Sermon Tone Analysis

Jesus IS God!

It is imperative that we get the message of the gospel right.

It is the message of the gospel that saves. .

If we preach another gospel not only are we condemned but those who we are speaking to will also be condemned.

What is the Gospel?

The classic Sunday school answer.

It is the good news.

Mans Condition

Romans 3:10-12

Gods provision:

Introduction:

It is imperative that we get the gospel right.

Paul says in

If we do not get the gospel right Paul warns us that not only are we under strict condemnation but those who believe the false gospel we propagate are as well .

Though there are thousands of nuances and truths found throughout the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation they are all tied together with the interwoven theme and story of the Gospel.

From the good news of God creating the heavens and the earth and giving man life and man sinning against a Holy Perfect Righteous God, God giving that insubordinate creature a promise of a redeemer (Proto-Eongalion) the first Gospel.

To Revelation where we see the consummation and everlasting fulfillment of the Gospel all the way through every book of the Scriptures we see where they looked for the promise for the one who would set them free from there sins to the New Testament where the redeemer Christ Jesus appears and lives a perfect sinless life and seeks and saves the lost .

The central theme is the good news, the gospel.

What is the Gospel?

Paul Summarizes the gospel message clearly in ,. “3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures” .

1. God demands perfection.

He is a Holy just righteous God.

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.

2. Mans Condition: We are sinful not perfect.

2. Mans Condition: We are sinful not perfect.

10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

3.Gods provision: The Lord Jesus Christ.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

4.Mans Response; Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith.

And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

5. Gods Guarantee eternal life;

11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life.

He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

The Gospel is the hinge upon which the door closes or shuts to eternal life and in fact Jesus is the door.

If you recall Jesus’s third I

am statement found in the Gospel of John is () Jesus proclaims “truly, truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep and

in verse 9 he says “I am the door; if anyone enters through me he will be saved.”

By grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

What if we get the person of Jesus wrong?

What if you are putting your faith in the wrong Jesus?

What Jesus are we talking about?

about?

I mean have you ever thought about or pondered who Is Jesus?

Is he John the Baptist?

Is He Elijah?

Is He Jeremiah or one of the other prophets as some in Jesus’s day thought.

If you ask a Muslim or someone from the Baia faith who Jesus is they would say Jesus is a wise teacher who we can greatly learn and benefit from but not God.

If you ask a Mormon who Jesus is they would say well he’s the spiritual brother of Satan. .

Gnosticism was the most ramped heresy for the first three centuries it espoused what is referred to as dualism that says all matter is evil and spirit is good they taught and believed that the spirit of God or of Christ as they put it descended upon Jesus at his baptism and left him before the crucifixion and deny the resurrection altogether.

So here we have a Jesus who is really not divine not really human because matter is evil never rose from the dead.

If you were to ask a Jehovah Witness who Jesus is they would say he’s pretty high up there in all the realm of creation but he is still a created being.

If you were to ask an Atheist who Jesus is well he is not.

So what Jesus are we to put our faith in?

Who is Jesus?

In his gospel account John the apostle answers this very question in the first 5 verses.

Now The book of Matthew present Jesus as the Messiah, The book of Mark presents Jesus as the suffering servant the book of Luke focuses on Jesus as being the son of man and finally the 4th gospel of john focuses on Jesus as being the son of God (referring to his divinity).

The purpose of the book of John as said by John himself is found in (read).

Why should we take Johns word for it?

Who is John?

John is not only a disciple of Jesus we see him called personally by Jesus in ().

Yet he is a friend of Jesus.

John most often refers to himself as “the disciple whom Jesus loved” Was this arrogant or prideful of John?

No he just knew he was Loved by Jesus.

Jesus and John were essentially best friends as one commentator puts it.

Jesus entrusted John with the care of his Mother, witnessed the transfiguration and later had the privilege of receiving the visions of Christ as recorded and authored by the apostle John in the book of Revelations.

John was the first disciple to believe in the resurrection () .

John knew Jesus personally, intimately and totally.

says “What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life.

And the life was manifested and we have seen and testify and PROCLAIM to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us, what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you to may have fellowship with us ; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His son Jesus Christ.

Who was the Jesus that John knew and PROCLAIMED?

It is Jesus as God!!!

PROPOSTIONAL STATEMENT:

JOHN PROCLAIMS JESUS AS GOD IN 3 WAYS THAT YOU AND I MUST BELIEVE AND EMBRACE IN ORDER TO RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE.

Notice my wording, not just believe because as we all know even the demons believe and tremble () and demons by no means have eternal life but we must embrace!

Meaning cherish treasure value above all else these 3 attributes of Jesus as God as I have said before so know I say again… These attributes, characteristics, facts are that Jesus is God are… 1. Jesus is pre-existent, 2.Jesus is Creator, and Jesus is 3.eternal life (life and light).

MAIN BODY

Jesus is Pre-existent

If you remember Johns purpose of his gospel is so that we may believe that Jesus is the Christ.

The subject and main character of Johns gospel is Jesus.

It takes a little bit of digging however to see that John in this opening verse is speaking of Jesus.

In the beginning was the word.

The word WORD here is the Greek word Logos it means the embodiment or expression of an idea.

The Greeks were very familiar with the word Logos, Greek philosophy said that the Logos (the word) was the unknowable, transcendent force behind all creation.

They could not define the Logos though they just looked at the Logos as the mediation between the spiritual and material world.

(INSERT CONVERSATION WITH ABDUL, eternal spirit).

The eternal spirit is unknowable undefinable to Abdul as well as to the Greeks.

John the apostle here in the first verse of his gospel does exactly this he defines the Logos.

We must fast forward a little bit in the book to see what or who should I say is the Logos.

most clearly, emphatically states what the word is “and the Logos became flesh and dwelt among us” The Logos the Word is embodied in Jesus as God.