Sermon Tone Analysis

There are things that we have come to associate with one another, to the point that they are basically two halves that make up the same.

Let me mention some of them.

If I were to say peanut butter and you would say

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my clicker is not working again, I don't know if that's Okay.

Are peanut butter and jelly.

If I were to say macaroni and you might say she's a Viber to say, so you might think pepper.

These are things.

We have become so familiar with that.

We are used to hearing them together and we tend to think of them as connected in the Christian life.

There are some things that were supposed to think of, in kind of the same way.

Paul resident, says walk in the spirit, walk in the spirit, he says, pray without ceasing without ceasing in John.

It says, for God.

So loved the world that he gave.

Amen.

And where do you think fruit of the spirit?

What we're going to do today is look at you ideas, that scripture often presents together.

There are two sides of the same coin and if we find one without the other, we find problems.

Trials and difficulties and try to tackle this topic.

I need to pray.

So let's pray.

Father, we thank you so much for your precious.

Holy word.

We stand here and we join together.

Not because we are have arrived, but because father, we are in desperate need of you need of your word proclaimed, clearly passionately.

And so I asked if that would be, what takes place this morning, that father, you would remove from our hearts and our minds, all the distractions, all the cares, and the Warriors, and the fears, and it concerns and father, may we come into your presence with a desire to hear from you.

Speak to us through your word.

We pray in Jesus name, amen.

Well, as you all know, this is the last message.

I'll preach as senior, pastor of Grace Church and those are difficult words to say, as excited as my family and I are for God's next chapter.

In our story, we're going to miss this place.

We're going to miss all of you because we love you.

And I thought about the last things, I wanted to say, this passage came to mine.

1st.

Corinthians, 16 verses 13 and 14.

Let me read them again.

Watch Stand Fast in the face.

Be brave, be strong.

Let all that you do.

Be done with love.

It is these words that I want to have some up our ministry here?

As gracechurch moves forward, I believe that God would have the body of Christ.

Focus on two things.

A dual Focus, if you will and our principal.

This morning is this Christ desires his body to be unified and effective.

This principle comes to us with guidance to be unified and effective.

A dual focus is necessary and this leads us to an outcome.

When the focus is right, the body is knit together and it works together to be unified and effective.

A juul focus is necessary.

Focus number one, focus on discernment.

Focus on discernment.

Where's 13, says, watch Stand Fast in the fade.

Be brave.

Be strong.

Discernment is something that has been and will continue to be a passion of mine.

Scripture reveals that discernment is a sign of maturity as we grow in Christ.

And we interact with his word impart to us, the ability to tell the difference between truth and dare to tell the difference between those who love the Lord.

And those who love only themselves.

And In this passage, Paul is wrapping up his letter to the Corinthian Church and what he does.

If he leaves them with five directives, five commands are for in verse 13 and 11.

Verse 14.

We bind the First Command which is to watch.

Watch

Watch is the Greek word.

Gregorio.

And it means to be on the alert to be awake to be a, we're convinced conceived of as staying awake.

And the image here in this word is that of someone on guard, this picture is of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

And one of my favorite stories in recent times as how these soldiers guarded this tomb through hurricanes, through bad weather, through all these times where people were evacuated, they stood guard on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 24/7.

What is a guard will the guard is someone who stays awake.

Someone, who is always ready prepared to take whatever action is needed at any given time.

That is what Paul is calling us as Believers to be to be on guard.

That's something they wonder.

Why do we need to watch?

Why do we need to be on guard?

What are we guard?

Against.

Let's talk about that because there's another well-known passage where this word appears 1st Peter.

5:8, be sober, be vigilant because your adversary, the devil walks about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

Why do we need to be on guard?

Why do we need to watch?

Well, because we have an enemy We are alert.

We are aware.

We are watching because our enemy wants to devour us and he uses many tactics.

Many attacks many approaches to meet us away from Christ.

I have we don't see him coming.

We're going to be caught by him.

This is why we have to be on guard and we have gone through the book of 1st Corinthians.

We have seen several tactics of Satan.

One of them is division.

Paul wrote to 1st Corinthians because they were dividing over personality.

Right?

We all remember, I'm a tall.

Oh yeah.

Well I am.

I like Peter Jesus, right?

You have all the groups.

These dividing against each other.

Why over personality?

See, as it got moved, my family and I are way.

What are the dangers that I want you to guard against?