Sermon Tone Analysis

Reformation Sunday

Today churches are celebrating reformation in the church that happened in the 1500s.

Martin Luther saw the church and Rome still in deception together and it was oppressing people.

They took advantage of people by preaching hell and fire and if they paid the right price to the church and did the right acts they would ease their future suffering.

Reformation = A making straight, to straighten thoroughly

To make straight that what has gotten out of line.

Have you noticed the pattern of how people want you to get on board with who they want you to hate?

Humanity is infected with a virus far worse than COVID.

Humanity is infected with a spirit that influences people to hate and find common enemies.

You will know they are followers of Jesus by their love for one another.

This infection that humanity has is causing us to be known by what or who we hate.

Example:

As a woman was leaving our church, she had the courage to be honest to me.

She said I guess I started to believe you about hating religion and how the church is religious.

I fell out of love with the church.

I thought, I dont want to be know for what I hate.

I want to be known for who I love.

It was really easy to get people to hate religion with me.

It is way harder to get people to love Jesus and even harder to get people to love imperfect people with me.

We tend to people these people who have a common hate into a labeled group.

We first make people less human by labeling them then we can hate that group more.

Nazi party, tax collector, sinner, trump follower, biden follower, dem, rep, the church, muslim, religious.....

What is required?

God is wanting His children to be bold with Love and Truth.

Boldness

Bold Love

Example:

Confront hate in front of you.

Standing up for who people are.

Just like Jesus loving a prisoner of greed like Zacchaeus the tax collector.

They called him a tax collector and sinner.

Two hate groups.

Jesus’s bold love opened the doors of Zacchaeus prison, and he found a way out of his own prison.

Closing:

The Church, The family of God, Jesus’s Bride, we are going through another reformation.

Jesus wants this reformation to be about what and who He loves.

He does not want the motivation of what we hate in this move of God.

Jesus wants this reformation to be about Bold Love!

Activation:

Say Isaiah 61:1-3 out loud.

What hate group do you need to give to Jesus?

Who in that group do you want me to love boldly?

Other Resources:

reformation:

1357 διόρθωσις [diorthosis /dee·or·tho·sis/] n f.

From a compound of 1223 and a derivative of 3717, meaning to straighten thoroughly; TDNT 5:450; TDNTA 727; GK 1481; AV translates as “reformation” once. 1 in a physical sense, a making straight, restoring to its natural and normal condition something which in some way protrudes or has got out of line, as broken or misshapen limbs. 2 of acts and institutions, reformation.