Sermon Tone Analysis

Reason for this Series

What applies from OT

Previous Sermons

What has been covered in previous sermons

1 - Taken Away or Established

History of Covenant

Adam

Noah

Abraham

Isaac

Jacob

Moses

Priest and Levites

David

Solomon

New Testament

God’s Covenant Changed

covenant people changed

approach changed

2 - What Still Applies

What aspects of the OT law apply to us today.

Theological Categories

Moral Law- 10 Commandments

Types and Shadows

Ceremonies

Civil Law

Theocracy

Health Laws

3 - Spring Feasts

OT History

Prophetic Fulfillment

Modern Day Application

4 - Fall Feasts

OT History

Prophetic Fulfillment

Modern Day Application

5 - Can God Make Void What He Proclaimed to be Everlasting

God Proclaimed

OT covenant eternal

God brought it to an end

It that possible?

All Promises

All Covenants

Conditional

Obsession with Outward Feast Keeping

Jews had become

Perfect Feast Day Keepers

Outwardly

Legalistic expectation

fulfill list of

ceremonies

Isaiah 58:1–10 (ESV)

“Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.

Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.

‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?

Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’

Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.

Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist.

Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.

Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself?

Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?

Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord?

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’

If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

God Hates

Ceremonialism...

Legalism

Outward Form Keeping

Feast Keeping

sin in heart

= hypocrisy

OT People

continually

falling into trap

Must perform ceremonies

not doing it right

1 Samuel 15:22–23 (ESV)

And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord?

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”

God does not care

about silly ceremonies.

He cares about the heart.

These ceremonies

require

expected

specific process

Why

to win the heart.

prepare heart

Micah 6:6–8 (ESV)

“With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high?

Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil?

Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?