Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

This is the last invitation to believe put upon those who are reading this book or hearing it read.

This is the last chance offered to those who might be sitting on the fence as to faith in Jesus.

Not just faith or belief in Jesus.

The demons believe in Him.

There are many more who believe in Him but when it comes down to the last count, Jesus will say to them that I never knew you.

This invitation may be the last one that is offered to you.

What will you do with it?

Now we are going to look at two verses this morning.

Verse 16 is the message and verse 17 is the invitation.

I.

The Message, v.16

Jesus is God and to be worshipped.

That is what it is in a nutshell.

This is Jesus finally, saying exactly what He was saying during His lifetime, but in a round about way.

Now there is no question about what He means.

There are no questions as to “Who do men say that I am?’ Or comments of people saying, “Who is this that even the wind and waves and demons obey Him?” Because, He has removed any doubt as to who He is.

Notice with me, first of all, this is Jesus saying this.

“I Jesus” there is no doubt as to the identity of the one speaking or the one who sent this message.

It is clearly Jesus.”

We saw this similar statement back in chapter 1:1-3.

This book ends the same way it began, with Jesus saying I sent my angel to testify to the churches these things.

This is an allusion to

this ends the same way it began, with Jesus saying I sent my angel to testify to the churches these things.

This is an allusion to I send my messenger.

Jesus is not trying to hide the truth from His churches but to expose them, to explain them so that they would have an understanding of the future and how He wants them to respond.

Hence, how we should respond to what we now know is going to come to pass.

We should be preparing ourselves for this end.

Part of that preparation is found in v.17.

ends the same way it began, with Jesus saying I sent my angel to testify to the churches these things.

This is an allusion to I send my messenger.

Jesus is not trying to hide the truth from His churches but to expose them, to explain them so that they would have an understanding of the future and how He wants them to respond.

Hence, how we should respond to what we now know is going to come to pass.

We should be preparing ourselves for this end.

Part of that preparation is found in v.17.

I send my messenger.

Jesus is not trying to hide the truth from His churches but to expose them, to explain them so that they would have an understanding of the future and how He wants them to respond.

Hence, how we should respond to what we now know is going to come to pass.

We should be preparing ourselves for this end.

Part of that preparation is found in v.17.

I send my messenger.

Jesus is not trying to hide the truth from His churches but to expose it to them, to explain them so that they would have an understanding of the future and how He wants them to respond.

Hence, how we should respond to what we now know is going to come to pass.This message is more than just what is going to happen in the future though.

Remember the title of the letter,

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ.”

This is a revealing of Jesus to all the world.

He is the Supreme Personage of this book.

It is to show His superiority, that He is the one who is God.

Not Satan.

The main object of the Bible is to reveal our feeble attempts at being our own God, to show us we deceive ourselves.

Satan has tried to win our allegiance, but in the end he is not even close to being God.

Jesus rises to the top over all, and is to be worshipped by all of His creation.

John also wrote in after announcing the truth about Jesus being God in the flesh, said “This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me; for he was before me.”

and in

1 John 1:1We should be preparing ourselves for this end.

Part of that preparation is found in v.17.

This is the message of this book.

That there is only joy and peace and life in Him.

If you try to find it in any other person or thing you will perish as those recorded in this book.

He makes this clearer as Jesus identifies Himself as the “I am” εγω ειμι the great I Am of the OT.

He is the one who was in the garden with Adam & Eve, was speaking with Noah, who called Abram and made the covenant with him, who met Moses at the burning Bush and the list of appearances could go on almost indefinitely through the history of Israel in the OT.

This then is an attribution to His deity and posits a polemic against any one who would claim that Jesus was just a man and not God as the JW’s do, as many WOF preachers do such as Copeland, Dollar.

Who claim modalism as TD Jakes this is a clear statement of the deity of Jesus Christ.

But before that Jesus identifies Himself as the “I am” εγω ειμι the great I Am of the OT.

He is the one who was in the garden with Adam & Eve, was speaking with Noah, who called Abram and made the covenant with him, who met Moses at the burning Bush and the list of appearances could go on almost indefinitely through the history of Israel in the OT.

This then is an attribution to His deity and posits a polemic against any one who would claim that Jesus was just a man and not God as the JW’s do, as many WOF preachers do such as Copeland, Dollar.

Who claim modalism as TD Jakes this is a clear statement of the deity of Jesus Christ.

On top of that He claims He is Messiah in the phrase “the root and offspring of David” refers back to

.

This is from , .

He is both the ancestor of David preceding him as the root and the descendant of Him.

He is both truly God and truly Man.

In Isaiah the root is clearly the descendant of Jesse/David.

Here he is the ancestor.

It is a reference to both and.

It reminds me of Jesus question to the Pharisees, If Messiah is the descendant of David how can he also be His ancestor, for David said, “the Lord said to my Lord.” ;

This is from

,

He is both the ancestor of David preceding him as the root and the descendant of Him.

He is both truly God and truly Man.

In Isaiah the root is clearly the descendant of Jesse/David.

Here he is the ancestor.

It is a reference to both and.

It reminds me of Jesus question to the Pharisees, If Messiah is the descendant of David how can he also be His ancestor, for David said, “the Lord said to my Lord.” ;

,

.

He is both the ancestor of David preceding him as the root and the descendant of Him.

He is both truly God and truly Man.

In Isaiah the root is clearly the descendant of Jesse/David.

Here he is the ancestor.

It is a reference to both and.

It reminds me of Jesus question to the Pharisees, If Messiah is the descendant of David how can he also be His ancestor, for David said, “the Lord said to my Lord.” ;

There Jesus is speaking to the people in the temple asking them this question.

The only conclusion would be that Messiah is both God and Man as is pointed in our text.

Had the pharisees understood the answer to this question they would have realized that is how Jesus could be both preincarnate (thus seen by Abraham, and called Lord by David) and at the same time be the offspring of David.

He is also “the bright and morning star.”

This comes from

In the fourth oracle of Balaam the prophet declares that “a star will come out of Jacob” ().