Sermon Tone Analysis

Let’s read Luke 13:1-9...

(1) Take your sheet and underline the following items before answering the questions on the sheet.

Judgement - Perish (2x) and Cut it down (2x), Sin - greater sinners and worse culprits,, Repentance - unless you repent (2x), looking for fruit, bearing fruit.

Evil - Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices, the tower in Siloam fell.

Take your sheet and underline the following items before answering the questions on the sheet.

Perish (2x) and Cut it down (2x), greater sinners and worse culprits, unless you repent (2x), looking for fruit, bearing fruit, Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices, the tower in Siloam fell

(2) Now once you have done that take a sec and seek to write what these verses have to say about those concepts

(3) Share what you wrote down at your table

Let’s read Luke 13:1-9...

3 tasks for folks to do at the table

(1) Take your sheet and underline the following items before answering the questions on the sheet.

Judgement - Perish (2x) and Cut it down (2x), Sin - greater sinners and worse culprits,, Repentance - unless you repent (2x), looking for fruit, bearing fruit.

Evil - Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices, the tower in Siloam fell.

(2) Now once you have done that take a sec and seek to write what these verses have to say about those concepts

(3) Share what you wrote down at your table

Our passage this morning is short and straightforward but is addressing some difficult topics.

What Jesus is addressing in His that we are spending time with this morning are our ideas of Judgment, Evil, Sin and Repentance.

If we understanding the Biblical teaching about these idea we understand what is commonly called doctrine.

We are going to use this passage this morning to give a clearer understanding of these 4 doctrines

Luke 13:

Doctrines of Judgement, Evil, Sin and Repentance

Why does Doctrine Matter?

Why am I bringing this up?

Doctrine = the teaching of the Church

We need to understand what Jesus wants us to know about things that are important and it matters that the Church teaches what Jesus teaches

Let’s look at what Jesus was teaching about these concepts from the passage and what we should teach

Judgment -

apart from repentance men and women will perish.

This is also described in the parable as being cut down

The reason for the tree being cut down is because it is not bearing fruit

Evil -

What we call misfortune or evil is a fact of life that can befall anyone

Because this is the case we should recognize that there is an urgency to repentance

Sin-

A universal condition that necessitates repentance

“greater” sin is not responsible for what can happen to people and does not explain all calamity or evil that happens in the world

Repentance-

Repentance is a necessary prerequisite for “being saved”

True repentance will yield “fruit

If a person does not have fruit they may have misunderstood repentance and God wants the person to correct this issue for them to produce fruit in keeping with repentance

You are not able to repent after death.

Let’s view these ideas Jesus teaches against the things we say or teach (have them in a grid under the same headings as above maybe?)

Popular Ideas that express a poor understanding of these

(4) four doctrines

“Accountability is far away from me” (judgment)

“Really bad things only happen to other people” (evil and judgment)

“Maybe they deserved it” (evil and judgement)

“I don’t like to think about things like that” (evil and judgement)

“Praying a prayer means I repented” (repentance and sin)

“good people are ultimately spared” (repentance, sin and judgement)

“sin doesn’t really matter after I am saved” (repentance, sin and judgement)

I want to look at the text one more time to understand the exhortation here from Jesus to examine ourselves.

There are those that are curious about the men who died horrifically and tragically.

Jesus calls them back to be curious about themselves.

Let’s examine ourselves.

We need to regularly.

This week I had to go to the dermatologist for my yearly check-up.

I am fair skinned and have many freckles.

I have a high risk of developing skin cancer.

My doctor does a head to toe check for problem areas.

If he sees something he gets out the liquid nitrogen, or scrapes something and has it tested.

Every year he has to freeze something off.

It is needed for my continued health.

If I do not have myself examined I am in danger of being caught unaware of the reality that my condition leaves me susceptible to

As a person who lives in this world I may(will?)

perish.There were men that perished in that incident.

There were people that perished in the tower incident.

wait for it…have you repented?

There were men that perished in that incident.

There were people that perished in the tower incident.

Unbelief is treason in the Kingdom of God.

If he is real and we live as if he is not then the reality of God’s response will be harsh.

But there is more…just in case you are not sure if repentance has come to you he graciously tells us a story.

There is a fig tree...

4 things to notice

the tree was planted in the man’s vinyard

the point of the tree’s planting is for it to produce fruit

The man patiently comes to check for fruit again and again

There is a warning given that the situation can be fixed

To whomever needs to hear, let them hear - there is fruit at some point or there is a judgment against the tree that is unfavorable.

The tree can miss it.

Matthew 7:

what comes before this is Jesus teaching about good and bad trees…the fruit is how you can tell whose tree they are

Matthew

Fruit is produced through the exercise of obedience that comes from any situation where we exercise faith.

Jesus’ People produce Jesus’ Fruit

Jesus’ People produce Jesus’ Fruit

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These things are the things he wants to find on his trees.

Being obedient to the Spirit produces this things, being obedient to Jesus’ teachings produces these things

Galatias

obedience to Jesus’ teaching produces love

obedience to Jesus’ teaching produces peace

obedience to Jesus’ teaching produces patience

obedience to Jesus’ teaching produces kindness

This may be hard to hear but there are many times that I do not want to be loving toward you, or live at peace with you or be patient with you or be good to you or be faithful to you or be gentle to you or exhibit self-control with you.

But more often than not when my flesh is in danger of winning, the Spirit within me reminds me to be patient - and I have to decide to be patient with you.

And that produces the fruit of peace between us, and hopefully you receive that as love and enjoy the kindness.

because when I am disobedient to the Spirit you may feel unloved, that our relationship is fractured, that I have been impatient, that I have been unkind.

That is bad fruit.