Sermon Tone Analysis

4 Ways to Fight Fakeness

#1 Know your Roots

The house of Simon (previously a leper).

The house of Simon (previously a leper).

Questions:

Why doesn't the story read that way?

Why does the man's most prominent and debilitating weakness remain attached to his name?

What does that do for you to have a constant reminder of who you were before you met God?

What does that do for you to have a constant reminder of who you were before you met God?

Humility!

We are all sinners!!

We are all sick!

We are all sinners!!

We are all sick!

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We are only, ever saved by grace.

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8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

We are who we are ONLY because of the GRACE of God that has been freely given to us.

This was the mission of JESUS!! To heal the sick and save the lost.

Never forget you're a sinner saved by grace.

12 When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’

For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Never forget you're a sinner saved by grace.

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9 Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’

13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

#2 Hold Nothing Back

Look at how she worshipped

Mary held nothing back.

Give God what costs you greatly.

Worship with everything you have.

Every part of your life.

Every aspect of your personality and character.

Every resource that you have (money, time, talent).

How do you do this continually?

Always be Looking up

#3 Look at the mirror

1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

View of worship

plank-eye prop

plank-eye: Spiritually blind.

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39 And He spoke a parable to them: “Can the blind lead the blind?

Will they not both fall into the ditch?

40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher.

41 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the plank in your own eye?

42 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye?

Hypocrite!

First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

#4 Fight for LOVE

Be willing to stand up for what is right and for the love.

For people.

Be the the person you want this group to be filled with.