Sermon Tone Analysis

This week marks the beginning of a new sermon series that will be for the next 4 weeks here at Legacy Bible Church and that series is called, “Things Jesus Never Said”.

Things Jesus never said.

As we go through this series we will be paying attention to the words in red.

You know what I mean when I say that?

Some of your bibles have the words of Jesus written in Red to separate it from some of the others.

This actually was an idea of a Lous Klopsch in 1899 who was a Christian editor who thought it would be a good idea to point us to the actual words of Jesus here on earth.

And it is good to know the words Jesus spoke on earth.

But we want to stop short of saying that the words in red are more important than the other words.

We must remember that the Bible is God’s Word and as

So we know that

The words of Jesus are really other wordly.

Sometimes it helps us to look at the words of Jesus but I think that there are also times when it might be advantageous for us to look at some of the things Jesus (pause) didn’t say, What he COULD have said, What I might have said.

Sometimes understanding what Jesus didn’t say helps us to understand the power of what he DID say.

So why don’t we get into this.

and see what Jesus didn’t say about the area of forgiveness.

Forgiveness.

How many people know someone really annoying on Facebook?

Keep your hands up.

If you don’t have a hand up… maybe it is you?

Jesus didn’t say Father forgive them, for they do not know what they post

He didn’t say fool me once and I will forgive you.

Fool me twice and I will give you lice..

Jesus never said, “sorry, you’ve sinned too much for me to forgive you… I can forgive everyone else but you, you really get on my nerves?

These are definitely things Jesus didn’t say and this sermon series will help us because even though we know Jesus didn’t say certain things, our actions may be communicating something else.

We know Jesus didn’t say that he

How many people are happy this morning that Jesus has the grace and the mercy that He does to forgive you and me?

We will talk about something Jesus did say and we will look at while Jesus was giving the sermon on the mount, he was teaching the people and there comes a point when He talks about prayer and how to pray.

He says in Matthew 6:9-11

If you need to know how to pray, listen to this.

Jesus did not say.

Did not say… Forgive our debts even though we still hold grudges.

Jesus doesn’t say I will forgive you but you don’t have to forgive what someone else did.

No, read what He says.

In in verse 14 He gives some Additional thoughts on forgiveness.

Did you just see that?

Here is essentially what Jesus is saying here.

If you forgive you will be forgiven, if you don’t forgive then you won’t be forgiven.

This is crazy.

This is hard.

Trying to keep it real, though.

So this begs the question...

Anyone Holding a grudge this morning?

Are you having a moment right now where God is speaking to you about a grudge you are holding over someone else?

They hurt you, they betrayed you?

And look, I understand that

And the emotion of what you are dealing with might be causing you to feel this way.

You have been let down, you have been devastated, maybe someone took advantage of you.

And the emotion of what you are dealing with might be causing you to feel this way.

You have been let down, you have been devastated, maybe someone took advantage of you.

Maybe there was someone who should have loved you and should have protected you but they didn’t.

And here you are today still feeling the pain and the scars.

Listen, maybe there are so many things that have been wrong done to you, and That is painful, and it is difficult.

So this begs the question, usually this comes at the end but we need to get this out in the front of our minds right now.

Is there someone you hold a grudge against?

Is there someone in your life that when you think of them your stomach churns?

If you happen to drive by their house or their workplace, or a place where something happened between you and them and that feeling in the pit of your stomach kind of shows up?

Are you dealing with unforgiveness?

There is a lot of emotion attached to this subject.

Right now someone, or I bet multiple people might be screaming in their minds, “but you don’t know what they did to me”.

You don’t know what I have gone through, you don’t know how I have been wronged.”

You don’t know how I have been misrepresented, you don’t know how disappointed I am.

And we have to acknowledge that pain.

It is real, it can’t be minimized, it is very real and it is deep.

We have to acknowledge that.

How do you forgive something that seems unforgivable?

How do we live out what Jesus told us to do.

What about when something is not done just to you but to someone you love?

This takes us into a different realm of justification when it comes to holding a grudge.

Maybe someone has hurt someone you love, or someone you are trying to protect.

A child or a spouse, or a friend.

That is even a different level of pain.

How do you forgive the unforgivable?

How do you forgive someone who has wronged you or a loved one so brutally?

For the Christian, at this point this is when you have to ask the question, “what does Jesus say about this?” What does Jesus say about forgiveness?

What does Jesus say?

There is a clue as where to start in verse 9

Jesus is teaching on how to pray and notice what Jesus doesn’t say, Jesus doesn’t say “my father, which we might expect, no What does that verse say?

He says “our father” He uses the word “our”.

Jesus does something incredible here.

Those of you who have grown up in Christian homes might have a hard time getting this.

People didn’t look at God as a Father figure.

They looked at Abraham, they looked at Moses to be a “father figure”.

We share in this heavenly relationship with Jesus when we look to God as “our Father”.

He is our father, we are his children, and our relationship with our siblings matters.

And this matters to God.

It matters to God how his children get along with one another.

It really does matter how we get along with one another.

Just like how it matters in our natural families.

I had two sisters, one older and one younger.

I was the middle child, the only boy and there were moments when my sisters and I would not get along.

Shocker right?

Especially when it came to car rides.

I have a picture of the type of car we had growing up.

This is the Volkswagen dasher.

It was this color and the thing that I want to stress is that my family growing up, all 5 of us would pack our stuff for the week in the back and the three kids would sit together in that back seat.

Wow.

We didn’t have a suburban, or a minivan, or anything like that.

We had this little car and you had to get used to the leg being on the person next to you, if you were in the middle it would be on each side of you.

You know that sweaty leg thing?

It’s sweating from the vinyl seats and its sweating from the persons leg leaning on you.