Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

Last week

We didnt get to stay in the perfect state in which God created everything

Sin entered the world through what?

All of man kind has fallen

Because adam fell so we all did with him

The promise to adam was given to him and his descendants

So also the punishment for breaking this commandment

DONT GET STUCK HERE

Question 17 Into what state did the fall bring mankind?

Answer The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery.

The Fall brought death

A darkness hovered over man from the time of the fall

A chasm was opened between God and man due to their sin

This seperation from God is the thing that leaves all men searching to fill “what’s missing”

This sense of something missing this misery and dispare comes from the sinfulness into which man fell

Question 18 What is the sinfulness of that state into which man fell?

Answer The sinfulness of the state into which man fell includes the guilt of Adam’s first sin, the lack of righteousness which he had before the Fall, and the corruption of every part of his nature, which is commonly called Original sin; together with all the actual sins which flow from it.

4 parts

Adams sin

Our lack of righteousness

The sin infection we have in every part of our nature

And our actual sin

Anne Frank said

“in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

On our own apart from God we can do no good thing

Can we do nice things sure

But we can do nothing that is pleasing to God

Because without him our nature is opposed to him

Disobedient to him

Sin is a disease that infects us completely

TOTAL DEPRAVITY

So thats sin so what about the misery?

Question 19 What is the misery of mankind’s fallen condition?

Answer All mankind, by their fall, lost fellowship with God and are under his wrath and curse.

Therefore, they are subject to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.

The misery of our condition is just this

This life

Have you lived here long

have you experienced terrible things happen

Man apart from God is lost without hope

Toiling in our state of sinfulness

The idea of a lost fellowship with God

So strong

What is our chief end

To Glorify God and Enjoy him

How can we enjoy him if we dont know him

If we have lost fellowship with him

If we hide ourselves from him

The worst place to be

Dead in our trespasses

HOPELESS STATE

Thank God he didnt leave us there

Question 20 Did God leave all of mankind in their state of misery and sin to perish?

Answer In God’s eternal purpose and because it pleased Him, He chose some to everlasting life.

These He freed from sin and misery, through a covenant of grace, and brought them salvation through a Redeemer.

God had planned before the foundations of the earth to rescue us from our fallen state

God in his providence saved us from this state of sin and misery

Our seperation from God

Our broken fellowship with him

Our lost state in which we try to hide ourselves from God

Can be fixed

and the only one who can fix it is God himself

BUT GOD

God fixed our broken state a brought us into salvation

Sure we live in a terrible state totally depraved with no way of saving ourselves lost, BUT GOD has a plan to fix that we will be able to glorify him and enjoy him forever because he made a way for us to do this

You no longer need to hide yourself because he has chosen us out of this life of sin and misery to an eternity in fellowship with him