Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

The gospel is about much more than how we get saved and go to heaven.

The gospel is about the work of Christ saturating every aspect of our lives.

A Father’s Role by Voddie Baucham taken from What He Must Be by Voddie Baucham, copyright 2009, Crossway Books, a division of Good News Publishers, Wheaton Illinois 60187, www.crosswaybooks.org.

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Voddie Baucham

The gospel IS OUR LIFE.

The gospel IS CHRIST

Why are we not more passionate for it?

Why are we not more surrendered to it?

As we enter a new year, The Spirit compels us to the gospel.

As each new day begins, the Spirit compels us to the gospel

As the clock ticks each new second, the Spirit compels us to the gospel.

Outline

Big Idea: The gospel demands our all.

Will we surrender to it?

The Gospel demands...

Our contentment - 1 Peter 1:3-5

Our rejoicing in suffering - 1 Peter 1:6-9

Our embracing of the good news - 1 Peter 1:10-12

Our pursuit of holiness - 1 Peter 1:13-16

Our walking in fear - 1 Peter 1:17-21

Our earnest Love - 1 Peter 1:22-25

Sermon Body

Big Idea: Big Idea: The gospel demands our all.

Will we surrender to it?

The Gospel demands...

Our Contentment - 1 Peter 1:3-5

So often, we find ourselves in periods of discontentment

Job is not what we desire

Marriage/relationships are not all that we hoped

Finances are tighter than we desire

Earthly possessions are sub par.

We have not achieved what we long for yet

Our appearance is not what we desire

Lacking popularity/acceptance by others

Life is too hard

Too much hurt

Too busy

Sorrow and grief

Sickness invades

Death overtakes

Lonely

Etc

What happens is that our present, temporal, earthly circumstances grow bigger in our view than that which God has provided eternal provision for.

Our earthly and immediate circumstances remove our focus and gaze from that which is eternal.

The temporal becomes more important to us than the eternal.

The solution, the cure….is to fix our gaze on what is eternal and all that God has provided for us.

Colossians 3:1-4

Verse 5 and following goes on to admonish us to put aside the passions of the flesh and put on the passions of the Spirit.

Point being, the cure for overcoming the passions of the flesh is to be more satisfied with the provisions that God has given to us than being overcome by the desires of the flesh

The cure for discontent is all areas of life is found in being satisfied in the person of God and all that He promises and has provided for us.

Consider this text in 1 Peter.

Look at what God has provided for us.

We are born again

HE HAS CAUSED US….

New life; New person; New identity.

We have been made into new person, a new being.

We have been given a new name, a new identity, a new belonging.

For beings created FOR relationship, for connection…this is essential.

Sure, the physical world is broken and the picture of how this works in reality is often messed up because the physical families we are placed in do not often represent well what this is supposed to look like, but the mere fact that when you are born INTO a family, you are given a new sense of belonging, an identity, a life should not be missed even if the physical is bad about representing it.

Contrasted with being dead as Ephesians 2 describes.

HE HAS MADE US ALIVE….according to HIS GREAT MERCY.

What we deserved was death.

His mercy did not give us what we rightfully deserved.

HE, though, is the source of this new life.

Has nothing to do with us.

It is all a gift from him.

We are BORN AGAIN TO…..

A Living Hope

Living

Active

Present

Imminent

Life - has substance, being.

Hope

Confident expectation

We have an ACTIVE, LIVING confident expectation in the person and promises of God.

The Hope we have in Him, is not some wishful thinking…not some uncertain longing and desire that may or may not come to pass.

Our hope is a CONFIDENT EXPECTATION of something that WILL come to pass.

It is secured and made possible by the resurrection of Jesus from the dead….a

seal and guarantee more sure than anything else we could ask for.

What is our hope?

What is this hope that is living and sure?

We have an inheritance

Imperishable

Undefiled

Unfading

Kept in heaven BY GOD’s POWER

What is it?

Colossians 1:3-8

“Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you…..”

What does the gospel message herald?

The message of reconciliation with God.

The message of a rightfully restored relationship to God upon our repentance and faith in Jesus and His satisfactory death for the penalty of MY sin.

This inheritance, which is kept for us, is the promise of this rightfully restored relationship and the future hope of the FINAL salvation…

1 Peter 1:5

We are kept, by faith, for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last times

Final salvation - deliverance from the presence of sin.

We already are saved from the power and penalty of sin.