Sermon Tone Analysis

Drift Away

Day after day I'm more confused

But I look for the light through the pouring rain

You know that's a game that I hate to lose

Now I'm feeling the straine

Aint it a shame?

Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock and roll

And drift away

Give me the beat boys and free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock and roll

And drift away

Beginning to think that I'm wasting time

I don't understand the things I do

The world outside looks so unkind

I'm counting on you

To carry me through

(Chorus)

Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock and roll

And drift away

Give me the beat boys and free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock and roll

And drift away

Beginning to think that I'm wasting time

I don't understand the things I do

The world outside looks so unkind

I'm counting on you

To carry me through

Beginning to think that I'm wasting time

I don't understand the things I do

The world outside looks so unkind

I'm counting on you

To carry me through

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And when my mind is free you know melody can move me

And when I'm feeling blue the guitar's coming through to soothe me

Thanks for the joy that you've given me

I want you to know I believe in your song

Your rhythm and rhyme and harmony

You've helped me along

You're making me strong”

For this reason..

This introduction points us back to the previous chapter.

He has said all of Chapter 1 to say what He is about to say.

Chapter 1 can be summarized best by the first verses of the book of Hebrews

And he goes on to describe how Christ is worshipped by angels.

And angels are His servants.

Essentially, he makes it his aim to show us that Jesus Christ is who he said he was.

So when we come to verse 1 of chapter 2 and we read for this reason-

It can be said this way:

Because Christ is so much greater and the message of Christ is so much greater...

Remember this is what he begins the book with and this is the overwhelming and overarching theme of the book of Hebrews.

If i were to summarize the book of Hebrews in three words it would be “Christ is better.”

So in light of that.....

He goes on to say that “we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard”

Because the content is better, our attention to it must be better.

I think the author of Hebrews here is hinting at the history of unfaithfulness to God’s word in previous generations.

The people of Israel had a habit of this.

Most of the Old Testament is written about their struggles and the judgment God brings against them because of their idolatry and ultimately a lack of regard for God and His Word.

That is what the author of Hebrews is warning against here.

it has been proven that we have several tendencies.

We have a tendency to forget who it is that has given us His Word.

The Garden

We have a tendency to toward lightheartedness about the Word of God.

Do you read this book often?

Is it the overwhelming authority in your life?

Do you feast from it daily?

Make no mistake: A lightheartedness about the Word of God will lead to a lightheartedness about worship.

I believe that the problem with most local bodies

We have a tendency to forget what it is that God has done for us.

This is why our worship lacks fervor and passion.

This is why we struggle and may even hate giving out of what God has given us.

This is why our singing can become routine.

This is why the brokenness over sin is virtually absent in churches today.

We don’t see brokenness anymore.

Our tendency is to drift away from the things we have heard.

This is why he calls us back to this…

Listen to what he says here:

What we have heard refers to everything he just spoke about in :

It refers to The superior message of Jesus.

It refers to the message the God became flesh and dwelt among us.

It refers to the Gospel.

What is the Gospel?

It is the good news that God the Father sent His Son Jesus Christ who is God incarnate to the earth.

While on earth, Jesus lived perfectly, never once breaking or diverting from God’s will and never once failed to bring glory to His Father who sent Him.

Then, Jesus was crucified at the hands of his own people after being wrongfully charged.

On that cross, Jesus, the Son of God, endured an eternity of wrath for all those who will believe in Him.

God the Father punished Jesus on the cross instead of me for eternity.

Jesus died that day, but three days later, he arose from the dead proving that he had conquered sin, death, and holds the keys to our victory.

After raising from the dead, He appeared to many of His disciples, and then he ascended back to the Father where he forever sits as every believers’s advocate, and one day He is coming back to make all that is wrong right, to bring full and final healing to all those who believe in him and to punish all those who oppose Him.

That is the message He has in mind here.

We are to hold this message high.

We are to treasure it,

meditate upon it,

live by it,

and share it faithfully.

We must guard it, live it, breathe it, and preach it.

We serve because of it.

We live in light of it, and if necessary we die for it.