Sermon Tone Analysis

Get Happy

lays the ground work for us understanding that there is absolutely nothing we can do to save our own selves from the punishment that we deserve = death.

Righteousness: doing what God says is right

Unrighteousness: suppressing the truth of God

How can you know the truth if you haven’t searched it out?

Need to read your bibles!

At the end of chapter 4, we have come to this understanding that the only way to overcome death, is by putting our faith in Jesus Christ.

Faith: It’s an assurance of something we hope for (life), and it gives us a security about the things that we cannot see (God).

We Have Peace with God

Romans 5:1

The Practical Benefits of Putting Your Faith in Jesus

Peace with God

Grace with God

We Rejoice with God

we rejoice even in times of affliction!

Why would we rejoice in affliction?

Affliction > Endurance > Character > Hope

Mourning in affliction:

If we chose to mourn in affliction instead of rejoicing, we will reap the consequences thereof - instead of HOPE, we will produce DESPAIR.

How did we get this peace with God?

Romans 5:8

(5:9) Not only did He save us, His blood declares us righteous

Because of His sacrifice our life was spared, and we actually received promotion!

This has to be the best deal ever made in the history of history.

Sin vs. Grace

(5:12) Sin enters the world through one disobedient man, Adam

Paul goes on to describe how, life enters the world through one obedient man, Jesus

Abounding Grace

Literally, the phrase abounded all the more means “super-abounded.”

God makes His grace super-abound over abounding sin!

This does not make any sense - based on how we operate as humans, I would expect for an abundance of sin to create an abundance of God’s wrath!

But God’s love is so amazing that grace abounded all the more where we might have expected wrath.

Living in Grace

Romans 6:

For those of you that might be thinking, if I sin more, it makes God’s love spread more - stop thinking like that!

Although it is true that God’s love is more powerful than sin - using sin to let His love be known is an abuse of grace and mockery of the Cross.

This is the essence of the saying, “beating a dead horse”

When we chose to follow Christ, our sins were washed away, as in, they no longer exist.

Why would you clean a stain off a shirt and immediately go stain it again?

(6:4) We have been baptized with Christ into death, in order that we can be RAISED TO LIFE

(6:9) Since we have already died to sin with Jesus, death no longer has power over us.

The new man not only has life; he has eternal life.

Deep Roots

(6:19)

Lawless - living against the Law will only lead us to do more things against the Law

Righteousness - leads us towards holiness which puts us in RIGHT standing with God

Four Trees in a Row: the first at one year of growth, the second at five years, the third at ten years, and the last at 15 years.

the first at one year of growth, the second at five years, the third at ten years, and the last at 15 years.

Which tree will be the most difficult to pull up out of the ground?

Obviously, the longer we are rooted in a behavior the harder it is to uproot it—a principle that works both for good and evil.

Which tree will be the most difficult to pull up out of the ground?

Obviously, the longer we are rooted in a behavior the harder it is to uproot it—a principle that works both for good and evil.

Paul sums things up by saying this...

Life in the Spirit

You no longer have to live in condemnation BECAUSE the Spirit has set your free THROUGH Christ Jesus.

Flesh thinks about flesh; Spirit thinks about Spirit

Mind-set: Flesh = death; Spirit = life & peace

Flesh = death

Spirit = life & peace

Flesh is hostile towards the things of God, it CANNOT please God

The Spirit Lives in You...

The Spirit is closer than you realize, the question is are you tuned in?

Media can tune out the voice of the Spirit as we distract ourselves.

…because you are adopted!

Romans

i. “In the Roman world of the first century ad an adopted son was a son deliberately chosen by his adoptive father to perpetuate his name and inherit his estate; he was no whit inferior in status to a son born in the ordinary course of nature.”

(Bruce)

ii.

Under Roman adoption, the life and standing of the adopted child changed completely.

The adopted son lost all rights in his old family and gained all new rights in his new family; the old life of the adopted son was completely wiped out, with all debts being canceled, with nothing from his past counting against him any more.

(8:16-17) We get the understanding that we are children of God - we shouldn’t have to wonder is we are really Christians or not, we should know who we are.

Adoption comes with Perks!

As adopted sons and daughters we are privileged to have access to all that is in our Father’s Kingdom while still here on Earth.

One of those gifts is the Holy Spirit - as Jesus calls Him, the Comforter or Helper

Grace in the Groans

Next time you go through suffering, remember and that the suffering in the moment is nothing compared to the glory that we will receive one day!

The sufferings that we go through may be unexpected, but they aren’t impossible to get through.

The Earth is Suffering

(8:10-21) Even creation is waiting for the return of Jesus Christ.

Creation wasn’t meant to operate the way that it does.

There weren’t supposed to be storms, fires, earthquakes.

Animals weren’t supposed to be hunted for food.

^ This is all a result of the sin of one man.

The choices you make in one moment can have a lasting impact long-after you have left this world.

Ask yourself, “How would this decision effect the people I love?”

Strength in our Weakness

If you haven’t already experienced this, there will be times that you have no idea what to pray.

The Holy Spirit will help you pray

Groans: This could be speaking in tongues (, ) or possibly literal groans.

There is something freeing when you are so pressed about just groaning to the Lord.

The Holy Spirit’s Help is Perfect

When the Holy Spirit helps you pray, it is perfect because He can communicate the depths of your heart.

All Things Work Together for the Good

(8:28) The good and the bad will work ultimately for good for every person that walks in the purpose God has for them.

Predestination - God's destination for you before

God's plan has always been for you to commune with Him in Heaven and be conformed to the image of His Son, Jesus.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Before you leave your house, you have a pre destination in mind.

The eternal chain of God’s working is seen in the connection between foreknew, predestined, called, justified, and glorified.

God didn’t begin a work in the Romans simply to abandon them in the midst of their present suffering.

(DGCB, David Guzik)