Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Let me ask you, what do you love more than anything?

Now let me ask you again, what do you really love more than anything?

What do your actions say that you love.

You see your actions are actually what is going to tell you the truth.

You can say all day long, I love this or I love that but yours actions may indicate another love.

In fact, we are in church and most of you may have given the teachers pet answer and said “I love Jesus more than anything”

But does your life actually say that you love Jesus more than anything.

Does your prayer life, Bible time, actions and more say “I love Jesus Christ more than anything”.

Friends, I am afraid this may be the direction in which we find our-self traveling.

Perhaps we are living in an world that has neglected the saviors calls.

Perhaps our love is misdirected

You know, we live in a world that likes to follow the trends.

We like to follow the trends of the world we live in

To do what is popular

Friends I am afraid this may mean that we have began to trend the wrong way

we are.....

I. Downward Trending

I fear that as 2 Timothy 3:4 says we may be trending in the wrong direction.

Notice the last part of that verse.

2 Timothy teaches that there will come a time when people are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.

Now 2 timothy does not say “They choose not to love God at all”

You see we live in a world where people want a little God, but they never want all of God.

They want to love God when it is convenient, or when they need help.

They want to love God but not as much as they love the pleasures of the world.

Friends, this sounds familiar to me, it sounds as though this is the very world in which we find our self in.

A world that desires the pleasures that surround us mroe than we desire a personal relationship with out savior.

How often are we living a double life.

how long can be continue to believe that we can get by with coming to church once in a while.

giving a little bit of offering.

And that being enough for Jesus our Lord....

Jesus Christ has higher expectations of us than to sit in our pews while loving the flesh of the world.

Friends I ask you today, are you lovers of the pleasure of this world more than you are a lover of Jesus Christ?

I fear that many in this world are more excited about what can be offered to them through Jesus rather than fully committing their life to Him, as he has died for us.

as we continue on looking at 2 Timothy 3:5

Friends, everywhere you look the world has a form of Godliness.

Meaning sprinkles of God intersect the lives of the people in this world.

Just enough God to say, I go to church on Sunday.

Or Just enough God to hang a Bible verse in our home.

But failing to have enough God to actually live our life for him.

So what do you really love on this Sunday?

In this regard, the small amount of love that we show for Jesus Christ.

Just enough to sprinkle him into our life.

Isn’t that version of Godliness more for us than it is Him?

The version of Love that causes us to love only a little bit of God is more so we can tell feel good about ourself.

It is more so we can feel good because we went to church today.

Friends, going to church today is not enough of a relationship with Jesus Christ.

What if we stay the same.

What if we never change?..

II.

What if?

You see the question is pretty easy to answer today.

In fact the word of God answers it for us. 2 Timothy 3 1

You see, these things, that have been mentioned.

Living as people who pretend to know God but do not.

Loving the flesh of this world more than Jesus Christ.

These things are signs of the last days.

Friends, its coming soon.

I am excited for when it does but here is my problem.

I see many who are lost and do not know him.

Friends, we need our Lord to work a great miracle in this land.

We need our Lord to change our hearts today.

So let me ask you this, what if he is trying to change your heart right now.

You know the devil will do a good job at trying to play tricks on us.

what lies is he telling you today.

No matter what he is telling you the truth is.

You have to live faithfully and boldly for him in every aspect of your life.

So are we going to do the same thing we have always done or are we going to make a change?

III.

Make a Change

Friends, are we going to continue to live like this, waiting on God to do something in this land.

He will not act if we are not faithful.

Are you a faithful people for him?

Because when you go into this world claiming to be a Jesus follower but fail to live completely as a Jesus follower you not only are hurting yourself but you display to everyone that you love the world, more than you love Jesus Christ.

But friends, today is the day to change that.

You have the choice to not live in the desires of this world any longer.

You have the choice to live completely devout to Jesus Christ today.

So I want to challenge us today, what are you going to do differently than you have been doing.

If the person who lives in this world is you, than you know it in your heart.

But if you continue to deny it, you only are lying to yourself.

Its’s time to make a change today.

Brothers and Sisters, we are called deeper than this world.

You know, perhaps the most compelling truth of this scrpture is verse 7

2 timothy 3 7 where scripture says that we are this....

In a world where further education is so important.

Learning the next philosophy or standard.

Friends, mankind has missed the mark completely.

We are now more focused on how to make us smarter than the next person, how to get ahead of the next guy.

That we have missed the most important truth.

That is Jesus Christ.

we have missed what our heart is trying to tell us....

IV.

The Truth of Our Hearts.

Friends, we are looking for the next best thing.

The next person, the next good feeling.

looking for something to fill a void that we will never fill.

you know, the reason mankind has been searching for constant advancement since Adam and Eve was banished fromt he garden of Ededn is simple.

We continuously are looking to fill a hole that was caused by.

When Adam and Eve sinned, sin began to separate man and God

Since that day we have been looking and searching.