Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction: pages 9-13

Christ’s primary concern was not social or political

The Church is not fighting a culture war

Matthew 16:18

“Believers need to put our energies into the ministry that can transform lives, not into laws.”

—John MacArthur

Morality Damns (pg.10)

Morality cannot change the heart

Jesus confronted the moral Pharisees

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Matthew 23:16

Isaiah 64

Romans 3:

People

“People can change their lives.”

“Morality can’t save anyone from guilt or fuel genuine godliness.”

The Church needs to be careful moral or social justice doesn’t distract from the main task

The True Calling of the Church (pg.12)

Don’t turn our mission field into our enemy

“Angry protests”

“Partisan politics”

Timothy ministered in a culture like ours

2 Timothy

We must show the world love and not be like Jonah

“The world is the way it is today because it is the world.”

Example Jonah

Matthew 5

“Virtually every admonition, rebuke, warning, and call to repentance our Lord makes in these letters is applicable to the church in the twenty-first century—including today’s best-known and most-influential evangelical churches.

It’s time for us to pay attention to the letters to those in Revelation and heed Christ’s call to reform His Church.”

Calling the Church to Repent: pages 15-36

Church repenting collectively?

The Great Ejection (pg.16)

History of the Puritans against the Anglican Church

Continuing to rid church of remaining Roman Catholic influences and practices

Act of Uniformity August 24, 1662 an attempt silence opposition to the Anglican Church

Matthew Meade

JB Marsden

Puritan pastors who lost their pulpits but continued to preach: Richard Baxter, John Flavel, Thomas Brooks, and Thomas Watson

The Legacy of the Reformation (pg.19)

Institutional corruption

Hersey and spiritual deception

John Wycliffe and John Huss

Martin Luther

John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, Philip Melanchthon, Theodore Beza, John Knox

The Pathology of an Apostate Church (pg.23)

“Consider the spiritual ground that is lost when the church surrenders biblical authority.

If Scripture does not speak with absolute, inerrant authority, the offer of justification by grace through faith cannot be extended to desperate sinners.”

JM

Doing away with biblical authority opens the door for false doctrine and false teachers

Todays church is surrendering to the characteristics of the corrupt Catholic Church in the days of Martin Luther

Apostasy happens gradually

…maybe we can be more relevant and inviting to the world if we don’t take this verse or that sin too seriously.

Dangerous philosophy

The Alleged Advantages of the Early Church (pg.26)

Call to early church model

Anti-large church

Even the early church had problems

An Apostle in Exile (pg.26)

Revelation before getting into God’s judgment on the unrepentant sinners first addresses the churches

Real historical churches

Time periods and today’s churches might be similar to these 7 churches

Periods of persecution

Revelation 1

Judgement for the Household of God

2 Timothy

God’s warnings to the church should be taken seriously

Apostate Israel is an example God will bring judgement

The Lord’s Work in His Church: pages 37-53

A Voice Like a Trumpet (pg.39)

In the Spirit

“not a normal human experience”

Ezekiel

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“on the Lord’s day”

The day the Lord was resurrected

The day the early observed because of the significance of the day

“heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet”

Exodus 19:

Loud voice or sound proceed solemn announcements or heavenly praise

Revelation

Revelation 14:

“What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia...”

What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

One of John’s last tasks

The importance of the local church

The Lord in His Church (pg.41)

Seven golden lampstands

Value

Main purpose is to shine light

Like the Son of Man

High Priest in the midst of the lights

Jesus is active in His Church

We can find comfort

We can find encouragement

Matthew 28:

Son of Man

Jesus is active in His Church

We can find comfort

We can find encouragement

The Interceding High Priest (pg.43)

The Interceding High Priest (pg.43)

His clothing appears to be that of the Great High Priest