Behold, Now is the Day of Salvation

Driving home: God speaks to us from this signpost and he says twice, Behold, there is something of supreme importance that demands your immediate and concentrated attention.

The word 'Behold' is compared to a trumpet blast near a sleeping person's ear or a thunderclap from a clear sky, illustrating how God demands immediate, concentrated attention to His message.

It is a word that is to act like a trumpet blast in the ear of a man taking his afternoon nap. If you were taking your afternoon nap tomorrow and a trumpeter got his trumpet two feet from your ear and let out a blast, I think the most dull, drowsy, deep napper, I think the most dull, drowsy, deep napper, I think the most dull, drowsy, deep napper, among us, would probably levitate from his bed.

5:14 - 5:43 Read in full sermon

The point: Heed the voice of God speaking in Scripture, recognizing its supreme importance.

The signpost of salvation is described as having words in 'day glow orange' or 'neon light' that blink off and on, like road construction signs, to emphasize God's insistent call for attention.

in the brightest of day glow orange in academia, and起来来盛行光的心地, neon light, and it keeps blinking off and on, off and on, and says, Behold, behold, behold, behold, like those lights that you'll see on Rue Davy, which is forever under construction if you go any far, any distance at all in the western direction of the country, and you've been cruising along where there are two or three lanes going west, and it's suddenly going to be crowded down to one lane, and there are those bright lights that will take the driver who is closest to the land of Nob, and suddenly those lights await in him. This ...

7:10 - 8:30 Read in full sermon

The point: Heed the voice of God speaking in Scripture, recognizing its supreme importance.

A story about George Whitefield stopping his sermon and stomping his foot to wake a sleeping man in the audience, then rebuking him, illustrates the seriousness of ignoring God's call to attention.

in the brightest of day glow orange in academia, and起来来盛行光的心地, neon light, and it keeps blinking off and on, off and on, and says, Behold, behold, behold, behold, like those lights that you'll see on Rue Davy, which is forever under construction if you go any far, any distance at all in the western direction of the country, and you've been cruising along where there are two or three lanes going west, and it's suddenly going to be crowded down to one lane, and there are those bright lights that will take the driver who is closest to the land of Nob, and suddenly those lights await in him. This ...

7:10 - 8:30 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin clarifies that the salvation in view is primarily from sin, which has made humanity an enemy of God and unfit for fellowship, emphasizing the seriousness of sin as revealed…

The example of children seeing their parents in a warm embrace, indicating no enmity, is used to illustrate the state of reconciliation with God, where there is no longer war or broken communication.

gave unto us of reconciliation. You see, it's should you kids come home unexpected time and you find your dad in the kitchen and he's got your mom in a real tight clinch and planting a big one right on her smackers. You don't come into the kitchen and say, mom, and put down underneath you kind of like it, don't you? Sure, because you know, if you see mom and dad in a warm embrace, there's no enmity between them. There's no war. They've kept the lines of communication.

15:55 - 17:06 Read in full sermon

Driving home: And he said it was that it was damnation and he bore it he who knew no what.

A story of a Hebrew exegesis professor, deeply moved while studying Isaiah 53, weeping and exclaiming 'It was damnation and he bore it,' illustrates the profound mystery and cost of Christ's vicarious sin-bearing.

Death in the. Bitter. I don't can the great civil classes in Hebrew exegesis one day at the college there isn't is so vividly described on hand snuff box in the other.

36:59 - 37:54 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not procrastinate on salvation, as 'now' is the only time of certainty; middle age, old age, or any future time is not guaranteed.

The example of happy, healthy children suddenly ending up in intensive care or a vegetative state due to unforeseen accidents illustrates the unpredictability and brevity of life, emphasizing the urgency of 'now'.

It's the only time of certainty is right now you're breathing you have your rationale and the pediatric wards of ones who one moment were happy go lucky little children bringing joy to all around them and they stumble on the end of a toe.

54:56 - 56:58 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not let peer pressure or earthly treasures deter you from becoming a Christian, as the cost of rejecting Christ is eternal agony.

The quote from Agrippa to Paul, 'Almost you persuade me to be a Christian,' is used to warn against the danger of being 'almost' persuaded but never fully committing to Christ.

Listen to a gripper who said to Paul all need to be a Christian acts twenty six twenty eight this fifth appears to the joy on the only and damn still what here is what makes you.

63:53 - 65:18 Read in full sermon