Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction:

Good Morning.

I hope this morning you are thankful for His unfailing love.

I hope you realize how truly wonderful, how glorious, how beautiful the Lord is.

The other day, me and Kayla were in Mardel in Little Rock.

She cannot stand taking me in there.

She knows we have wasted a day if I walk into Mardel or Lifeway.

I spend hours upon hours in those stores.

We were in there and I was browsing the Bibles and she was sitting in the floor reading a Bible and a man came to the shelves and me and Kayla moved out of the way.

He said he was looking for a new PREACHING Bible.

I decided not to talk to him because I’m not much of a talker.

I strike up a conversation and I found out He pastors a church not too far away from Rison.

So we were talking and I’m pretty sure Kayla was asleep because two pastors can’t just have a 5 minute conversation.

He picked up this King James Version and started thumbing through it.

He showed me the font size and I asked him this question: Do you like that purple Bible?

He had picked up a purple Bible.

He said I kind of do.

So I told him, Hey, it’s a royal color.

He told me this and it’s stuck with me, He said, I’m not very royal, but God’s Word sure is.

He bought the purple one.

I don’t think we treat the Bible with enough respect or reverence.

When I was growing up, we were not allowed to put anything on top of our Bible.

Not because it would mess up the binding, not because it would ruin the leather, but because of what it is.

It is THE WORD OF GOD.

How many of you this morning, if I were to ask, How many of you this morning like to be lied to?

How many of you like being told something other than the truth?

A while back, social media got pretty ridiculous.

The majority of the problem was on Facebook.

I could not scroll past two posts in a row without seeing a new article.

Here was the problem: almost every article was fake.

I think every actor and singer died, whether they knew it or not.

I had to fact check everything.

I would probably have to say 85% of it was false.

The article would cause uncertainty.

No one had a clue if they were true or not.

I did see one that said Check Norris had died, so I knew that was false.

When we talk about the Bible, it is the Word of God.

It is Holy.

It has authority.

It has power.

Please take God’s Word and open it to the book of Romans.

This morning, we are going to look at some assurances.

These assurances are things that we, as believers, can be certain are true because God has told us them and God cannot lie.

These assurances are found in the 8th chapter of Romans, beginning in verse 31.

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What then shall we to these things?

If God is for us, who can be against us?

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect?

It is God who justifies.

Who is he who condemns?

It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Background Information:

The book of Romans has been said to be “The Constitution of Christianity”.

It is the most complete book of doctrine in the Bible.

In the book, we are told of Judgement, we are told of Sin, we are told how to be saved, we are told of the New Life, we are told of Faith, we are told of Freedom in Christ, we are told of Israel’s Rejection, we are told Glorifying God, we are told of relationships, we are told of Christian Service.

Almost everything we need to know as believers can be found in the Book of Romans.

Why is that?

We are told in Chapter 1, that Paul is the writer.

Paul wrote this letter during his three month stay in Corinth.

Now Paul is writing to the saints that are in Rome.

No church is mentioned until Chapter 16.

The Bible says they were meeting in each others’ households.

So why, as Paul writes a letter to the saints in Rome, why does Paul include everything we need to know as believers?

It’s because Paul had never been to the church at Rome.

He had never been to visit.

While Paul was on his third missionary journey, he began taking up a collection for the church at Jerusalem.

When Paul wrote the 2nd letter to the Church at Corinth, the collection hadn’t been finished.

When he wrote to the saints at Rome, he mentioned in chapter 15 that the collection had been finished, and after taking it to Jerusalem, Paul planned to visit the church at Rome and head to Spain as well.

We know though, by reading Acts once Paul arrived at Jerusalem, he was charged, and had to have a military escort to Caesarea.

As we know, in court, he appeals to Caesar and is then transported to Rome, where he remained on house arrest and freely ministered to those who came.

Paul had never visited the church at Rome, so he writes a thorough and descriptive letter so the saints could know exactly what doctrine to believe and how to live in their daily dealings with the sinful world in Rome.

Let’s examine some of things God has assured the believer through this letter of Paul to the Romans.

Doctrine of Salvation (chapters 1-8)

Dealings with Israel (chapters 9-11)

Dealings in the Day’s Society (chapters 12-16)

1. God has Taken Action for the Believer (v.

31)

“What then shall we to these things?

If God is for us, who can be against us?

What then shall we to these things?

If God is for us, who can be against us?

“What then shall we to these things?

If God is for us, who can be against us?

“If God be for us”- this is not hypocritical.

This is not sarcastic.

This is a reality for the believer!

Paul is asking, if God be for us, who can be against us.

Throughout the Bible, believers are reminded that God is for us!

David said in the 23rd Psalm, “I will fear no evil”, WHY?

He said “For You are with me”.

In , David said “This I know, because God is for me,”!

God is for us!

He has taken action for us!

“Who can be against us?”- Sometimes, those against us look very numerous.

The world, the flesh, Satan, the demons, worldly religions, our enemies.