Sermon Tone Analysis

pre the ark?

phone, got a new one, new phone became old - janell

jr high to high school - me

new job - ryan

sound board - church

car - me

house

computer - church

noticed that some people

old house - wall, tile, floor

car - door, engine,

sound board, electronics, faders

ryan job tried to do his old job and second job

high school and i was trying to go to both at the same time

janells phone, if she tried to combine her phones, what if she tried to take her old screen and put it on her new phone so that she tried to use her new phone through the lens of the old screen

have you ever heard a preacher do this with the bible, if i have done this i apologize, that has never been my intent or what i wanted to come across

now heres what im talking about

i believe the old testament was and is inspired by God, it is a part of the bible and there are unlimited things that we can learn about God in the old testament, but the old testament rules and regulations are now over and finished and there is now a better covenant, better promises in place.

old covenant, the law, old testament, all mean the same thing

and see the problem is is that when we mix and match the old testament with the new we get jesus plus.. and anything that is ‘jesus plus’ will ruin what ever it touches, its what started every major christian war, its what creates stuck up christian jerks, it creates dpressed, shame and guilt ridden people, it creates people that try and get a s close to sin without sinning, it makes

and see the problem is is that when we mix and match the old testament with the new we get jesus plus.. and anything that is ‘jesus plus’ will destroy relationships

and see the problem is this, is that when we mix and match the old testament with the new we get jesus plus..

and anything that is ‘jesus plus’ will ruin what ever it touches, its what started every major christian war, its what creates stuck up christian jerks, it creates depressed, shame and guilt ridden people, it creates people that try and get as close to sin without sinning, it creates people that separate themselves from everybody cause everybody else is a sinner, it creates statements that go like this, ‘i need to get closer to god’ or ‘that persons a backslider’ or ‘you just need to pray harder’ or ‘you just need to read the bible more and you’ll get better’ or ‘you just need to be at church every time the door opens and you’ll see things change’ or ‘God hates sinners’ or ‘you need to do this for god’ or ‘god is going to punish you because of what you did’ or ‘if you just didn’t do ________________’ on and on these types of statements can go

and what do all these have in common?

you doing something for God to earn something from God because you were so good that now God should do something for you.

that is garbage religion, and that is a miserable way to live life

mixing the old and the new says Jesus died for you but you need to pray in order for God to speak to you a lot, or jesus died for you but you need to give your tithes or god wont help you financially, or you’ll see tv preachers say that if you just give a hundred dollars as a seed offering you will see your miracle within the year’(dont make me puke) or Jesus died for you but if you don’t go to church every week and hear the preacher your going to miss what God is saying and you wont get all that god has for you, and the rules begin to take over, and its no longer about what jesus has done but what i’ve done for god or what i’ve not done for god

bad religion mixes and matches old and new and what ends up happening is that the little bit of wrong believing ends up ruining everything

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i believe really good things about what god has done for me, but i start believing in the law or old covenant as well, just a wee little tiny bit, eventually what will end up happening is that it will bleed over into every part of your life, and the external part of your life and what people see becomes more important than the internal and what God has done for you and is doing in you

lets be honest, pastors can fall into this trap super easy with themselves, if i just prayed more for that person, that bad thing wouldn’t have happened, or if i just prayed more or trusted god more we would have had enough to cover those bills, see it could be real easy to transfer that type of thinking on to the people, you know if you would just _________________, then you have people leaving the church feeling like what they did caused what the enemy actually did, and they leave feeling guilty or ashamed or the opposite, self righteous, because they were just told what they did will help them with God.. to an extreme thats where you get the preachers that take an old testament verse ‘don’t touch gods anointed’ to an extreme of saying dont criticize the pastor or be critical or correct the pastor because if you do God will kill you or ruin your life or whatever they would say,

but

what if im doing something stupid and I’ve cut off all avenues of correction, im not talking about being disrespectful but if i cant handle someone trying to help or disagree im prob in the wrong vocation.

I need help, i need a lot of it.

many of you are way smarter than me and you choose to still be here and that is humbling, and i love it.

because we can do way more together than individually

this whole religion in mixing and matching paul talks about

That’s what we call the old testament or old covenant or the old promises

and what y

read a small section and skip ahead to get the point across

it continues on

What the Messiah has freed us for is freedom

not to go back to the old way of doing things

if you accept the tiniest part of the law jesus is of no advantage because you just made it about what youve done instead of what hes done

vs 5

v6

circumcision aka the law is no good for you any more

so then what else does the new testament say about all of this, thats part of what the whole new testament is about, but but this is just one small part

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if there is a rule

why am i talking about all of this now?

because i want to be a new testament church, not an old testament church

i want us to be a new covenant family not a mix and match old and new/what we think is best for us family

and i believe that by his grace and love we can be

we can be a family that is more about grace than about rules, more about love than about fear, more about what God is doing, than what we think he should do, more about seeing the broken restored, and the lost found, more about being salt and light, more about life and joy and peace and the fruits of the spirit not the fruits of our labors, more about jesus than anything else

Hilmar family church

being the family of God to each other and the world

making jesus the very center

close your eyes with me

(go to piano)

jesus at the center

before we get into the ark i wanted to make sure we understand the old was for a certain time and place that is no longer applicable to us. and that we have a better covenant with better promises now, and certain parts of the old testament reveal this in a really cool way.

and thats where the ark comes in.

bow your heads with me