Sermon Tone Analysis

50 Things I Want My Children to Know

Before They Leave Home

Eric G. Spann, M.D.

Revised July, 2019 Edition

Self-Published and Bound

To my children,

for whom God changed everything

in one generation

What is the most important thing for every person's life?

Believing in Christ by grace through faith, and receiving eternal life as His free gift.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

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“Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”

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“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

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“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” ()

“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:” ()

“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”

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“And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” ()

4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming?

for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

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2. How did the world come to be?

Miraculous creation by God, from nothing

“Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.”

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“I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.”

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“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”

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5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that kby the word of God the heavens were lof old, and the earth †mstanding out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, nbeing overflowed with water, perished: ()

3. Why do all men die?

Sin kills

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” ()

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”