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Evangelism: God's Way / A.N. Martin 

Giving of Our Substance / A.N. Martin 

Have you known the blessing of God in the provision of your needs as you have endeavored to honor Him with your material possessions? This adult Sunday School message sets forth three fundamental principles and three major biblical guidelines for giving, along with thoughts on the principle of tithing that every Christian will benefit from hearing.
 

Financial Stewardship / Dean Allen 

A more extended version of this series was originally delivered at the Albany Baptist Church in Albany, New York.
 

The Bible everywhere describes humanity as divided into two distinct and basic classes: the saved and the lost, the righteous and the unrighteous, the sheep and the goats, and those who have the Spirit and those who do not have the Spirit. The Bible also teaches that within these categories there are degrees of abandonment to sin, just as there are degrees of advancement in the life of godliness. However, over the years there has been a widespread teaching based upon I Corinthians 3 which states that mankind is divided basically into three categories. This addition of another basic category of mankind seeks to find room for people who have professed the knowledge of Christ, but who give little or no evidence of a transformed life. The people placed in this category are commonly called "carnal Christians." The purpose of these two sermons is to examine this teaching in the light of the words of I Corinthians 3 and of the larger context of Holy Scripture. If you are finding comfort in the "carnal Christian" teaching, then you owe it to your own well-being carefully to examine this teaching in the light of the Word of God. If you have been disturbed by this teaching, but have been unable to assess it in the light of the Word of God, then this series of sermons should be of help to you. We urge you to listen carefully to both sermons beginning with message number one.

The opening message lays the groundwork for the series by giving instruction in “how to read, study and preach Biblical History.” Then the focus is on Enoch as our example of a man who walked with God, a man who witnessed for God and a man who went to God.
 

These lecture studies touch the heart of the Christian ministry. Pastor Martin begins these lectures by examining six wrong, though not uncommon, reasons to enter the gospel ministry and then moves to four essential elements of the call. The mental, spiritual and practical gifts required for the pastoral office are also examined.

Take Heed to Yourself and to Your Teaching / A.N. Martin 

There are few verses in all the Word of God which more clearly and succinctly set forth the great lifetime responsibilities of the Christian minister than does 1 Timothy 4:16. In this text the Apostle Paul makes clear to Timothy that his first and greatest responsibility is the cultivation of his own walk with God. Second to that, and flowing out of it, is his responsibility to pay close attention to that which he teaches in the name of God. The passage is expounded and brought home with searching application to the conscience of the gospel minister and ministerial student.
 
This brief series is another of the earlier ministries of Pastor Martin and one which was greatly owned of God to the blessing of many in the U.S. and abroad.
 

"We are determined that our life and ministry will unquestionably confirm the unique place assigned to the church in the saving purposes of God. This affirmation is manifested in our doctrine and practice regarding the Christian life, in evangelism and missions, in the training and ordination of ministers of the gospel, in sending forth church planters and in recognizing resident pastors."

Three goals of these messages:
 1. To instruct us so that we will be rightly prepared for our own death.
 2. To help us answer children's questions about death, particularly when someone whom they knew dies.
 3. To be a means of instruction that we may minister consolation and exhortation to one another, particularly to those bereaved.

Basic Questions answered in these messages:
Message One (58 minutes)
 1. How did death enter the world and become a universal part of human experience?
 2. What precisely happens in the experience of death?

Message Two (79 minutes)
 3. What follows immediately upon the experience of death?
 4. What is the ultimate fate of the body and soul?
 5. What makes the difference as to where death will immediately take your soul and
    where your soul and body will be consigned for eternity?
 

* We are working on improving the audio quality and encoding this entire series

God's Word To Our Nation 

As a nation, we have received many blessings from the hand of God and have much to give Him thanks for and yet, as a nation we have not been living as those mindful of God's kindness to us and of our accountability to God. Instead, we have in gross ways turned away from listening to God and His Word into paths of unrighteousness. In this short series, Pastor Martin shows us from the Scriptures the fact of God's sovereign rule over all the nations including our own and our accountability to Him. He then exposes the putrid sins of moral degeneracy and the horrible sins of religious apostasy of our nation and declares God's Word to our nation in light of our aggravated sins. From God's own Word, we hear a rebuke and denunciation for our nation's aggravated sins and a call to national and personal repentance, reformation and prayer.

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National Sin of Bloodguiltiness - One of the most aggravated sins of putrid moral degeneracy of our nation is that of the unrequited blood of murdered multitudes. Our nation is stained with an ocean of blood that cries to God for His vengeance. Let us cry to God that in his wrath, he will remember mercy. 

A powerful message examining the need of sensitive love and consistent godliness as essential principles of effective fatherhood. Highly recommended!

A follow-up message setting forth  the necessity of setting specific, biblical goals for development and using scripturally warranted means to attain those goals in order to be an effective father. 

In demonstrating that marriage, motherhood and homemaking is indeed a noble and divine calling, he opens the series by showing, from the Scriptures, the direct relationship of this issue to the gospel itself and the need for a radical commitment to God, issuing in a growing non-conformity to the thinking and acting of the world. (18 part series)

There are 18 messages in this series; all are available on audio cassette and CD through Trinity Book Service.

How Not to Foul Up the Training of Your Children

These studies rose out of a pastor's deep concern for the climate of our homes, but, unlike many of the "helps" offered today, this teaching is explicitly biblical from beginning to end! Although he draws from his experience as a pastor, as a parent, and even as a child reared in a Christian home, Pastor Martin does not merely fill up these tapes with anecdotes. Specific practical applications for nurturing our children are extracted directly from the Scriptures.  go there

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A four-part Adult Sunday School series in which Pastor Martin gives counsel to parents in dealing with children from Christian homes who have been exposed to the gospel from a very young age. 

Christian parents pray that their children will be awakened to spiritual realities. They rejoice when sons and daughters begin to ask questions like, "how can I know if I have a new heart?" But then they face a dilemma. How do you counsel an awakened child? How do you discourage false assurance while not driving your child to despair? These are the types of questions you will find answered in this study. The biblical principles discussed are applicable to all ages.

Nations: How to Think Biblically, Pray Fervently, and Act Patriotically as Christians  

Pastor George McDearmon from the Ballston Lake Baptist Church preached two very poignant sermons on how to think biblically about the place of nations and how to pray for our nation, especially in light of the difficult days in which we find ourselves. 

• Nations - Their Character, Place, and Purpose - Listen Now | Save it for later

• How to Pray for our Nation - Listen Now | Save it for later

Tolerance vs. Pluralism  "ISLAM & TERRORISM: OUR ROLE IN THE NEW COLD WAR"  
 

Pastor A.N. Martin led an adult Sunday school class review of the very helpful  October 27, 2001 Special Issue of World Magazine.    Listen Now | Save it for later

 - 3 articles referenced in the review:
    Tolerance vs. Pluralism | Hate and Tolerance | Important Dates in the development of Islam

 - World Magazine, P.O. Box 420235, Palm Coast, FL 32142-0235; www.worldmag.com;
   (800) 951-6397 in USA, (386) 447-6349 outside USA

The Tragic Events of September 11, 2001 - How can we respond biblically?

We offer our continued sympathies to those directly affected by the tragic events of September 11th.

The events of September 11th, 2001 have no doubt caused many to question, many to sorrow, and many to fear what tomorrow may bring. God has not left His throne above. We must turn to His Word in these times of trouble and we must respond biblically to this tragedy in our thoughts, words, and actions. 

To that end, we have compiled several resources which we trust will be helpful to you as you seek to deal with the difficult days ahead. 

On September 12th 2001, at the mid-week prayer service convened at Trinity Baptist Church, Pastor Albert N. Martin gave some biblical perspectives on how we ought to interpret and understand the events of the past days. This message is still relevant and we encourage everyone to listen to this brief exhortation.

In this series of expositions we witness in the very Word of God through the testimony of Mark, that period in the Life of Christ called his Passion, a term derived from the Latin word meaning to suffer. Beginning in Gethsemane and leading through to the crucifixion and subsequent resurrection, the substitutionary suffering and agony of Jesus Christ and His atoning death under the wrath of God for our sin and His resurrection are closely examined. Its meaning and relevance for Jesus Christ and for you and me is clearly opened up and powerfully applied throughout this series of messages. We believe these continue to be timely messages, profitable for you to hear yourself and to share with others.

These sermons on the Passion narrative are from a larger series of Expositions of the Gospel of Mark. Audio Cassette tapes of these expository sermons may be purchased through the Trinity Book Service individually as (#'s EP-W-1 through 199) or as a complete set of expositions on the Gospel of Mark (# EPW01199).

The Passion's Great Omissions - What The Movie Doesn't Tell You / A.N. Martin   

A special ministry was held Sunday Evening, 2/29, at Trinity regarding the Christ of the Passion and why he suffered and died.

Pastor Martin preached on the subject, "The Passion's Great Omissions: What the Movie Doesn't Tell You." Whether you've seen the movie or not, this is an important message for you and the people you know.

NOTE: Because many are planning to download this sermon in order to burn it onto CD and give to their friends and relatives, in addition to the sermon on SermonAudio we are making a special high-quality mp3 version available on this page. Please note that the mp3 file on this page is large (about 33 Meg). You can also purchase this sermon on Audio/Video cassettes and Audio CD from Trinity Book Service. Outline (pdf)

"The movie has been made and will open in thousands of theaters worldwide this month. It will draw eager audiences and become a box office hit - due in part to prerelease controversy, the "must see" factor has reached an almost unprecedented level of intensity among both committed Christians and the cinematically curious. Mainstream Christian leaders of every denomination [have] embrace[d] the film as the most artistically ambitious and accomplished treatment of the crucifixion ever committed to film." Michael Medved

The Passion Of The Christ, a movie directed by the Roman Catholic, Hollywood movie-star Mel Gibson, continues to stir spirited discussions and provoke real questions among evangelical Christians. One of the primary questions asked is whether or not evangelical, bible-believing Christians should or should not see the movie. While many evangelical leaders have embraced this film and are recommending it with enthusiasm, some evangelical Pastors are not so supportive in their recommendations.

In an effort to answer requests for guidance from the members of their own congregation, the elders at Trinity requested Pastor Martin to conduct a Sunday School class to that end. This message is an attempt  by the pastors of the church to set before the people of God at Trinity the biblical precepts and principles which ought to guide one's conscience in making a righteous decision as each one considers whether or not to see the movie.

We encourage you to listen to this message and to read the New Testament Gospel accounts yourself.
Matthew 26:31-28:20; Mark 14:32-42;  Luke 22:39-24:53; John 18:1-20:31
 
Audio/Video Cassettes and Audio CD's of this message may be purchased through the Trinity Book Service. In conjunction with the message, we are also providing some additional helpful online resources: (click each title to view the handout in a separate window) John Murray's Pictures of Christ,  Andrew Webb's Essay on the movie and other collected Quotes regarding the use of images.

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Mark 15:34

Go to a place called Golgotha, and in your mind's eye see midday turn to midnight. Hear the silence broken by the piercing cry of the Lord Jesus on the Cross of Calvary - you will not be the same, under the blessing of God!
 

Jesus graciously enjoined His disciples to remember Him in the celebration of the Lord's Supper. That remembrance of our Savior has a peculiar focus on His death on our behalf on the cross of Calvary (1 Corinthians 11:23-26). In this brief communion meditation, Pastor Martin points to seven facets of the glory of the work of Christ for us on that cross.

Remember Jesus, as he died:
1. to turn away the wrath of God from us (2 Corinthians 5:21)
2. to procure a perfect righteousness for us (2 Corinthians 5:21)
3. to open the way to God for us (1 Peter 3:18)
4. to secure the gift of the Spirit for us (Galatians 3:14)
5. to effect in us a radical break with self-centeredness (2 Corinthians 5:17)
6. to set us apart to a life of holiness (Titus 2:14)
7. to ensure that we shall be given everything essential to get us safely to heaven (Romans 8:32)
 

"But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Jehovah came upon him." 2 Kings 3:15

Music has a tremendous influence on the human personality. Does the music that you generally listen to, render you better prepared to receive and cherish the Word of God? Or does it dispose you to be insensitive and rebellious to the Word of God?

Preached  as part of a series on Elisha, this message and application are as relevant as though preached today!

Preached as part of a series on the gospel according to  Mark, this exposition continues to be timely and applicable.

New Year's Messages / A.N. Martin 

Is Christmas a day Christians can celebrate with a good conscience or is Christmas condemned in the Scriptures? How do we deal biblically with our differences of perspective and practice on this relevant topic?

We must learn from His word, how we may glorify God in all things. In opening up the Scriptures in this series, Pastor Martin provides a biblical case study in the doctrine of Christian liberty.  This 19 part series is available on cassette tape through Trinity Book Service TT-G-1-19
 

This message is the sixth in a series of evangelistic messages entitled, "Signposts To The Celestial City". Revelation 6:17

This message is the fourth in a series of evangelistic messages entitled, "Signposts To The Celestial City". Acts 16:31

This message is the third in a series of evangelistic messages entitled, "Signposts To The Celestial City". Luke 5:32

This message is the second in a series of evangelistic messages entitled, "Signposts To The Celestial City". Acts 13:38-41

This message is the first in a series of evangelistic messages entitled, "Signposts To The Celestial City". John 14:6

Are you, in love to Christ and for His suffering, persecuted people, obeying His word found in Hebrews 13:3? 

The subsequent sermons in this series seek to set forth some pastoral concerns and applications based on Hebrews 13:3 which is expounded in the first message. The exposition in the first sermon ought to be listened to before listening to these other messages.

When sinners ask, “What must I do to be saved?”, the Bible answers, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.” But how may a sinner know if he has believed with a saving faith? What does it mean to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ?

This message lays out the three essential elements that mark true saving faith in Jesus Christ. Have you believed on Jesus Christ with true saving faith?