Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

What are some more significant advancements in the last 30 years?

Automated Teller Machines

Medical Technology - DNA testing, sequencing

Electronic Cars

Fiber Optic communication

Non invasive laser and robotic surgery

Solar Energy

Bar codes/scanners

Coronary Bypass surgery/Stints

Biofuels

Cell Phones

MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging

You can travel almost anywhere in the world and find a McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, KFC and Taco Bell.

You can travel almost anywhere in the world and find a McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, KFC and Taco Bell.

Get your meal in record time, and get your meal with a thrill!

And why don’t you just “supersize” it while you are at it.

1) Annual Fast Food Revenue in the US is $110 Billion

Get your meal in record time, and

• In 1957 a fast food hamburger was 1 oz.

and 210 calories.

In 2003 a fast food hamburger is 6 oz. and 618 calories!

2) 50 Million Americans eat Fast Food Every Day

• In 1957 a box of movie theater popcorn was 3 cups and 170 calories.

In 2003 a box of movie theater popcorn is 16 cups and 900 calories!

- Get your meal with a thrill!

3) A Third of Children Eat Fast Food on a Daily Basis

• In 1990 a 2.1 oz Butterfinger was 270 calories.

In 2003 a 5 oz.

Butterfinger is 680 calories.

• And today of course we have to supersize EVERYTHING!

4) The Fast Food Consumption Rate Hasn't Changed in 15 Years

- And why don’t you just “supersize” it while you are at it.

• MacDonald’s 1957 – burger, fries and coke: 590 calories.

MacDonald’s 2003 – Extra Value Meal of a Quarter Pounder with cheese, supersize fries and drink: 1550 calories.

4) A Fast Food Meal is 37% of Your Daily Calories

• The results: (1) double the risk of heart failure in women, (2) 50% rise in type II diabetes, (3) children – survey of 813 overweight Louisiana school children, 58% had at least one heart disease risk factor such as high blood pressure, cholesterol, or insulin levels.

McDonald’s sells an average of 75 hamburgers every second.44

percent of people report eating out at least once a week.On any given day, 34 percent of children between ages 2 and 19 consume fast food.McDonald’s has more locations (35,000) than the combined total of Burger King (14,000), Wendy’s (6,500), Taco Bell (6,200) and Arby’s (3,400) combined.The average American spends an estimated $1,200 on fast food each year.Children consume an estimated 12 percent of their calories from fast food.20 percent of all American meals are eaten in the car.

5) McDonald’s sells an average of 75 hamburgers every second.

6) 44 percent of people report eating out at least once a week.

6) On any given day, 34 percent of children between ages 2 and 19 consume fast food.

7) McDonald’s has more locations (35,000) than the combined total of Burger King (14,000), Wendy’s (6,500), Taco Bell (6,200) and Arby’s (3,400) combined.

8) The average American spends an estimated $1,200 on fast food each year.

9) Children consume an estimated 12 percent of their calories from fast food.

10) 20 percent of all American meals are eaten in the car.

If you will just stop and look closely, you will see the vanity of a “happy meal” diet.

Christians are suffering from a steady diet of “fast food” or “happy meal” Christianity.

Christians are suffering from a steady diet of “fast food” or “happy meal” Christianity.

Walt Kaiser nails it and lays much of the blame rightly at the feet of preachers.

He writes,

“It is no secret that Christ’s Church is not at all in good health in many places in the world.

She has been languishing because she has been fed “junk food,” all kinds of artificial preservatives and all sorts of unnatural substitutes have been served up to her… the Biblical text often is no more than a slogan or refrain in the message.

For large segments of the Christian Church it is a truism to say that Biblical exposition has become a lost art in contemporary preaching.”

What people in our churches need today is a plate of spiritual health foods and a strong and steady diet of biblical nourishment.

What people in our churches need today is a plate of spiritual health foods and a strong and steady diet of biblical nourishment.

In this text, the apostle Peter gives us 3 imperatives, and he puts on the table three essential components of a healthy spiritual diet certain to produce healthy Christians: hope, holiness and humility.

A healthy spiritual life is found in:

I.

The Hope of His Coming (1:13-14)

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Discipline your life.

(13)

What is the imperative?

KJV says: “gird up the loins of your mind”

NASB says: “Prepare your minds for action”

“pull yourself together, its time to get going”

Tom Shreiner says: (love this) “Do not become anesthetized by whats going on around you in this world”

The mind is crucial!

Deny former lust.

(14)

“do not be conformed” - not fashioned or molding yourself

Outside pressure and influence lure us to shape or fashion ourselves to our former life, life before Christ.

Resist the gravity of the flesh that wars to pull you back from where you came.

That was the old you.

You are now a new you!

Outside pressure and influence entice us to shape or fashion ourselves to our former life, life B.C.

Resist the gravity of the flesh that wars to pull you back from where you came.

That was the old you.

You are now a new you!

Don’t go around masquerading in the outfit of sin when you belong to the Savior.

Don’t go around masquerading in the outfit of sin when you belong to the Savior.

be careful of legalism here… (following a standard or set of rules allowing you to be approved by God)

the Holy Spirit work in each person to bring them to the image of Christ…that may be a different process for each individual.

example: My friend who was an alcoholic: in recovery; HS convicted him to ever be around any sort of alcohol because he was weak in that area.

Another person may not be like him.

Where as it is wise to stay guard yourself in these areas, it may be the same struggle from one person to the next.

We can become very legalist by imposing extra-biblical parameters on someones growth as a christian even to the point of dictating how they are or should be saved.

example: well when I was saved....

A healthy spiritual life is found in the “hope of His coming”.

A healthy spiritual life is found in:

II.

The Holiness of His Conduct (1:15-16)

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We are to be children of obedience (v.

14).

Such a challenge implies something about our Father.

Children long to be like daddy.

It is their nature to do so.

Our Father (v.

17) longs for us to be like Him too.

What is our Father like?

In a word: He is holy.