Sermon Tone Analysis

INTRO

TNCC Verse

Fake plants

TNCC Answer

the benefits

the dangers

Do any of these names mean anything to you?

Albert Talton

Wesley Weber

INTRO

Arthur Williams

Anatasios Arnout

Frank Bourassa

Anyone know what they are known for?

5 of the Biggest Money Counterfeiters From the Past 20 Years

What makes any counterfeiter successful?

a counterfeiters biggest goal is accuracy…

Do you know any counterfeiters?

Did you know I used to be a counterfeiter before I became a Christian?

I believe that all of us struggle with counterfeiting!!

Illustration of need addressed.

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this is the issue in todays text...

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Title & Text

Real or Counterfeit

Instead of relying on God Jacob pretends to be someone he is not.

Text

There are certain characteristics of a true Christian.

Some of these characteristics can be counterfeited while others cannot.

You may be able to fool men but you can never fool God.

Application

Repent from counterfeit Christianity!

Theme

Instead of relying on God Jacob pretends to be someone he is not.

Pray

Father we live in world where packages matter.

Advertisers pay millions of dollars every year to try and find what works to make us buy their products.

We ourselves even try to dress ourselves up to present ourselves in a way as to make ourselves appear a certain way to people.

You are the God of truth, as we come into contact with your living Word today please expose to our hearts where we are being false and fake.

Renew our minds and create in us a new and clean heart oh God.

THE SERMON BODY

Text

There are certain characteristics of a true Christian.

Some of these characteristics can be counterfeited while others cannot.

You may be able to fool men but you can never fool God.

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points should follow textual sequence unless good reason to change.

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Use personal observances to illustrate difficult concepts.

14-18

14 So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved.

15 Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

16 And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

17 And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

18 So he went in to his father and said, “My father.”

And he said, “Here I am.

Who are you, my son?”

18 So he went in to his father and said, “My father.”

And he said, “Here I am.

Who are you, my son?” 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn.

I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.”

Rebekah the Master Counterfeiter and Puppeteer

She is the primary actor here

simulates the feel and smell of Esau

best garments

appropriate yet blasphemous

goat skins

delicious food / bread

his offering

Jacob was her puppet

Jacob was a counterfeit

There are certain characteristics of a true Christian.

Outward

appearance

communication

actions

religious faithfulness

Satan and our Flesh are Master Counterfeiters and Puppeteers

Pinocchio wanted to be a real boy!… do you?

Inward

love

joy

peace

patience

kindness

goodness

faithfulness

gentleness

self-control

19-23

18 So he went in to his father and said, “My father.”

And he said, “Here I am.

Who are you, my son?”19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn.

I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.”20

But Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?”

He answered, “Because the Lord your God granted me success.”

21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

22 So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” 23 And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands.