Sermon Tone Analysis

The Plan of God was not for us to have an Easier Life, but that we would have a Better Life!

Prophetic Probability (458 Prophecies about Jesus in Scripture)

Micah 5.2 ““But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting.””

1 in 300,000

Probability of 8 Prophecies being Fulfilled

1 in 10 to the 17th power

Probability of 48 Prophecies being Fulfilled

1 in 10 to the 157 power

Our solar system has a diameter of approximately 7.5 billion miles.

If you got in a car and started driving at 65 mph, to get across our solar system would take you 13,172 years, or 338 of my lifetimes.

Just our solar system.

Astronomers say there are over 100 billion solar systems in the Milky Way galaxy alone; and over 50 billion galaxies in the universe.

Text actually says, has spoken In His Son, not by His Son!

He is Better because...

1.

The Prophets and Angels Gave the Word of God; Jesus is the Word of God!

Tim Keller says:

“Jesus is the truer and better Adam, who passed the test in the garden and whose obedience is now imputed to us.

Jesus was the truer and better Isaac, who was not just offered up by his father on the mount, but was actually sacrificed for us.

Jesus is the truer and better Moses who stands in the gap between the people and the Lord and who mediates a new covenant.

Jesus is the truer and better Job, the truly innocent sufferer, who intercedes for his stupid friends;

Jesus is the truer and better David, whose victory became ours, even though we never lifted a stone to help Him.

He is the truer and better Samson, crushed under the weight of the wicked world to conquer our enemies and save us.

He is the truer and better Jonah who was cast out into the storm so that we could be brought in.

He’s the real Passover lamb; innocent, perfect, helpless; slain so that the Angel of Death can pass over us;

He’s the true temple; the true Prophet; the true Priest; the true King; the true sacrifice; the true Lamb; the true light; the true bread;

In the end, the Bible’s really not all about you, it’s all about Him.”

He is Better because...

2. Jesus didn’t just offer Salvation; He became Salvation!

Religion teaches Obey and have Acceptance

Jesus taught Acceptance and then you will Obedience

500 years ago Martin Luther started to preach that Christ had done it all and we needed merely to rest in it.

RCC of the time said, “You can’t go around telling people that Jesus has paid their sin debt entirely forever.

If you take away their fear of hell, they’ll just do whatever they want.”

And Luther said, “No, if they see that Christ has removed all fear of hell by absorbing it into Himself, they’ll start to do whatever He wants.”○

Luther started to decry what he called, “the damnable doctrine of doubt” which was the idea that only by being threatened with hell will you behave.

He said, yes, being afraid of judgment will produce obedience on the surface, but beneath that obedience is a river of fear, pride, and self-interest.

The only way to develop real love for God is to have fear removed; He said, the real fruits of righteousness grow in the soil of assurance.

The Metal Bar- Bends by pressure, but will return to its form.

Could break, just give up.

The Gospel is the fire that melts the heart of man.

The fire to do in in the Christian Life comes from being soaked in the Fuel of what has been done!

Don’t neglect God’s final word in Christ!

He is the Love of God personified for you!

○ Elisabeth Elliot: “Think about this, if the distance between the earth and the sun (92 million miles) was the thickness of one sheet of paper, then the distance from the earth to the nearest star would be a stack of paper 70 feet high.

And the diameter of our galaxy would be a stack of paper 310 miles high.

Our galaxy is only a speck of dust in the universe, and if there is a person who holds all that together by the word of his power … is this the kind of person you ask into your life to be your personal assistant?’

○ N.T. Wright: “How can you live with a terrifying thought that the hurricane has become human, that the fire has become flesh, that Life itself has walked into our midst?

Christianity either means that or it means nothing.

It is the most devastating disclosure of the deepest reality of the world; or it is a sham, a total nonsense.

Most people, unable to cope with either of those two things, are condemned to live in the shallow world in between.”

Don’t drift away!

Allowing what you don’t understand to rob you from what you Do.

#1 I have so much joy, God has blessed me!

#2 My heart is broken, but Christ is Better!

It never hurts us to prepare for what we are not prepared for.

Altar Call- Eternity!