Sermon Tone Analysis

Title:

Introduction -

Text:

Ear worms - Songs that get stuck in your head!

It’s a Small World - Disney

We All Live in a Yellow Submarine - The Beatles

Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus

Advertisers have known for many years the power of ear worms.

Songs associated with a particular product that makes you think about the product and then buy it!

The top 10 advertising jingles of all time are:

A good advertising jingle has the power to spark nostalgic feelings and get stuck in your head for days.

You might even have a playlist full of them.

The top 10 advertising jingles of all time are:

McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ It”

Kit Kat® “Give Me a Break”

Oscar Mayer “I Wish I Was an Oscar Mayer Weiner”

Subway "Five Dollar Foot Long"

Empire "800 Number"

State Farm "Like a Good Neighbor”

Lucky Charms They’re Magically Delicious”

Huggies “I’m a Big Kid Now”

Alka Seltzer “Plop Plop, Fizz Fizz”

Band-Aid “Stuck on Band-Aid”

Main Idea:

Attention (Why should they listen to you?)

Introduction

Attention (Why should they listen to you?)

Music is powerful.

Paul understood this.

He understood music’s power to sink truth deep into our souls.

The church at Colossae was starting to listen to a heretical teaching and Epaphras went to Paul and enlisted his help to get them back on track.

What do the hearers need to know?

It is very interesting that the verses we are covering today (15-20) are considered by most scholars to be a hymn that was known by the early church.

Some believe Paul even wrote it!

Whether he did or not, Paul wrote this hymn down to remind this dear church of the powerful and rich truths of the Christian faith.

And we would do well to study, know and perhaps even sing these truths in the depths of our own hearts.

Main Textual Idea:

Main Idea: Here’s a Catchy Tune - “Jesus is Over All!”

Interrogative:

One of the parts of the heresy coming against the Colossian Church was the denial of the deity of Jesus.

This is a big deal, folks!

If Jesus isn’t God, our Faith is a joke!

We should be, legitimately a joke to the world around us.

And Paul dedicates his letter to remind the Colossians who Jesus truly is.

If He was just a man, just a prophet, just a good teacher, we would have no reason to listen to Him.

But Jesus Christ is the God of the universe!

And because this is so, we better take Him very seriously!

So Paul in this portion of Scripture quotes a Hymn that will remind them of the truth about Jesus.

There are three components of this hymn that we ought to pay attention to and the first one is...

Body (Satisfaction)

1. Sing of Him as Creator (vs.

15-16)

Lead in…Folks, there is a lot of opinion out there about the origin of the earth and the creation around us.

As a follower of Jesus Christ, I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jesus Christ, the God / Man, is the creator of All!!!

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Explanation -

He is the image of the invisible God - We cannot see God because the bible says...

John

And because He is Spirit, His is not visible to us...

Certainly there were times in the Old Testament that God made Himself visible through a Theophany or a Christophany, but those were special times where it was important for God to be physically relatable to His creation.

The majority of the time he worked through prophets, priests and kings.

However, these were all precursors to the One who would come and live among us!

“Jesus is literally the exegesis of God.” (RKH)

God planned from before the earth was ever built by Him to have the Son (who is God and lived eternally in the God-head with the Father and the Spirit) be incarnated - which means to take on our human form.

And that He did.

In fact, the word IMAGE

He is the firstborn of all creation -

IMAGE

1. eikon (εἰκών, english word “Icon”) this mean “an image or representation.”

Like a portrait.

Jesus is the portrait of God.

The word is used (1) of an “image” or a coin (not a mere likeness), Matt.

22:20; Mark 12:16; Luke 20:24; so of a statue or similar representation (more than a resemblance),

The word is used (1) of an “image” or a coin (not a mere likeness), Matt.

22:20; Mark 12:16; Luke 20:24; so of a statue or similar representation (more than a resemblance),

However it means more than simply a picture of someone.

Being the eikon, the image also means “revealing the personal character of God.”

W. E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger, and William White Jr., Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Nashville, TN: T. Nelson, 1996), 318.

So in this sense, Jesus revealed what God is really like, and He did so flawlessly!

Just like a metal stamp leaves the perfect imprint, so it is with Jesus.

“He is the exact impression of the essence of God.”

‘ So in this sense, Jesus revealed what God is really like, and He did so flawlessly!

Just like a metal stamp leaves the perfect imprint, so it is with Jesus.

“He is the exact impression of the essence of God.”

W. E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger, and William White Jr., Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Nashville, TN: T. Nelson, 1996), 318.

Vine / Unger - “Christ is the visible representation and manifestation of God to created beings; the likeness expressed in this manifestation is involved in the essential relations in the Godhead, and is therefore unique and perfect.”

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W. E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger, and William White Jr., Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Nashville, TN: T. Nelson, 1996), 318.

He is the firstborn of all creation -

The point?

If you have seen Jesus, you have seen God!

And just as He is the exact imprint of God, we are to be as well.

He is the firstborn of all creation - This phrase might be a little confusing at first because it seems to indicate that Jesus had a beginning.

He did not!

He has eternally existed in the triune Godhead.

Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses and the heretic Arius

Arius (Ἄρειος, 250 or 256–336) was a Libyan presbyter and ascetic,[1] and priest in Baucalis in Alexandria, Egypt.[2] His teachings about the nature of the Godhead in Christianity, which emphasized God's uniqueness and the Christ's subordination under the Father.

https://www.fuller.edu/next-faithful-step/resources/arius-and-nicea/

He is the creator of all things -

Arius...argued that "if the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not.

It therefore necessarily follows, that he [the Son] had his substance from nothing."[14]

This quote describes the essence of Arius's doctrine.