Sermon Tone Analysis

Be holy

Living into eternity

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!!! Announcements

!!! Doxology: Hymn no 53:           /“All people that on earth do dwell”/

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Call to worship

!!!!!! Bible Verse

It is good to praise the LORD and make music to your name, O Most High, to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night (Psalm 92:1-2)

!!!!!! Blessing

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

(2 Corinthians 1:2)

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The Lord’s Prayer                   The choir will lead the congregation

!!!!!! to sing this prayer.

!!! Hymn No 70:                               /“Praise my soul the king of heaven” (As /

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!!! Invocation

Dear Heavenly Lord, in the words of your servant David, we pray this morning.

We acknowledge Your word is a lamp to our feet and a light for our path.

We have taken an oath and confirmed it, that we will follow your righteous laws.

Accept, O LORD, the willing praise of our mouth, and teach us your laws.

(Psalm 119:105-108)

!!! Children’s Address

!!! Hymn No 6:                                 /“O Lord You are my God and King”/

!!! Scripture Reading:                    /Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-19./

!!! Prayer of Adoration and Confession

Almighty God in heaven,

Blessed are You, O Lord, God of Israel, our father, forever and ever.

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for everything in heaven and earth is Yours.

Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler of all things.

In Your hand is power and might to exalt and to give strength to all.

Therefore, my God, I give You thanks and praise Your glorious name.

(1 Chronicles 29:10–13)

I will proclaim the name of the Lord and praise the greatness of my God.

(Deuteronomy 32:3)

O Lord, do not rebuke us in Your wrath, and do not chasten us in Your anger.

For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down upon me.

There is no health in my body because of Your wrath, nor peace in my bones because of my sin.

For my iniquities have gone over my head; as a heavy burden, they weigh too much for me.

(Psalm 38:1–4)

Lord, Please wash us clean so we will be whiter than snow.

Blot out our transgressions and forgive us our iniquities.

Impart in us the righteousness of your Son, Jesus Christ.

Cleanse us in his blood and sanctify us in your Spirit.

Amen.

!!! Declaration of pardoning

Return to the LORD, that He may return to you.

Do not be stiff-necked; submit to the LORD.

Serve the LORD your God, for the LORD your God is gracious and compassionate.

He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.”

(2 Chronicles 30:6-9)

!!! Hymn No 425:                            /“My hope is in the Lord”/

!!! Offering and Dedication

With what shall I come before the LORD and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil?

Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

He has showed you, O man, what is good.

And what does the LORD require of you?

To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

(Micah 6:6-8)

Þ    All, remaining seated, sing *Hymn 364:1, 2, 5, 6* while the offering is taken up.

!!! Prayer for others

I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

This is good, and pleases God our Savior, (1 Timothy 2:1-3)

!!! Scripture Reading                     /1Peter 1:10-21/

!!! 8 Sermon                    /“Be Holy – life between yesterday and eternity”/

!!!!!! Introduction

Dear brother and sister in the Lord Jesus Christ,

8 Let’s pick it up from last week.

The Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, gives us our salvation.

8 God the Father chooses us according to his foreknowledge; 8 God the Holy Spirit sanctifies us before the Father as He prepares us to be acceptable in the sight of the Father; 8 the blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is our atonement of sin.

In Him are we justified, made righteous and glorified.

Verse 9 now speaks to us in the present continuous tense:  “You are receiving the goal (end, result or purpose) of your faith [which is] the salvation of your souls.”

As we pointed out last week, salvation is something the Lord has made possible.

As such we have a past.

To be saved means to have been taken from darkness and put into light.

But there is another element of salvation:  it is something that will reach consummation with the return of Christ.

The Bible also refers to this event in terms of the revelation of the sons [children] of God.

The Holy Spirit in Romans 8:22 inspired Paul to write:

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

For in this hope we were saved.

(Romans 8:22-24)

But then, there is the third aspect of our salvation:  it is and ongoing experience, here and now.

“We are receiving the purpose of our faith, the salvation of our souls.”

(verse 9)

It is the theme of salvation that now connects verses 9 and 10 together.

8 What the prophets of the Old Testament preached about salvation, centred in, and came together in Jesus Christ.

Salvation was brought about by the sufferings of Jesus Christ and the glory of his resurrection.

In that sense the Old Testament prophets were not serving themselves, but those who have the privilege of living in the time of the birth, death and resurrection of Christ.

8 Christ has now been revealed as the promised Messiah and He will be revealed in the last days.

This was the central message of the prophets and it has been the central message of the apostles.

Going down to verse 13, the apostle draws a conclusion with the word “therefore” or “consequently”.

8  This verse is totally concerned with the fact that, as we had a “past” (we have been saved), 8 and as we have a future (we will be saved with the return of Christ), 8 so we have a present (we are being saved).

This is the thing that many Christians would like to escape altogether.

The question then is:  how do we live today as people who turned away from a past and who are given a sure future?

How do we live between yesterday and eternity?

8  The conclusion of verse 13 is, “consequently, prepare for action.”

The expression used here is what we find in the Greek translation of the Old Testament in Judges 18:16 where it says that the soldiers of the tribe of Dan where assembled, armed for battle.

The expression is an idiom in Greek which says, set your mind on what is at hand.

To do that purposeful, the soldier must be in control of his thought processes and thus not be in danger of irrational thinking.