Sermon Tone Analysis

Living Abundantly With Integrity

 

/You shall not steal./

*Exodus 20:15*

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/7 //So again Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

8 All who came before me are thieves and bandits; but the sheep did not listen to them.

9 I am the gate.

Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture.

10 The thief comes only to *steal and kill and destroy*.

*I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.*/

*John** 10:7-10*

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*God Will Bless My Integrity Abundantly Because:*

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·         *He [WATCHES] What I Do.*

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/16// //After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord, saying: Ah Lord God!

It is you who made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm!

Nothing is too hard for you.

You show steadfast love to the thousandth generation, but repay the guilt of parents into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of hosts, great in counsel and mighty in deed; *whose eyes are open to all the ways of mortals*, rewarding all according to their ways and according to the fruit of their doings./

*Jeremiah** 32:16-19*

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·         *Integrity Makes [MY CHARACTER] Like His.*

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/13// //Therefore *prepare your minds* for action; *discipline yourselves*; *set all your hope* on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed.

Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

Instead, as he who called you is holy, *be holy yourselves* in all your conduct; for it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”/

*1 Peter 1:13-16*

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*God Blesses My Integrity Abundantly When I:*

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·         *Make [RESTITUTION] When Possible.*

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/8 //Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will *pay back* four times as much.”

9 Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost./

*Luke** 19:8-10*

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·         *Make a Living [HONESTLY]*

 

/Thieves must give up *stealing*; rather let them *labor and work honestly* with their own hands, so as to have something *to share* with the needy./

*Ephesians 4:28*

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·         *Give to God [CHEERFULLY]*

 

/6//The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for *God loves a cheerful giver*.

And God is able to *provide you with every blessing in abundance*, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.

As it is written, “He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.”

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food *will supply and multiply your seed* for sowing and *increase *the harvest of your righteousness./

*2 Corinthians 9:6-10*