Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Effect of Sin

Broken relationship with God

Broken relationship with others.

Personal brokenness

Sin affects us in that we are guilty before a holy God and are deserve Judgment.

Sin also affected us in our: Thinking, Will, Emotions, Body, and Spirit

God will Save.

God has declared that He will not leave us in our sin, but will provide a way of Salvation.

The Gospel is the message that God accomplished the goal of His plan of redemption in Jesus Christ.

He accomplished dealing with Sin and all the affects of it.

Jesus in dealing with the guilt of Sin also united us with Him and deals with the sin in our lives

Titus 3:1–7 (ESV)

1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, 2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.

3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Regeneration - “(an idiom, literally ‘to be born again’); παλιγγενεσίαa, ας f: to experience a complete change in one’s way of life to what it should be, with the implication of return to a former state or relation—‘to be born again, to experience new birth, rebirth.’”

(Louw, Johannes P., and Eugene Albert Nida.

Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains 1996: 509.

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Renewal - “to cause something to become new and different, with the implication of becoming superior—‘to make new, renewal.’”

(Louw, Johannes P., and Eugene Albert Nida.

Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains 1996: 593.

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Gospel Solution 3 - Personal Brokenness

Light to the Dark (John 1:1-13)

Clean to the Unclean

Comfort to the Broken

Forgiveness to the Sinner

Light in the Dark room

In the dark room

We can’t see anything.

We feel around and don’t know what we are sensing.

We have no real clarity in the reality of that room.

We are in the dark.

When the light comes on.

We see everything in the room.

We see the reality of the room.

(See things as they really are)

We see what to do.

(How to get around the room safely or leave the room)

Biblical theme of light and dark.

“Light and darkness are recurring themes in John’s Gospel.

God is light (1 John 1:5) while Satan is “the power of darkness” (Luke 22:53).

People love either the light or the darkness, and this love controls their actions (John 3:16–19).

Those who believe on Christ are the “sons of light” (John 12:35–36).

Just as the first Creation began with “Let there be light!”

so the New Creation begins with the entrance of light into the heart of the believer (2 Cor.

4:3–6).

The coming of Jesus Christ into the world was the dawning of a new day for sinful man (Luke 1:78–79).”

(Wiersbe, Warren W. The Bible Exposition Commentary.

Vol. 1. Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996.

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In our sin, we are in the dark without clear understanding of our lives or the condition of our lives.

We need the Light of God to illuminate our reality of sin.

Jesus is the light of God in our world to bring understanding, guidance, and salvation.

John 1:1–13 (ESV)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.

8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.

9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.

11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

Jesus is the Light from God. (4) This whole text is about Jesus (1:1-18)

Life - "This phrase is emphasizing that "life" itself comes from the Son, the Word.

John uses the term, zoē, to refer to resurrection life, eternal life, God's life.”

(Bob Utley)

Light - metaphorically, the light of Divine truth, spiritual illumination; a source or dispenser of spiritual light (Mounce, William D. Mounce’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament Words 2006: 1308.

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Jesus is the Word (vs 1 and 14) and in Him is life.

Jesus is the light shining in the darkness.

Think about the room illustration.

Jesus brings understanding about God, Ourselves, Sin and salvation.

Jesus shows us the reality of our situation in Sin.

(Guilt, suffering, judgment)

Jesus guides us out of Sin into Salvation.

Darkness could not overcome Him (5)

Darkness - (figurative extensions of meaning of σκότοςa and σκοτίαa ‘darkness,’ 14.53) the realm of sin and evil—‘evil world, realm of evil, darkness.’

(Louw, Johannes P., and Eugene Albert Nida.

Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains 1996: 755.

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overcome - to gain control over—‘to overcome, to gain control of.’

(Louw, Johannes P., and Eugene Albert Nida.

Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains 1996: 473.

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The spiritual forces, Human forces, or sinful passions could not overcome or extinguish the light of Christ.

John 3:16–21 (ESV)

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

This is the Judgment.

He gives light to all men.

(9)

True Light (9)

True - pertaining to being what something should be—‘genuine, sincere, true.’ (Louw, Johannes P., and Eugene Albert Nida.

Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains 1996: 674.