Sermon Tone Analysis

To Keep His Commandments

The first logical thing in any belief system is to live by the teachings and principles of the faith.

For instance, who is going to listen to a person ramble on about .

If you don’t practice what you preach no one will listen to you.

The same thing goes in the faith, you cannot call yourself a _______ without heeding to the teachings presented by the _________.

So first we need to learn the essential teachings of Christianity.

What are the essential teachings of Christianity?

We need to know how to answer this question in one sentence or less.

Original Commandments

No Other God

No Idols

Do Not Take The Lord’s Name In Vain

Keep the Sabbath

Honor You Dad & Mom

Don’t Kill

Don’t Commit Adultery

Don’t Steal

Don’t Lie To Your Neighbor

Don’t Covet Your Neighbors Spouse or Stuff

List’s are cool, and they are pretty easy to look at and know exactly what to do.

But Jesus simplifies this list to its most pure form in the NT

New Commandments

What Jesus is saying is that the teachings of Christianity can be summed up like this.

Love God, Love People

If you love God, you will have the right perspective.

Because as you love God, He will give you a heart for the things He loves.

Much like how when we spend time with our friends we become more like them.

So as we fall in love with God through knowing Him, like we talked about a few weeks ago, he will give you a supernatural love for people.

Now that we know essentially what Christianity teaches, we need to know what the driving force of the teachings are.

It is just theory without practice.

We are not philosophers we are Christ followers.

So let’s put some feet on it

To Fulfill Our Mission

Again, just like you cant call yourself a ________ without knowing and applying the teachings, you do not get to call yourself a Christian if you are not working towards accomplishing the mission that Jesus gave all Christians.

Side note: we are all in different areas of life on this front

Some of us are new believers and are learning the basic commandments of Christianity so our participation in the mission is limited (but there is still some participation)

Others of us have been following Jesus for awhile and have the basic commandments under our belt (we are ready to daily working at fulfilling the great commission).

Much like an endurance athlete, you cannot call yourself a marathon runner without having first ran a marathon.

I know what your thinking… GET TO THE POINT

The Great Commission

Jesus tells us the point of His teachings are to get us out into the world to see the lost come to Christ.

He gives you the application to the information.

Based on the Word of God, we can conclude that the point of Christianity is simply this.

To fulfill the great commission by loving God and loving people.

Or another way of saying it, to love God and love people as a means to carrying out the great commission.

What are the commandments Christians are supposed to keep?

Are they overbearing (a burden to keep)?

What is the mission of Jesus gave Christians?

What is the point of Christianity?