Sermon Tone Analysis

Secular:

*   Today that cross is not empty

* It pain, its shame, its agony

* His pain, His Shame, His Agony

* Its full weight in the foreground

* We remember that it is not the nail that hold Him there

* It is our sin, my sin, your sin…

* It is the sin of every believer

* You and I

* It is where the profane meet the Holy…

 

* Ultimate Selflessness

* Ultimate Humility

* Ultimate Sacrifice

* Ultimate Glory

 

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Biblical:

Philippians *2 *So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, *2 *complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

*3 *Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

*4 *Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

*5 *Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,// *6 *who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, *7 *but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant,// being born in the likeness of men.

*8 *And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

*9 *Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, *10 *so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, *11 *and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Personal:

*    The cross is about

* Redemption

* Justification

* Sanctification

* The cross

* Substitutionary

* Vicarious

* Expiatory

* Propitiatory

* Atoning

*  It is the HUB of faith….

* No Cross….

No Christianity!

*  No Cross no salvation!

* No Cross no hope

 

Bridge:

* The cross transforms

* The cross enlivens

* The cross kills

* The Cross…

* In its horror and its glory!

*  The Cross - Selflessness

*  The Cross – Humility

* The Cross – Sacrifice

* The Cross - Gory

Body:

The Cross – Selflessness and Unity

Php 2:1-11 - So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

* Look to the Cross…

*  Weight of the draw

* Holiest, most perfect, of Highest station

* Lord of Heaven and Earth

* The DRAW

* Encouragement in Christ…

* The Selflessness as the Model

* Comfort

* Love

* "There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all."

(Ephesians 4:4-6, ESV)

* *FOCUS*

* Cost

* Purpose

* Faith

* So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,…"If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen."

(1 John 4:20, ESV)

* The church reflects what it believes of the Cross

* Did Christ die for our opinions

* Did Christ die for our preferences

* Did Christ die for our religion

*     --  OR --

* Did Christ Die to Draw us to Him

* AND to draws us to one another

* Through his Spirit for Father?

* Did He die first for the Father and the Bride?

* He died for the body of Christ!

For the church.

* The benefit is holistic

* So if there is any encouragement in Christ… comfort… love * It is bound around the cross

* Same mind

* Same love

* Full accord… ONE MIND

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* Participation in the Spirit

* No Cross no salvation, no redemption, AND no SPIRIT

* "You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you.

Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him."

(Romans 8:9, ESV)

* No Cross – No Spirit – No Christ

* "And such were some of you.

But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."

(1 Corinthians 6:11, ESV)

* Truth of the Cross is made effective in the Spirit

* At the Cross

*  Encouragement in Christ and Participation in the Spirit

*  = Same Mind and Same Love

The Cross – Humility

3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

*   Pride dies at the Cross