Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
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Biblical Exposition - Preparation Worksheet:
“Every text has a structure, every structure has an emphasis, the emphasis shapes the sermon.”
Think through and what God want my people to hear this time...
1.
How has the author organized the text?
Answer this question in two ways: 1) show the author’s structure with sections and verse references, and 2) explain how you arrived at this structure.
1.
The Empty tomb (24:1-12)
For I command you today...
The first day of the week the women take spices to the tomb
Love the Lord your God
To walk in obedience to Him
They found the stone rolled away with Jesus’ body gone
As they were scratching their heads, two angels appeared and stood beside them
The men asked, “Why are you looking for the living among the dead?
He is not here, he has risen!”
Remember what he told you while he was with you at Galilee...
Son of Man must be delivered over into the hands of sinners
Be crucified
And on the third day be raised again
Then they remembered his words
They went back and told the 11 and the others
They did not believe the women…seeming like nonsense
Peter ran up to the tomb, saw the the strips of linen
when away wondering himself what had happened
2. On Road to Emmas
Two followers of Christ went to a village called Emmas
They were talking about the things that were happening
As they were talking, Jesus shows up walking along with them...
Jesus innocently asked what they were talking about
One of them tells him about what had happened
Chief priests hand Jesus over to crucified
They had hoped he would redeem Israel
It has been three days since he was crucified
She women told them that they did not find the body in the tomb
The women has seen a vision of Angels, who told them said Jesus was alive
Some of their companions when to the tomb and found it as the women had said
Jesus scolds them for being foolish and being slow to believe the prophets
Did not the messiah had to suffer these things before he went into glory?
Beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he explained to them what the Scriptures said about him
They got to the village and Jesus ended up staying with them and ate bread together
Their eyes where opened and they recognized him and then he disappeared
They talked about how their hearts were burning when they were talking to Jesus
They retuned to Jerusalem to tell the disciple that it was true Jesus is alive
Jesus appeared to Simon
3. Jesus appears to his disciples
To keep his commands, decrees, laws
Then you will live and increase
He appeared among them and said, “Peace be with you”
They were frightened and thought it was a ghost
Then the Lord will bless you in the land you are entering to possess
He challenges them…and asks them why they were afraid…and asks them to look at his hands and feet
They still did not believe it because of joy and excitement
He asked for something to eat and he ate it in front of them
He reiterated that this is all what he told them...
Everything must be fulfilled this way about him in Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms
that the Messiah will die and rise from the dead on the third day
And repentance for the forgiveness will be preached in his name among the nations, beginning in Jerusalem
You will be witnesses
Jesus tells the he is sending them the Holy Spirit and that they were to stay in the city until he came
2. See, I set before you...death and destruction (15b, 17-18)
If your heart turns away
If you are not obedient
If you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them
What emphasis does the structure reveal?
I declare to you this day that you will be certainly destroyed
You will no longer live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
All went according to plan
God has plan
3. Choose life
We don’t always see the plan - we need new eyes
This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that i have set before you life and death, blessing and curses
We are slow to believe the plan /All Scripture speaks of the plan
We have a responsibility because fo the plan
Choose life that your children may life
Choose life that you may love the Lord your God
Choose life that you may listen to his voice
Choose life and hold fast too him
For the Lord is your life
And he will give you many years in the land he swore to give your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
What emphasis does the structure reveal?
The choice of life or death…decision time
2. How is the meaning of your text informed by its context?
Answer this question using 1) the immediate context (the closest passages on both sides of your text), 2) the context of the whole book, and 3) the historical context.
-He is reminding them of the options that are before them.
-Just prior to these verses he warns them of idolatry and tells of their future rebellion and resulting destruction...
-And how after a while, the Lord will circumcise their hearts so that they will love him
-They will mess up…that is where we can depend on the grace and compassion of God...
2) Context of the book is that the whole book is driving to this decision that God and Moses want Israel to make...
-Whole goal of Deut. is that they will choose life…choose obedience over disobedience and rebellion...
-Jesus has just died in the previous passage and this is three days later...
3) The historical context is the covenant God made with the second generation of Israelites who came out of Egypt… 29:1
-So this is still part of the Mosaic law covenant, which I think was to show the holiness of God and the inability of human beings.
3. What is the main idea (or aim) that the author is communicating to his audience?
Answer this question with one simple sentence.
Gods ways are not our ways
God works in powerful ways...
4. What are a few ways that your text relates to or anticipates the gospel (i.e., the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ)?
4. What are a few ways that your text relates to or anticipates the gospel (i.e., the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ)?
-We need spiritual life
-Set before them life and death…Jesus is the only one who can give life...
-Maybe new life in Christ…is it giving resurrection hope?
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