Sermon Tone Analysis

Review

We Are Not Cowardly, 2 Corinthians 4:1-2

Ministers of the New Covenant

Speaking Against the Hidden Things of Shame

We speak the truth, not baiting the Word of God

The god of This Age Has Blinded the Minds of the Ones Perishing, 2 Corinthians 4:3-4

It is Hidden to Those Who are Perishing

Satan does not want the Gospel Message Getting in

God Causes Light to Illuminate in Darkness, 2 Corinthians 4:5-6

The Heralding with Authority, 2 Corinthians 4:5

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus [is] Lord, and ourselves your servants on account of Jesus,

Paul was not presenting Himself to Them

It is Not Through Paul that Light Comes

God is the One Bringing Light, 2 Corinthians 4:6

2 Corinthians 4:6

because the God, the One Who said, "Out of darkness light will illuminate", Who illuminated in our hearts facing the light of the knowledge of the proper opinion of the God in [the] face of Jesus Christ.

Through the Gospel for Salvation, 1 Corinthians 15:1-4

The Importance of Truth

Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures

Christ was raised from the dead three days later according to the Scriptures

God is the One Who Illuminates the Heart of Men to the Truth

Let there be Light, Genesis 1:3

The Earth was in a State of Judgment With No Light on the Deep, Genesis 1:2

Lucifer Has Fallen, Isaiah 14:13-14

The Earth Was Judged, 2 Peter 3:5

2 Peter 3:5 (NASB95)

For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed (συνεστῶσα) out of water (ἐξ ὕδατος) and by water (διʼ ὕδατος),

Having a Proper Opinion of God and Jesus Christ

Rejecting God Brings Darkness, Romans 1:21

Romans 1:21

because they, knowing the God, did not as God express a proper opinion [of Him] or were thankful, but were rendered worthless in their reasoning and their foolish hearts were caused to be darkened.

The god of this Age Blinds the Minds of the Unsaved to the Gospel of Salvation, 2 Corinthians 4:4

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the god of this age has blinded the thoughts of the unbelievers resulting in the enlightenment of the gospel of the proper opinion of the Christ, Who is the image of the God, not shining bright to them.

This Gospel has and inherent ability to Save, Romans 1:16

Romans 1:16

For I myself am not ashamed of the Gospel of the Christ for it is the natural ability of God unto salvation to all the one’s believing, Both Jew first and Gentile.

Different from Other Gospels Such as the Gospel of the Kingdom (The Parable of the Sower), Matthew 13:2-8

Speaking to Israel Concerning the Gospel of the Kingdom, Matthew 13:11

The Evil One Snatches the message out from the heart, Matthew 13:19

The Light Brings a Proper Understanding of God through Jesus Christ

We are to be Luminaries by Living Out Christ in Us, Philippians 2:14-16

Philippians 2:14–16

All of you do all things apart from grumbling and disputing,

in order that you, yourself, should become blameless and innocent, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as luminaries in [the] world,

while holding fast a word of life, unto my boasting unto a day of Christ, that I have not run unto emptiness, nor toiled unto emptiness.

Held in Earthen Vessels, 2 Corinthians 4:7-12

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earth-made vessels, in order that the super abounding of the inherent ability should be from God and not out from us.

The Light of the Knowledge of a proper opinion of God in the face of Jesus Christ

It is a Result of the Super Abounding of God’s Inherent Ability, not Ours

Paul is Not Claiming to Be the Source of the Message that Brings Life

This Power Is not from the Flesh

The Impact of the Light of the Proper Opinion of God Through Christ Entering Our Hearts

We Have a Saved Spirit, 1 Corinthians 6:17

We Have a Quality of Divine Fellowship, 2 Peter 1:4

We Can Understand the Things of the Spirit, 1 Corinthians 2:14-16

1 Corinthians 2:14–16

But a soulish man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot inherently understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.

For who has known the mind of the Lord?

The one knit together with Him, and we have mind of Christ.

We Still Have our Sin Nature, But it is Rendered Ineffective in Christ, Romans 6:6

Romans 6:6

experientially knowing this, that our old man was co-crucified in order that the body of the sin [nature] should be rendered ineffective, so that we are no longer slaves to the sin [nature].

We Have the Ability to Mature in Christ, Hebrews 5:14

Manifesting the Death of Christ so Others Will Have Life, 2 Corinthians 4:8-10

Pressed (In Tribulation), 2 Corinthians 4:8

2 Corinthians 4:8

In all, while being pressed but not being restrained, while despairing but not totally despairing,

But Not Restrained

The Corinthians Were Restraining Themselves Because of Their Feelings, 2 Corinthians 6:12

Despairing (Without Resources)

Typically used of Not Understanding

Herod Concerning What to Do With John the Baptist, Mark 6:20

The Two Women At the Grave of Christ on Sunday Morning, Luke 24:4

The Disciples When Christ Stated One of Them Would Betray Him, John 13:21

Paul Concerning the Willingness of the Galatian Christians Rejecting Grace, Galatians 4:20

Not Completely Without

Having No Means By Which You Can See A Way Through

Despairing even life, 2 Corinthians 1:8

2 Corinthians 1:8

For we do not desire for you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our tribulation, the one having come to us in Asia, that just as we were excessively burdened, beyond [our] natural ability, so that we despaired also to live.

Persecuted, but not Abandoned, 2 Corinthians 4:9

2 Corinthians 4:9

while being persecuted but not being left behind, while being struck down but not destroyed,

Men Abandoned Paul, 2 Timothy 4:16

God Does Not Abandon His Own, Hebrews 13:5

Cast Down, but Not Ruined

Cast down is used of laying a foundation, Hebrews 6:1

Destroyed means to bring something to ruin

Those Who Were Willing to Give All to Follow the Messiah, Mark 8:35

Old Wine skins, Luke 5:37

Carrying Around the Death of Christ In Our Bodies, 2 Corinthians 4:10

2 Corinthians 4:10

always while carrying around the death of the Lord Jesus in the body in order that also the life of Jesus in our body should be manifested.

Christ Died to Sin Once for All, Romans 6:10

Romans 6:10

for that which He died, He died once to the sin [nature].