Sermon Tone Analysis

*/Thus Saith The Lord?/*

*/Jer 22:9-32 txt/*

*/1 Corinthians 14:1KJV/*

1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual /gifts/, but rather that ye may prophesy.

*/James 3:6NASB95/*

6        And the tongue is a fire, the /very /world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of /our /life, and is set on fire by hell.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in Vain.

*/2 Corinthians 11:14KJV/*

14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

*/Matthew 7:15-20KJV/*

15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

16 Ye shall know them by their fruits.

Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither /can/ a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

*/Matthew 24:11KJV/*

11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

*/2 Peter 2:1-4NASB95/*

*1*     But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

2     Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned;

     3     and in /their /greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

*4*     For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; 

*/ Deuteronomy 18:21-22KJV/*

21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that /is/ the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, /but/ the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

*/2 Timothy 3:13KJV/*

13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

Those wishing to “promote” themselves to the office of a prophet have no power to do as such.

God is the one who sends not man.

*/ John 1:6NASB95/*

*6*     There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.

*/1 Thessalonians 5:19-21AMP/*

Do not quench (suppress or subdue) the [Holy] Spirit;

20 Do not spurn the gifts /and/ utterances of the prophets [do not depreciate prophetic revelations nor despise inspired instruction or exhortation or warning].

21 But test /and/ prove all things [until you can recognize] what is good; [to that] hold fast.