Sermon Tone Analysis

Eph 5:1-6

Subject: How does a believer effectively live the day-to-day Christian life in the world?

Complement: By fearlessly examining their day-to-day choices to ensure that they reflect their ID in Christ.

Idea: Believers effectively live out their faith by ensuring that their daily choices are consistent with their ID in Christ.

Theological Proposition: Believers should make daily choices to become the best reflection of God possible by habitually 1) loving like Christ, 2) behaving in accordance with their ID in Christ & 3) fearlessly examining their actual use of time in their actual relationships to ensure it actually reflects their ID in Christ.

Theological Proposition: Believers should make daily choices to become the best reflection of God possible by habitually 1) loving like Christ, 2) behaving in accordance with their ID in Christ & 3) examining their time as a precious resource to ensure that their life choices

Sermon Purpose: That my audience would fearless examine & share how they use their time with their ID in Christ.

Homiletical Proposition: Fearlessly examine your time!

By each key relationship

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

Image: Life is like a grand Lego castle

My kids love legos, some creation take 100s of thousands of bricks millions of individual bricks

Together it is a wonderful creation...... but it consisting of little blocks… [lego mines]

[Like a Lego creation, our life is constructed of 100s of thousands of bricks, called choices.]

Need: We often neglect to reflect on our day-to-day choices.

We don’t think about that very often though.

for sure we can tell the difference between this and this

MTR: When people at the end of life have regrets, it is often the little things… more time w kids, more dates w wife, etc.

Weekend mentality… I use saturday to fix 6 days of stupid

Lego Box shows you what the end product it

The vacation mentality… but you cant use a 1 week vacation to make up 51 weeks of bad choices.

WHY do we do that??? because we asume we have tomorrow.

Subject: How does a believer effectively live the day-to-day Christian life in the world? the step by step process fror getting from pile of legos to the creation

Jesus is our box… but we get ther one step at a time.

Text:

Review:

Chapters 1-3: Understand our Identity in Christ.

by Grace our past Redeemed, present Revitalize, future Revolutionize in short our lives have been Transformed

Chapter 4: Our life in the Church should outwardly reflect the unity & holiness of our Identity.

Preview: look at on of the most practical verses in the bible, how it should impact our lives then apply

[Today I want to jump right to my main point]

BODY

Your time always reflects your values.

Explain: “Walk” means to live & life consists of choices.

Explain: “Walk” means to live & life consists of choices.

It is the key commandment in (4:1 united 4:17 holy 5:2 in love 5:8 in light 5:15 wisely).

It means the way you live or your day to day choices.

Your life, consists of your day-in-day-out choices

real choices with real consequences

MTR: The student life consists of a day-in-day-out choices.

Choosing to study results in living the good life as a student.

MTR: Business life consists of day-in-day-out choices.

You choose to be on time or prepared for meetings results in the a good life.

Here is why this concept is important.

The Christian life consists of day-in-day-out choices.

The christian life does have a “theoretical” side (1-3) but it also have as “practical” doing type stuff.

Means the way you live .

Life consists of choices.

Explain: Paul links your walk with your time because

Eph 5:15-

Your time always reflects your values

You can talk all day about what you value but where you spend your time reveals your actual values.

MTR: I can say I value my children, but that is hogwash unless I am spending time

I don’t have time, actually means I have something I value more.

Explain: wisdom & fool have to do with God oriented life strategy.

Eph 5:

Validate: We often confuse our desired values with our actual values.

Explain: wisdom & fool have to do with God oriented life strategy.

Explain: wisdom & fool have to do with God oriented life strategy.

Look at how you spend your time if you want to know if you are valuing what God.

Examining your time is a fool proof test to ensure that your desired & actual values align.

Your time always reflects your values

Paul’s way of saying your day-to-day behavior should align with your ID in Christ.

[With this in mind I want us to look at two specific day-to-day choices Eph Ch 5 tells us to make]

[So

Question 1: Am I spending my time walking towards Jesus?

Application: Fearlessly examine your time!

Eph 5

Explain Be ; imitator ; beloved children

Explain Be ; imitator ; beloved children

Explain God want’s you to be like him by acting like him.

Daily choosing to place others ahead of yourself

This is costly & and sacrificial ..... and also worship

Question 2: Am I spending my time “reflecting” my Identity in Christ?

Eph

: 8-

Explain light

Explain light

Explain Discern

Validate: this is not theoretical… it is very practical it effects every arrea of your life.

Your time always reflects your values

[with this in mind I want to recommend one application]

Application: Fearlessly examine your time!

Application: Fearlessly examine your time!

Because your time doesn't lie; It always tells what you ACTUALLY value.

Because your time doesn't lie; It always tells what you ACTUALLY value.

YOLO (You Only Live Once) so make sure you are actually living the life you want to live.

Spouse Parent / Child Work / Volunteer Does my time reflect what I say I value?

YOLO (You Only Live Once) so make sure you are actually living the life you want to live.

You have to STOP and look at your choices to ensure this.

Because your time doesn't lie; It always tells what you ACTUALLY value.

2 Specific areas you should look at:

Fearlessly examine your time!

By looking at your key relationships:

By looking at your key relationships:

If you say it is valuable, your time should reflect it.

Spouse

Parent / Child

Work / Volunteer

Does my time reflect what I say I value?