Sermon Tone Analysis

! Introduction:

last time we were together, we looked at (v.31).

Those who have the true continual fellowship with Jesus in the Word, those who have a continued abiding fellowship with the Lord in the Word those are truly His disciples, those are His children.

Those who have a love for God.

The Longest chapter in the Bible which is almost in the center of the Bible, happens to be on the Love for God’s Word: 

*"/And I will delight myself in Your commandments, Which I love.

My hands also I will lift up to Your commandments, Which I love, And I will meditate on Your statutes./"

(Psalm 119:47-48) *

*"/Oh, how I love Your law!

It is my meditation all the day./"

(Psalm 119:97) *

*"/I hate the double-minded, But I love Your law./" (Psalm 119:113) *

*"/You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross; Therefore I love Your testimonies./"

(Psalm 119:119) *

*"/Therefore I love Your commandments More than gold, yes, than fine gold!/" (Psalm 119:127) *

*"/Consider how I love Your precepts; Revive me, O Lord, according to Your lovingkindness./"

(Psalm 119:159) *

*"/I hate and abhor lying, But I love Your law./" (Psalm 119:163) *

*"/Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble./"

(Psalm 119:165) *

*"/My soul keeps Your testimonies, And I love them exceedingly./"

(Psalm 119:167) *

 

David declares his love for God’s Word that’s why he meditated in God’s word.

He found joy, freedom, riches and peace in God’s word.

David truly had a heart of a disciple.

That’s why the Lord said of David that he was a man after God’s own heart that did His will.

A Disciple is abiding & continuing in God’s word.

He is saturating Himself with the word of God.  (Colossians 3:16; 1Pet.4:11;

ps.119.11).

A.

Who Is Your Father?

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In Contrast—What does a disciple of Satan look like?

/One thing is that those who are children of the Devil think they are children of God, they are truly deceived.

/Even though their believing the words of the devil & yet rejected the word of God, in their own minds they have rationalized that they are still living for God, when in reality they are living for Satan.

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*1.

*They Give No Place For The Word Of God (v.37-38).

*/a)        /**/My Word has no place in you (v.37)./*

They come up with their own beliefs about God, which unknowingly to them are actually from Satan.

These doctrines seem so wise & intelligent and so irrefutable, are actually whispers from Satan.

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*/That in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons/" (1 Timothy 4:1, NKJV) *

*/For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to right teaching.

They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever they want to hear.

They will reject the truth and follow strange myths./"

(2 Timothy 4:3-4, NLT) *

1)        *It Doesn’t Matter What You Believe As Long As You Are Sincere.*

Because all religions basically have the same teaching which is to love & that is the spirit of Jesus because He taught us to love.

That’s the same as Ala, & Buddha, Confucius.

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*/I am the way, the truth, and the life.

No one can come to the Father except through me./" (John 14:6, NLT) *

*/There is salvation in no one else!

There is no other name in all of heaven for people to call on to save them.”/"

(Acts 4:12, NLT) *

*/And all who believe in God’s Son have eternal life.

Those who don’t obey the Son will never experience eternal life, but the wrath of God remains upon them.”/"

(John 3:36, NLT) *

*/But cowards who turn away from me, and unbelievers, and the corrupt, and murderers, and the immoral, and those who practice witchcraft, and idol worshipers, and all liars—their doom is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur.

This is the second death.”/"

(Revelation 21:8, NLT)** *

 

(a)      There Is A Saying:/ The Road To Hell Is Paved With Sincerity/.

q      Illustration of Mom (with stuffed up nose) telling her child the sandwich is O.K. 

q      It does not matter how sincere & upfront she was, the fact is that the mayo was like poison because of her neglect of the reality of the truth of the situation.

2.

They Trust In the Flesh (v.39)

 

/a)        //Abraham is our father… we have a Jewish lineage (v.39)/

1)        Being A Decent Of Abraham Was Not A Passport To Heaven (Luke 16:19-31).

(a)      They believed that simply being Abraham’s descendants, members of God’s chosen race, made them spiritually secure.

(b)      /It Was A Great Advantage In Knowing And Understanding God’s Will: / 

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*/What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

Much in every way!

Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God./" (Romans 3:1-2, NKJV) *

*/who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God.

Amen./" (Romans 9:4-5, NKJV) *

 

(c)      /But Without Faith In Him That Advantage Becomes A More Severe Condemnation/.

If Abraham himself was justified only by his personal faith, how could his descendants expect to be justified in any other way?

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*/And he [Abraham] believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness./"

(Genesis 15:6, NKJV) *

*/What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh?

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”/"

(Romans 4:1-3, NKJV) *

*/But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe.

For there is no difference;/" (Romans 3:21-22, NKJV)*

/b)        //If You Were Abraham’s Children, You Would Do The Works Of Abraham (v.39b)/

1)        Abraham Welcomed the Divine Messengers (Genesis 18:2)

*/Bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’

For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees.

Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire./"

(Matthew 3:8-10, NKJV) *

*/Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead./"

(James 2:17, NKJV) *

*/Little children, let no one deceive you.

He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous./"

(1 John 3:7, NKJV) *

*/If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?/"

(1 John 4:20)*

 

3.

They Want Christ Gone (v.40-41)

 

/a)        //Now you seek to kill me (v.40)/

1)        Instead of submitting to the Him, they decided to get rid of Him.

During the tribulation, people’s hearts will be so hardened against God that they will run /from /rather than /to /Him (Revelation 6:12-17).

*/I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.

And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.