Sermon Tone Analysis

Our Response to Him

What are things that we have zeal for today?

What are things that we have zeal for today?

Is it certain theological concepts?

Is it for certain authors?

Write down things that you have a passion for?

Why are you passionate about them?

What good do they do you?

Paul says he was at one time zealous for the wrong things (; ; ; Phil 3:5-6)

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“It is better, to limp in the right way than to run with all our might out of the way.”

Augustine

“It is better, to limp in the right way than to run with all our might out of the way.”

Augustine

Define what this means?

"Zeal not in accordance w/ knowledge"

Define what this means?

"Zeal not in accordance w/ knowledge"

"There is no question that his Jewish compatriots were zealous for God, but unfortunately their zeal was not guided by knowledge (v.

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They had no valid insight into God’s plan for providing righteousness.

They failed completely to recognize the righteousness that comes from God. “In their eagerness to set up a righteousness of their own” (TCNT) they would not submit themselves to God’s plan.

It is important to see that Israel’s failure resulted from its determination to achieve its objective in its own way.

God would have to come to terms with them.

Their lack of knowledge was self-inflicted.

Refuse the truth and God will give you up to your own foolishness" (Robert Mounce)

The only thing God requires of people is that they not persist in trying to earn what they can only receive as a totally free gift.

Their problem is that pride stands in the way of receiving God’s gift.

Deeply ingrained in people’s hostility to divine grace is a proud and stubborn self-reliance that would rather suffer loss than be deprived of an occasion for boasting (Robert Mounce)

The only thing God requires of people is that they not persist in trying to earn what they can only receive as a totally free gift.

Their problem is that pride stands in the way of receiving God’s gift.

Deeply ingrained in people’s hostility to divine grace is a proud and stubborn self-reliance that would rather suffer loss than be deprived of an occasion for boasting

This is a way that "church" folks can make a mistake as well.

This is a way that "church" folks can make a mistake as well.

We must subject ourselves to the correct mode of righteousness (by faith)

“There is uncertainty about how we should take the Greek: it might be understood as “Christ ends the law and brings righteousness for everyone who has faith” (NEB) or as “Christ is the end of the law as a way to righteousness for everyone who has faith” (NEB mg.).

Either is possible, and whichever we adopt Paul is speaking of the decisiveness and the finality of the work of Christ.”

(Leon Morris)

“There is uncertainty about how we should take the Greek: it might be understood as “Christ ends the law and brings righteousness for everyone who has faith” (NEB) or as “Christ is the end of the law as a way to righteousness for everyone who has faith” (NEB mg.).

Either is possible, and whichever we adopt Paul is speaking of the decisiveness and the finality of the work of Christ.”

(Leon Morris)

Leon Morris

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“That is to say, if a person is able to perform all that the law requires, it will lead to life.

The problem lies in the fact that no one is able to live up to the requirements of the law.

Although law points us in the right direction, it provides no power to achieve its demands.

It was never meant as a way to merit God’s favor.

Its role was to reflect the character of God in terms of ethical goals.

The Jewish legalists had perverted the divine intention of the law and made it into a way to gain God’s favor based on personal merit.”

(Robert H. Mounce)

Robert H. Mounce

Denney comments, “the law was not a collection of statutes, but a revelation of God’s character and will, and he who sought to keep it did so not alone, but in conscious dependence on God whose grace was shown above all things else by His gift of such a revelation.”

(Leon Morris)

Denney comments, “the law was not a collection of statutes, but a revelation of God’s character and will, and he who sought to keep it did so not alone, but in conscious dependence on God whose grace was shown above all things else by His gift of such a revelation.”

Leon Morris

Do not "think" / say in your heart - that what Christ did is impossible

Romans 10:

This is using the following passage in Deuteronomy to make Paul's point about

How does that speak to faith?

It defines it.

"the word of faith, “the message that calls for faith” (TH) as he immediately explains.

This means the whole way of faith that was the burden of his preaching, the word that tells of faith and that invites to faith.

The verb we are proclaiming is in the present tense, denoting the habitual act.

Paul and his companions constantly proclaim the word of faith.”

(Leon Morris)

Leon Morris

Paul comes to the central thing about what it "look like" to respond to God

Confessing (Mouth - Outward)

NO one enters into God's salvation through mere outward expression

Believing (Heart - Inward)

NOR is there an inner state that does not have an outward expression

Confession of Christ is the public declaration of commitment to the Lordship of Christ and our faith in his Lordship (Kingship)

If you were in the service just over a month ago, you may have heard me ask Sophia, what was her Christian Confession - "Jesus is Lord."I

am saying to all who would hear - "I believe" and "it has changed my entire life."

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"Paul is saying, that to know that Jesus is Lord is not a human discovery; it is something revealed by the Holy Spirit" (Leon Morris)

3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed”; and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

Believing it was the Inner man or the Soul does "It matters that we believe and it matters what we believe

"Paul is saying, that to know that Jesus is Lord is not a human discovery; it is something revealed by the Holy Spirit" Leon Morris Believing it was the Inner man or the Soul does"It matters that we believe and it matters what we believeIt means that faith has content; Paul is not advocating a fideism in which all that matters is to believe.

To Paul it matters that we believe, but it also matters what we believe.

Here he speaks of believing that God raised him from the dead.

The resurrection is of critical importance.

It is at the cross that God did his saving work, but Paul does not believe in a dead martyr but in a living Savior.

Not only did Jesus die for our sins but God raised him, triumphant over all the forces of evil.

It means that faith has content; Paul is not advocating a fideism in which all that matters is to believe.

To Paul it matters that we believe, but it also matters what we believe.

Here he speaks of believing that God raised him from the dead.

The resurrection is of critical importance.

It is at the cross that God did his saving work, but Paul does not believe in a dead martyr but in a living Savior.

Not only did Jesus die for our sins but God raised him, triumphant over all the forces of evil.

(Leon Morris)

Leon Morris, The Epistle to the Romans, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI; Leicester, England: W.B. Eerdmans; Inter-Varsity Press, 1988), 385–386.

And the resurrection of Christ means everything.

There are so many arguments we can have about this and that - but the resurrection of Christ is what all of it hinges on.

It is what proves that God exists and that he is a lover of man.

16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised;

According to God's justice Jesus died, and according to God's power he raised him to be Lord over all that ever will be - You see - "For Our God Reigns" (present tense).

It is this we believe and it is this we must confess.

17 and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.

It is this we believe and it is this we must confess.

There are so many arguments we can have about this and that - but the resurrection of Christ is what all of it hinges on.

It is what proves that God exists and that he is a lover of man.According to God's justice Jesus died, and according to God's power he raised him to be Lord over all that ever will be - You see - "For Our God Reigns" (present tense).

It is this we believe and it is this we must confess There are so many things that we can say about God, but there is only one thing that we ought to say to Him, and that is Yes!