Hebrews 7:25, Part 3

The point: Continually evaluate everything that comes to you over this pulpit or in any setting where there is supposedly a ministry of the word. Ask yourself, what doctrinal statement of scripture do I understand more clearly and …

Martin quotes John Brown to emphasize that a preacher's duty is to speak the Word of God clearly, making doctrinal statements understood and moral duties felt, rather than astonishing an audience with eloquence.

John Brown, a godly and eminently useful servant of Christ from another generation, wrote, But in truth, It is only in the degree in which we speak the word of God, in which we clearly exhibit its meaning and evidence, in which we bring man's mind into contact with God's mind, that we discharge our duty to our Master, or promote the real spiritual improvement of our hearers. To have made...

0:46 - 1:23 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: He further supports the argument with Old Testament typology, specifically Leviticus 16 (the Day of Atonement). The ritual of the high priest bringing blood behind the veil…

Martin uses the analogy of Old Testament types and shadows as God casting the light of His countenance over future realities (Christ's work), with the shadows forming the Old Testament rituals. This helps illustrate how the Aaronic priesthood foreshadowed Christ's work.

In fact, it is the same as the Old Testament typology. The types and shadows of the Old Testament were just that. God, who saw before his face the realities of redemption in the person and work of Christ, cast, as it were, the light of his own countenance over those realities, and the shadows that were cast shaped and formed the Old Testament rituals that were types and foreshadowing of the Old Testament. of those realities the realities were not the Aaronic priesthood the Levitical priesthood

19:07 - 19:45 Read in full sermon

Driving home: it's a big wide bridge that goes halfway across the chasm and takes no one to the other side but bless God for a redemption that is a bridge that goes from one side of the chasm of man in his sin to God in his burning ho…

Martin uses the metaphor of a 'big wide bridge that goes halfway across the chasm' to describe an atonement made for all indiscriminately, arguing it secures nothing for anyone. This highlights the superiority of a definite, efficacious atonement that actually carries people to salvation.

without any specific intention as to those for whom it is made in reality it is a most uncompassionate redemption or sacrifice for it secures nothing for anyone for certain as someone has said it's a big wide bridge that goes halfway across the chasm and takes no one to the other side but bless God for a redemption that is a bridge that goes from one side of the chasm of man in his sin to God

51:04 - 51:48 Read in full sermon

The point: Oh dear child of God should we not grieve that we love so feebly a Savior who saves so graciously in power.

Martin uses the analogy of a man spitting in his wife's face and calling her a slut to illustrate how God views indifference to His Son. This conveys the depth of God's righteous anger against those who disdain Christ, emphasizing His love for His Son.

and his salvation do you see why God must destroy in flaming fire those who obey not the gospel how could God love his Son how could his face be toward his Son with favor and God just wink at the way you if you go on treating him that way a man who comes up and spits in my wife's face and calls her a slut and treats her like dirt if I stand idly by say nothing and do nothing where is my professed love for my beloved wife

56:59 - 57:40 Read in full sermon