Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Set-up: This morning I want to begin a 3 part series that will continue tonight and next Sunday during the 10:50AM Service.

Opening Story/Illustration: My little girl and I recently started this night time ritual.

A few years ago we found it a challenge to get her to sleep without us in the room, so we started setting her a timer for five minutes and when 5min was up we were done.

Well, she caught on to this and kind of turned the tables on us.

Now, for the last couple of years, everybody in the house has to take a turn with her for 5min.

You aren’t allowed to leave until your 5min is up and you better not start your 5min timer until you’re in the bed laying down with her.

So during my time with her she’s recently become fascinated with my watch.

So she goes through this whole routine with it now.

She makes me put it on - even if I’ve already taken it off.

I have to make sure the sound is on and I have to scroll to the Micky and Minnie watch face and I have to let her touch the screen and she listens to Mickey and Minnie say - It’s 8:55PM goodnight pal…then she makes me scroll back to my normal watch face and she procedes to interrogate me about how much I exercised or didn’t exercise that day.

She wants to know how much I exercised and how many calories I burned.

She goes through this routine and she knows that it’s bedtime.

All the signs point to it being time to go so sleep.

But the routine starts normally with a warning from me.

You see, if I left it up to my 4yr old, she wouldn’t pay any attention to the time.

She would keep watching TV, keep playing, keep doing whatever she was doing, completely unaware that it’s time for be.

I have to give a quick, “Hey, It’s time to get ready for bed.”

Some of you in this room are morning people, some of you are not.

But the routine starts normally with a warning from me.

Some of you young people could stay up all night and sleep all day.

Spiritually we’ve got to learn to be morning people.

There are a lot of people who are spiritually asleep or spiritually in a 5AM daze.

Transition to the text: In , Paul gives us a reminder.

You see, as Christians, it’s so easy for us to get busy doing our thing and we forget and don’t pay attention to the spiritual time.

We can get so distracted by good things that we forget the time.

Over the next 3 messages I want to talk about this warning and what Paul is reminding them about the time.

Text:

Main Idea: Paul is reminding us that It’s time to Wake Up.

Transition to points: The word “time” here is not about Chronological time, but more like a season or a decisive moment.

Paul is reminding his readers to know the decisive moment that they are living in and then respond accordingly.

But he begins with a call to action.

A call to, “Wake-Up!”