Sermon Tone Analysis

WITNESS, MARTYR Refers generally to something or someone that bears testimony to things seen, heard, transacted, or experienced.

The bearing of testimony can be either passive (as when one is present as a spectator or bystander—Gen.

21:30; Ruth 4:7; Heb.

12:1) or active (as when one gives evidence as a witness).

The conventional meaning and usage pertains to the legal sphere but can also refer to the moral sphere.

Bearing witness may also denote the content and/or the significance of the testimony.

Additionally, a witness (testimony) may refer to facts about which a person is firmly convinced by faith and for which that person would willingly die.

TESTIMONY—(1.)

Witness or evidence (2 Thess.

1:10).

(2.)

The Scriptures, as the revelation of God’s will (2 Kings 11:12; Ps. 19:7; 119:88; Isa.

8:16, 20).

(3.)

The altar raised by the Gadites and Reubenites (Josh.

22:10).

TESTIMONY, TABERNACLE OF—the tabernacle, the great glory of which was that it contained “the testimony”, i.e., the “two tables” (Ex.

38:21).

The ark in which these tables were deposited was called the “ark of the testimony” (40:3), and also simply the “testimony” (27:21; 30:6).

Breaking point noun 1. point when coping becomes impossible: the point at which somebody loses the ability to deal physically, psychologically, or emotionally with a stressful situation 2. critical moment: the point at which a condition or situation reaches a crisis

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Acts 17:29-18:10

This verse represents another step in the setting aside of the nation of Israel, and the proclamation of the gospel to the Gentiles.

God had decreed that the good news should go to the Jews first, but throughout Acts, as the nation of Israel rejects the message, the Spirit of God sorrowfully turns aside from that people.

18:7, 8 Following the outburst of the Jews, the apostle went to the home of Justus, a Gentile convert to Judaism who lived next door to the synagogue.

As he carried on his ministry from this base, the Apostle Paul had the joy of seeing Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, … with all his household come to the Lord.

Many other Corinthians trusted in the Savior and were baptized.

Paul baptized Crispus and a few others (1 Cor.

1:14–16), but his usual practice was to have some other believer do the baptizing.

Paul feared that people would form a party around himself, instead of being undistracted in their love and loyalty to the Lord Jesus.

14 I thank God that eI baptized none of you, but fCrispus and gGaius; 15 Lest any should say that I had dbaptized in mine own name.

16 And I baptized also the household of hStephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: inot with wisdom of ||words, lest the cross of Christ should be kmade of none effect.

18 For the preaching of the cross is to lthem that perish mfoolishness; but unto us nwhich are saved it is othe power of God.

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14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of zThyatira, awhich worshipped God, heard us: whose bheart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.