Sermon Tone Analysis

Insights into and from this parable:

Jesus tells this story from God’s perspective.

Luke 19:

a.

He reveals that God positively misses each soul.

(She was not satisfied with just 9).

b.

He reveals that He values each person.

(He used a woman as the protagonist.

He marked each coin as equal value.)

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2.

He illustrates the Painstaking work God willingly does for one sinner.

[She instantly lighted a candle, that she might search in every dark corner of her house.

She moreover swept her house, that, if it were hid under any dirt or rubbish, she might find it: nor did she relax her endeavours till they were crowned with success.

What more could she have done if the lost money had been of the greatest value?]

a.

She immediately SOUGHT more Light.

(Lights a lamp)

b.

Swept away dust and dirt.

c.

Scoured every corner.

3. Jesus calls you to Persist in seeking and winning the lost.

a. Continue the godly habit of joining in the public proclamation of the Word in Worship attendance and life.

(She had a small window of light, but brought more light into life.

She never took a break from shining the Light, but sought to increase it.)

b.

Clean out any sin or negligence that would blind you to seeing, caring about, and finding a lost person.

(Avoid People Blindness)

c. Celebrate EVERY time a separated sinner moves closer to God and His love.

[She instantly lighted a candle, that she might search in every dark corner of her house.

She moreover swept her house, that, if it were hid under any dirt or rubbish, she might find it: nor did she relax her endeavours till they were crowned with success.

What more could she have done if the lost money had been of the greatest value?]

Charles Simeon, Horae Homileticae: Mark-Luke, vol. 12 (London: Holdsworth and Ball, 1832), 539.

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How strange is it that men should have so little regard to their own souls!

[The generality of men are as careless of their souls as if they were of no value.

But should we disregard that which the Son of God seeks with so much anxiety?

Should we be so indifferent about our own happiness, when all the angels of heaven would shout for joy at the prospect of it?

Let us never be satisfied with being immersed in darkness and wickedness———Let us rather be ambitious to have a place among the Lord’s treasures———And let us be thankful that, though lost, we are not yet gone beyond recovery.]

2. How blessed are the effects of a faithful administration of the Gospel!

[It is by the Gospel that Jesus comes to search for lost sinners.

If indeed it be delivered only in a general way, it will scarcely ever prove effectual for men’s salvation: it is only the close application of the word, that will ever reach the conscience: but, when faithfully preached, and accompanied with God’s Spirit, it will find out men in their darkest recesses.

O that God may now make use of it to sweep away the rubbish under which we have lain!———and that we may be found of him, ere he “sweep us away with the besom of destruction!”]

3. What reason have we to adore the condescension and grace of Christ!

[If he did not seek for us we should lie in our sins to all eternity, and when found at the last day, that word would be verified in us—What kindness then is it in him to use such means for our recovery!———Let

us never forget what obligations we owe to him.

Let us acknowledge ourselves his, that he may do with us as he will.

He will then keep us that we may not fall from him any more, and will lodge us safely in his coffers amidst the treasures he has been collecting from the foundation of the worldn.]

How many take little account of their own soul?

How many take better care of their animal’s well being than their spiritual well being?

How many believers no longer believe in the Spiritual power of the preaching of the Word of God? .

Light has come into the world.

Neglecting to bring your