Sermon Tone Analysis

*Water*

*Jn 7:38*

*38 *Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’

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*Jn 4:10-14*

*10 *Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

*11 *The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep.

Where do you get that living water?

*12 *Are you greater than our father Jacob?

He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

*13 *Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, *14 *but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty forever.

The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

*Bread*

*Jn 6:35*

*35 *Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

*Jn 6:48*

*48 *I am the bread of life.

*Jn 6:51*

*51 *I am the living bread that came down from heaven.

If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.

And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Light

*Jn 8:12*

*I Am the Light of the World*

*12 *Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.

Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

*Jn 9:5*

*5 *As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

*Jn 15:7-11*

*7 *If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

*8 *By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

*9 *As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Abide in my love.

*10 *If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

*11 *These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

*Eph 3:14-21*

*Prayer for Spiritual Strength*

*14 *For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, *15 *from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, *16 *that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, *17 *so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, *18 *may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, *19 *and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

*20 *Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, *21 *to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever.

Amen.

*Php 4:8*

*8 *Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.