Sermon Tone Analysis

Secular:

* Everyone’s experience with body building….

* Body Building takes time!

* Stop polluting our bodies… junk food… etc… still expect to succeed

* It is discipline (good technique) + exercise (repetition) over time = Success!

Biblical:

NIV Titus 2:1 You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.

2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.

4 Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. 6 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.

7 In everything set them an example by doing what is good.

In your teaching show integrity, seriousness 8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.

9 Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, 10 and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Saviour attractive.

Personal:

* Sore muscles when we exercise… ouch… change… doing things differently…exercising new muscles

* Billy Graham… Jack & Shirley… Mother Theresa…

* Exercising faith over time… help build the body

Bridge:

* What do our leaders look like… helping us to reflect our Leader ~/ Master

* What we as a body should be saying… expressing the truth… trustworthy with the message… & when to ZIP-IT!

* *AND *to know with the foundation of reflecting God in our congregations and leadership and in our sound beliefs… we need to build up the body!

* *“We are called to be a strong …well exercised Body – “A Well Built Body of Christ!!”*

Body:

1)

/But as for you, (who have been trusted with the true message of Christ)…/*You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.*

* If you want to grow a healthy garden… you water it… you fertilize it… you weed it * If you want to grow healthy children… you feed them… you teach them… you love them

* If you want to grow a healthy body… you have a good diet… plan regular workouts… and set up supports

* If you want to grow a healthy Body of Christ… you must have a good diet… (sound doctrine)… you plan regular workouts (prayer, worship and the Word) and you seek out support (loving caring and growing one-another).

* It is time to commit to the task at hand… this is OUR MISSION POSSIBLE

* To UPREACH, and To OUTREACH….

By building a strong and vital body of Christ through solid INREACH

2) On the Hand out… advanced….

First two point are for the spiritually and chronologically mature members of the body… this what *we all* are striving for!

v.2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

* Temperate… chill-out

* Calm in a storm

* Confident in faith… relaxed

* Secure

* Worthy of Respect… garner respect

* Earn the right to speak

* Treat like a father –1 Timothy 5:1a Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father.

* Self-controlled – disciplined… leaving rash and foolish behaviour to youth

* American President must be 35 years old…

* Sound in Faith, love and endurance – Be a Rock

* Not into crushes, fads or infatuation

* Stable…

* Advanced training continues…

3)

* 3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.*

* 4a Then they can train the younger women*

* Reverent in the way they live… - demonstrate your faith in everyday life

* Relationship between you and your God

* Relationship between you and your spouse

* Relationship between you and your kids

* Relationship between you and the people God LOVES!

* Don’t slander – Bite your tongue

* Gossiping, rumouring, slandering… are all out

* Busy-bodies do not fit God’s Advanced Training regime for Body building

* Addicted to much wine – Twisting bottle caps and pulling corks is fruitless exercise

* When you diminish your capacity to witness or to discern… you fail to recognize the ‘every moment of your life’ factor in salvation

* We surrender all of ourselves to Christ and witness to him in every moment we live form conversion…

* We surrender all of ourselves to Christ and must discern right from wrong, the ways of Satan and the ways of God, the ways of the world  versus the ways of the Kingdom

* Clear mind – clear witness

* Confused, distorted, not as sharp – confused, distort, dulled witness

* Teach what is good – share the success

* Eager to share a good diet… a good recipe

* Eager to share good news of Christ

* Pssst PASS it ON!

4) Passing it on includes passing from the advanced… to the beginners…

From our seasoned and well exercised to our searching… striving seeking… beginners

*4b train the younger women to love their husbands and children,*

 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.

* Train the younger women to love their husbands and children – Love the family…

* This isn’t all about you… (world tries to convince us moment by moment, commercial after commercial, in movie after movie…LIVE FOR YOURSELF)

* We tend to be self-centred… self-focused…

* Time to learn even in the family setting… it is not all about us

* Build up a strong family… built up in love

* Self-controlled – disciplined living

* Money, time, activities

* Resisting damaging impulsiveness

* Pure – We are a temple of the Holy Spirit… not a dump

* Examine what we watch… TV, movies, books and the internet are like pitchers of murky water that we fill the vessel made by God.

* Steer clear pf Sexual Sins…

* Steer clear of other sins…

* Do not pollute the Temple of God

* Be busy at home – Serve one another in love

* Demonstrate faithfulness, love and self-sacrifice…

* Subject to their husbands…

* Submitting to headship in the home shows dedication to what the Bible teaches

* Equally important is the husbands responsibility to love his wife as Christ loves the church.

(die for, sacrifice for… well-being).

* Live consistent with the message of God’s Word

* It is not a take it or leave it kind of faith

* Fully embraced or fully rejected…

* You are witness to truth… or not

* This kind of Body building… takes a commitment to the truth… the foundation of our belief… the revelation of our hope… The Word of God

5) Similarly, like wise… (this is not you do this and you do that… it cumulative)

*6 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.*

* 7 In everything set them an example by doing what is good.

In your teaching show integrity, seriousness*

* 8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.*

* 1 Tim 5:1b Treat younger men as brothers,