Sermon Tone Analysis

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PATERNITY

Paternity means Fatherhood.

Regardless of the circumstances of our birth, the situations our upbringing, or quality of our earthly relationships; in Christ we are restored to fatherhood.

No longer a spiritual orphan, forced to perform for acceptance, love, or value.

We are restored to God’s original state in creation, that of a human being - created in the image of a loving father, fully loved, fully desired, fully alive.

Not a human doing, living on the hamster wheel of performance, never able to love or be loved unconditionally.

PARDON

Romans 3:21-26 The Passion Translation (TPT)

21–22 But now, independently of the law, the righteousness of God is tangible and brought to light through Jesus, the Anointed One.

This is the righteousness that the Scriptures prophesied would come.[a]

It is God’s righteousness made visible through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ.[b]

And now all who believe in him receive that gift.

For there is really no difference between us, 23 for we all have sinned and are in need of the glory of God.

24 Yet through his powerful declaration of acquittal, God freely gives away his righteousness.

His gift[c] of love and favor now cascades over us, all because Jesus, the Anointed One, has liberated us from the guilt, punishment, and power of sin! 25 Jesus’ God-given destiny[d] was to be the sacrifice to take away sins, and now he is our mercy seat[e] because of his death on the cross.

We come to him for mercy, for God has made a provision for us to be forgiven by faith in the sacred blood of Jesus.

This is the perfect demonstration of God’s justice, because until now, he had been so patient—holding back his justice out of his tolerance for us.

So he covered over[f] the sins of those who lived prior to Jesus’ sacrifice.

26 And when the season of tolerance came to an end, there was only one possible way for God to give away his righteousness and still be true to both his justice and his mercy—to offer up his own Son.

So now, because we stand on the faithfulness of Jesus,[g] God declares us righteous in his eyes!

Romans 3:21-26 The Passion Translation (TPT)

In Christ, I’m Justified!

It is just-if-I’d never sinned!

PURITY

PASSION

The word passion is often associated with sin, if we speak of a night of passion, we don’t think of passionate knitting.

A sin damaged world is both fascinated by passion and at the same time enslaved by it.

When Christ puts the Holy Spirit in our lives, for the first time, we can enjoy unselfish passion; passion allows us to achieve virtue, creativity, and excellence.

IN CHRIST:

Passion empowers us rather than enslaving us!

“Don’t ask what the world needs.

Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

- Howard Thurman

PURPOSE

Christ turns our passion in to com-passion

Passion is simply a strong desire

Compassion is a that strong desire directed towards helping others in less fortunate circumstances than ourselves.

Christ said that there is no greater love, than for a person to lay their life down for a friend.