Sermon Tone Analysis

commitment.

What do we understand by this word.

some will remember that day when you made a commitment with their Husband or wife at the altar.

some will have never entered into a relationship with anyone to be committed.

For some this might mean confinement in an institute.

these are the dictionary rendition of commitment.

Commitment may refer to:

Promise, or personal commitment

Contract, a legally binding exchange of promises

Brand commitment Involuntary commitment, the use of legal means or forms to commit a person to a mental hospital, insane asylum, or psychiatric ward

This morning i would like us to look at the word commitment with reference to being committed to God and each other.

Today is rededication week in the baptist church family.

it a time when people who have being asked to stand in a position acknowledge before the church that they are willing to stand in that position for another year.

But before we come to this part of the service i want us to look at the God head and their commitment in the world today.

As we look through the bible we see a triune God who is committed to our world and the inhabitance.

Father, Son and Holy Spirit

The triune Godhead togeather created the heavens and the earth and all that is upon it

The Godhead created this worderful place we call earth and when he had done so

Here we see a God that had created all this for our pleasure.

But how did we repay God for all his wonderful creation.

Falling into sin was the way that we repayed God for what he had done.

But God didnt finish with man

God spoke back in the garden how he would deal with sin and the one who lead his people into sin.

In the fulness of time God allowed his faviour to elite on many but we find that God showed his commitment to the human Race by making a covernant with Abram.

Here we see that God was going to give a blessing to Abram if he was going to leave the place of his birth and his family and follow him.

Although we see that he came out from the ur of chaldees we see he came out with his family.

Abram entered into a covernant with God in Gen 15

It wasn't until he had left lot, and Ishmael had gone that he came into the realisation of the fulfilment of Gods Promise.

God gave Abram a new name to reminded him of the covenant.

Abram means exalted father but God changed his name to Abraham which means father of nations.

God was showing that he was committed to a man and subsequently to a nation.

how ever as we read through the old testament we find that his chosen people didn't want to follow his ways.

God had shown on numerous occasions that he Loved his chosen people but they were stiff necked.

There was something that stopped the people realy getting close to God and that was sin.

Up to now sin could only be covered over by the sacrifice system but in the fulness of time there would come one who would die for the whole world and sin would no longer just be covered but would be washed clean away.

Entrance to the stage the son of God, Jesus

Born of a virgin

born without sin

born to save the whole world.

In the old testament in the book of Gen. we see Jesus as the spoken word of God so when we come to the book of john

Here we see that Jesus was in the beginning with God

Here we see that the word Jesus came into the world showing a commitment to the world ,you and me

But why would the creative word of God come to a world when he could just as easily stayed in heaven and look at his handy work.

God wanted communion with man and because of sin this would not happen.

There was a right time for Jesus to come and just over 2000 years ago Jesus came,

but for what perpose

propitiation what does this word mean

propitiation | prəˌpɪʃɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n |

noun [mass noun] the action of propitiating or appeasing a god, spirit, or person: he lifted his hands in propitiation.

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atonement, especially that of Jesus Christ.

So Jesus was to become our atonement or our sacrifice.

we know only to well this scripture and here we see that God was committed to this world as so was Jesus to come.

For God so loved the world

Here we see an emotion and emotions are good but if thats all there is then why have that emotion.

God had emotion but he demonstrated his love for this world with an action.

That he Gave

God didn't stay in Heaven and look upon the world with all its problems and say there there

No Gods emotion drove him to give , and not just a bandaid or a rub of ointment

He Gave his only begotten son

begotten | bɪˈɡɒt(ə)n | past participle of beget.beget

| bɪˈɡɛt | verb (begets, begetting; past begot | bɪˈɡɒt | or archaic begat; past participle begotten | bɪˈɡɒt(ə)n | ) [with object] literary1 (especially of a man) bring (a child) into existence by the process of reproduction: they hoped that the King might beget an heir by his new queen.

but this verse isn't finished yet we see that God gave a promise with a clause.

that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

what a promise and this promise still stands today.

Ok you say so Jesus came so what we still don’t have a close relationship with God

Some people had a relationship with the son of God in many ways.

Healing

Raising from the dead

and knowing Jesus as a friend.

What about the commitment of Jesus to us.

He came with one aim in mind to be our propitiation our atonement so this means that he would have to die

Jesus died in the fulness of time after a really short time in ministry just 3.5 years but he had shown to the world that God loved them and so did he.

In the Garden Jesus was just about to complete his mission if you will

when he utter these words

HE was human but also divine he new his task but his humanity was revealing to us just how he felt at this time

History records that Jesus died and that he rose again completing the work of redemption

so we see that God and Jesus was committed to us but what about the Holy spirit.

The Holy spirit the third person of the trinity how does he reveal that he is committed to us .

When Jesus left this world he said he would said another comforter

someone to stand with us and help us

This is for many people the hardest to believe or accept

why?

simply because we cannot see him.

Just because we cant see him doesn't mean he doesn't exist.

we know the wind exists but we cant see that.

We know the wind exists because we see the things that it does.

It blows our wheeler bins over blows next doors leaves into our garden and so on

In the same way that we can see the effect of the wind we can see the effect of the Holy Spirit.

It the Holy Spirit that takes that sinner and manes them a saint

It the Holy spirit that transforms our old sinful life into that life that brings glory to his name

It is the Holy Spirit that makes the difference and brings the difference to our lives

Remember the timid disciples that went into that upper room because they were frightened that the romans would do the same to them that they had done to Jesus.

Yes they were waiting waiting for the promise of Father sent from the son but what was it and how would they know when they had got it.

God made sure they new and all Jerusalem that the Holy Spirit had come.

The Holy spirit had come in all his power and authority and everybody new.

How i wish i lived in a time like that

Can you just imagine that we were all in a prayer meeting in the Church waiting for something that we didn't know and when it was to come we didn't know either.

My grandmother would always get to the meeting why because she didnt want to miss any thing.

An then a sound of a rushing wing came sweeping down alexander road if it were a normally wind people would be bolting their doors to keep it out

But their is something different about this wind and it sweeps through the doors banging them as they come in then all of a sudden we see tongs of fire upon the heads of all in the congregation