Sermon Tone Analysis

INTRODUCTION

The word of God is treasure, and must be mined like gold and diamonds.

So

WHAT, WHY, HOW?

WHY?

HOW?

Preach the word...

REPROVE

1651.

ἐλέγχω ĕlĕgchō, el-eng´-kho; of uncert.

affin.; to confute, admonish:—convict, convince, tell a fault, rebuke, reprove.

All teaching eventually involves reproof; teachable people are reprovable.

“Reprove, rebuke . . .

” This is the only place Paul uses this word, but it appears almost thirty times in the New Testament, all but two in the Gospels — and in every instance but one, Jesus is the one doing the rebuking.

“He rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.”

(Matthew 8:26)“Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly.”

(Matthew 17:18)“He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her.” (Luke 4:39)

When Jesus rebuked someone or something, he demanded, in effect, on God’s authority, that it cease and desist.

Winds quieted.

Demons exorcised.

Fevers dismissed.

And sin forsaken.

Jesus says, “Pay attention to yourselves!

If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him” (Luke 17:3).

Timothy, after you have exposed sin for what it is — deceitful, empty, fatal, evil — summon your brother to stop, on the basis of God’s word and authority.

Open the Bible, point to or quote a particular text, and call for repentance.

And if he repents, extend forgiveness from that same Book and with that same authority.

If we are going to rebuke well, we must ask God to show us in his word what sin is, and what it is not.

And having seen sin in one another, we must consistently and boldly — and graciously — speak up and charge one another to change, to turn, to cease from sin.

~Marshas Seagal - Desiring God website.

REBUKE

2008.

ἐπιτιμάω ĕpitimaō, ep-ee-tee-mah´-o; from 1909 and 5091; to tax upon, i.e. censure or admonish; by impl.

forbid:—(straitly) charge, rebuke.

Words mean things; freedom of speech has limits; it is the free expression of ideas.

It is not the exhortation to do do evil.

EXHORT

4151 παρακαλέω (parakaleō): vb.; ≡ DBLHebr 5714; Str 3870; TDNT 5.773—1.

LN 33.168 ask for earnestly, beg, plead (Ac 28:20), for another interp, see below; 2. LN 33.315 invite (Lk 8:41); 3. LN 33.310 call together to (Ac 28:20), for another interp, see above; 4. LN 25.150 encourage, console, urge (Eph 6:22)

“I appeal to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God.” (Romans 12:1)

“I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions.”

(Romans 16:17)

“I urge you, be imitators of me.” (1 Corinthians 4:16)

“I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called.”

(Ephesians 4:1).

“We pleaded with you, encouraged you, and urged you to live your lives in a way that God would consider worthy.

For he called you to share in his Kingdom and glory.”

(1 Thessalonians 2:12)