Sermon Tone Analysis

Hebrews 11:8-16

Natural Faith - Empirical Approach (Experience/Education)

John MacArthur Sermon Archive (What Is Faith?)

A scientist goes into a laboratory and he exercises natural faith.

It says on a little thing you can mix this with this and it won’t blow up and so he does it, that’s faith.

You go to the doctor and the doctor says, you’ve got a problem, we must slice you open, a foot across and we must take out your whatever and fix this and bend this around and do it.

You say, okay doctor.

You don’t even know what he’s talking about.

And you go in there and somebody says, well see you in a few hours and they stick that little deal whoomp, and you’re out and there’s a whole bunch of people in there just opening you up and just playing around in there and doing anything they want to do.

And you’re laying on that little table oblivious.

My friend that’s faith.

Supernatural Faith - Theoretical Approach (Conceptual/Conjectural)

John MacArthur Sermon Archive (The Faith of Abraham)

The Christian lives by faith, we base our lives on what we’ve never seen.

We’ve never seen God, we’ve never seen Jesus Christ, we’ve never seen heaven, we’ve never seen hell, never seen the Holy Spirit, never seen any one individual who wrote the Bible, never seen an original manuscript of the Bible, never seen any of the graces that God says He dispenses to us, they’re not tangible, they’re not visible to the eye, the human eye, and yet we bank not only our life but our eternal destiny on those things which we have never seen.

That’s how the Christian lives.

Semantics

noun

the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning.

There are a number of branches and subbranches of semantics, including formal semantics, which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics, which studies word meanings and word relations, and conceptual semantics, which studies the cognitive structure of meaning.

the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text.

Trials (Hebrews 11:8-10; Genesis 11:31-32; Joshua 24:2; Isaiah 51:2; Acts 7:1-8)

Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Trial)

a test of performance, qualities, or suitability

Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Trial)

a test of a person’s endurance or forbearance.

Temperament (Hebrews 11:11-12; Genesis 16:1-18:23, 21; Acts 9:1-9, 12:20-23; Romans 12)

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Eleventh Edition) (Temperament)

tem•per•a•ment \ˈtem-p(ə-)rə-mənt, -pər-mənt\ noun[Middle English, from Latin temperamentum, from temperare to mix, temper] 15th century1 obsoletea: constitution of a substance, body, or organism with respect to the mixture or balance of its elements, qualities, or parts: MAKEUPb: COMPLEXION 12 obsoletea: CLIMATEb: TEMPERATURE 23 a: the peculiar or distinguishing mental or physical character determined by the relative proportions of the humors according to medieval physiologyb: characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response 〈a nervous temperament〉c: extremely high sensibility especially: excessive sensitiveness or irritability4 a: the act or process of tempering or modifying: ADJUSTMENT, COMPROMISEb: middle course: MEAN5: the slight modification of acoustically pure intervals in tuning a musical instrument especially: modification that produces a set of 12 equally spaced tones to the octave synonym see DISPOSITION

Trust (Hebrews 11:13-16; Genesis Chapter 4-23; Psalm 39; Jude)

Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Trust)

noun1 firm belief in someone or something.▶

acceptance of the truth of a statement without evidence or investigation.2 the state of being responsible for someone or something: a man in a position of trust.3

Law an arrangement whereby a person (a trustee) holds property as its nominal owner for the good of one or more beneficiaries.▶

a body of trustees.▶

an organization managed by trustees.4

chiefly North American a large company that has or attempts to gain monopolistic control of a market.5

West Indian or archaic commercial credit.6

archaic a hope or expectation.■

verb1 believe in the reliability, truth, or ability of.▶

(trust someone with) have the confidence to allow someone to have, use, or look after.▶

(trust someone/thing to) commit someone or something to the safe keeping of.▶

(trust to) place reliance on (luck, fate, etc.).2 hope or expect (used as a polite formula): I trust that you have enjoyed this book.3

archaic allow credit to.

Theory (Hebrews 11:16; Jude; Revelation)

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Eleventh Edition) (Theory)

the•o•ry \ˈthē-ə-rē, ˈthir-ē\ nounplural -ries [Late Latin theoria, from Greek theōria, from theōrein] 15921: the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another2: abstract thought: SPECULATION3: the general or abstract principles of a body of fact, a science, or an art 〈music theory〉4 a: a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action 〈her method is based on the theory that all children want to learn〉b: an ideal or hypothetical set of facts, principles, or circumstances—often used in the phrase in theory 〈in theory, we have always advocated freedom for all〉5: a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena 〈the wave theory of light〉6 a: a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigationb: an unproved assumption: CONJECTUREc: a body of theorems presenting a concise systematic view of a subject 〈theory of equations〉 synonym see HYPOTHESIS

Reading List

David Limbaugh

JESUS ON TRIAL

Bill O'Reilly

KILLING JESUS

Lee Strobel

THE CASE FOR A CREATOR

IN DEFENSE OF JESUS

THE CASE FOR CHRIST

THE CASE FOR MIRACLES

Ed Hindson

COURAGEOUS FAITH

John Alfred Faulkner

CYPRIAN: THE CHURCHMAN

Terry Johnson

THE CASE FOR TRADITIONAL PROTESTANTISM

Erwin Lutzer

RESCUING THE GOSPEL

Neil Mammen

JESUS WAS/IS INVOLVED IN POLITICS

E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O’Brien

MISREADING SCRIPTURE WITH WESTERN EYES

David Barton

ORIGINAL INTENT: THE COURTS, THE CONSTITUTION, & RELIGION