright, moral

27:40 - 28:24 Read in full sermon

The point: Love God enough to stop mocking others and stop engaging in foolish talk that leads people to hell.

The story of the prodigal son is used to illustrate repentance as 'coming to himself,' realizing his moral insanity, changing his mind about his father, and experiencing sorrow and shame for his sin.

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38:04 - 38:48 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Those two lines are inseparable. They are inseparable. They are inseparable. They are inseparable. They are inseparable.

Repentance and faith are compared to the two components of breathing (inhalation and exhalation), emphasizing their inseparable and essential nature for spiritual life; without both, one is not 'breathing' spiritually.

To which it is a distinct. They are inseparable. Breathing has two. In one or the other.

51:12 - 51:43 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Repentance is the vomit of the soul. The things you took down with delight have now turned to sin. And now you are turned to sourness and bitter.

Repentance is graphically described as the 'vomit of the soul,' a horrible but necessary expulsion of sin that brings relief, contrasting with the idea of bragging about sins.

Towards God. When you vomit. Kids. You get so sick.

52:58 - 53:02 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Faith is presented as the positive act of 'eating of the pure bread of life and drinking of the pure water of life,' leading to eternal satisfaction.

Faith is described as 'eating of the pure bread of life and drinking of the pure water of life,' symbolizing spiritual nourishment and satisfaction found in Christ.

Faith. Is the eating. Of the pure. Bread of life.

54:19 - 54:23 Read in full sermon