Sermon Tone Analysis

Overflowing = Experiencing grace - GRACE - unconditional love / acceptance even when you have faced eternal judgement for your rejection of it

Parable of the Sower

Big Idea: Trust in the Spirit’s revelation of the Word in order to experience grace.

1.

The Spirit imparts to us the mind of Christ through His revelation of God in the Word.

Mind of Christ

1 Corinthians - motivation the return of Christ - guidance - revelation - power comes from obedience to that revelation

2. The Spirit inspired the Word.

“This is made up by religious authorities to keep their power.”

Gleason Archer in A Survey of Old Testament Introduction (Chicago: Moody Press, 1994) states: “Even though the two copies of Isaiah discovered in Qumran Cave 1 near the Dead Sea in 1947 were a thousand years earlier than the oldest dated manuscript previously known (AD [sic] 980), they proved to be word for word identical with our standard Hebrew Bible in more than 95 percent of the text.

The five percent of variation consisted chiefly of obvious slips of the pen and variations in spelling.”

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“The people of pre-modern times were too incredulous.”

Credibility - The Apocalyptic Jesus - too simplified - We can figure everything out.

ex.

“Jews rule the world.”

3. The Word is authoritative for the church.

Canonicity - Editors of Scripture - Everything should follow a prescribed path.

Which books have authority over me?

Why is this important for Christianity?

Power - From trust and obedience of the Word -

Authority - Without authority, you don’t know God loves you.

You don’t know the mind of Christ.

You can’t know God.

Without authority, God can’t say anything to you that you disagree with.

Experiences…Interpreted

Who has authority in your life?

Youtube, Parents, Churches, the Word

Pastor with a dream from his wife

People who weaponize the Word

Why do you say “Lord, Lord” and not do the things that I say?

You will not experience grace if you cant believe that God loves you in spite of your guilt and shame.

That doesn’t come from experience but from experience interpreted by the Word.

What are your questions about how we’ve received the Bible?

What would help answer them?

(a class/ a book/ resources?

You don’t need to answer all of their questions if you don’t know answers.

Pass it back to Dave.)

How have you seen the Holy Spirit helping you see the glory of Christ from His Word?

When do you find it difficult to believe what God says about you rather than what you think about yourself?

How does the authority of the Word help you in this regard?

How can you let the authority of the Word have further influence over your perceptions of yourself, others, your situation?

(Reading, memorizing, meditating)

What does meditation in the Word look like for you?

Can you improve your meditation of the Word?