Sermon Tone Analysis

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*The fruit of the Spirit*

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/Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV) The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control/

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In his book /Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret of More/, author and pastor Mark Buchanan illustrates God's love through the story of Tracy.

He writes:

Tracy is one of the worship leaders at our church.

One Sunday, as she sat at the piano, she talked about the difficult week she'd just been through.

It was chaotic, she said—a mess of petty crises on top of a rash of minor accidents, all mixed up in a soup can of crazy busyness.

It had left her weary and cranky.

She got up that Sunday to lead worship and felt spent, with nothing more to give.

However, Tracy's 8-year-old daughter, Brenna, helped her gain new perspective earlier that morning.

When Tracy had walked into the living room, the window was covered with scrawl.

Using a crayon, Brenna had scribbled something across the picture window, top to bottom and side to side.

At first, it seemed like one more mess for Tracy to clean up.

Then she saw what Brenna had written: /love, joy, peace, patience, kindnece, goodnece, faithfulnece, gentlnece and selfcantrol/ (in Brenna's delightful spelling).

Mark writes: "Tracy stopped, drank it in.

Her heart flooded with light.

It was exactly what she needed to be reminded about: the gift of the fruit of the Spirit that arises, not by our circumstances, but by Christ within us.

And then Tracy noticed one more thing Brenna had written at the edge of the window: /Love one another/.

Only Brenna, in her creative spelling, had written: /Love won another/."

As Mark concludes: "It's what Jesus has been trying to tell us all along.

You were won that way.

Now go and do likewise."

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/John 15:4 (ESV) Abide in me, and I in you.

As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

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**Love*

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/1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (ESV) If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

/*/ /*/And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,//// but have not love, I gain nothing./

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*2.     **Joy *

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/Hebrews 12:1-2 (ESV) Let us run ////with endurance the race that is ////set before us, /*/ /*/looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, ////who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising ////the shame, and ////is seated at the right hand of the throne of God./

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/**Peace*

 

/Philippians 4:7 (ESV) And ////the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus./

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*4.     **Patience*

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/1 Timothy 1:16 (ESV) * *But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life./

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5.              *Kindness *

 

/Romans 2:4 (ESV) Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?/

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*6.     **Goodness*

 

/Titus 3:4-5 (ESV) But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy/

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*7.     **Faithfulness*

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/2 Timothy 2:2 (ESV) What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

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8.           //*Gentleness*

 

/1 Peter 3:15-16 (ESV) In your hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, /

 

 

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**//**Self-control*

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/Proverbs 25:28 (ESV) A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

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