Sermon Tone Analysis

Don’t be a fool!

1.

It is totally up to you; this is not a measure of intelligence or unreachable education

Eph 5:15

prov 9:1-6

2. The invitation continues to go out

3. The answer is to be found in God’s Will / God’s Word

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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Prov 111:10

Prov 111:10

God is a God who has reveals Himself!

In nature, but especially In Christ, and in His Word

This is one great purpose of the local church; to teach and discuss the Word of God

Therefore if you are a fool it is largely because you foolishly choose to be.

Stop it!

Read your Bible, Attend worship and Bible study with your church family, ask questions, apply what you learn, and cease being foolish!

How can you be wise like Paul?

How did he?

He learned and applied God’s Word and there by stopped being a fool and became filled with godly wisdom.

Be Spirit-filled!

Eph 5:

Do Not Get Drunk

Debauchery = excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.

John Gill (19th ce):

whereby the mind is disturbed, and deprived of the use of reason: though wine is only here mentioned, that being the usual liquor drank in the eastern countries, yet the same holds good of any other strong liquor

Drunk = Inebriated = Stoned = High = baked = blazed = blitzed = cooked = lit = fried = wrecked = tore up = or any other term that means to be under such influence regardless the substance used or method

…but says that God gave wine to make men’s hearts glad

but drunkeness is NOT a glad heart, it is the loss of faculty of the brain, a dulling of the intellect, and a confusion of the heart.

There is a moderate and circumspect use that does not begin to approach drunkeness

There is a moderate and circumspect use that does not begin to approach drunkeness

This includes, but is not strictly limited to Holy Communion.

No one is in danger of breaking God’s commandments regarding drunkenness in the manner we take the Lord’s Supper.

The church at Corinth was corrected because they were abusing the Holy Supper and breaking this commandment

Note the harsh repercussions:

There is a proper use such as medicinal for which we are thankful, especially in severe pain and surgical procedures, but given the rise of addictions and deaths with opioids and other such drugs even this should not be taken for granted without caution.

Without denigrating the medical profession as a whole, given that there are known places and persons who will prescribe on demand, merely having a prescription is an insufficient standard.

It can become as valid as blaming a bartender for serving you too many drinks at your request, or a dealer selling you drugs stronger than you realized.

The burden is on you to take the legitimate medicines that you need in accordance with wise counsel from trusted medical professionals and not more; to ensure that any consumption or use of any intoxicating or altering substance is within the bounds of right and holy use, in moderation and circumspection, and can honestly be said to be done to the glory of God. after all,

Any substance ingested to the glory of God will not be intemperance for recreational drunkeness.

Ambrose (4th ce):

One drunk with wine sways and stumbles.

But one who is filled with the Spirit has solid footing in Christ.

So what does Paul place as the polar opposite of drunkeness?

Be Filled with The Spirit

Necessitates being saved

The Holy Spirit abides in the hearts of believers and in the congregation of the righteous, but NOT in the heart of the unregenerate

Normative Expression

quoting from Joel 2:

But this was NEVER to be expected as the ongoing norm

Galatians 5:22-23 does not say:

But the fruit of the Spirit is shouting, jumping, laughing, crying, clapping, slapping, running, and loss of self-control.

While there may be occasional and special out-pourings resulting in a more exuberant and emotional experience, the ongoing expression of being spiritual is to live a disciplined, obedient life loving God supremely and people genuinely.

Making Melody to the Lord - cause AND effect

Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual songs = all referring to the Psalms

col 3:!6

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This is one text that informed, motivated, and keeps me opening Sunday services with a Psalm reading; reclaiming a long standing historical practice of Christian churches.

The Psalms were prominently read since the earliest days of songthe church.

This is one text that informed, motivated, and keeps me opening Sunday services with a Psalm reading; reclaiming a long standing historical practice of Christian churches.

The Psalms were prominently read since the earliest days of songthe church.

I say making melody to the Lord is both cause and effect.

1. Born again believers have a love for God’s Word

2. Nobody ever robbed a bank singing Amazing Grace

Focus upon scripture and themes of scripture then, is both evidence OF having The Spirit, and also helpful in inviting a constant and increasing flow of Spirit filling in your life.

It’s all about Jesus!

It’s all about Jesus!

The fear of God, being the beginning of wisdom, is first truly manifest in repentance and faith unto salvation, then continuing on to follow the Lord in baptism and His design and command by being to serve and grow and be supported and support others in a local church.

To reject the gospel call to trust in Jesus and be saved, or then to ignore the clear mandate of Holy Scripture regarding baptism and the local church is at best dangerous ignorance and at worst foolish disbelief:

Are you trying to scare me with this strong language?

Yes, fear of God is the beginning of wisdom; we already covered that.

Note that extends beyond being saved and continues to submitting to church membership.

Eph 5:20-21

Even the call for mutual submission - which is a call for rightly ordered membership and participation in a local church.

The fear of God, being the beginning of wisdom, is first truly manifest in repentance and faith unto salvation, then continuing on to follow the Lord in baptism and His design and command by being to serve and grow and be supported and support others in a local church.

To reject the gospel call to trust in Jesus and be saved, or then to ignore the clear mandate of Holy Scripture regarding baptism and the local church is at best dangerous ignorance and at worst foolish disbelief:

Are you trying to scare me with this strong language?

Yes, fear of God is the beginning of wisdom; we already covered that.

Note that extends beyond being saved and continues to submitting to church membership.

If the gospel of Jesus is not at the center of the ‘why’ of all that we teach, especially to the reasoning, then we are not teaching Christian doctrine at all.

This is a continuation of the same thought:

making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 giving thanks

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.

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Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.

making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 giving thanks

Thanksgiving ought to be

Making melody with your heart, a heart of thankfulness...

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.

(2016).

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Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.

It all begins by with our own

That doesn’t mean that we don’t also thank God for additional things; here Paul says give thanks for ALL things, but rather that we never lose sight of the amazing grace of God shown to us in the gospel of Jesus, bringing about our soul salvation, from which all other blessings flow.

Why be thankful to God?

Because of the gospel of Jesus by which I was gloriously saved.

Why should I reverence and conform to the standards and precepts of Holy Scripture?

Because they are where we find the glorious gospel of Jesus

Why must I shun drunkeness and other sinful patterns as defined by God in Holy Scripture?

Because when I meditate on the gospel of Jesus I begin to see that these are the very thing that Jesus gave His life to rescue me from.

They are not so glorious as they seem, but rather impediments, keeping me from a richer and deeper fellowship with my creator and savior.

Believers are both enabled and commanded to live our lives intentionally; conformed to the will of God.

To do otherwise is dangerously foolish.

Therefore, in the name of Christ, in light of His glorious gospel, in the fear of God I say with Paul the Apostle, seek and conform to the will of God for your lives; stop being a fool.