Sermon Tone Analysis

1. Sacrificial Priest

A. Gifts

Priests represented human beings in their dealings with God, but the chief mediator was the high priest, who symbolized all the people in his approach to God.

B. Sacrificial Offering

Hebrews (Jesus Christ is Our High Priest / 4:14–5:10)

3. A fellowship offering was a voluntary offering demonstrating a person’s thankfulness for fellowship with God (Leviticus 3; 7:11–21).

4. A sin offering was a mandatory offering that paid for unintentional sins or helped cleanse an unclean person

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A guilt offering was made to atone for unintentional sins against another person

2. Passionate Priest

A. Praying

Jesus prayed passionately.

When Cranmer had been in prison two and a half years, his isolation from friends and books and even (mostly) from means of writing told on him.

Ridley and Latimer had been burned; and no doubt in the loneliness of the Bocardo he dreaded a similar fate.

At last he subscribed his name to a statement drawn up in advance.

After brief freedom and much flattery (before his recantation) he was now thrown back into Bocardo.

[There was a] procession to St. Mary’s for service before execution.

Called upon to make [a] final profession of Catholic faith, Crammer read and stated [his] Reformed convictions!

“I renounce and refuse … things written with my hand contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death … for as much as my hand offended in writing contrary to my heart, therefore my hand shall first be punished; for if I may come to the fire, it shall be first burned.”

But before this statement he prayed aloud for himself, “Thou didst not give Thy Son unto death for small sins only, but for all the greatest sins of the world: so that the sinners return to Thee with his whole heart as I do here at this present.

Wherefore, have mercy on me, O God, whose property is always to have mercy.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for Thy great mercy.”

B. Obeying

The Bible says that He learned suffering.

The word learn comes form a Greek word meaning to gain knowledge or apprise.

The definition of this word apprise is: to give notice.

Obey means submissive.

Jesus learned to submit to the Father through suffering.

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Or it could be stated this way, Jesus’s suffering showed him how He must submit to the Father.

3. Misunderstood Priest

A. Because we have not matured.

As I write these words to you, I am looking forward to going home tonight and finding my two-month-old granddaughter in our house.

She is spending her first night alone with us.

She likes motion, varied colors, soft words, and milk.

She can’t walk, roll over, or talk.

She can give heart-stealing glances at adoring grandparents.

If she skipped this stage and bounced into this world as a rollicking teenager, something would be out of place.

If fifteen years from now, she still could not walk, roll, or talk, we would be quite concerned.

For now she is quite normal in her development.

The writer of Hebrews was concerned that his readers should be showing signs of Christian maturity.

They were still caught up in issues only “baby” Christians found to be important.

Five Solas of the Reformation

A. sola scriptura (Scripture alone)

B. solus Christus (Christ alone)

C. sola fide (faith alone)

D. sola gratia (grace alone)

E. soli Deo gloria (glory to God alone)

Five fundamentals of the Christian Faith

1.

The Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ

(John 1:1; John 20:28; Hebrews 1:8-9).

2. The Virgin Birth

(Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23; Luke 1:27).

3. The Blood Atonement

(Acts 20:28; Romans 3:25, 5:9; Ephesians 1:7; Hebrews 9:12-14).

4. The Bodily Resurrection

(Luke 24:36-46; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 15:14-15).

5.

The inerrancy of the scriptures themselves

(Psalms 12:6-7; Romans 15:4; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20).

B. Therefore, we cannot teach.