Sermon Tone Analysis

Pre-Introduction:

At this time, we invite any children who desire to join my dear wife for a children’s service to follow her where you can hear a wonderful bible lesson and sing some uplifting songs about Jesus.

For those joining us by other means, you’re listening to the Services of the Broomfield Baptist Church.

This is the Pastor bringing the Sunday Morning message entitled “Why Should You Evangelize the World?”

We invite you to follow along with us in your Bible in the Book of 2 Corinthians, chapter 5, and verses 11-21.

Introduction:

[Start Low]

Someone has said:

“Nature forms us,

Sin deforms us,

School informs us,

Only Christ transforms us.”

The late Vance Havner wrote concerning our passage, “The answer to criminality is not recreation, education, or legislation; it is Jesus Christ.

If any man be in Christ he is a new creature (see 2 Cor.

5:17).”

Friend, if we are going to see a difference in the loves of those we live among as Christians, it’s not going to occur until we awaken from our lethargy and return to the business for which our Chiefest Commander has called and ordained us.

Main Thought: Paul is talking about why we need to tell others about Christ because apart from His substitionary work, we remain in our sin before a holy God.

Others need to know what you know about Jesus; will you fulfill your ministry to tell them?

Reprove those who remain in sin having rejected Christ’s reconciliation; Rebuke excuses that render Christ’s ambassadors ineffective; exhort the humble to sharpen themselves toward reaching the lost for Christ.

Understand the mission to which Christ has sent you and work toward becoming more effective in your ambassage for Him.

Sub-introduction: Explain the context of 2 Cor. 5

Back in 1958, Dr. Tom Malone got it right when he summarized this wonderful passage:

In this great fifth chapter of Second Corinthians, we have five tremendous reasons why every believer should serve God with all his heart and soul.

1.

The Judgment Seat of Christ

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad” (II Corinthians 5:10).

2. The Terror of the Lord

“Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences” (II Corinthians 5:11).

3. The Love of Christ

“For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead” (II Corinthians 5:14).

4. The Changed Life

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (II Corinthians 5:17).

5.

The Appointment as Ambassadors

“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God” (II Corinthians 5:20).

If any Christian will carefully meditate upon these five soul-stirring truths, he will see what a heavy responsibility we have.

We are God’s ambassadors and representatives to make Jesus and His saving grace known to the ends of the earth.

We have more equipment with which to get the job accomplished than any previous generation has ever had.

We have the use of the radio, the television, the airplane, the printed page and many other advantages that even our previous generation did not enjoy.

With all these advantages, however, we still will not evangelize our generation, we will not win multitudes to Christ, and we will not please our Lord Jesus unless individual believers are stirred and moved to concentrated, consecrated, cooperative action.

The evangelization of the world depends upon the church of today.

God uses people!

God needs real men and women today who have courage, faith and character.

He needs men and women who are sold out to the gospel and who are willing to hazard their lives for the sake of that message, by God’s infinite grace and power we succeed in evangelizing our generation, it will be done through personal evangelism or person to person contact.

“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us.”

Body:

I.

The Motivations for Our Message (2 Cor.

5:11-16)

[Go Slow]

A. A Reverence for the Bema of Christ (2 Cor.

5:11)

“It is said that whatever it is that one fears the most that is what one will serve the most.”

[NAC]

We are told that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (see Prov. 9:10).

One of the tenets of liberalism is that we don’t need to be afraid of God.

They characterize God as a sweet, indulgent old man whom you can treat most any way.

Liberalism teaches the universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man, which is one of the most damnable doctrines abroad today.

Do you know that the Word of God says: “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Heb.

10:31)?

Let us not give ersatz bread to the people.

Let us not preach a watered–down, sunshiny gospel.

Our God is a holy God, a righteous God.

It is this holy God who loves you.

It is this holy God who wants to save you.

But, my friend, if you don’t come to God His way, you will have to come before Him in judgment.

“Knowing therefore the terror [fear] of the Lord, we persuade men.”

There is many a pulpit from which is never preached a sermon on hell.

There are few sermons on punishment, few sermons on judgment.

As a result, God’s judgment is almost a lost note in Protestantism today.

The Lord Jesus said that He had come to seek and to save that which was lost.

My friend, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

We need to fear the judgment of God.

We need to recognize that we are going to be held accountable to Him. [McGee]

Note - “persuade” in this context most likely has the sense of “seeking to win people” [see EDNT]

“And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.”

(Luke 16:31, KJV 1900)  

  “And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.”

(Acts 18:4, KJV 1900)  

  “And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.”

(Acts 28:23, KJV 1900)  

  “Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.”

(Colossians 1:28–29, KJV 1900)  

  “And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.”

(2 Timothy 2:24–26, KJV 1900)  

  “For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.”

(1 Thessalonians 2:3–12, KJV 1900) 

B.

A Rejoicing in the Power of Christ (2 Cor.

5:12-13)

“If I am mad,” Paul was saying, “it is for your good and the glory of God—so that makes it worthwhile!”

When Dwight L. Moody was ministering at his large Sunday School and church in Chicago, people often called him “Crazy Moody.”

In the eyes of the unsaved world, Moody was “crazy” to have given up a successful business career to become a Sunday School worker and evangelist; but time has proved his decision to be a wise one.

Today, we don’t know the names of the people who laughed at him, but we do know—and honor—the name of D.L. Moody.

[Wiersbe]

C. A Restraining by the Love of Christ (2 Cor.

5:14-16)

“If the love of God sets us to work, the God of love will find us the wages.”

~D.

L. Moody

“If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha.” (1 Corinthians 16:22, KJV 1900)  

“Cold is the heart that knows no rapture before God as one thinks of His grace in Christ.”

~ William Kelly

  “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.