Sermon Tone Analysis

The Lion and the Lamb

The family reunion-

Robbie- two children have a degenerate disease that slowly takes their vision, speech, their muscles will stop working and then eventually they will die

I got to talk to him

and i saw his heart

i saw the brokenness

the hurt

He even said “ I go for walks in the woods and I cuss at God.”

The next day I was at the beach thinking of my message for this Sunday

but my mind couldn’t get off of Robbie and his children

I got real with God

Thinking of watching one of my children dying before my eyes is to much for me to think about

I got mad at God

I questioned how He could let something like this happen

I asked Him How do I even begin to show this broken man the love of God

My heart was broken

driving home I felt it again as I thought about Ainsley and Elijah

Again I prayed “God how could you lets this happen?”

God said “ What do you know about compassion?”

The church is the body of Christ

Fullness

59.32 πλήρωμαb, τος n: a total quantity, with emphasis upon completeness—‘full number, full measure, fullness, completeness, totality

We are the body of Christ

Ambassador

37.88 πρεσβεύω: (derivative of πρεσβεία ‘representative,’ 37.87) to function as a representative of a ruling authority—‘to be a representative of, to be an ambassador of.’

ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ οὖν πρεσβεύομεν ‘we, then, are representatives of Christ’

What is the world seeing?

So often the world sees the lion in the church

we make our presence known through our judgement on the world

But it is the same way that God showed His judgment?

The cross- The sacrificial Lamb

The Lion and the Lamb surely refer to Christ, with the Lamb referring to His first coming and His death and the Lion referring to His second coming and His sovereign judgment of the world.

This is the only place in Revelation where Christ is called a Lion, whereas the word “Lamb” (arnion, “a small or young lamb”) is found 27 times in Revelation and nowhere else in the New Testament.

But two similar words for a sacrificial lamb are used in the New Testament: arēn, found only in Luke 10:3,

There are a lot of Lions running around

constantly pointing their Self Righteous fingers at the world

But as Christians

Christ Followers

We need to walk as Christ walked

I am not greater then Jesus

and I need to live a life that follows in those footsteps

my actions need to reflect the one that I follow

Yes Jesus is the Lion

he will return and he will judge the world

but until that moment he is the still the lamb slain for the sins of the world

and we are called to be the same

When Jesus sent them out He said

We are sent out as lambs among wolves

How do we see the world?

is it a harvest ?

or cesspool?

is there value in the lives of “least of these”?

or are they some lesser life form?

Are we walking in the way of Christ?

as lambs sent out in the world

are we bringing the Hope of the glory of Christ ?

Verse 15- We live for Him who died for our sake

This is where we answer the question “Is Jesus Worth it?”

We don’t regard anyone according to the outside appearance -

As a result of his conversion Paul no longer evaluated people on the basis of externals

Verse 17- “ New Creation”

Everything is different

we see the world around us different

“what do you know about Compassion?”

there is world of people that I come in contact with everyday who are slowly die form sin

How do I see them?

is it a harvest that we see?

God So loved them He sent His son to the cross

and now he is calling the church to be sent out as lambs

Verse 19- God is calling the world to himself and has entrusted us with the ministry of Reconciliation

Entrusting

to cause a state to be—‘to cause to be, to make to be, to make, to result in, to bring upon, to bring about.’

And because of that we are ambassadors

what are we showing the world?

God is making His appeal to the world through His church

through His followers

Reconciliation

to reestablish proper friendly interpersonal relations after these have been disrupted or broken (the componential features of this series of meanings involve (1) disruption of friendly relations because of (2) presumed or real provocation, (3) overt behavior designed to remove hostility, and (4) restoration of original friendly relations)—‘to reconcile, to make things right with one another, reconciliation.’

What do I know about Compassion?

I know that God so Loved me That He sent His son to a cross in my place

and that is what drives me

because it did just stop with me

God has called the church to be that right representation to the world of who He His

God still loves this world and the cross is still redeeming and saving the lost

God still Desires mercy

and he has sent us out as lambs- to show the mercy, the grace and the love of the Father