Sermon Tone Analysis

A Better Way to Walk

We live in an age where we cannot tell the difference between the world and the church.

Believers and unbelievers look alike.

There was a time when the world wanted to be like the church and now the church wants to look like the world.

We live in an age where God spoke about in the book of (ESV)

20 Woe to those who call evil good

and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness,

who put darkness for light

and light for darkness,

who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

and sweet for bitter!

(ESV)

and good evil,

who put darkness for light

and light for darkness,

who put bitter for sweet

and sweet for bitter!

(ESV)

8 He has told you, O man, what is good;

and what does the Lord require of you

but to do justice, and to love kindness,

and to walk humbly with your God?

I. Do Justice

a. (ESV)

3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

b. (ESV)

3 Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!

who do righteousness at all times!

II.

Love Kindness

a. (ESV)

32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

III.

Walk Humbly

a. (ESV)

7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

yet he opened not his mouth;

like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,

and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,

so he opened not his mouth.

8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;

and as for his generation, who considered

that he was cut off out of the land of the living,

stricken for the transgression of my people?

b. (ESV)

3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.