Sermon Tone Analysis

S-1> TEXT: Matthew 5:38-48 KEY VERSE: Matthew 5:44

TEXT: Matthew 5:38-48

S-2-KV> Matthew 5:44

INTRODUCTION:

S-3> When Jesus walked here on earth, He was consistently showing and telling people how to live so they could be pleasing to God and satisfied in life.

Jesus didn’t just tell people to live the best moral life possible, He showed them from God’s Word, the moral standard they could and should live by, too please God and honor their fellow man.

S-4> It’s not enough to live a good life.

One must live a life that is good according to God’s Word and not just according to man’s standards.

S-5> This is the second in the series, “WWJD (What Would Jesus Do)?”

S-5> This message is entitled, “Jesus Would Go The Distance.”

Jesus Would Go The Distance

WWJD (What Would Jesus Do)?

(# 2)

When Jesus lived, when Jesus spoke, and when Jesus walked among men, He always went beyond the law.

Jesus was calling people to a higher moral standard, the standard of God’s love.

Jesus never took a short cut.

Jesus never looked for or took the easy way out of any situation.

Jesus faced everything head on.

S-6> Jesus always went the distance to give His Father the greatest honor.

S-7> John 12:27

S-8> John 8:28-29

S-9-CF> Live like Jesus, so others will know how Jesus lived.

S-10> 1) Do What’s Right.

S-11> Matthew 5:38-39

Doing what’s right, isn’t doing what man says is O.K. or what people say is acceptable.

Doing what’s right, is doing what God says is right.

Doing what’s right, is living the standard of God’s Word all the time.

S-12> When people are looking you do what’s right.

When people aren’t looking you do what’s right.

When people are around you do what right.

When people are not around you do what’s right.

Doing what’s right will require self-sacrifice.

Doing what’s right will always put others before yourself.

Doing what’s right is not holding a grudge or waiting for an opportunity to get even.

S-13> Doing what’s right is not, “doing unto others before they do it unto you,” but instead it is doing what Jesus said.

S-14> Matthew 7:12

S-15-CF> Live like Jesus, so others will know how Jesus lived.

1) Do What’s Right.

S-16> 2) Go The Distance.

[1) Do What’s Right.]

S-17> Matthew 5:40-41

S-18> When do you draw the line and say, no more, that’s it, I’m through, I’m not going to put up with this anymore?

After you’ve hung on the cross and said Father, forgiven them for they know not what they do, gone to hell for them, paid the price for their sin, been resurrected and you find yourself standing at the right hand of the Father, interceding for every man, woman, boy and girl, and the Father says you’re through.

When do you draw the line and say, no more, that’s it, I’m through, I’m not going to put up with this anymore?

You don’t if you’re going to do what Jesus did and go the distance.

It doesn’t matter what you suffer here on earth, it matters whether or not you’re going to be found faithful unto the end.

S-19> 1 Corinthians 4:2

Roman law said, if a Roman soldier told you to carry his pack, you had to carry it for one mile.

Jesus said, go another mile, without being asked.

S-20-CF> Live like Jesus, so others will know how Jesus lived.

1) Do What’s Right.

2) Go The Distance.

S-21> 3) Show God’s Love.

S-22> Matthew 5:42-43

S-23> Love everybody.

Love the good, love the bad.

Love the friendly, love the miserable.

Love the lovely, love the unlovely.

Love the easy to love, love the hard to love.

Love the kind, love the cruel.

Love when you feel like it, love when you don’t feel like it.

Love those who do good to you, love those who do evil to you.

Love everybody.

Natural love can turn to hate very quickly.

God’s love, agape, never hates.

S-24> John 13:35

S-25> 1 John 4:19-21

S-26-CF> Live like Jesus, so others will know how Jesus lived.

1) Do What’s Right.

2) Go The Distance.

3) Show God’s Love.

S-27> 4) Be God’s Children.

S-28> Matthew 5:44-45

S-29> The only way the world is going to know you are a child of God, is if you don’t live like a child of the devil.

We must be different than the world.

We must live by a higher moral standard than what is accepted by the world.

S-30> If we are going to be God’s children, then we must express the attribute of our Father, the one that others know is His.

That attribute is love.

When the world sees the love of God in us, manifest through us, then they know we didn’t do it all by ourselves.

We had help.

This is the Christ-like attribute that separates us from the world.

S-31> Resist the temptation to respond with your flesh.

Respond with your heart.

Don’t allow the devil to push you into doing something you will regret.

S-32> James 4:7

Let the world see that you are a child of God, by your words and actions agreeing with God’s Word.

S-33-CF> Live like Jesus, so others will know how Jesus lived.

1) Do What’s Right.

2) Go The Distance.

3) Show God’s Love.

4) Be God’s Children.

S-34> 5) Treat Everyone The Same.

S-35> Matthew 5:46-48

God is no respecter of persons, and neither should we be.

S-36> Romans 2:11

S-37> To be perfect like our Father which is in heaven is perfect, we must treat everyone the same (with His love).

Christian and non-Christian alike.

Friendly and unfriendly the same.

Wonderful to be around and discouraging to be around the same.

As a Christian, I don’t look at the color of your skin, your background, your education, your religious upbringing, your bank account, your car, your clothes, your family, your walk, your talk, or anything else.

As a Christian, I love you, because I choose to do so.