Sermon Tone Analysis

! Introduction.

Luke 13:23-28; 21:34-36; 1Tim.4:1*

*CARNAL* — sensual, worldly, nonspiritual; relating to or given to the crude desires and appetites of the Flesh or body.

The apostle Paul contrasts “spiritual people”—that is, those who are under the control of the Holy Spirit—with those who are “carnal”—those under the control of the flesh.

The word “carnal” is usually reserved in the New Testament to describe worldly Christians.

Rom.

8:5–7

5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those /who live/ according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

6 For to be carnally minded /is/ death, but to be spiritually minded /is/ life and peace.

7 Because the carnal mind /is/ enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

 

*I.

YOU DON’T GROW SPIRITUALLY*

1 Cor.

3:1–3

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual /people/ but as to carnal, as to ababes in Christ.

2 I fed you with bmilk and not with solid food; cfor until now you were not able /to receive it,/ and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal.

For where /there are/ envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and 1behaving like /mere/ men?

 

 

!!! II.

Not Fruitful

Matthew 13:18-23 (NKJV)

18 “Therefore hear the parable of the sower: 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand /it,/ then the wicked /one/ comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart.

This is he who received seed by the wayside.

20 But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while.

For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

22 Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands /it,/ who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

John 15:1-8 (NKJV)

1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every /branch/ that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you.

As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

5 “I am the vine, you /are/ the branches.

He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw /them/ into the fire, and they are burned.

7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.

8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

Luke 13:6-9 (NKJV)

6 He also spoke this parable: “A certain /man/ had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.

7 Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, ‘Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none.

Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?’ 8 But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize /it./ 9 And if it bears fruit, /well./

But if not, after that you can cut it down.’

”

 

 

 

*III.

YOU HURT YOURSELF*

Psalm 106:13-15 (NKJV)

              13 They soon forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel,  14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tested God in the desert.

15 And He gave them their request, But sent leanness into their soul.

*    A.

Sampson (Sin binds, blinds, and grinds)  *

Judges 14:1-3

Now Samson went down ato Timnah, and bsaw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

2 So he went up and told his father and mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, cget her for me as a wife.”

3 Then his father and mother said to him, “/Is there/ no woman among the daughters of dyour brethren, or among all my people, that you must go and get a wife from the euncircumcised Philistines?”

And Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for 1she pleases me well.”

Judges 14:4-22

4 Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name /was/ Delilah.

5 And the clords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, d“Entice him, and find out where his great strength /lies,/ and by what /means/ we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred /pieces/ of silver.”

6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength /lies,/ and with what you may be bound to afflict you.”

7 And Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings, not yet dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any /other/ man.”

8 So the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings, not yet dried, and she bound him with them.

9 Now /men were/ lying in wait, staying with her in the room.

And she said to him, “The Philistines /are/ upon you, Samson!”

But he broke the bowstrings as a strand of yarn breaks when it touches fire.

So the secret of his strength was not known.

10 Then Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you have mocked me and told me lies.

Now, please tell me what you may be bound with.”

11 So he said to her, “If they bind me securely with enew ropes 1that have never been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any /other/ man.”

12 Therefore Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, “The Philistines /are/ upon you, Samson!”

And /men were/ lying in wait, staying in the room.

But he broke them off his arms like a thread.

13 Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies.

Tell me what you may be bound with.”

And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head into the web of the loom”—

14 So she wove /it/ tightly with the batten of the loom, and said to him, “The Philistines /are/ upon you, Samson!”

But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled out the batten and the web from the loom.

15 Then she said to him, f“How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart /is/ not with me?

You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength /lies./”

16 And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, /so/ that his soul was 2vexed to death, 17 that he gtold her all his heart, and said to her, h“No razor has ever come upon my head, for I /have been/ a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb.

If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any /other/ man.”

18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart.”

So the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.



19 iThen she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head.

Then 3she began to torment him, and his strength left him.

20 And she said, “The Philistines /are/ upon you, Samson!”

So he awoke from his sleep, and said, “I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free!”

But he did not know that the Lord jhad departed from him.

21 Then the Philistines took him and 4put out his keyes, and brought him down to Gaza.

They bound him with bronze fetters, and he became a grinder in the prison.

22 However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaven.

Judges 14:23-30

23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to lDagon their god, and to rejoice.

And they said:

     “Our god has delivered into our hands

     Samson our enemy!”

24 When the people saw him, they mpraised their god; for they said:

     “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy,

     The destroyer of our land,

     And the one who multiplied our dead.”

25 So it happened, when their hearts were nmerry, that they said, “Call for Samson, that he may perform for us.”

So they called for Samson from the prison, and he performed for them.

And they stationed him between the pillars.

26 Then Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars which support the temple, so that I can lean on them.”