Sermon Tone Analysis

*God Has Very Important Questions for You!*

 

/6 A son honors his father, and servants their master.

If then I am a father, *where is the honor due me*?

And if I am a master, *where is the respect due me*? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name.

You say, “How have we despised your name?” 7 By offering polluted food on *my altar*.

And you say, “How have we polluted it?”

*By thinking that the Lord’s table may be despised*.

/*Malachi 1:6-7*

 

/Like living stones, *let yourselves *be built into a spiritual house, *TO BE A HOLY PRIESTHOOD*, to offer spiritual sacrifices* acceptable* to God through Jesus Christ./

*1 Peter 2:5*

 

·         *God’s Altar Is The [CROSS OF JESUS] !*

 

/10 We have an* ALTAR *from which those who officiate in the tent have no right to eat.

11 …. 12 Therefore Jesus also *suffered outside the city* gate in order to sanctify the people by *his own blood*./

*Heb** 13:10-12*

                                                                                                                                                                                         

/24//Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and *take up their cross* and follow me.

25For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

/*Matthew** 16:24-25*

 

·         *You’re Priestly Services are [SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES] !*

 

/I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as *a living sacrifice*, *holy and acceptable to God*, which is your spiritual worship.

/*Romans 12:1*

 

1.

On the Cross You Sacrifice Your *[LIVING SELF]*

 

/15Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the *fruit of lips* that confess his name.

16 *Do not neglect to do good *and to *share what you have*, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. /*Hebrews 13:15-16*

 

2.

On the Cross You Sacrifice What You *[SAY]*

3.      On the Cross You Sacrifice What You *[GIVE]*

4.      On the Cross You Sacrifice What You *[DO]*

 

·         *Sacrifices That Honor and Respect God Must be [YOUR VERY BEST OFFERINGS]* !

 

/7 Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as *loss because of Christ*.

8 More than that, I regard everything as loss because of *the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord*.

For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, *and I regard them as rubbish*, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes *through faith in Christ*, the righteousness from God based on faith./*

Philippians 3:7-9*

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*You Haven’t Given Your Best Until You*

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*1.      **Lose Everything [BECAUSE OF JESUS]*

*2.      **Regard Knowing Jesus as the [VALUE THAT SURPASSES EVERYTHING]*

*3.      **Consider that Loss To Know Christ as [RUBBISH]*

*4.      **Do What is Right Through [FAITH IN JESUS]*

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*GOD’S MOST SOLEMN WARNINGS TO HIS PRIESTS*

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/O priests, this command is for you. 2 If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart *to give glory to my name*, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you and I will curse your blessings; indeed I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

3 I will rebuke your offspring, and spread refuse on your faces, the wastes of your offerings, and I will put you out of my presence./*

Malachi 2:1-3*