Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

We live in a world of truth and lies.

Lies torment, they hold us down in shackles.

Lies come from the devil, he is the father of lies.

Many people are suffering because of lies.

Many people are dying because of lies.

What do I man?

Many people suffer because of the lies like:

Money makes you happy.

Sex is just casual.

Material things matter more than people.

Killing people will get you into paradise.

You deserve to be happy.

Its your life and you can do what you want it.

These are all lies, and they all cause pain suffering, sorrow and death.

They tie you down in chains and the only thing that can set you free is the truth.

Thats wht tonights sermon is called: We must know the truth:

To find out about truth we will look at the second letter of John, a letter that is all about truth and its application.

The word truth is used 4 times in just the few opening verses.

Now what truth are we talking about?

There are many things that are true but are not particularly impactful.

It is true that 60 seconds make 1 minute and its true that sound travels at 343 m/s and its also true that the force of gravity is 10 ms/s.

All these things are true and important in their own sake but none of them were so important that God himself had to break into creation from eternally and tell us about it, write to us about it and make it the issue that would result in mans eternal rejoicing or mans eternal punishment.

Whats is this truth?

Jesus testified of this truth.

The Word testifies of this truth.

and the holy Spirit testified of this truth:

In fact all of heaven testifies and agrees on this truth:

What.

Is.

The.

Truth?

The Truth is that Jesus Christ is God in the Flesh

The entire Christian faith stands on this doctrine.

It is what seperats us from all the rest:

Mormons believe that Jesus was the result of the father having intercouse with Mary and Jesus as “a” god.

JW believe that Jesus is a created creature and the brother of Satan.

Islam believes that Jesus was just a prophet.

Even catholic do not believe that Jesus is the sole mediator between God and the church.

They pray to Mary and other Saints as mediators.

Is was this claim that Jesus is God that cause Jesus himself to be hated of the religious leadres.

and ultimatly to be crucified:

This is the Truth that God wanted to know.

Implications:

Because Jesus is God....

1: God is knowable, personal and wants us to come to know Him.

This disproves the religion of agnosticism, which says that God, if he exists, is unknowable.

It also disproves Buddism and any other form on Pantheism, that says God is a “force”, it disproves pluralism like Hinduism which says that are are many Gods...

God is not a force, or a distant cosmic grandfather.

He is a personal being that desires each us to come to know Him, so much so that He himself came into this world in the form of a human child.

2: God is not a respecter of persons

Jesus always associated, visited, ministered and touch the ordinary people.

He never dwelled with the religion eletes in their temples or with kings in their palases.

Jesus fellowshipped with the common man.

This is powerful and humbling.

It means that God is not interested in your social standing, economic standing, or religious standing.

He does not care if you are a slave or free, a man or a woman, a child or an adult.

Anyone can come to know God personally and experience his grace.

3: God is focused both on the multitude as well as the individual.

In Jesus we see his concern for the crowds.

He was concerned that they were hungry, and that they were weary, he was concerned for the people of Israel and longed to comnfort them.

But Jesus was alo fully devoted to the individual and cared for the needs of the person.

God is working on a huge scale of redemption, but at the same time, Jesus shows that God is great enopugh to do a huge work and deal with a single persons needs at the same time.

For me the gretest example is at the cross.

Humanityies redemption, but also Marys well being.

4: His Death counted.

Man cannot die for man.

It is a case of the blind leading the blind.

1: The death of Jesus purchased us.

2: The death of Jesus was on our behalf.

3: The death of Jesus defines God love for us.

4: The death of Jesus reconciles us to God.