Sermon Tone Analysis

21 For to me, to live /is/ Christ, and to die /is/ gain.

22 But if /I/ live on in the flesh, this /will mean/ fruit from /my/ labor; yet what I shall choose I 4cannot tell.

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But so far as concerns himself personally, it were, he acknowledges, better for him to die soon, because he would be /with Christ./

By his choice, however, he shews what ardent love glowed in his breast.[2]

0 rthat you may walk worthy of the Lord, sfully pleasing /Him,/ tbeing fruitful in every good work and increasing in the uknowledge of God; [3]

10 Now 6may He who isupplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, 7supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your jrighteousness, [4]

4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become cdead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should dbear fruit to God. [5]

8 jBy this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; [6]

16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and /that/ your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

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35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and /then/ comes the harvest’?

Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!

36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

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14 Now the ones /that/ fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

15 But the ones /that/ fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep /it/ and bear fruit with patience.

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23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands /it,/ who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”[1]

20 A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth;

/From/ the produce of his lips he shall be filled.

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2 A man shall eat well by the fruit of /his/ mouth,

But the soul of the unfaithful feeds on violence.

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If one of your brethren becomes *poor*, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.

7 “If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother, 8 but you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he [1]

11 For the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.’[1]

7 The Lord makes poor and makes rich;

He brings low and lifts up.

8 He raises the poor from the dust

/And/ lifts the beggar from the ash heap,

To set /them/ among princes

And make them inherit the throne of glory.

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12 Because I delivered the poor who cried out,

The fatherless and /the one who/ had no helper.

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15 I /was/ eyes to the blind,

And I /was/ feet to the lame.

16 I /was/ a father to the poor,

And I searched out the case /that/ I did not know.

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25 Have I not wept for him who was in trouble?

Has /not/ my soul grieved for the poor?

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16 “If I have kept the poor from /their/ desire,

Or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

17 Or eaten my morsel by myself,

So that the fatherless could not eat of it

18 (But from my youth I reared him as a father,

And from my mother’s womb I guided /the widow/);

19 If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,

Or any poor /man/ without covering;

20 If his heart has not blessed me,

And /if/ he was /not/ warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

21 If I have raised my hand against the fatherless,

When I saw I had help in the gate;

22 /Then/ let my arm fall from my shoulder,

Let my arm be torn from the socket.

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10 All my bones shall say,

“Lord, who /is/ like You,

Delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him,

Yes, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?”

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31 He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker,

But he who honors Him has mercy on the needy.

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2 The rich and the poor have this in common,

The Lord /is/ the maker of them all.

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Philippians 4:14 (NASB) \\ 14 Nevertheless, you have done well to share /with me/ in my affliction.

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Philippians 4:17 (NASB) \\ 17 Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases to your account.

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Philippians 4:17 (NKJV) \\ 17 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.

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*Love.*

/God's love means that God eternally gives of himself to others/.

love is self-giving for the benefit of others.

it is part of God’s  nature to give of himself in order to bring about blessing or good for others.

Paul writes, "God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us" (Rom.

5:8).

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind....

You shall love your neighbor as yourself " (Matt.

22:37-38).

Isaiah promises God's people, "As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so /shall your God rejoice over you"/ (Isa.

62:5), and Zephaniah tells God's people, "The LORD, your God, is in your midst ... he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing as on a day of festival" (Zeph.

3:17-18).

In fact, our love for others within the fellowship of believers is so evidently an imitation of Christ that by it the world recognizes us as his: "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:35; cf.

15:13; Rom.

13:10; 1 Cor.

13:4-7; Heb.

10:24).

 

 

2 Corinthians 8:1-15 (NKJV) \\ 1 Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia: 2 that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality.

3 For I bear witness that according to /their/ ability, yes, and beyond /their/ ability, /they were/ freely willing, 4 imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

5 And not /only/ as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and /then/ to us by the will of God. 6 So we urged Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also complete this grace in you as well.

7 But as you abound in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us—/see/ that you abound in this grace also.

8 I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.

9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

10 And in this I give advice: It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago; 11 but now you also must complete the doing /of it;/ that as /there was/ a readiness to desire /it,/ so /there/ also /may be/ a completion out of what /you/ have.

12 For if there is first a willing mind, /it is/ accepted according to what one has, /and/ not according to what he does not have.

13 For /I do/ not /mean/ that others should be eased and you burdened; 14 but by an equality, /that/ now at this time your abundance /may supply/ their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack—that there may be equality.

15 As it is written, /“He who/ /gathered/ /much had nothing left over, and he who/ /gathered/ /little had no lack.”/

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Cornelius

Dorcas

Judas

Alcoholics

If someone doesn’t work neither should he eat

If a man does not provide for the members of his own household he is worse than an infidel

 

The foundation that lasts through the fire

 

For the joy set before Him Jesus endured the cross

 

The cloud of witnesses

 

Let us not grow weary in doing good

 

A city whose builder and maker is God

 

The candles blown out at a birthday party

 

Life is vapor

 

How then are we going to live?

 

1 John 3:17 (NKJV) \\ 17 But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

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James 1:27 (NKJV) \\ 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, /and/ to keep oneself unspotted from the world.