Sermon Tone Analysis

· INTRO: This week we have the opportunity to begin a new sermon series for the Summer.

We are in a season of transition in the Seabee Chapel, Chaplain Stevens is leaving, we are getting a new Command Chaplain, The Kenyon family is welcoming a new addition to our family in 2-5 weeks… I wanted to do a summer series that casts the spotlight on the most important person who ever walked planet earth and that’s Jesus.

- JESUS IS BETTER: So over the next 6 weeks or so, we are going to be in series called Jesus is better.

In this series we are going to look at several old and new testament characters and their story and discuss how their story points to Jesus as the good and better.

You see, the old testament points to Jesus and the coming Messiah and the New testament points back to Jesus.

He is the centerpiece of the whole of the Bible.

- JESUS IS BETTER: So over the next 6 weeks or so, we are going to be in series called Jesus is better.

In this series we are going to look at several old and new testament characters and their story and discuss how their story points to Jesus as the good and better.

You see, the old testament points to Jesus and the coming Messiah and the New testament points back to Jesus.

He is the centerpiece of the whole of the Bible.

· ILLUSTRATION:

· ILLUSTRATION:

- We could say certainly in human history there have been individuals who have risen above average notability, whose heads have somehow gotten elevated above the crowd, and they have influenced the human race singularly.

There are some people in science who have done that (Alexander Fleming who invented penicillin, the first antibiotics in 1928), some people in politics who have achieved that; there are certain men in war who have risen above the crowd to singularly impact history (Alexander the Great).

There are people in education, medicine, the arts, culture, social reform, engineering, agriculture and maybe even some in the realm of theology or religion who have ascended beyond the common man and singularly impacted thinking and life.

- We could say certainly in human history there have been individuals who have risen above average notability, whose heads have somehow gotten elevated above the crowd, and they have influenced the human race singularly.

There are some people in science who have done that (Alexander Fleming who invented penicillin, the first antibiotics in 1928), some people in politics who have achieved that; there are certain men in war who have risen above the crowd to singularly impact history (Alexander the Great).

There are people in education, medicine, the arts, culture, social reform, engineering, agriculture and maybe even some in the realm of theology or religion who have ascended beyond the common man and singularly impacted thinking and life.

But two men have made the most monumental impact on human life.

Two men have affected the whole of the human race for time and eternity more than all others combined and multiplied by an infinite number.

But two men have made the most monumental impact on human life.

Two men have affected the whole of the human race for time and eternity more than all others combined and multiplied by an infinite number.

- And really, there are only two men in all of history, in the entire world that all of have to deal with indirectly.

Adam and Christ.

- And really, there are only two men in all of history, in the entire world that all of have to deal with indirectly.

Adam and Christ.

- And this morning we are going to talk about how these two men have impacted all of us.

Ultimately, this morning we will see how Jesus is the good and better Adam.

- And this morning we are going to talk about how these two men have impacted all of us.

Ultimately, this morning we will see how Jesus is the good and better Adam.

OPEN BIBLES: So, If you have your Bibles, open your Bible to the book of Romans.

OPEN BIBLES: So, If you have your Bibles, open your Bible to the book of Romans.

- If you do not have a bible, or you do not own a bible there are bibles in the seatback in front of you.

- If you do not have a bible, or you do not own a bible there are bibles in the seatback in front of you.

- I do recommend keeping your Bible open for the duration of the sermon as we will be reading and studying it the whole time.

- I do recommend keeping your Bible open for the duration of the sermon as we will be reading and studying it the whole time.

TRANSITION to text: So this morning we are going to be looking at the text that was read in the 5th chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Romans and were going to be looking at verses 12-21.

If you have your Bible or your phone that’s awesome, if you don’t just know that there are bibles under the seats in front of you that you can use.

TRANSITION to text: So this morning we are going to be looking at the text that was read in the 5th chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Romans and were going to be looking at verses 12-21.

If you have your Bible or your phone that’s awesome, if you don’t just know that there are bibles under the seats in front of you that you can use.

TEXT: READ .

TEXT: READ .

Transition to B.I.: Now Paul the author of the letter to the church in Rome has spent a lot of time trying to systematically communicate one thing: ultimately that forgiveness of sin and access to God is provided through one person, Jesus Christ.

He has been explaining the doctrine of justification by faith alone, in Christ alone, by the grace of God alone.

Here he uses the comparison between Adam and Jesus to show the similarities and differences more clearly.

Transition to B.I.: Now Paul the author of the letter to the church in Rome has spent a lot of time trying to systematically communicate one thing: ultimately that forgiveness of sin and access to God is provided through one person, Jesus Christ.

He has been explaining the doctrine of justification by faith alone, in Christ alone, by the grace of God alone.

Here he uses the comparison between Adam and Jesus to show the similarities and differences more clearly.

EX.

Trysten and Rylee have a lot about them that is very similar.

However, they have a lot about them that is very different.

EX.

Trysten and Rylee have a lot about them that is very similar.

However, they have a lot about them that is very different.

Picture:

Picture:

-- So Paul is showing the contrast between Adam and Jesus.

In some ways they are similar… and in many ways they are different.

And what they did within the parameters that God had given them… within the mission that God had given them, resulted in two categorically different realities for those who are impacted by their work.

I said a moment ago that there are only two men in all of history that we all have to deal with directly.

And that’s Adam and Jesus.

You see, the actions of Adam have impacted every human who has ever lived.

And we’re going to talk about that in a moment.

Also, the actions of Jesus are going to impact a select few people.

And ultimately we find that:

-- So I am starting each of the three points with this phrase,

Ø B.I.: What Christ has done for those that are in Him is vastly greater than what Adam did for those who are in him.

Ø BIG.IDEA.: What Christ has done for those that are in Him is vastly greater than what Adam did for those who are in him.

TRANSITION: and so the first point comes from verse 1: Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked, or stand in the way that sinners take, or sit in the company of mockers... God calls me blessed when I am, Number one >

TRANSITION: And so as we dig in to this text this morning, we need to look at exhibit A… we need to look at ADAM. >

(1) Adam - His Story – We all know his story right?

In the Garden?

(1) Adam -

- Mission (Garden): Adam was created with a purpose.

God created Adam to be

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the steward over all of God’s creation.

You can read all about it in and 3. Adam was created to be the caretaker over all of the things that God created.

God has a plan for this person.

TRANSITION: Verse 2 says, “his delight is in the law of the Lord, and he meditates on it day and night.”

God calls me blessed when I am separated from the wicked, but also he calls me blessed when I am (and this is #2) Satisfied by the Word >

(2) In Christ we are all - (Vs 2): The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away

Listen to what it says in :

“15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

- Here you see the mission of Adam broken up into three things:

DELIGHT in the Law of the Lord:

1) WORK (vs 15) – Work is given by God, it’s a blessing!

- How many here honestly think of reading the bible as delightful?

TRANSITION: God calls me blessed when I am separated from the wicked, satisfied by the Word, and lastly God calls me blessed when I am sustained by living water.

> Read: vs 3: That person is like a tree PLANTED by streams of water, which yields it’s fruit in it’s season, and whose leaf does not wither.

Whatever they do prospers.

2) LIBERTY (vs 16) – “Every tree you can eat!”

3) PROHIBITION (vs 17) but the tree of the knowledge of Good and evil you shall not eat.

(3) The future of the wicked is not like the righteous.

- (Vs 5): The wicked will not stand in the judgement, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous .

Now often I think people think that God is mean or unfair because he put this tree in the garden for Adam and Eve to be tempted by, but the reality is that God was actually giving them prohibition for their protection.

TREE planted by streams of water

- What does it mean to be like a tree planted by streams of water?

I realized while

- ILLUSTRATION: Cream-filled Doughnuts: You can have all the cream-filled doughnuts you want, but not the one with the poison in it.