Sermon Tone Analysis

A Vital Church Grows

40 And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.”

41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.

42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.

43 Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.

44 Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, 45 and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.

46 So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people.

And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

1.

First Fruits

40 And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.”

41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.

There are two Kinds of testimonies:

the first is your story.

how you came to faith.

how you learned certain truths.

tithing.

quite time/ Study.

Forgiveness

service.

prayer and its power.

being in unity.

submersion.

Witness public witness (living witness)

1 Thessalonians 2:12

12 that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

Extort to encourage with the Logic of an argument.

Acts 2:41

” 41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.

Dead to Sin, Alive to God

6 What shall we say then?

Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not!

How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more.

Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

identifying with the death of the body of sin that we might live for Christ.

2. Discipleship is a lifestyle.

Acts 2:42

42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.

They were steadfast in:

The Apostles Doctrine.

Fellowship.

Breaking of bread.

Prayer.

3. A commited lifestyle has commited consequence.

Acts 2:42-47

43 Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.

44 Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, 45 and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.

46 So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people.

And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

The New King James Version.

(1982).

(Ac 2:43–47).

Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

many signs and wonders were done through the apostles.

they had favor with the people.

people where being saved daily.