Sermon Tone Analysis

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| Instrumental Meditation |   |

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| CALL TO WORSHIP | Mike |

| /O the Deep Deep Love of Jesus/ |   |

| /Beloved and Blessed/ |   |

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| Continue Reading the Psalms-Ps.

102:23-28 | Mike |

| /O God Our Help in Ages Past/ |   |

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| Welcome, Announcements |  Dan |

| FAMILY~/OFFERTORY PRAYER |  Dan |

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| /Thank You, Jesus for the Cross/ |   |

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| SCRIPTURE READING | Mickey |

| MESSAGE | Mickey |

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| /Power of the Cross/ |   |

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| CLOSING PRAYER~/BENEDICTION | Mickey |

\\ *INTRO*

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*My wife and I were talking about my preaching this morning and she said*

*“You don’t often preach encouraging messages.*

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*I said .. You’re right*

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*So ths morning I’m going to preach about Death!*

 

*Maybe it’s because I am officiating at more funerals than weddings…*

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*Maybe its because *

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Michael Jackson – King of Pop

Norbi Spreinig – Solon Shool bus driver

Farah Fawcett – Movie Star

Walter Cronkite – The most trusted man in America

 

Joy Cabot – a Christian who happened to be of Jewish Descent.

\\ Death is the only prohibited topic for discussion in our society.

We can talk about sex,

Money, drugs, Racial issues,

maybe even Religion..

But we cannot talk about the one universal reality in life… Death

 

The mental panic  that the thought of death creates is probably the greatest single reason we do not think much beyond  it.

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*/But the Scriptures do not shy away from the topic./*

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*Please turn to Heb 2/ \\ Heb 2:14-18/*

*/14        Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death-- that is, the devil--/*

*/15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.16

For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants./*

*/17 For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.18Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted./*

Will you Pray with me

 

*/Now I lay me down to sleep/*

*/I pray the Lord my soul to keep/*

*/If I should die Before I wake/*

*/I Pray the Lord my Soul to take/*

 

\\ *Now I Lay me Down to Sleep*

 

I have organized my thoughts this morning around three headings in my Notes

 

I.

Jesus Identifies with Man

II.

Jesus Identifies with  The High Priest

III.

Jesus Identifies with The Atoning Sacrifice

 

 

\\ *I.** Jesus Identifies With Man*

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*WHY DO WE FEAR DEATH?*

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*A.

The Perfect Environment*

When God created Man,  He put him in a perfect environment to prosper.

He only gave one Rule.

Only One Caveat, which  demonstrated *that He was God and Man was not.*

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And Man was told that disobedience to that Rule would bring Death.

*B.

Disobedience*

We know the rest of the story.

Instead of Believing God,

taking Him at His Word

Adam and Eve believed the Lie of the Evil One and disobeyed God’s One rule.

*That Disobedience brought God’s Curse  upon the creation instead of His Blessing.*

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\\ *C.

The Curse*

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*Gen 3:16-19 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children.

Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."*

*17        To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.*

*18        It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.*

*19        By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.

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*The man and woman created out of dust in the image of God would begin to disintegrate and eventually become mere dust again.*

When Adam and Eve ate from the Tree,  Disintegration and Destruction

- physical..social and ..spiritual, began immediately

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*1.

Their Godward relationship was destroyed*

 

*2.

Their self-ward relationship was destroyed ; *

-          The peace within themselves was gone

-          , They became dissatisfied.

Their consciences rose up to accuse.

-          The marriage relationship was destroyed

*3.

Their Creation- ward relationship was destroyed.*

Adam  was alienated from the world of nature.

Instead of having dominion over it, he now had to sweat and laber to subdue the earth

 

*4.

Their Family relationships were destroyed*

Death  involves the disintegration of life and begins as soon as we cut ourseves off from its only ture source.

*Physical Death then is the outward expression of their spiritual disintegration*

 

Sinclair Furgeson says that

/“In some ways, physical death is simply the Sacrament of death: it is the outward physical emblem of the spiritual reality that is already present./

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/Death involves the disintegration of life and begin as as soon as we cut ourselves off from its only true source/

/Physical death then is the outward expression of this spirtual disintegration”/

 

*Disobedience is Sin.*

*Death is the wages of Sin*

 

*Death entered the world*

*From that time to today Man finds himself enslaved by His Fear of Death.*

Just like Adam and Eve,

He doesn’t know when, or How,

but he knows that it is coming.

\\ The Roman author Seneca wrote about death,”*/‘Nothing can be said/*