Sermon Tone Analysis

*Capture the Flag Analogy*

How is authority achieved? 2 Types

COD WW2 Multiplayer

Relational - winning people over one by one.

The Redemptive Authority of Jesus.

“What is this?” ()

Traditional - have authority because you have the title.

Authority - the power to or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience.

Culture - We use the term “culture” to refer to the common ideas, feelings, and values that guide community and personal behavior, that organize and regulate what the group thinks, feels, and does about God, the world, and humanity.

We use the term “culture” to refer to the common ideas, feelings, and values that guide community and personal behavior, that organize and regulate what the group thinks, feels, and does about God, the world, and humanity.

The Authority of Jesus.

“What is this??” ()

A. Scott Moreau, Harold Netland, and Charles van Engen, Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions, Baker Reference Library (Grand Rapids, MI; Carlisle, Cumbria, UK: Baker Books; A. Scott Moreau, 2000), 252.

How is authority achieved? 2 Types

How is authority achieved? 2 Types

Relational - winning people over one by one.

Traditional - have authority because you have the title.

Where does it come from?

1. Compassionate authority to Call.

Mark 1:16-

Call to Salvation.

Call to Ministry and service unto God.

Internal

External

Jesus’ Authority is redemptive and compassionate to call.

2. Compassionate authority to Cleanse.

A leper.

This leper represents our world.

“Touched him.”

The response.

“If you will, you can make me clean.”

The results.

“show yourself to the priest and off for your cleansing.”

What’s so significant about this?

Jesus’ Authority is redemptive and compassionate to cleanse.

3. Compassionate authority to Command.

Mark 1:21

Mark 1:

The teaching - “He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”

Wow.

We need to be around this as much as possible.

And we will.

Testimony of 1st time invited to men’s Bible study as a young college student and what it was like to encounter the authority of Jesus’ word on men’s lives.

Jesus’ Authority is redemptive and compassionate to command.

Break up Into Table Groups!

What is culture?

Give some examples.

What is something you think you do differently than others?

Give an example.

, , and all talk about Jesus at the beginning of Creation.

also says that God called everything He made “good,” (except that man should not be alone.)

tells us of something terrible that happened and has continued to happen to all of humanity.

Now…think about why Jesus came...

What is something you think you do differently than others?

Give an example.

Born of God, not man

Modeled exactly what it meant to Follow God.

Gave His life so that we could be freed from the terrible tragedy of .

Remember what says:

That little phrase “the heavens tore open” represents and is actually everything God literally did in Jesus and has done in Jesus.

Have you ever heard of the word “redeemed?”

What does it mean?

Now think about what Jesus said…and did…and now think about “culture” and “breaking it?”

Here’s the real question...

Did Jesus break culture OR…was he redeeming it?

Talk amongst yourselves.

Sometimes it takes a death…to bring life.

#Redeemed