Sermon Tone Analysis

INTRODUCTION

I see people with no Hope

It is the Resurrection that gives that gives us the power to live that new life in daily pressure

The celebration of Christ’s victory is for every moment, relationship, situation, problem.

“easter people” who could not live thru an hour of any day of the year without the courage which come from knowing that Christ’s Resurrection has defeated death, frustration, and despair

The realization of Christ’s resurrection has enabled our own

We are alive forever and therefore truly alive right now;

We have died to our own control of our lives and have been resurrected to a new dimension of living

We have become the post-resurrection dwelling of the living Lord

We will never be along again, for he is with us and in us; we can face anything because the same power which raised Jesus from the dead is a work in us.

The Resurrection was his only reason to go to Jerusalem

His only hope to withstand what would happen there

His only message to proclaim

Paul lived in 2 realms

the visible transitory,world of change, hatred, corruption, negativism, and death

Second, the invisible realm of the resurrection in fellowship with a risen savior who had defeated death, sin and the powers of darkness

The Cross without the Resurrection is just another tragic death; faith is empty; the Christian life is pitiful, self generated wish dream

But crowned by the Resurrection, and enabled by the resurrected Lord, the daily life of a Christian is liberated by the cross and has abundant assurance now and forever more

That fact alone enable us the understand the emotional stability,mental outlook, and incredible confidence in Paul when his faith was under fire in trial and imprisonment

Anyone with lesser hope would have been despondent and despairing

Not Paul.

He had known persistent sickness, rejection by his people,resistance from fellow Christians, and constant physical persecution

Acts 21:15 - 26 gives us Luke’s dramatic account of Paul’s arrest, imprisonment, and repeated trials

THE HOPE OF THE RESURRECTION BROUGHT pAUL BACK TO JERUSALEM

tHE TRUTH OF THE RESURRECTION WAS THE CONCLUSIVE THRUST OF HIS WITNESS IN EACH TRIAL

THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION WAS HIS SOURCE OF STRENGTH IN PRISON

i want the show you how the Resiliency of the Resurrection we see in Paul’s faith can be ours today

The resiliency Paul showed with the Church leaders

We are free to be flexible and adjustable as a part of the fellowship

Paul did not demand to do things his way

Look at the physical resilience of the resurrected Lord in Paul after being beaten

His body was swollen from beating and blood streamed down his face, but his full powers quickly sprang back to full force]

Not only does the indwelling Lord release latent untapped powers, he miraculously infuses us with strength beyond our own

When I am too exhausted to move, the Lord provides the strength to do what he has willed

When I am beaten by circumstances or problems and the courage to go on seems to have run out, I realize that I have used only the only surface resources of human energy and beneath are the limitless power of the Lord

Paul spoke about the resurrection

I thank God everyday I live in America.

We do not have perfect justice, but probably the best in the world

They were going to beat Paul to get a confession out of him but he called on his right as a Roman Citizen

Paul uses the Resurrection to divide those who were charging him

What encouragement to know the Lord stood with him.

God also speaks to us when we search his Word each day

Paul stood before all of these leaders by the power of the resurrection and pomp and proclaimed the resurrection of the Lord

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