Sermon Tone Analysis

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Entice: From the moment we hear and respond to the Gospel.

from that point forward our quest is to respond appropriately to the message.

Engage: This is a combination of right knowledge leading to right behavior.

Expand: I don't like to get too technical in the pulpit.

You are all smart.

You have done things which require planning and built things from blue prints.

This is a passage in which design and structure help indicate meaning.

(ean+subjunctiv verb) Words, clauses, and sentences are building blocks of language.

Putting them together creates a message. in vs 5 John says this is the message.

1 John 1:5 (ESV)

5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Then he focuses on the details of that message in terms of what God has done in Christ, and how our redemption requires us to think clearly about our sinful nature, forgiveness, and the redeemed lifestyle.

Paul talked about justification.

John's chooses different terminology to discuss the transition from fallenness, to forgiveness, to sanctification.

His explanation is based on walking rightly, understanding how forgiveness for past sins helps us to live to avoid future sin while understanding that we still all do commit acts of sin, but that continuing forgiveness flows from our ongoing relationship with Christ.

Excite: The task's set before us are clearly set apart in the text so that we can follow his clear instruction.

As we go through the text I have tried to highlight the organizational features of the text to help us understand the pattern of obedience that John is teaching us.

Explore:

The message that redeems us is the message which refines us and sanctifies us as we abide in it.

Explain: John organizes this text around the marks for truly walking in Christ.

Body of Sermon: First,

1. Walk in true fellowship

1 John 1:6 (ESV)

6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

With God

who is light; not in or of the world of darkness.

While Doing the Truth.

2. Walk in true Light

1 John 1:7 (ESV)

7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

A redeemed lifestyle

A redeemed people

A redeemed reality.

3. Walk in true understanding.

1 John 1:8 (ESV)

8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Not perfectionism.

Claiming to be above sinful acts is self-serving and arrogant.

We will fail.

But in Christ we have been forgiven and have a means for continuing restoration.

Faith is not being perfect but means

Abiding in the saving Word.

4. Walk in true cleansing.

1 John 1:9 (ESV)

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Awareness of our own shortcomings

Awareness of ongoing forgiveness.

5. Walk in the true Word.

1 John 1:10 (ESV)

10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Our fallen nature.

God's nature

God's implanted abiding truth.

Abiding in the truth means we accept that we are sinners, rely on God to save us according to His Word, and accept that Word as the guiding foundation for our own life.

Shut Down:

How we walk.

Where we walk.

With whom we walk.

The essence of Christian living is an ongoing walk with God in which we listen and learn, confess and cleanse our sins, obey and follow.

John is instructing us, in part from his own experience in following Jesus.

He was there for some of the failures in Jesus’ earthly ministry and there at the greatest triumph.

What we are doing may seem mundane compared with life and ministry in the presence of Jesus.

Yet, through the Spirit, instructed by the Scripture we can live the same purposeful life and have the same productive walk more than 20 centuries later.

The message is the same.

God is light.

In Christ Jesus He invites us to walk in that light, tragically fallen, fully redeemed, purposefully restored.

These are God's word to guide a good life in Him.