Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

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To preach is to “Blow the trumpet — Shofar — in Zion” (), and sometimes the melody of the trumpet is like the song of the birds in a beautiful day, but also there is time to blow the trumpet in order to announce war and danger.

Today the trumpet will be blown and it will emit a sound of alarm, it will play a melody announcing that you and me are in danger, in danger of drift away, away from salvation, and says that it is a “great salvation”.

Read with me it is in these words of God that our meditation and exposition will be based today.

neglect so great a salvation” until the point of no return.

And in order to talk about it, we must go to the epistle of Hebrews chapter 2 verses 1-4.

On these God’s words, on this text our meditation and exposition will be based.

Please read the text along to me:

Today the trumpet will be blown because God says: “Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound the alarm on my holy mountain.

Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh is coming — it is indeed near.”

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“Because of this, it is all the more necessary that we pay attention to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.

For if the word spoken through angels was binding and every transgression and act of disobedience received a just penalty, how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation which had its beginning when it was spoken through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard, while God was testifying at the same time by signs and wonders and various miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will.”

2 Because of this, it is all the more necessary that we pay attention to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels was binding and every transgression and act of disobedience received a just penalty, 3 how will we escape if we* neglect so great a salvation which had its beginning when it* was spoken through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard, 4 while* God was testifying at the same time by signs and wonders and various miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will.

The text begins saying “Because of this”, i.e. because what has been previously asserted.

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W. Hall Harris III et al., eds., The Lexham English Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012), Heb 2:1–4.

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Because of this, it is all the more necessary that we pay attention to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels was binding and every transgression and act of disobedience received a just penalty, 3 how will we escape if we* neglect so great a salvation which had its beginning when it* was spoken through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard, 4 while* God was testifying at the same time by signs and wonders and various miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will.

W. Hall Harris III et al., eds., The Lexham English Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012), .until the point of no return.

So, God is the God that speaks, God is the God of the Word, God is the God that express Himself.

But what it is outstanding is that the focus of is in the Words of God and in the actions of the Son.

Therefore, our salvation rests on the actions of our loving Savior Jesus Christ and on the powerful Word of God, and the union of these two topics will form what we call “Salvation by grace”.

So today, even though we will not focus in the well know actions of our Savior Jesus Christ, we must affirm that also one of His actions is to talk with the human being.

Therefore, the powerful Word of God it is also the powerful Word of Jesus Christ.

So our attention today will be, in the only powerful Word.

The Word that can created things, the Word than can shake the earth and the heavens, the Word that can bring to the life a dead person, the only Word that can give salvation, but also the only word that can eliminate the sin and the sinner.

I was 13 years old, and I went to visit my father.

You know I didn’t grow up with my parents, most of the time I past with my mother and only two years in my father’s house.

So I talked with my mother and I decided to visit Him.

I knew the house I had been lived there one year ago for two years.

So I begun my trip.

With the Word but Lost

I was 13 years old, and I went to visit my father.

You know I didn’t grow up with my parents, most of the time I past with my mother and only two years in my father’s house.

So, one day I said to my mother that I have decided to visit my father.

I knew the house, I had lived there two years only one year ago.

I was sure that I can arrive safe to the place, so my mother allow me to go and I began my trip.

1439 km.

ahead, with the necessary stops and change of busses 3 days of trip.

With some money in the pocket and a backpack on my back I started my adventure.

4 days after, not 3 days, but 4 days after I arrived to the place: Chachapoyas.

I arrive, but not in the hour that I thought, because a lot of things happened on my way, but finally I arrived to the place.

I was there.

Illustration

Some people think that in the spiritual life the same will happen.

That doesn’t matter what time you arrive, in what conditions you arrive, but that the only thing that really does matter is that you are in the place.

And maybe it is true, but remember, I was at the city, I was on the area, but I was not yet in my father’s house.

Remember: You are in God’s church but not yet in your Father’s house.

Remember there is still a deadly danger of never arrive to our father’s house.

2 Because of this, it is all the more necessary that we pay attention to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels was binding and every transgression and act of disobedience received a just penalty, 3 how will we escape if we* neglect so great a salvation which had its beginning when it* was spoken through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard, 4 while* God was testifying at the same time by signs and wonders and various miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will.

That night that I arrived at Chachapoyas in the middle of the night, was some of the more longest night of my life.

Even though I began my trip with a lot of energy, at that point I was exhausted, I only realized that I was there, when the people that was close to me awaked me and told me, you are in Chachapoyas “mi amigo”.

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At that point my mind and my body were in automatic, you know, I was not thinking, I was only acting.

I was present physically in the place but my mind was not there.

I knew very well the city, so I get off from the buss and I began to walk in direction to my father’s house.

But only after I walked 10 or 15 minutes I came to realize that I was lost.

I was pretty sure that after that street I was going to see the school where I used to attend classes when I lived there, but after that street I found another street, and more streets and finally a big slope that I never saw before.

I was lost.

So then my body and my mind switched off the automatic function and began to work.

It is possible for some of us to be in the same condition, it is possible that in the trip to our Father’s house, some be physically present here but mentally absent.

We don’t meant to be there, we began our spiritual life with excitement and with a lot of energy.

We want to reach our Father’s house but in the path we can be lost, we can became tired, or we can be walking in automatic.

Let me explain, the fact that you are here does not necessarily means that you are spiritually awake, you can be in automatic.

I can be preaching and I can be in automatic, you know there are a lot of automatic christians, you can even do missionary activity in automatic.

So, we can be preaching, singing, controlling the media, playing the piano, teaching the sabbath school lesson, teaching the children, and doing a lot of things, but even so, we can listen at the end “Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.”

NKJV.

Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’

“Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.”

NKJV.

“Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.”

NKJV.

13 “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

It is my duty my dear brothers and friends, first remember me and second remember you, that to be an adventist or to have the Bible in your hand or in your electronic device, it is not guaranty for your salvation.

To attend all the meetings of the church, to study the bible every day, to pray and to sing, if it is doing in automatic, in nothing helps but instead it will hinder your walking on the path to the heaven.

That is why begins saying “Because of this, it is all the more necessary that we pay attention to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels was binding and every transgression and act of disobedience received a just penalty, 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation which had its beginning when it was spoken through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard, 4 while God was testifying at the same time by signs and wonders and various miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will.”

mentions some of the goods that God had given us: “Because of this, it is all the more necessary that we pay attention to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels was binding and every transgression and act of disobedience received a just penalty, 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation which had its beginning when it was spoken through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard, 4 while God was testifying at the same time by signs and wonders and various miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will.”

All and every of these things are goods of God, presents of Him, in order that we can reach not only the city, not only the church but mainly our Father’s house.

But even with some of these gifts or with all of them in our backpacks, if we don’t pay attention, if we don’t hear earnestly, we can end lost in the city, namely lost in the church.

Parable of the Talents

Because of this, it is all the more necessary that we pay attention to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels was binding and every transgression and act of disobedience received a just penalty, 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation which had its beginning when it was spoken through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard, 4 while God was testifying at the same time by signs and wonders and various miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will.”

14 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them.

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W. Hall Harris III, Elliot Ritzema, et al., eds., The Lexham English Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012), .

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The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), .