Sermon Tone Analysis

What You Read

On February 17th you read for your devotions & .

The Employment Point was: Honor God’s Word, trusting Him to supply your needs as you give.

Tonight we are going to look at .

Tonight’s Outline

You will be given time to study and work-through the passage using the F.I.R.E.

method

We will review your findings together

I will show you my “work” on setting this passage on F.I.R.E.

I will take you through the passage verse by verse

We will learn what this passage teaches us about God, and how we should react based on that information

Using F.I.R.E.

Pastor Ken created the method of F.I.R.E. in order to understand a passage.

The letter F stands for familiarity.

This is when you read the text and ask questions to better understand the passage.

read, ask questions, and become familiar with the passage

The letter I stands for interpretation.

This is when you try to understand the meaning of the text.

You answer the questions you asked which interprets the author’s intent for this passage.

simply explain the passage

The letter R stands for relationship.

This is when you look to see the relationship of this passage with other passages.

how does this single passage relate to it’s context, book, and entire Bible

The letter E stands for employment.

What is the timeless truth in this passage.

How can we take that truth and employ it in our everyday lives?how can I employ the timeless truth from this passage?

Available Books in My Library I Recommend For This Lesson!

Wiersbe: The Bible Exposition Commentary

Walvoord & Zuck: The Bible Knowledge Commentary

Jeremiah: The Jeremiah Study Bible

MacArthur: MacArthur Study Bible

Tenney: The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible

btw: feel free to bring your own books or resources!

Set On F.I.R.E.

We have more time tonight, so try to work through this passage!

Feel free to use any resource you want - but if you use a resource simply cite it.

Important!

For familiarity - Read the text before you try to understand it.

Don’t take shortcuts.

For interpretation - Don’t be afraid to ask hard question.

For relationship - ask yourself how this text applies today?

Why don’t we stone people who blaspheme God (base it on the Bible and not your own feelings.)

For employment - don’t base the timeless truth off of your feelings - base it off the passage!

Pastor Kenny’s F.I.R.E.

Familiarity

What’s the importance of knowing “this man” is half Egyptian and half Jewish?

Are there any hints to what this man was fighting about?

What does it mean that he blasphemed and cursed?

Why did they put him in custody and wait for the Lord?

Why should those who heard the man execute him?

Why use the method of stoning?

Why does God demand the death penalty for those who curse His name (under the Law?)

Why does God punish the foreigner the same as the Jew?

Why does God add 6 more verses (verses 17-22) that are not directly related to this case?

Interpretation

Why does God end His command by saying “I am the Lord your God” - Is that significant?

Interpretation

Interpretation

Q1.

What’s the importance of knowing “this man” is half Egyptian and half Jewish?

Wiersbe, W. W. (1996).

The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 113).

Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.

A1.

The whole dilemma of this passage is based off of the man’s nationality.

The Law stated in :

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain” (

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.”

The Law was given to Moses who presented it to the children of Israel.

Therefore, this Law applied to all Jews.

However, this man’s father was Egyptian, thus he would be considered an Egyptian.

So the question was asked, “Should a foreigner face the same justice as a Jews?”

This was a legal question that had not been addressed.

Therefore, the whole point of this passage is answering this question, “does a foreigner face the same justice under the Law as a citizen?”

Q2.

Are there any hints to what this man was fighting about?

I love how Robertson describe this moment in time, “Mark alone mentions this vivid detail.

He is seeing with Peter’s eyes again.

Peter no doubt watched the beautiful scene with pride and gratitude as Jesus stood in the door and healed the great crowds in the glory of that sunset.

He loved to tell it afterwards.”

Q2.

Are there any hints to what this man was fighting about?

A2.

After a close examination of the text, and relentlessly studying at the Hebrew - I have come up with an answer.

They were fighting over which froot-loop flavor was the tastiest.

Sadly, it took over 3,000 years to discover that all the colorful Os are flavored the same.

Honestly, we have no clue what they were fighting about, and it is foolish to speculate.

If Moses wanted us to know he would have written it down.

Robertson, A. T. (1933).

Word Pictures in the New Testament ().

Nashville, TN: Broadman Press.Relationship

Q3.

What does it mean that he blasphemed and cursed?

Q#4.

Why does John Mark keep stating the difference between the sick and those possessed?

v.34A#4.

Mark wants to make it clear that there is a difference between being sick and being demon possessed.

There are some Biblical cases in which a demon caused a physical disorders such as the mute man in .

However, notice that with sickness, Jesus often touches the individual whereas with demons he speaks to them and rebukes them.

Schnabel writes,“Mark maintains the distinction between people who have a physical illness which Jesus heals (therapeuō), often with touch, and people who are possessed by demons which are cast out (daimonia ekballō), accomplished by a word of command (cf.