Hebrews 7:25, Part 2

Driving home: Robertson attempts to render its literal force by translating face-to-face with God. Robertson adds, the preposition cross is employed, quote, for living relationship, intimate converse, end quote, which well describes i…

Martin quotes Robertson's linguistic analysis of the Greek preposition 'pros' to explain its literal force as 'face-to-face with God' and its implication of a 'living relationship, intimate converse,' thereby clarifying the nature of Christ's communion with the Father.

the preposition, cross, isn't from the prepositions, an, or para, or soon, and is of the great root of his sanctified scholarship behind him. Robertson attempts to render its literal force by translating face-to-face with God. Robertson adds, the preposition cross is employed, quote, for living relationship, intimate converse, end quote, which well describes its use.

30:30 - 31:14 Read in full sermon

Driving home: God's mind can satisfy the mind of God. Only God's love can fully satisfy His own heart of love. And within the glorious mystery of the triune being of our one God, there was this reciprocal affection, this face-to-face …

Martin uses the idea that 'God's mind can satisfy the mind of God' and 'Only God's love can fully satisfy His own heart of love' to illustrate the complete self-sufficiency and reciprocal affection within the Triune Godhead, negating the idea that God created out of loneliness.

And other, and yet not other, than God. 17. With Thee, the uninterrupted, eternal, face-to-face communion within the triune Godhead, the whole thought of God creating a world and men, because, He was lonely,

31:48 - 32:29 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The dominant concept, in having the covenant favor, blessing, and goodwill of God towards His people, is this concept of the Lord's face shining upon His people. The Lord lifting up the light of His countenance upon His …

He recounts the darkness over the land during Christ's crucifixion, emphasizing it as the moment God shrouded the heavens in blackness, signifying the turning away of the Father's face from the Son as He bore sin.

the false accusations, which of those indignities brought was one, only one. Remember what it was? From the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole land, and God shrouded the heavens in blackness,

36:54 - 37:36 Read in full sermon

Driving home: When he was becoming the vicarious curse-bearer, when God was, as it were, narrowing the funnel of all of the ocean of his wrath against human sin and causing it to break upon the soul of his own,

Martin describes Christ's conscious awareness of the Father's upholding favor throughout His trials, even when forsaken by disciples and mocked by crowds, highlighting His constant communion with the Father until the moment of bearing wrath.

lifted your countenance upon me in favor and in good will, you had said, Behold, my servant whom I uphold. And when my own disciples forsook me, when my favored three slept and would not watch with me, Holy Father, I was consioust of being upheld by the beams of the favor that emanated from your countenance. And when the rabble crowd came and apprehended me in Gethsemane, and when they dragged me from the puppet court at the high priest, and then to Pilate, and on to Herod, and back to Pilate,

38:13 - 38:57 Read in full sermon

Driving home: When he was becoming the vicarious curse-bearer, when God was, as it were, narrowing the funnel of all of the ocean of his wrath against human sin and causing it to break upon the soul of his own,

He uses the metaphor of God 'narrowing the funnel of all of the ocean of his wrath against human sin and causing it to break upon the soul of his own' to vividly describe the intensity and uniqueness of Christ's suffering as the vicarious curse-bearer.

Those hours he constituted sin in a unique and in an intensified way. When he was becoming the vicarious curse-bearer, when God was, as it were, narrowing the funnel of all of the ocean of his wrath against human sin and causing it to break upon the soul of his own,

39:47 - 40:16 Read in full sermon