Sermon Tone Analysis

And he gave some as Apostles and some as prophets, some is evangelist and some of us pastors and teachers for the equipping of the Saints for the work of service to the building up of the body of Christ.

And since we have gifts that differ a cording to the grace given to us, let us each.

Exercise is an accordion Lee.

If prophesy according to the proportion of his faith, if service in his serving, for he who teaches in his teaching, he who exhorts them.

Here is exhortation.

He who gives with liberality, he who leaves with diligence, he who shows, Mercy with chili, your phone is

But let all these things be done properly and in an orderly manner, are there only father we thank you that you have called us to be congregations Assemblies of your followers of the body of Christ and that we think you that you provided for us that you called this congregation together, you have satin established your work here and it still continues on.

So we pray your blessing on it, your blessing on the congregation your breasts, your blessing on all of the ministry, one to another, you tell us that we are to be like those chosen of God, holy and beloved, Lord, and attending to each other with a heart of gladness board, caring for one another with love.

So we pray that you would continue to guide and lead us in these things.

And we know that it is the, the stability and the backbone of scripture that gives us the house and the wise The meetings in the right wisdom or not just knowledge, but the wisdom to know how to proceed and that comes from the flowing of your spirit, through the word of God, alive and active in our hearts.

And so we pray that would continue as we study your word.

We thank you for your growth in your provision We Praise You In Christ Jesus name.

Right?

So we have been making our way through addressing that Covenant of peace that has been drawn up or will be drawn up between the Messiah and Israel in the future Millennial Kingdom.

And there is so much that the Old Testament has to say about this.

That it must be incredibly significant.

If it's incredibly significant and there's so much thought about it in the Old Testament.

Why don't we hear more pastors teaching about it?

Talking about it.

This Covenant of Grace is eternal Covenant that people start from the New Testament and then without proper more rings, are they jump back in the Old Testament and they want to interpret all of the Old Testament in light of the New Testament.

This would be the exact description of are Calvinists Brethren.

To think that the purpose of faith is so bitchin the glorification of God by the salvation of man.

So all of their purpose is put into this act of Salvation.

The Old Testament is interpreted through the Paradigm or the glass lenses.

If you will of that salvation Act, But then, they leave out this thing that we talked about which is after salvation.

Then what after salvation then we should be growing as Christians.

We should not stay as babies and stinky diapers or stay as a toddler's running around and don't really know anything.

Know the language and are dependent on others but we can sure get into trouble quick or the children that, you know, move from there.

We have step-by-step year-by-year.

We have a rinas of growth in scripture talks about that.

But also talks quite a bit about the rewards that are given to those who are the children of God, we as Christians as members of the royal family of God, we have a Manifest opportunity to walk in The Inheritance that has been provided for us in which we get to both utilize and earn blessings and rewards.

That will be affected throughout all of eternity.

So we are in the now.

It's actually part of growth as you go from you, no infancy to Childhood.

There's certain things that you pick up like the ability to speak the ability to have a vocabulary.

The ability to count there is a control over the body that comes with a faster, to some little slower to others.

But eventually getting to the point where you have pretty good control over your body, everyone can dance.

Just we don't always like looking at the way some people dance, but everyone can dance.

We can call it that.

Anyways, it's moving around at the same time that music's going on.

Some people do a better more coordinated, some people make it look amazing.

There are kinesthetic skills that are built off.

Amazing things to happen.

So too, and the Christian Life, there's a development of a great number of things items to be aware of why we have the ability to walk.

And all the gifts that I was just reading over earlier, walking and patience, and compassion, in knowledge, walking in the gifts and such a way, as, to be a giver.

Someone who gives someone who teaches someone who helps, someone who encourages, which is the what exhortation means, the means to be an encourager or a Sometimes a fire starter.

If you, if you will starting a fire to get people moving forward, we have a number of gifts that are all about serving the body of Christ, and all of those are increased.

As we learned the word of God, more of the word of God encourages us, helps us find our orientation.

Lets us begin to see perceive and pick out what our personal or individual gifts are.

And then as we learn what they are, we learn to betray.

And in them by the word of God, we get to then utilize them in a mature fashion or sense with other people.

In the congregation other people in the body of Christ or in the evangelism.

In Ministry, to those people who don't know the Lord, one of the Problems we have, is that there were always those, shall we call them slightly precocious Christian to seem to figure out what their gifts are far earlier than it can ever be of benefit to anyone else, but they sure want to use them just like you see the little kids dressing up in their firefighter clothes.

You know, I'm going to be a fireman.

Oh, I'm going to be Superman, I'm going to be a doctor.

I'm going to be a nurse whatever it may be, those individuals, you know, as little kids or not that effective realty, they can play the part.

They can pretend like they know what the part is.

They can role-play it but they can't actually do it until we have the same thing in the Christian Community with individuals.

I haven't really learned what their skills are.

They can really learn what the gifts are that have been given to them or what their role is in the body of Christ.

So, why in our particular?

Categorical, Grace movement, I think has been a little bit guilty in one sense that we have handicap some portions of those people who have been gifted as part of the body of Christ.

Know, if you have any of the guests out there, helped service Ministry Etc.

Then God bless.

You, get out there and do something.

But if you happen to have the gift of teaching or Administration, their work lamps, put on you, and it was as if you got the gift of teaching.

But it's not due to get the teaching, and everyone needs to be listening to him.

And so, we have people who had viable gifts, who have left to themselves, would have probably gone off, studied started other churches, and actually widened, and broaden the movement such and such a way that people are going to their Pastor teachers that we have a healthy organic relationship, I am the body of Christ.

We're like a mushroom.

You see one, you know, you're going to see twenty others.

Okay, there's no lifts and or buts about it.

I mean you might kick the one over and never see it another again but that's unlikely.

Why I noticed that you know walking by a patch and my and my business or my house and I see the mushrooms popping up and I think a great they're getting in their digesting everything and you're doing all that work in the soil, that makes it so much better.

I mean, there's dry stuff in the ground that they're going to get in and eat up.

So I think it's positive, but I see one pop up.

And then the next day I walked by a 50, next day, I walked by and there's 200.

And the ones who were there a couple days ago were already turning brown and turning into sludge, and then they're gone, you know, I'm the other ones are Papa and they're gone, in a few days will in some ways, the body of Christ is to be like that where you see one should see a bunch more popping up.

My Boy Lollipop.

So, that should be happening.

And I think in many ways because we were creating a cult, and I don't mean it in this terms of a the way other people have intended it, but we have created a wrong system of behavior.

We're in there was one top, dog as opposed to a bunch of people with the gift that are going to the word of God.

So, what we did is we made a person to Top Dog.

Instead of the word of God being the top, dog.

That's the problem.

That's a big problem and people in the movement recognize that some left it, many people in the movement, did not recognize it, but overall, it was beneficial.

But at that problem had been dealt with.

I think we would have had a better movement with better results, better infrastructure, more people more churches or individuals who are plugged into a Bible Doctrine oriented way of thinking and living.

Oh yeah, probably very much, so yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I just in the last three years.

I I can't remember.

What?

Yeah since covid we're like down in attendance like 60% yeah yeah so so it just went from there to there just dropped in half an amazing.

I'm so yeah that's part of the issue and part of it is because people were going to church for the wrong reason.

Really we have people are going to church for, you know, either personal reasons are going to church for, you know, a probation social approbation, you know, trying to get approval or whatever.

It may be more, they were looking for an experienced or they can still get that.

And we've even seen that here.

There were people who have been coming here who are just frankly, coming for the wrong reason.

And so now they're not here.

So I don't think that's a bad thing.

We want people to come here for the right reason.