Sermon Tone Analysis

*Ways To Align Yourself with God’s Purpose—The Second Four*

 

/The plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the *purposes of his heart through all generations*/.*

**Ps 33:11*

 

/3//Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has *blessed us* in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.//

//4//For *he chose us *in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

In love// /*/5/**/he predestined us/*/ to be adopted as *his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will*/.

*Ephesians 1:3-5*

 

*THE SECOND FOUR WAYS—ACTS CHAPTER ONE*

 

*Way #1— I Must Align Myself  [WITH CHRIST’S MISSION] For His Family!*

 

/But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be *my witnesses* in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”/*

Acts 1:8*

 

/18//Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.// //19//Therefore *go and make disciples* of all nations, *baptizing them* in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,// //20//and *teaching them* to obey everything I have commanded you.

And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”/*

Matt 28:18-20*

 

*Way #2 – I Must Align Myself [WITH PRAYERFUL PURPOSE] With God’s Family.*

/12//Then they returned to Jerusalem….// //13//…Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.//

//14//They all *joined together constantly in prayer*, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers/.*

**Acts 1:12-14*

 

/4//The smoke of the *incense, together with the prayers of the saints*, went up before God from the angel’s hand.//

//5//Then the angel took the censer, *filled it with fire from the altar*, and hurled it on the earth; and there came *peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake*./*/

/**Revelation 8:4-5*

 

*Way #3 – I Must Align Myself  [WITH A MINISTRY] To Serve  God’s Family.*

/Then they prayed and said, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart.

Show us which one of these two you have chosen/*/ /*/25//to take the place *in this ministry* and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”/*

**Acts 1:24-25* (NRSV)

 

/4//Just as each of us has *one body* with many members, and these members do not all have the *same function*,// //5//so *in Christ* we who are many form *one body*, and each *member belongs* to all the others.//

/*Romans 12:4-5*

 

*Way # 4 – I Must Align MYSELF [WITH SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP] So God’s Family Can Grow!*

 

/Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he *was added* to the eleven apostles/.*

**Ac 1:26*

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/11//It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,// //12//to *prepare God’s people for works of service*, so that the body of Christ may *be built up*./* **Ephesians 4:11-12*

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/17/*/Obey/*/ your leaders and s*ubmit *to their authority.

They keep watch over you as men who must give an account.

Obey them so that their work *will be a joy*, not a burden, for that would be of *no advantage to you*/.*

**Hebrews 13:17*/ /