Sermon Tone Analysis

Easter Sunrise Service

2019

It had to happen

Welcome

Intro

Thank you for allowing myself and the team to go down to Colombia and build relationships

We will have a service planned later in the future where we will share about the trip

This morning I want us to look at the reason we celebrate today

No better place to start than in the beginning

Prior to these verses we get a glimpse of what God had intended before sin entered the world

True fellowship with God

But then sin enters the world

Both Adam and Eve eat of the fruit that God specifically told them not to eat of, they were disobedient

The tempter comes along and begins to ask questions and make them doubt what God actually said

They eat of the fruit and what God said happens, their eyes are open and they see they are naked so they make close

What do you do you when you realize you are naked, you make clothes

They were attempting to cover what they had done wrong because they could see their nakedness

They used fig leaves in hopes of covering and not seeing what they had done wrong anymore

The problem, fig leaves don’t offer protection and aren’t sturdy meaning you would continue to have to cover and cover as the leaves wore our and tore

Adam and Eve thought they could sin and cover it themselves

You and I sin and think we can cover it ourselves, we think we can handle it ourselves and we will deal with it by ourselves just like Adam and Eve

Do you understand that you and I cannot cover our sin!

We can’t even make the payment for sin!

Which is why we celebrate today!

Because they understand they have sinned they try and hide even more

The hear God’s footsteps, side note how cool would that be to hear His footsteps

They hear God walking and now they have sinned so they think they can hide

God goes through this questioning with them and then they begin the blame game

Notice they never took responsibility for their sin but they thought they could handle it and cover it up

This is very much the problem we are in as well till Jesus shows up

See you and have sinned and we have missed the mark, and we have messed up

If we are honest we with each other, we have tried to cover it up ourselves, we have tried to handle our own sin problem ourselves

God then covers their sin problem, notice through their sin is not without consequences

Good took some skin and covered them

The skin covering was going to last longer and be more durable for them as they were going to be sent out of the garden because God loved them enough to know if they ate of the tree of life in that state they would live forever in a sinful state and God didn’t want that

But God used a skin covering, which meant something had to die

Becasue of sin something had to die

See already from the very beginning the price of sin was death

We celebrate today because Jesus died and covered our sin once and for all

Jesus is the complete and ultimate covering

Jesus is the answer to our sin problem

This church is why we celebrate today because our sin problem was taken care!!!

We no longer have to carry the weight of our own sin around, we no longer have to deal with our own sin, we no longer have to cover our own sin

Jesus did that on the cross and the empty tomb

Church this is why we celebrate today!

Jesus paid the price for our sin

This is the covering for our sin

But it didn’t stop with just the death because had it stopped at the death then we would continue the annual sacrifice of animals to cover our sin

But no it didn’t stop with death

Jesus has conquered death and thus conquered our sin problem!!

Praise the Lord church this is why we celebrate today because our sacrifice to cover our sin and defeated death

We no longer have to be a slave to sin, we no longer have to be owned by our sin, we no longer have to cover our own sin

The bible says that those who cry out to Jesus will be saved

We will ask the musicians to come up and as they play

if you have not made a personal decision to have Jesus be lord of your life, I want to invite you to do that this morning

maybe you need to make some other decision

or maybe you simply need to come the altar in prayer