Sermon Tone Analysis

Thank you pastor for inviting me to be the evangelist during your revival this year.

Believer, please hear my plea during these next few days: I want to be an encouragement to you who are striving to grow in intimacy with the Lord.

Strong believer: Thank you for your example, for the encouragement you are to others, and for the gospel witness you exude daily.

Baby or weaker believer: I hope you receive encouragement today, and even as the week progresses.

You too need to be sharing the Good News of the gospel where ever you go each day.

Weaker believer, you might have many struggles each week that affect your walk with the Lord-be encouraged!

He will sustain you and help you share the gospel/

Baby believer, you are in a prime place in your life to share the gospel.

You’ve recently been born again and don’t know any better!

You have lost friends; many Christians I talk to will readily say, “Bro.

Toby I literally don’t know anyone who is lost!”

Share with those people!

Dr. Charles Brock says, “If you choose to follow, you choose to fish!”

In a book entitled “Evangelism is...” by Earley and Wheeler, the authors wrote this statement that may be shocking to some, but Biblically hard to refute:

“No one can call himself a follower of Jesus if he refuses to obey His orders.”

Non-Christian-Lost person-Seeker-Interested guest: Please allow the scriptures to speak to your heart today.

Do not harden your heart.

Listen as you are here.

Read the scriptures when you go home tonight and the rest of the week.

Challenge what I’m saying to what you see in scripture.

Allow the Holy Spirit to convict you and don’t let your heart be hardened to the saving words of the gospel.

As we read scripture together and I exhort you, I want to call special attention to this verse:

We will be referencing it all week.

“Jesus came into the world to save sinners.”

Church, I know we remember this and know it, but I can’t help but wonder why we don’t act upon it with urgency.

Lost person, if the only thing you know about Jesus is that “He loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life,” then we’ve let you down and it’s my prayer that when you leave today, you’ll leave with a clear understanding of what the gospel is and how you need to respond to it.

Judgment-An OT Background ()

The idea of covenant (9)

Covenant is an agreement; a

Look with me to

Consequences of breaking covenant (10)

Now check out what happens when a righteous God has His covenant broken.

Lev.

26:15-

A rubric to follow (11)

Deut.

Friend, you might try to make yourself feel better by saying, “Well, Bro.

Toby, we don’t live under the OT law, we are in a new time and now live under the NT law.”

This is true only for those who have received Christ as their Savior.

You see, we’ve all sinned against God.

The same is true for those living prior to the Genesis flood, as was for those in Babylonian captivity, and for those who watched Jesus overturn the tables in the temple courts.

We’ve all sinned against God.

Judgment-A NT Reality ()

Judgment comes because of His righteousness

The word used here that is translated “accounted” is a legal term called “imputation, or imputed righteousness.”

That means you didn’t earn it, but it was credited to you by another person.

Think quietly to yourself and listen to this:

If you have a fine at the courthouse, who can pay that fine for you?

Anyone who is willing right?

No many people would do this.

You owe God a fine due to your sin.

The Bible says the payment for sin is death.

Who is righteous enough to pay this debt?

No one!

That is why His righteousness is credited/imputed to those who repent and receive Christ.

It is given to us because there is nothing we can do to earn it.

Judgment comes because of His holiness

A righteous judge illustration.

Ultimate judgment comes to all of us (9:27)

There’s Good News!