Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter.
Text-Featuring a sermon is a less expensive way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands on the right bar with optional newsletter inclusion. As low as $30/day.
Clarifying and Convicting In this fourth message in his series on forgiveness, Pastor Martin sets out the conditions on which God himself forgives. Why? Because we are to forgive AS God has forgiven us (Message 3). And God does not forgive unconditionally! He forgives upon our repentance and faith.
(We do not earn our forgiveness BY our repentance or our faith--Jesus Christ alone earns our forgiveness--but God confers his forgiveness only UPON our repentance and our faith.)
Even so, then, we are to forgive each other upon repentance.
But listen to the message to hear an inspiring, convincing explanation of what our approach to someone whose sin has caused a breach in our relationship should look like. We are there to seek their repentance; we are hoping, eager, to forgive; how should we go, then? Not with "you've offended me and I'm here to tell you how!" No, instead bathed in the humility of a sinner forgiven by grace. Highly recommended.
Finally, for those who are wondering about the idea of "unconditional forgiveness," a popular idea which Pastor Martin does not find in the Bible, more on that is coming, I believe, in the next message in the series.
For over forty years, Pastor Albert N. Martin faithfully served the Lord and His people as an elder of Trinity Baptist Church of Montville, New Jersey. Due to increasing and persistent health problems, he stepped down as one of their pastors, and in June, 2008, Pastor Martin and...