Sermon Tone Analysis

I have heard it said that Christians are to point people to their sin so Jesus can draw them to himself.

Is it the Christian responsibility to go around and point out the sin of others?

Is it our calling to go around and show others their sin?

Intro

How many of you talk to the television?

Why?

Football game?

We argue that he coach or ref made a bad call.

We tell the player he should have gone right instead of left.

We are naturally bent toward telling others what they are doing wrong.

How many talk to the news report on TV? Argue with the anchor.

Argue with the person being interviewed?

Why? Same thing.

We are looking into the world of others and are passing some sort of judgment.

We are a busy people worried about everything outside of us and our desire is to know and control those events.

Newspaper

We read an obituary and see that a friend has died or someone we knew and we think how sad it is and how they will be missed.

In the same paper we see a criminal who breaks into a house and gets shot and killed by the owner and we think, well he deserved that.

In less than 5 minutes we have made a judgment call as if we were God and had the authority to even think that thought.

This is what I believe is intriguing to us about news.

We don’t just want to hear about facts that are happening in the world, we desire to place judgments and our rational on them.

How many of you talk to the television?

Our tendency to be concerned about everyone else, deflecting from ourself

It keeps us from focusing on our own sin and depravity

It helps us justify our own actions that may not be pure

Drama

Peter and Jesus

Peter asks Jesus about John - the Beloved Disciple

This is a revisiting of the Passover Meal where Jesus tells that he will be betrayed

This was to give us further evidence that the beloved disciples was in fact John the write of this gospel

Peter asked Jesus about John’s outcome, after hearing about his own demise

He could be asking to include him - “Is he gonna die like me?”

He could be asking to exclude him - “Is he special and beyond death, since you love him so much?”

It is our nature to deflect and be concerned about others

It is easier to look at others and compare

Their sin is worse than ours

It is easy for rumors to get started

John 21:

Satan loves for us to be distracted by other peoples sin.

He also loves for us to be caught up in rumors.

Trust me I hear both of these from many of you.

I get caught up in it also.

It is how Satan works.

But, Jesus calls for us to be different.

Doctrine

We first, need to understand what it is that Jesus is saying here:

Jesus’ Authority

Glorification of Jesus

God moves men when and where he desires

Jesus recognizes His providence

Man is not to be concerned with things that belong to God

Jesus

Over man

To give life

John 5:21

To execute judgment

John 5:27

& 27

Over events surrounding the consummation

Over the disciple

“follow me”

Peter was told to keep his eyes on Jesus and not worry about anyone else

Salvation is the work of Jesus and is not for us to know

Mystery of Jesus, He is the Lord and has that right

Also, tells us about Christian liberty

Jesus gives us a longing after him but a freedom to obey or not obey

Christian Liberty

freedom from sin

freedom from condemnation and wrath of God

free from the curse of the law

free from bondage of satan

THE liberty which Christ hath purchased for believers under the gospel, consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the curse of the moral law; and in their being delivered from this present evil world, bondage to Satan, and dominion of sin,b from the evil of afflictions, the sting of death, the victory of the grave, and everlasting damnation; as also in their free access to God,d and their yielding obedience unto him, not out of slavish fear, but a child-like love, and willing mind.

All

We need to be OK with Jesus’ authority over us

Anything else is rebellion