Sermon Tone Analysis

A Consuming Fire

Heb 12:4-29  Is  66:18-23  Luke 13:22-30

 

Hebrews 12:4-24

4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?

“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.

6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

7 It is for discipline that you have to endure.

God is treating you as sons.

For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them.

Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.

11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; 16 that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

17 For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.

A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken

18 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest 19 and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.

20 For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”

21 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”

22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Key Words

\\ Struggle – antagonize – agonize against

Resisted –more of directed opposition – set all around…

Shedding – not there…

Blood – hema – silly definition – blood-like = grape juice

Forgotten – was it lost to you

Exhortation  - paraklesis~/consolation

Addresses – speak thoroughly

Regard lightly – care little

Discipline – paidea - pedagogue

Weary – loosing your grip

Reproved – convinced of fault

Disciplines – paidea – the process of growth under discipline training

Loves - agape

Chastises - whips

Receives – to recognize as a son

Discipline - paidea

Endure – standing firm – resist by direct force

Treating – behaving towards- bringing into presence

son – father – huios -pater

left without discipline – paidea

partnered – you are one of the participants

illegitimate - bastards

children = part of the word illegitimate

earthly - sarx

respected- of higher regard than myself?

subject  - under-ranked

Father of Spirits= Lord or God of Spirits in Pentatuch – used in prayer

Live – reference to Numbers 16:22 – Korah- interesting that the gold of the rebellious was sanctified by their blood,

Disciplined - paidea

short time –the tame part of the day

seemed best to them - IMHO

disciplines - paidea

good – gathered together

share holiness – to greatly receive a share of God’s quality of holiness

moment  - the present

seems painful – IMHO – psyche - discomfort

pleasant – xara – reason for thanks!

Yields – given for…

peaceful fruit – peaceful harvest

righteousness - justification

trained – excercised – (naked btw) – root of gymnasium

Therefore – through this then

Lift – straighten – lift - strengthen

Drooping hands – exhausted – sent away – a sense of control

Strengthen weak knees – loosened knees ( no strengthen

Make straight paths – poiew trachia

Lame – half speed and power

Healed - to cause something to change to an earlier, correct, or appropriate state[1]

Strive – works towards with an intensity of effort

Peace – freedom from worry

holiness without which – character like that of God

no one fails to obtain – no one lacks

the grace of God – the gift of God

root of bitterness – underground – sharp striking – negatively dominating

springs up – shoot s through the surface

causes trouble  - afflicted -

many become defiled – stained~/contaminated

sexually immoral - pornos

birthright  - prototokos -

single meal – one serving

desired to inherit -  - really wanted - kleronomos

blessing – good word

rejected  - certified true NOT

no chance to repent – mind hereafter

sought with tears – dilengently tried to recover that which was lost to the point of tears

WE AIN’T OLD ISRAEL!

touched -

blazing fire

darkness and gloom

sound trumpet  - description of the mountain of God

beg no further – they feared

endure - bear

order given - forced command

touches -

stoned – targer of stoning

terrifying - phobic