Sermon Tone Analysis

*                                                     The Christian Witness                    *6~/1~/08 am

*                                                                Is 43:1-11*

 *Is 43:1-11*          *But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, *

*                And He who formed you, O Israel:*

 

*Israel* \ˈiz-rē-əl, -(ˌ)rā- /also/ ˈis- /or/ ˈiz-rəl\ n

[ME, fr.

OE, fr.

LL, fr.

Gk /Israēl//,/ fr.

Heb /Yiśrā’ēl/]

*1*           *: *jacob 2

2           : *the Jewish people *

3           : *a people chosen by God* — Israel adj

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*We the saved are spiritual Israel*

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*Ro 9:6-8*   6  But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect.

*For  they /are/ not all Israel who /are/ of Israel, 7 nor /are they/ all children because they are the seed of Abraham;* but, /“In Isaac your seed shall be called.”/

8 That is, those who /are/ the children of the flesh, these /are/ not the children of God; *but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

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*Ga 4:28*28 Now  we, brethren, as Isaac /was,/ are children of promise.



*Ro 2:28-29*  28 For  he is not a Jew who /is one/ outwardly, nor /is/ circumcision that which /is/ outward in the flesh; 29 but */he is/ a Jew  who /is one/ inwardly*; *and  circumcision /is that/ of the heart,*  in the Spirit, not in the letter;  whose praise /is/ not from men but from God.

 

 

*     “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; *

                       

                        *We the saved are the redeemed*

*Ga 3:13-14*  13  *Christ has redeemed us* from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written,  /“Cursed/ is /everyone who hangs on a tree”/), 14  *that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus*, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.



*Re 5:9-10*   9 And  they sang a new song, saying:

     “You are worthy to take the scroll,

     And to open its seals;

     For *You were slain, *

*     And  have redeemed us to God by Your blood *

*     Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, *

10     And have made us  kings and  priests to our God;

     And we shall reign on the earth.”

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* I have called /you/ by your name; *

 

 *Jn 10:3*   To him the doorkeeper opens, and *the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name *and leads them out.

*     You /are/ Mine.*

 

*Jn 10:16* 16 And  *other sheep I have which are not of this fold*; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice;  and *there will be one flock* /and/ one shepherd.

*1 Co 6:19-20*   9 Or  *do you not know that* your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit /who is/ in you, whom you have from God,  and *you are not your own*?

20 For  you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in *your body and *in* your spirit, *which* are God’s.*

*2     When you pass through the waters,  I /will be/ with you; *

*     And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.

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*     When you  walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, *

*     Nor shall the flame scorch you.

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*Ps 66:12 *   2     You have caused men to ride over our heads;

                         We went through fire and through water;

                         But *You brought us out to rich /fulfillment./

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*Ro 8:28*  28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those  who are the called according to /His/ purpose.

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*3     For I /am/ the Lord your God, *

*     The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; *

 

*Jn 1:1-2   *In the beginning  was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was  God.

2  He was in the beginning with God.

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*Jn 10:30* 30  I and /My/ Father are one.”

*      I gave Egypt for your ransom, *

*     Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

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*4     Since you were precious in My sight, *

*     You have been honored, *

*     And I have loved you; *

*     Therefore I will give men for you, *

*     And people for your life.

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*In the usual sense of substitutes*

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*Pr 21:18*    18     The wicked /shall be/ a ransom for the righteous,

                          And the unfaithful for the upright.

*Pr 11:8*     8     The righteous is delivered from trouble,

                        And it comes to the wicked instead.

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*Es 7:10*   10 So  they  hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.

*Es 9:1 *  On the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, the opposite occurred, in that the Jews themselves overpowered those who hated them.

By suffering what they had devised for the righteous, or brought on them, the wicked became their ransom, in the usual sense of substitutes ; Es 7:9).[1]

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*5     Fear not, for I /am/ with you; *

*     I will bring your descendants from the east, *

*     And  gather you from the west; *

*6     I will say to the  north, ‘Give them up!’ *

*     And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ *

*     Bring My sons from afar, *

*     And My daughters from the ends of the earth— *

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*Mt 24:30-31*  30  Then *the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven*, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, *and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory*.

31  *And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

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*7     Everyone who is  called by My name, *

*     Whom  I have created for My glory; *

*     I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”

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*Eph 2:10*   10 *For we are  His workmanship*, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.



*1 Co 10:31*   31  Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, *do all to the glory of God.

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*Je 1:5*   5     “Before I  formed you in the womb I knew you;

                     Before you were born I sanctified you;

                    I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”

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*8     Bring out the blind people who have eyes, *

*     And the deaf who have ears.

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*9     Let all the nations be gathered together, *

*     And let the people be assembled.

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*      Who among them can declare this, *

*     And show us former things?

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*     Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; *

*     Or let them hear and say, “/It is/ truth.”

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*Let us  reason together*

*Is 1:18*   18     “*Come now, and let us  reason together,”      Says the Lord, *



*Jud 3*   3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you  *concerning our common salvation,* I found it necessary to write to you *exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which* was once for all delivered to the saints.

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*con•tend* \kən-ˈtend\ vb

[ME, fr.

AF or L; AF /contendre,/ fr.

L /contendere,/ fr.

/com-/ + /tendere/ to stretch — more at thin] /vi/ 15c

*1*           *: **to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties* *: *struggle

*2*           *: **to strive in debate* *: *argue /vt/

*1*           *: **maintain, assert* 〈/contended/ that he was right〉