Sermon Tone Analysis

! Introduction:

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Coming To Grips with Sin

!! The Gospel Presentation

1.

Some say that salvation is only the granting of eternal life, not necessarily the liberation of a sinner from the bondage of his iniquity.

2.

Telling people that God loves them and has a wonderful plan for their lives is only half the truth.

God hates sin and will punish unrepentant sinners with eternal torment.

3.

No gospel presentation is complete if it avoids or conceals those facts.

Any message that fails to define and confront the severity of personal sin is a deficient gospel.

4.

And any “salvation” that does not alter a lifestyle of sin and transform the heart of the sinner is not the salvation that God’s Word speaks of.

!! Sin is the Issue

1.       Sin is not a marginal issue as far as salvation is concerned; it is the issue.

2.

In fact, the distinctive element of the Christian message is the power of Jesus Christ to forgive and conquer our sin.

3.       No message that excludes it can claim to be the gospel according to Jesus.

4.

To think that a person can encounter the holy God of Scripture and be saved without also coming to grips with the enormity of sin and longing to turn from it is completely wrong.

There were those in the Bible who had an overwhelming sense of their sin when they met God.

Peter, seeing Jesus for who he was, said, /"Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!"/ (Luke 5:8).

Paul wrote, /“This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief” /(1 Timothy 1:15).

Job whom God identified Himself as a righteous man (Job 1:1, 8) said after seeing, /Therefore I abhor myself, And// repent// in dust and ashes."/

(Job 42:6 NKJV)

 

Isaiah, seeing God, grasped, /"Woe is me, for I am undone!

Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts."/

(Isaiah 6:5 NKJV)

 

Why did Jesus come into the world?

1.

/Jesus came into the world to call sinner unto repentance/—those who know they have a terminal disease, those who are hopeless and desperate, those who are hurting, those who are hungry and thirsty, those who are weak and weary, those who are broken, those whose lives are shattered—sinners who know they are unworthy yet long to be forgiven.

2.       Jesus’ words were aimed right at the self-righteous Pharisees, who, like many today, thought they were righteous and without any real spiritual need.

3.

The truth is that unless people realize they have a sin problem, they will not come to Christ for a solution.

4.

People do not come for healing unless they know they have a disease; they do not come for life unless they are conscious that they are under the penalty of death; they do not come for salvation unless they are weary of the bondage of sin.

Thus Jesus came to expose us all as sinners.

This is why His message was so penetrating, so forceful.

It tore self-righteousness away and exposed our evil hearts, so that we might see ourselves as sinners.

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If we say we have not sinned—1:10

!! God says we “all have sinned” & “there is none righteous”

1.       Romans 3:23; 3:10

 

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We make Him a liar

1.       Romans 3:4

2.       Satan is the father of lies – John 8:44

3.

He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar – 1 John 2:4

4.       He who denies that Jesus is not the Christ is a liar – 1 John 2:22

5.       If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar – 1 John 4:20

6.

He who does not believe God has made Him a liar – 1 John 5:10

7.       Liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone– Revelation 21:8

 

!! His word is not in us.

1.

This is proof that we are still in unbelief (v.10) or that we are deceived (v.8)

/Word //logos – /as in John 1:1, refers to the preexistent Christ who became flesh so that He could indwell us.

/Word –/ also means “the whole teaching of Christ.”

When Christ is in us, we love His Word, but when He is not in us, we have total disregard toward it.

2.

If we claim to be a believer but say that we have not sinned, is to never have experienced forgiveness.

3.

Christ does not dwell in a person who has not confessed his sinfulness and believed on Him.

 

a.

Romans 3:23 /all have sinned and /

b.       Romans 10:9-13

 

! God does not want us to sin—2:1

!! My little children, these things we write to you

1.       John was their pastor, spiritual father, and they were his spiritual children, under his care.

2.       “/these things/” refers to what he had just said, “all have sinned, & all do sin,”

 

!! “that you may not sin” – Literally “so that you may not commit any act of sin”

The Woman Caught in Adultery (John 8:1-11)

                               

Verse 1-5

1.

They are testing Jesus (v.6) trying to put Him in conflict with the Mosaic Law (stoning Leviticus 20:10).

`The man who commits adultery with /another/ man's wife, /he/ who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.

(Leviticus 20:10 NKJV)

 

a.

Note: where is the man?

 

2.

They are also trying to put Him at odds with the Roman law.

a.

Only Rome could give the death sentence.

b.

He can’t say  “stone her,” for he would be rebelling against the Roman authorities.

c.

He can’t say, “be gracious and merciful” for He would be against the Mosaic Law.

d.

But they knew Jesus was full of grace and truth (John 1:14, 17)

 

 

Verses 6-9

1.       “wrote” –  “to write” in the Greek is /graphin/ & this is the word /Kato Graphin.

Kato /is “down, or to cast down” –the theory is that Jesus was writing down their sins.

2.       They were convicted by their conscience and left, beginning with the oldest.

a.

The only one who was without sin (2 Cor.

5:21) and qualified to cast stones did not.

b.       Jesus, did not condemn her.

·         John 3:17-20 “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.   “And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

“For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

(John 3:17-20 NKJV)

c.

They came to the light & their deeds were exposed, and they left.

Verses 10-11

1.       Jesus said to the woman, “neither do I condemn you”

·         Romans 8:1 /“There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus”/

·         Luke 9:56 /“For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them.”/

2.

Note: The Lord’s Council was, “/Go and sin no more/”  Literally “/no longer go on sinning/”

 

a.

Is not saying, “go and be absolutely perfect, without sin”

b.       Repentance is necessary

c.        John said /show fruits worthy of repentance/ – a changed lifestyle.

Matthew 1:21 JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins."

“/Lest a worse thing come upon you/” Jn. 5:14

 

a.

Lawlessness leads to more lawlessness (Romans 6:19)

b.       Jesus said, “whoever commits sin is a slave of sin” John 8:34