Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
This automated analysis scores the text on the likely presence of emotional, language, and social tones. There are no right or wrong scores; this is just an indication of tones readers or listeners may pick up from the text.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
Emotion Tone
Anger
0.43UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.14UNLIKELY
Fear
0.1UNLIKELY
Joy
0.49UNLIKELY
Sadness
0.52LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.61LIKELY
Confident
0.77LIKELY
Tentative
0UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.91LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.89LIKELY
Extraversion
0.15UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.42UNLIKELY
Emotional Range
0.77LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
*The Law - 9~/28~/08*
*.*
I.
*The Law’s Importance*
No topic has been more misunderstood among Christians than the Law of Moses and its application to the NT believer today.
*The giving of the Law is Revelation*
* *
In the Law God reveals His very nature
- His Perfection
- His Righteousness
And in doing so, the Law becomes
Instruction
To whom does God Give this Revelation?
He Gives it to those who are in His KINGDOM
What is the Kingdom of God?
*God’s Kingdom is God’s People in God’s Place under His Rule and Blessing*
The Law is God’s Instruction
to those who have a Relationship with Him.
*Israel does not keep the law in order to become God’s people, but because they already are God’s People!*
* *
*Both the relationship….*
*And the giving of the Law, which expresses the relationship, are manifestations of God’s Grace*
*Because God reveals Himself as a redeeming, morally sensitive God, the proper response to his initiatives is faithful obedience.*
* *
To confuse the covenants of God is to misinterpret the mind of God and miss the blessings of God, so the believer is wise to examine the Word to determine the place and purpose of the whole Mosaic system.
*(Dyrness)*
*The Law is an expression of the covenant and always secondary to it.*
*The Law is to express the Character of life in the covenant.*
* *
*The giving of the Law is a part of giving of himself to his people in the covenant and expresses the sane loving purposes \\ *
IN orer to understand the Giving of the law, we must understand God’s Covenants with His People
II Redemptive History and Covenant Structure in the Bible
* *
*Creation*
God had an originl design that became corrupt through the sin of mankind and its consequences…
Neverthe less, God remains committed to His creation and particulaly to those whom He created in His image and likeness.
For that reason HE has a redemptive design that has been developed through history and continues to move toward its consummation…
We only have to go to the third chapter of Genesis fore it is obvious that God’s Grace is operative right from the the Fall.
*..
The prediction of one to come in *
*Gen 3 who will “crush Satan’s head”*
..
The grace and salvation given to all of mankind through Noah in the warning of the flood to come and in the building of the Ark.
\\ We have seen in past weeks that God has created Man for Relationship…
Relationship with Himself
.. Relationship with others
The bible uses many metaphors to explain the relationship between Man and God..
..Husband & Wife
..Shepherd &Sheep
..King & Kingdom
..Head & the body
..Father & child
These images are used to explain what God has done
These examples take us from the known to the unknown.
*One of the most important biblical metaphors for understanding God’s redemptive relationship with us is the concept of “Covenant”*
* *
!!!! God’s Kingdom is God’s People in God’s Place under God’s Rule and Blessing \\ /I.
Covenant Structure In Redemptive History/
*Definition of Covenant:*
* *
*A Covenant Is A Means Of Expressing And~/Or A Method Of Establishing And Defining A Relationship*
*The concept of Covenant first appears in the bible after the flood.*
While they are in the Ark and the waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.. scripture then says..
Gen 8:1 But God remembered Noah….
Noah, his family and the animals came out of the ark.
and the very first thing that Noah did was to build an altar to the Lord and sacrificed to Him 8:20
Gen 8:21 */ The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.
/*
*/ /*
*/And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
/*
\\ 1.
The most common terminology for making a covenant in the Old Testament
"to cut (karat) a covenant (berit)"
-see, for example, Gen. 15:18.
..the Abrahamic Covenant
This idiom means "to establish ( or determine) the obligations (or stipulations)"
of a relationship between
two persons or groups of persons.
(like “cut a contract”
2.
We will concentrate here on the biblical covenants that structure the relationship betwee God and man..
a treaty (vertical).
But it was also very common to use the same customs and terminology in establishing relational obligations between men.. a treaty (horizontal)
!!
!! Basic Points about Covenants in the Bible
*Structure of Covenants*
*1. **Promises & Obligations*
*2. **Swearing and Oath*
*3. **Eating a Meal Together*
* *
* *
*Relational involvement*
In regard to the covenants between God and man:
It is often argued that certain of the major covenants were *conditional *or administrative (placing "obligations" on man., usually the Mosaic and New Covenants; esp. the Mosaic)
While others *were unconditional* or promissory (not placing "obligations" on man.
..usually the Abrahamic and Davidic Covenants).
*This misdirects the real intention*
*Promises assure the enduring nature of a covenant relationship no matter what may happen.
*
*While the obligations focus on the importance of faithfulness to God in order to experience the Lord's blessings within a covenant relationship (as opposed to the Lord's chastisement.
the curses ).
*
* *
\\ *I.
The Abrahamic Covenant*
Personal or Family Covenant
!!!! Promise: Gen 15:8
Gen 12:1-3
1The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.
“I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
*The Seed, The Land, The Blessing*
Gen 15:17-18 *Eating a Meal*
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates--
the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,Hittites,Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."
!!! Obligation: Gen 17:1, 9-14
*Gen 17:9-14 Circumcision*
Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.
This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9