Sermon Tone Analysis

Joel 2:1-2; 12-17

 

Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill.

Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming.

It is close at hand  — a day of darkness   and gloom, a day of clouds  and blackness.

Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to come

 

“Even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

Rend your heart  and not your garments.

Return  to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love,  and he relents from sending calamity.

Who knows?

He may turn and have pity and leave behind a blessing —grain offerings and drink offerings for the LORD your God.

Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.

Gather the people, consecrate  the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast.

Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber.

Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep  between the temple porch and the altar.

Let them say, “Spare your people, O LORD.

Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations.

Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?

L: This is the Word of the Lord

 

P: Thanks be to God

 

 

 

/The Holy Bible, New International Version/.

Pradis CD-ROM:Mt 6:1.

*Matthew 6:1-6; 16-21*

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“Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them.

If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in Heaven.

“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men.

I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.

But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret.

Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

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“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing   in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men.

I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.

But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father,  who is unseen.

Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

“When you fast, w  do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting.

I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.

But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

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“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

L: This is the Gospel of our Lord

 

P: Praise be to you, Lord Jesus Christ