Sermon Tone Analysis

Jesus is our Assurance for whatever we need.

noun

1 a positive declaration intended to give confidence.

The New Bible Dictionary, Third Edition (Assurance)

ASSURANCE.

1. Grounds for certainty (a pledge, token or proof).

2. The state of certainty.

Sense 1 is found in Acts 17:31, where Paul says that by raising Jesus God has ‘given assurance to all men’ Assured faith in the NT has a double object: first, God’s revealed truth, viewed comprehensively as a promise of salvation in Christ; second, the believer’s own interest in that promise.

In both cases, the assurance is correlative to and derived from divine testimony.

J. I. Packer, “Assurance,” ed.

D. R. W. Wood et al., New Bible Dictionary (Leicester, England; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996), 95.

Jesus is having a conversation with the Pharisees who are supposed to be the shepherds of Isreal.

Jesus rebukes them for their lack of compassion and concern.

Jesus lets them know that the true shepherd goes in and out with no problems.

The keeper knows him.

The true shepherd is not just known by the doorkeeper but he is known by the sheep also.

The true shepherd knows every sheep by name.

Jesus knows us before we know ourselves.

Those that belong to Jesus will never be lost.

The false shepherds, the Pharisees, did not understand what Jesus was talking about.

They did not understand about the shepherd, but they understood who “I AM” is.

Because Jesus is the good shepherd we can be Assured we can live the Abundant life.

Life is more than having things of this world.

Whatever you need Assurance in, God through Jesus has provided it.