Sermon Tone Analysis

Please Respond In the form of a Question....

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• 1 Entice: We live in a poll-defined nation at a poll-defined cross roads in human history.

People ask us so many questions about so many topics that we

1 Entice: We live in a poll-defined nation at a poll-defined cross roads in human history.

People ask us so many questions about so many topics that we can become immune to asking good questions ourselves.

This is one of the many consequences of living in the "information age".

can become immune to asking good questions ourselves.

This is one of the many consequences of living in the "information age".

2 Engage: One of the things I do when asked my opinion or perspective is to try and figure out what the interrogator really wants to know.

• 2 Engage: One of the things I do when asked my opinion or perspective is to try and figure out what the interrogator really wants to know.

3 Explore: In we have a two-way interrogation.

The fur flies.

There is anger, insult, accusation and disdain.

But John does a great job of helping us clarify some of the important questions about Jesus.

Questions that every human person has a stake in whether they know it or not.

Questions which have been at the center of our culture for millennia, and which are even now hotly debated in our own post-Christian century…’cause let's face it you have to have questions about Jesus to even be "post-christian."

• 3 Explore: In we have a two-way interrogation.

The fur flies.

There is anger, insult, accusation and disdain.

But John does a great job of

helping us clarify some of the important questions about Jesus.

Questions that every human person has a stake in whether they know it or not.

Questions which have been at the center of our culture for millennia, and which are even now hotly debated in our own post-Christian century…cause

4 Excite:To His own people, in heated debate He lovingly offered change.

Transformation.

New Birth.

He offers us the same.

That is why we are here to continue echoing that offer-to keep right on asking those questions that help us get Jesus right, seeking the anpowerswers that lead to Eternal Life.

let's face it you have to have questions about Jesus to even have "post-christian."

• 4 Excite:To His own people, in heated debate He lovingly offered change.

Transformation.

New Birth.

He offers us the same.

That is why we are hear to

You know, If you ask the right questions of Jesus...

continue echoing that offer to keep right on asking those questions that help us get Jesus right, seeking the answers that lead to Eternal Life.

and accept the answers, no matter how unbelievable they seem,

your life can be transformed!

• Explore: You know, If you ask the right questions of Jesus and accept the answers, no matter how unbelievable they seem, your life can be transformed!

Explain: In this argumentative text John helps us to formulate four questions which are able to give us eternal liberty.

• Explain: In this argumentative text John helps us to formulate four questions which are able to give us eternal liberty.

▾ Body of Sermon

1 What is Truth?

John 8.31-32

▾ 1 What is Truth?

31-32

1.1 Believed

• 1.1 Believed

1.2 Abide in Christ's Word leads to discipleship and growth.

• 1.2 Abide in Christ's Word leads to discipleship and growth.

2 How can I be Freed?

▾ 2 How can I be Freed?

33-38

John 8.33-38

2.1 Stop practicing Sin!

• 2.1 Stop practicing Sin!

2.2 Rely upon the Son to Free you!

• 2.2 Rely upon the Son to Free you!

3 Who's Your Daddy?

▾ 3 Who's Your Daddy? 39-47

John 8.39-47

3.1 The Jews ask Jesus…He asks them…and now He asks us.

• 3.1 The Jews ask Jesus…He asks them…and now He asks us.

3.2 The principle is simple and universal.

The Children are like the Father

▾ 3.2 The principle is simple and universal.

The Children are like the Father

We do what our Father Does.

• 3.2.1 We do what our Father Does.

We think what our Father thinks.

• 3.2.2

We Think what our Father thinks.

We love what our Father Loves

3.2.3

We Love what our Father Loves

• 3.2.3

We Love what our Father Loves

We value what our Father values.

• 3.2.4

We value what our Father values.

Who's your daddy?

3.3 Who's your daddy?

How could anyone tell?

Are you willing to make the changes that will make it transparently evident that you are a child of God?

• 3.3 Who's your daddy?

How could anyone tell?

Are you willing to make the changes that will make it transparently evident that you are a child of God?

How could anyone tell?

Are you willing to make the changes that will make it transparently evident that you are a child of God?

4 Where did you Come From?

▾ 4 Where did you Come From? 48-51

John 8.48-51

4.1 Jesus provides a trail of Bread crumbs…He Honors the Father, He allows God to give Him Glory rather than seeking it.

He has the power to give life to those who hear and obey.

• 4.1 Jesus provides a trail of Bread crumbs…He Honors the Father, He allows God to give Him Glory rather than seeking it.

He has the power to give life to

4.1 Jesus provides a trail of Bread crumbs…He Honors the Father, He allows God to give Him Glory rather than seeking it.

He has the power to give life to those who hear and obey.

those who hear and obey.

4.2 Jesus relates His presence and ministry to the central theme of Salvation History.

• 4.2 Jesus relates His presence and ministry to the central theme of Salvation History.

4.3 It was the Father's good pleasure for the too-good-to-be true to become flesh in Jesus.

• 4.3 It was the Father's good pleasure for the too-good-to-be true to become flesh in Jesus.

Final Jeopardy

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