Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

Maybe title is “We Find our Win”

Love is going somewhere

“I’ve got somewhere I’ve got to be”

?Amazing Race

?Other competition to be the first one there??

First one to accomplish getting a thing built / done (?Wright brothers / other auto maker or technology maker; Edison or other person pursuing an elusive goal)

hupo akuow—put yourselves under what you hear

submission to the truth is protection from the _______?

phileo must become agape

different character

different priority

different _______

*** will never accidentally happen

*** Cf ch 4—”others’ sins will get in the way”

*** why souls?

it’s where you carry personality and personal stuff… (Peter’s agenda)

Fervently (ἐκτενῶς).

Used by Peter only, and only in this passage.

He uses the kindred adjective ἐκτενής, without ceasing, in Acts 12:5, where the narrative probably came from him, and also at ch. 4:8; “fervent charity.”

The words are compounded with the verb τείνω, to stretch, and signify intense strain; feeling on the rack.

Jesus pointed out that love would grow cold in teh end times, so that the culture would normalize cold-heartedness and it would be all the more improtant that we be intentional to keep hearts sincere in love (increase of lawlessness—increase of unbridled people keeping us battling with mean-spirited people and offensive behavior, getting fryustrated with teh immorality and misbehavior and social chaos, hearts will grow cold—easily angered and easily grouping in camps agains others

cf made our souls holy--”you’ve gotten so much together—so don’t let this part go—take love where it was always wanting to go

*** Love testers can be your best friends—specifically, some of the most helpful, because they will clear away every false love sentiment you still cling too, falsely believing that its love, and falsely thinking that love isn’t enough to get through; which in turn will drive your energy to the only thing left—true love

*** When it comes right down to it, you will be driven to experience love and have to call on the love that comes to you through Jesus—it’s not “love yourself” love that will enable you to love a difficult person or to love someone indifficult cirsumstances or through a difficult episode, rather, it’s experiencing the love of God that both fills us with the capacity to love and normalizes what real love is.

As someone has said, you can’t give what you don’t have.

Thus, the implied meaning is, “You shall love your neighbor just as you are to love yourself.”

Such a view seems to have come from secular psychologists (in which self-actualization is at the top of the pecking order of one’s goals).

From there, it apparently made its way into Christian psychological treatises.

(https://bible.org/article/self-love-biblical-matthew-2239)

phil

(Re -)

The Greek particle ὡς is the primary means used to suggest such a comparison in the New Testament (and is used in ).

For example, in , Jesus healed a man’s hand, “making it whole, like the other one.”

The whole hand was the standard against which the now healed hand was measured.

In , Jesus’ face “shone like (ὡς) the sun.” (https://bible.org/article/self-love-biblical-matthew-2239)

Peter’s concern—how are we going to manage life in a world that is increasingly hostile to everything that Jesus wants our lives to be about?

The answer is not only survival, but thricing!

But it’s asking the survival questino taht gets us to the thriving answer

** Love activates