Sermon Tone Analysis

2 Corinthians 5:21

Introduction

The cross is the focal point of God’s dealings with mankind.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

The MAIN thing is the CROSS!

1A.

The Cross From the Father’s Viewpoint

1B.

Christ died for the sinner

*Romans 5:8* But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

*Romans 11:22* Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

God is holy – set apart!

*1 Samuel 2:2* "There is no one holy like the LORD, Indeed, there is no one besides You, Nor is there any rock like our God.

The cross was necessary

*2 Corinthians 5:21* He made Him who knew no sin /to be /sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

*Isaiah 53:4-6, 10* Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.

5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being /fell /upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.

6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him…. 10 But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting /Him /to grief; If He would render Himself /as /a guilt offering, He will see /His /offspring, He will prolong /His /days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

\\ 2B.

The sinner died 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.

*Colossians 3:4* When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

*2 Peter 1:14* knowing that the laying aside of my /earthly /dwelling is imminent, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

*2 Corinthians 5:17* Therefore if anyone is in Christ, /he is /a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

*Acts 1:8* but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.

*Ephesians 1:3* Blessed /be /the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly /places /in Christ

3B.

The Father was satisfied

*1 John 4:10* In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son /to be /the propitiation for our sins.

*“Propitiation”* satisfaction

\\ 2A.

The Cross from the Believer’s Viewpoint

1B.

The cross is the key to our victory

*Romans 6:6* knowing this, that our old self was crucified with /Him/, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin

*Romans 6:14* For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

2B.

The cross is the focus of our message

*1 Corinthians 2:2* For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

*Genesis 3:15* And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.

*The cross is central to all we do, you cannot understand the Bible apart from the cross.*

3B.

The cross is the object of our boasting

*Galatians 6:14* But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.