Sermon Tone Analysis

INTRO

When you are looking for something what do you do?

I’ve searched everywhere!

TITLE & TEXT

Living or Dead

Luke 24.1-9

THEME

We will only find what we are looking for if we know the what, the where and the when.

ISRAEL

Freedom

Land

Leadership

Messiah

US

Physical Fitness

Mental Health

Emotional Support

Spiritual Guidance

PRAY

God our Father, we live in a world that continuously feeds us message after message and image after image promising us the best, brightest, shiny and new life, one that is bigger, better and more fulfilling then the dream we were chasing last week.

We are bombarded with selfish, unhappy, unfulfilled longings for satisfaction in our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual fulfillments.

God you have created us to be creatures who desire satisfaction in all of these areas of our lives and yet we cannot seem to attain them as we continuously seek and never really seem to find.

We are tired of longing, tired of seeking, tired of searching and we ask that today you might give us revelation as to where we can find these things.

Help us God, we pray.

Amen!

TEXT EXPOSITION

V1-4

Early on The First Day [Dawn]

Sunday

At dawn - daybreak - day 1 = light over darkness [Gen 1.1-5]

Christian worship on Sunday / Saturday [Act 20.7]

Strength of conviction for disciples to move day of worship

They = Women

Mary Magdelene, Mary [mother of James] & [Jesus] & Joanna

Mary Magdelene - [seven demons]

Spices / ointments = anoint the body

[ironic] huge rock in the way

Prepared before / rest on Sabbath - Sunday morning

V2

Stone Rolled Away

What luck!!

V3

No Body

What disappointment!

Luke = Physician - body was gone

Lord Jesus

V4

Perplexed!?

Place yourself here...

How often are we perplexed with the things of the LORD when instead we ought to be comforted by it?

The Trinity

Free Will vs Sovereign God

Two Men

minimum # for validation

angels

“dazzling apparel” = “flashing lightning”

V5

Filled With Fear = emphobon - emphobos - phobia

Paralyzed with fear / Reverence and Awe

Bowed their faces

what type of message was this?

The Question:

“Why do you seek the living among the dead?”

Good question!

Physical Fitness

Dr. Oz

Mental Health

Dr. Phil

Emotional Support

Oprah

Spiritual Guidance

Deepak Chopra

“Why do you seek the living among the dead?”

PHYSICAL FITNESS

Luke 5.31

1 Cor 9.27

Rom 12.1

1 Tim 4.8

PHYSICAL FITNESS

Real physical fitness is only found when we are giving ourselves over physically to serving God through Christ.

We are often worried about the appearance of physical fitness, when it is our physical fitness to work and be used that is the real goal of our bodies.

MENTAL HEALTH

Rom 12.2

Eph 4.20-24

Pro 28.26

Rom 8.5-8

MENTAL HEALTH

Real mental health is only gained by the renewing of our minds as we meditate on God’s Word through the power of His Holy Spirit.

Our mental health is directly correlated to the clarity of our worldview as it is based on and driven by the Word of God.

EMOTIONAL SUPPORT

Ps 54.2

Ps 140.6

Mrk 10.21

Heb 4.14-16

2 Cor 1.3

EMOTIONAL SUPPORT

We have no greater support emotionally then our Father in Heaven and Christ our saviour.

Our Father who created us, see us, knows us and Jesus who sticks closer then a brother.

The Holy Spirit of God dwells in each of us knowing even our most intimate feelings.

SPIRITUAL GUIDENCE