Sermon Tone Analysis

The people of God are to imitate God

1 Pe 1:16 “Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.”

Eph 5:1 “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;”

The people of God are to imitate Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ is the example for believers

Mt 16:24 “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.”

Jn 13:15 “For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.”

Good examples are to be followed.

1 Corinthians 11:1 “Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.”

Bad examples are to be Marked.

Php 3:17 “Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.”

2 Th 3:7–9 “For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.”

Christians are to imitate the good example of other believers

Heb 6:12 “That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.”

Christian leaders are to set examples which can be imitated

Heb 13:7 “Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.”

1 Pe 5:3 “Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.”

Believers are to imitate the good example of those who have gone before

Heb 12:1 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”

God’s people are not to imitate bad examples

Israel must not imitate other nations

Le 20:23 “And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.”

Dt 18:9 “When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.”

2 Ki 17:15 “And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.”

Call to action: Who have you be imitating?