Sermon Tone Analysis

Big Idea

Until the crucified Lord is lifted up in your heart, you will not (see) know who he really is!

You will not be able to walk in the Light!

Your perceptions of the Jesus as Messiah are incomplete without the whole truth of scripture

He died of our sins

He is the son of God

He is all that he claims and thus what scripture claims him to be

The statement I am he, literally that I am or I be (ἐγώ εἰμι) (I am who I claim to be, or I am who I am, or say I am)

When you see him lifted up (crucified for your sins) then and only then do you see the Glory of God.

6 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.

2 Above him stood the seraphim.

Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

3 And one called to another and said:

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;

the whole earth is full of his glory!”

4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

5 And I said: “Woe is me!

For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

7 And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

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[1] The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.

(2016).

(Is 6:1–7).

Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.

23 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

Unless you pick up your cross and follow me, you cannot be my disciple!

Why were they Religious leaders and other doubters having difficulty receiving this, there are multiple reasons given in scripture for this, in this passage we find a few of those truths

Jesus’s message was spiritual and for a spiritual people

Our carnality in this world impacts our ability to see Christ through the lens of his word and accept the truth of his word

23 He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above.

You are of this world; I am not of this world.[1]

[1] The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.

(2016).

(Jn 8:23).

Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.

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2 Corinthians 4:3–7 (ESV)

3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.