Sermon Tone Analysis

He Is The Reason_pt1: We Live

[HAVE YOU EVER HEARD?] - Jesus is the reason for the season!

It may be cliche, but it’s absolutely true!

[THIS MONTH] - We’re going to unpack this statement.

In a culture where Christmas has the interest of everyone - even non-believers, it’s easy to allow ourselves to forget what this season is all about...

And on the other end of the spectrum, it’s also easy to forget to live this meaning, all year long!

This entire life we share is about Jesus.

He is the reason...

He is the reason...

[STORY] - Have you ever seen those people who’s dogs just walk calmly next to them?

Well, we’ve never experienced that!

[Jake on the Promenade in Santa Monica]

Jake saw an opportunity to run as an opportunity to LIVE!

He wasn’t being rebellious, he just wanted to LIVE!

[PAYOFF] - How about that animals who have been abused - chain or caged inhumanly.

Once the chains are broken, they don’t seem to run into freedom, as you would expect.

[WHY?] - Because they have lost the will to live...

[WRITE IT DOWN] - He is the reason... we live!

We live

Before Christ, because of sin, we were dead.

“you were dead in your transgressions and sins” -

He took our sin and died for us, so that we could take advantage of His death.

Once we could only serve God through a strict written law.

That is all gone now!

Romans 7::6

[PAYOFF] - This new is the life we have in Christ!

:6

Since we have been given life.... [NOW] - (next step) let’s Live!

Next step: Live!

[TRANSITION] - Because Jesus is the reason we live, He now becomes the reason we worship.

We worship

[STORY] - The night Jesus was arrested, he was in the garden praying...

We know because of , that He sent His Son because He already loved us...

[PAYOFF] - we can see that He also sent His Son so that we could have that same love!

WRITE: Love out next to “Worship”

John 17

Loving our Father in Heaven, His Son who saved, and our neighbor!

(loving others is worshipping or Father!)

[TRANSITION] - Because Jesus is the reason we worship, He is now the reason we gather…

[NOW] - (next step) Love!

Next step: Love!

[TRANSITION] - Because Jesus is the reason we worship, He is now the reason we gather

We gather

[STORY] - The n

All the more… We gather around Christ, to fellowship and grow in His love, and to await His triumphant return!

We Gather @ Connect Church:

To worship

To agree

To love

[NOTE] - Why do we worship on Sunday?

(10 Commandments say: Sabbath (Sat.))

Traditional Sabbath worship on Saturday at the Synagogue… followed by the Lord’s Supper on Sunday (Sat evening)

Persecution drove Jewish Christians out of the Synagogues

Gentile Christians, without the Jewish understanding, allows the Agape meal to slip out of practice.

() “On the first day of the week we came together to break bread.

Paul spoke to the people…” (Communion & Preaching)

() “On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come.”

(Giving tithes & offerings)

“Community (fellowship) has begun.

Routine and habit - this is good!

“Habit” is good if there is “heart”

[NOW] - (next step) Fellowship!

Acts 2:46-47

Next step: Fellowship!

[TRANSITION] - Because Jesus is the reason we gather, He is now the reason we give…

We give

This time of year there is lots of gift giving

It’s easy to fall into the mindset that Christmas is about presents and such...

[BUT] - we must remind ourselves that EVERYDAY is about GIVING… of ourselves!...

1 Pet

We were created to do it, gifted and prepared to do it, planned in advance to do it… now, the next step is to...

Next step: Obey!

Take Away

Everything for living has been downloaded to us through Christ...

“knowledge of Him” - “not merely of intellectual apprehension, but rather of deep contemplation; the knowledge which implies love—for only love can concentrate continually the powers of the soul in close meditation upon its object.”

- Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Ed.).

(1909). 2 Peter (p. 2).

London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.

not merely of intellectual apprehension, but rather of deep contemplation; the knowledge which implies love—for only love can concentrate continually the powers of the soul in close meditation upon its object.

Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Ed.).

(1909). 2 Peter (p. 2).

London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.

[PAYOFF] - ALL LIFE IS WRAPPED UP IN HIM!

He is the reason we live (He is the reason we have life), because....

He is life!