Sermon Tone Analysis

Prayer

S.T.A.R.T.

Solemnly praise and recognize the greatness of our God and Savior connected to the Biblical text being preached

Lord there is none beside you and we are honored to gather today to glory in your greatness.

We praise you for this gospel, your gospel that was wrought through and by you alone.

Todays word contains your deep theological truths, please feed us by them.

Touch upon the subject of corporate sin and confess any shortcomings the body has committed related to the Biblical text to be preached

Jesus we understand that it is our sin that separates us from fellowship with you and therefore we confess our sin and guilt before you and we humbly come to seek your forgiveness and the power for repentance and salvation that only you can give.

Ask God to help the body/local church to hear and apply the truths of the Biblical text to be preached

We ask now that you might personalize Paul's proclamation of the prophesied promise of power and grant it dominion in our lives.

Review and remind the audience of the key related passages to the Biblical text being preached

This section of your holy scriptures is so rich and deep therefore we need your Holy Spirit of Power to grant us understanding as we open to .

Transition to the opening of the sermon and the Biblical text to be preached

Intro

Parents favorite answer is “because I said so”

Jesus loves me this I know for… The Bible Tells Me So

Title / Text

“Set apart for the gospel of God”

The apostles did not invent it

This is the Gospel which belongs to God

- John Stott

What we have to share with others is neither a miscellany of human speculations, nor one more religion to add to the rest, nor really a religion at all.

It is rather the gospel of God, God’s own good news for a lost world.

S.T.A.R.T.

Which brings me to my / Paul’s first point.

Solemnly praise and recognize the greatness of our God and Savior connected to the Biblical text being preached

Touch upon the subject of corporate sin and confess any shortcomings the body has committed related to the Biblical text to be preached

Ask God to help the body/local church to hear and apply the truths of the Biblical text to be preached

He Promised

Review and remind the audience of the key related passages to the Biblical text being preached

God / not Paul

promises of man [vs] promises of God

omnipotence of God

Beforehand

Transition to the opening of the sermon and the Biblical text to be preached

not a mistake

1 Pet 1

Notice that the prophets are called his prophets.

Paul is not speaking of men of vision in general, men who by their innate abilities could discern the signs of the times.

He is speaking of men who belong to God, the vehicles of his message.

When a promise is given through (not “by”) such men, then clearly it is the promise of God.

Through His Prophets

written by men

directed by God

through

His prophets

Jesus

His apostles

In the Holy Scriptures

only here!

Holy Bible

meaning of holy?

you are holding God’s Word!!!

God’s promise in writing…!

This NT is a continuation and fulfillment of the OT

Paul - anticipates his sections on Law Fulfillment

Concerning His Son

God’s gospel = about Jesus = His Son

- Calvin

This is a remarkable passage, by which we are taught that the whole gospel is included in Christ, so that if any removes one step from Christ, he withdraws himself from the gospel.

if we change Jesus we destroy the gospel…!

Humanity

Deity

Descendant of David

promised & prophesied in the OT

Eze 34.23-24

fulfilled in the NT

flesh

sinfulness = sarx

messiah had to be of this line

messiah had to be of this flesh

It seems then that the two expressions ‘according to the flesh’ and ‘according to the Spirit’ refer not to the two natures of Jesus Christ (human and divine), but to the two stages of his ministry, pre-resurrection and post-resurrection, the first frail and the second powerful through the outpoured Spirit.

messiah had to be of this line

messiah had to be of this flesh

Rom

Declared?

= appointed?

- come back to this…

Son of God

Power

Spirit of Holiness = Holy Spirit

Resurrection

dead - firstfruits

The idea here, then, is not that Jesus was “declared” or “shown to be” at the resurrection what he was all along, namely, the eternal Son of God.

Rather, the point is that Jesus was “appointed” to be God’s Son in power at the resurrection of the dead.

He was exalted to a level of power and authority that he did not have previously.

It seems then that the two expressions ‘according to the flesh’ and ‘according to the Spirit’ refer not to the two natures of Jesus Christ (human and divine), but to the two stages of his ministry, pre-resurrection and post-resurrection, the first frail and the second powerful through the outpoured Spirit.

not about nature but about stages pre & post resurrection

Jesus had to take on flesh and enter into the old age in order to inaugurate the new age that is characterized by the Holy Spirit.

The contrast between the flesh and the Spirit is quite similar conceptually to Paul’s remarks about the humiliation and exaltation of Christ in Phil.

2:6–11.

Paul does not disdain the humiliation of Christ.

It is a stage that is, however, left behind upon his exaltation.

The age dominated by the flesh is one of weakness, while the age of the Spirit is one of power.

take flesh for old age new age of spirit

age of weakness / age of power

The idea here, then, is not that Jesus was “declared” or “shown to be” at the resurrection what he was all along, namely, the eternal Son of God.

Rather, the point is that Jesus was “appointed” to be God’s Son in power at the resurrection of the dead.

He was exalted to a level of power and authority that he did not have previously.

Jesus Christ Our Lord - !!

The lordship of Jesus as Messiah flows naturally from what Paul has just written.