Sermon Tone Analysis

On Monday when I was getting my hair cut, the barber said something that got me thinking and meditating.

I’m not a sports fan and so I cannot have a long conversation about any sports venue or personal.

He had a NBA talk show on television and he began to talk sports, from college draft picks to who he consider the best in the NBA.

He talked about different teams and their players.

Another custom was in his chair and they were conversing very well on this topic.

Every time the barber spoke a name of a basketball player and looked at me, I would smile and node my head without saying anything.

talks about, he that keeps quit is considered a man with wisdom.

As the other gentlemen got out of the chair, I set down and the barber started talking to me about sports.

I couldn’t be silent anymore so I told him that I was not a sports fan.

I told him that I was a preacher.

The conversation changed from sports to life.

I found out that he had been in church most all his life and his family, mother, aunts, and others gave him a godly background.

We started talking about what is happening in Chicago and around the world today and the causes of the troubles we see, murders and black-on-black crime in our communities, and how we are destroying ourselves from the inside out.

Statistics show the deterioration of the black community....

As we continued this conversation he said, “the worse thing that happen to the black community is Liberation from Segregation”.

I pondered that statement, I don’t agree with him, but I understand what he was talking about.

There was a Oneness of mind and heart when segregation was in place and we lost that when we were liberated.

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It wasn’t the liberation that the black community recieved from segregation that messed us up, but the gradual forgetting of God.

There is always a remnant for God, but as a whole there has been a gradual falling away.

Must backsliders don’t just leave God all at once, but they gradually go back into the world because of some outside influence.

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This is why Oneness is so important to Jesus.

He prays for it and gives an example of what it means to be one.

He lived Oneness all of eternity.

Oneness is so essential to Jesus that He made a request to God for the whole church, present and future.

John

Jesus makes oneness for the church an unbeatable force, spiritually as well as physically.

Eleven chosen ordinary men with other ordinary women, must have one heart and one soul for the purpose of spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

His disciples had to be of one heart and of one soul to make sure their testimony of Jesus would be believable and propagated.

We find one disciple that needed special attention from Jesus to have oneness with the other disciples.

John

Jesus could not go back to heaven without the disciples being one in heart and soul.

He had to allow them to know that salvation is real

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Without the resurrection of Jesus there would not be a Christian religion, there would not be a church, but because of His resurrection the church lives and we have “Power through Oneness”.

When He rose, says it was with All Power, says signs shall follow the believer, and says greater works are in the future of the believer because Jesus is on the right hand of the Father.

It was the “Power of Oneness” that help bring the first 3,000 soul to Christ on the day of Pentecost.

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It was the “Power of Oneness” that healed the lame man in the temple, for Jesus had told His disciples,

Peter and John went to the temple to pray as usual, and saw this lame man as usual, but “Power Through Oneness” had invaded every aspect of their being and moved them in ways they could not understand.

It was the “Power Through Oneness” that helped Peter preach Jesus in and five thousand more men believed.

It was “Power Through Oneness” that enabled Peter and John to stand professing Jesus when threaten by the authorities to not speak in that name anymore.

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The first century church recieved Power through their oneness and we in the twenty first century can have the same Power for our oneness.

The “Power Through Oneness” will not come and stay without the ingredient of Love.

Love keeps us on one accord and pushes us to that commonality.

Commonality helps with the manifestation of Power from God.

When we are separate and alone we don’t have “Power Through Oneness”

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“Power Through Oneness” means we encourage each other to keep running the race that is set before us and help each other alone the way.

There is “Power Through Oneness”