Sermon Tone Analysis

(S1) — SERIES…Why What We Believe Matters

(S2)

SCRIPTURE — Live in the word, and the WORD will come ALIVE in you!

Inspired by God, Whole Bible , Jesus, ChurchLife-Giving

SALVATION — “Grace is the source, FAITH is the condition through which we are saved”

Present — “The greatest of all Blessings”

CHRISTIAN life — ‘ALTOGETHER Christian’

Loves God, People, Faith, Witness, More Like Jesus

(S3) — SIN — How do you view sin?

Talk about it — Point out others sin — God only cares about the BIG ones — Make excuses for it — “I’m just human”

“It isn't that we aren't broken; we simply don’t like to be reminded of it.”

Scott Jones (S.W.W)

Reading the apostles words, it’s hard not to talk about sin, 12 verses/13 times — Sin, something both Wesley and Paul struggled with...

I’m OK, Your Ok

I am a sinner…admitting we are not totally OK, is the first step to being made right with God and that we need Jesus.

(S4) —There is GOOD NEWS about sin

When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners.

Romans 5:6 (NLT)

PRAY

What is sin?

How would you define it?

“Any offense that is in contrast to, or contradicts, God’s Nature, will, teaching, or divine creation.”

What Wesley believed about sin from his study of scripture and his own life experience

“Proper religion is an acknowledgement that we are so broken and diseased that we cannot heal ourselves.”

J. Wesley

J. W. Sermon — ‘Original Sin’

“Wesley did not underestimate sin; in fact he believed that the reality of SIN and BROKENNESS was as obvious in the world.”

(S5) —His sermon’s foundation comes from the opening story…

The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.

Genesis 6:5 (NLT)

The reality of our brokenness is a story told on almost every page of the Bible; Genesis to Revelation...Its origin coming for the failing of humanities first parents.

“When Adam sinned, sin entered the world.

Romans 5:12

Paul’s words about sin, contrast the old and the new.

— The old humanity born only under the law, tied only to the first man—The result of sin, which is death

— The new humanity, BORN AGAIN, under the gift of GRACE by the second man—Jesus

(S6) —

“But there is a great difference between Adam’s sin and God’s gracious gift.

For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many.

But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ.”

Romans 5:15

“In Wesley’s experience, the default position of the human heart is with the Adam, tied to this original sin.

We come into the world not loving God, but loving self.

The will of the human spirit is to do whatever brings us pleasure.”

Free Spirit — One who is not restrained, as by convention or obligation; who does not recognize any authority.

Someone acting freely or even irresponsibly”

Wesley says that, “all men are “atheist in the world” — void of a destination, purpose, living only our for the day...

(S7) —

“Original sin’ is total corruption, its a disease that has affected every aspect of our lives.

Apart from grace, we are even unable to discern our dire condition.”

Paul’s words, in verse 6 When we were utterly helpless Christ came at just the right time — give us both the TRUTH about ourselves...and HOPE that we are not meant to stay that way

(asthenes) — sick, weak, or limited in capacity, due to illness or some other limitation (1).

Mark 14:38 “Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation.

For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.””

This limitation born in us, is SIN — Our flesh, our desires, fall under our human weakness.

On our own, we are prone to wander...

“Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it.

Prone to leave the God I love.”

“Robert Robinson

(S8) — In the garden there were many trees — Many choices — All they needed

Genesis 2:15 “The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.

But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.””

The RESULT of the first transgression, came upon the many...SIN entered not only the world, but the human heart.

Infants are cute…but they are all about who?

Because of sin, even as adults we can still act as infants — SIN is the reason we need the second Adam…Jesus

(S9) — J.W. — Because of SIN, we come into this world, with...

I.

We have no KNOWLEDGE of God

Wesley believed that until God opens our eyes, we have no natural knowledge of Him.

No acquaintance with God — We are, “atheists by nature”

Absence of belief in any higher power

This may be a hard concept for the those who are born into a household of faith.

Sadly this is becoming less and less common

Young adults (age 18 to 29) are far more likely to have been raised without religion than are seniors (age 65 or older).

Roughly one in five (22 percent) young adults report that they were not raised in any particular religion, compared to only 3 percent of seniors.

Notably, the proportion of young adults who have always been religiously unaffiliated is nearly as large as those who have left religion to become unaffiliated.

American Enterprise Institute December 11, 2019

Paul tells us that Jesus came for the UNGODLY—Those with no knowledge of God, and those who have turned away from God

(S10) —

For only rarely will someone die on behalf of a righteous person (for on behalf of a good person possibly someone might even dare to die), 8 but God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while* we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:7-8(LEB)

“One might expect God’s love to be poured out on the Jews, the chosen people.

One might even allow that God’s love extends to the Gentiles who struggle to obey God by the dim light of conscience.”

But it is astounding to remember that the primary concern of God’s love is to the sinner.”

25 yr old pizza delivery man runs into house on fire man driving by stops to run in and save whoever is inside without regard to who they are...

Without Jesus, we would have no knowledge of God, who took the first step in our salvation.

(S11) — Because of Original Sin, we come into this world...

II.

We are SPIRITUALLY deceased

Until our human spirit (old self), collides with the Holy Spirit, until our human heart comes to the saving knowledge of Jesus through grace, we are — Spiritually dead — Like walking Zombies — destined to the grave

12 When Adam sinned…it brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned

Two things we can’t avoid—DEATH, and taxes

“You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away.

Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins.”

Colossians 2:13

Adam’s act of disobedience, brings spiritual death — Christ act of obedience restores us in spiritual life...

“That in Adam all died, spiritually died, lost the life and image of God; that fallen, sinful man then begat a son in his own likeness…Jesus” J.W.

Without Jesus our diagnoses looks hopeless, but because of Jesus’ spirit alive in us, we become restored in our relationaship —

(S12) —