Albert Martin

Definition – 1 “The fear of God is the soul of Godliness.” And yet, as we commented last Lord’s Day morning, it is obvious to any observing person that this pervasive and dominant theme of Holy Scripture has well nigh been lost to our own generation. Now, this morning we begin to come to the […]

Introduction – 4 Well, look at Ephesians 5:21 and then Colossians 3:22. Ephesians 5:21 introduces the climate of the home: husband-wife relationship, parent-child relationship. And notice what the Apostle says in introducing that subject: “Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.” All of these injunctions concerning the nitty gritty of practical Godliness

Introduction – 3 Then in Jeremiah 32, as Jeremiah speaks of that new covenant which Messiah should bring to pass by His own suffering and death, that covenant sealed and ratified by the blood of Christ and expounded in Hebrews 8 and 10 in which passages there is a quotation from Jeremiah 31 and 32

Introduction – 2 Now turn to over the Psalms. Remember, all we’re trying to do is, by a qualitative selectivity, show in the Old Testament the centrality of the fear of God. Now, in the Psalms, there are dozens of references to the fear of God, and again, we select only several. In the second

Introduction – 1 For a rather lengthy period of time, I have been toying with the thought of bringing some messages on one of the great and dominant themes of Holy Scripture, one concerning which there is almost total silence in our day, a theme which was a great theme of our forefathers in their

Conclusion Conclusion number one: There is no task under heaven more demanding than that of being an effective father. The Bible records the competence of Eli as a priest in Israel, but his total incompetence as a father. The Bible records the competence of David as a successful and mighty warrior, as an astute statesman

Basic Factor Number Two: The consistent use of means to attain those goals   The second factor which constitutes effective fatherhood is this: The consistent use of means calculated to attain those goals. Look at verse eleven: as you know how we dealt with each one of you as a father with his own children,