Sermon Tone Analysis

The Gospel Truth

1 Corinthians 15:1-11 (NIV) \\ 1 Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you.

Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.

6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.

7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8 and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.

9 For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect.

No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

11 Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

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*I.         **Introduction*

*II.

**Maintaining your Grip on the Gospel*

*/A.

/**A Fresh Grip, Reminded in the Preaching *

*/B.

/**A Firm Grip, Taking a Stand*

*/C.

/**A Finger locking Grip, for what is at stake*

*III.

**Mastering The Gift of the Gospel*

*/A.

/**Jesus** Provided an Atonement for Sin*

*/B.

/**Jesus** Provided an Answer to Death*

*/C.

/**Jesus** Provided an Adequate Witness*

*IV.

**Motivated by the Grace of the Gospel*

*/A.

/**The Grace to Overcome the Past*

*/B.

/**The Grace to Labor in the Present*

*/C.

/**The Grace to Extend Grace*

*V.      **Conclusion*

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[1] /The Holy Bible : New International Version/.

Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996, c1984.