Sermon Tone Analysis

Biblical:

*2 *And you were dead in the trespasses and sins *2 *in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— *3 *among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body// and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind*.

**4 **But// God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, **5 **even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— **6 **and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, **7 **so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

**8 *For by grace you have been saved through faith.

And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, *9 *not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

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

Personal:

* Making up words…

* Funner…

* Something is funner than something else…

* Or Best-est…

* Not just a best friend… but someone who is your best-est friend

*  You probably ain’t gonna  find funner or best-est in the dictionary… you ain’t gonna find gunna either… but you will find ain’t…

* Horace Walpole… you all know Horace right?

In 1754 he coined a word.

One that did not appear in any dictionary… the word… SERENDIPITY

* “the faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident”

* Serendipity…

* Paul uses… familiar phrases

* /Make alive…/

* /To Raise up…/

* /To sit down with…/

* Syn – together with…

* Synzoopoeio – “to make alive together with”

* Synegeiro – “to raise up together with”

* Synkathizo – “to sit down together with”

*  VERY SIGNIFICANT…

* Not just with, or in… *“together with”*

Bridge:

* Tough teaching…

* Nothing apart from Him

* John 6:35 – Bread of Heaven

* John 15:5 - Vine and Branches

* Matthew 26:26-28 He is to be consumed like wine…

* John 4 He is to be consumed like water…

*  Rejection of Christ… mans rejection of us…

* Lk 10:16  “The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

* The glory of Christ manifest in us!

* John 17:22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

* Tough teaching…

* Paul used “in Him”, “in Christ”, “In Christ Jesus” 164 times…

* Paul emphasizes the fact our salvation is “in Christ”…

* Chosen before the creation of the world – Eph 1:4

* Redeemed in Christ Eph 1:7

* Justified in Him Gal 2:17

* Sanctified in Him 1 Cor 1:2

* And Enriched in everyway in Him 1 Cor 1:5

* ALL THIS THROUGH THIS TOUGH TEACHING OF MYSTICAL UNION!!

* The heart of salvation

* The heart of faith

* It is the difference between Christianity and the lies of the world and other religions

* Covenantal Relationship…

* Effectual… technical position before God

* Imputed righteousness

*  Sovereign Providential relationship

* Experiential relationship…

* Actual… current effects

Compare guilty to jail…

·         Vital… real… Personal… Transforming

 

Body:

I.                   “to make alive together with”

* 4 But// God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses,* made us alive together with Christ*

* * *Once dead….

Remember…

* Now alive!

* Vital… real… Personal… Transforming?

* Dead to God… to praying and worshipping!!

* The unbeliever lives in the pursuit of self…

* They are there own reason to exist

* Money, Power, Leisure

* Our priorities…

* To be made alive in Christ…

* To have new hope

* To have salvation

* To be made alive “*together” *with Christ

* Is to adopt his direction

* Model him… follow his path

* Not a disconnected gift…

* Giving your mother-in-law two tickets to the ballet is a distant gift

* Taking your wife to an NHL game is a together gift

* We have not just been given the tickets

* We have not just been made alive

* We have been made alive together with Christ

* New Life IN Him

* New Life THROUGH Him

* New Life TOGETHER WITH Him!!

*  We do not journey alone or without purpose!!

*  Alive as Christ is Alive!

* * Made us alive together with Christ*

* Galatians 2:20 "*I* *have* been crucified with *Christ*; and it is no longer *I* who live, but *Christ* lives *in* me; and the /life /which *I* now live *in* the flesh *I* live by faith *in* the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

* See this life is no add-on

* It is… or it isn’t

* Together with Him and alive…

* Modelling… following… living

* Or dead in trespasses and living according to the course of this world.

* * *Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ and to *die* is *gain*.*

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* * Made us alive together with Christ*

 

* II.

“6* **and raised us up with him*”

*  4 But// God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6* **and raised us up with him*