Sermon Tone Analysis

! Introduction:

Write Down The Word ‘Christmas’ & Then After The Word Christmas Write Down The First Thought That Flashes Through Your Mind.

Trees are being bought, lights are being strung, windows are being painted with Santa’s and Reindeer, lists are being made, presents are being purchased, cards are being sent, the mail system is overcrowded, the family get-togethers are being planned, etc…  What are you going to celebrate this time of year?

Many celebrating Christmas do not even know the true meaning of it, & even worse than that is those who do know get so caught up in the world that they forget the true meaning of Christmas.

John wrote in his gospel, /“He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him /(John 1:10-11).

The world this time of year is celebrating the birth of a child some 1971 years ago.

Many traditions and customs have evolved around this celebration.

Why was He born?

What was the purpose of His Coming?

What does the name Jesus mean?

His name implies His mission.

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!! A.                  The Meaning of His Name.

!!! 1.                  What’s in a name?

!!!! a)                  Names indeed do make a difference.

If you have gone through life with a name that you did not necessarily love, you know that it can be a challenge at school.

Actually there are some people who will actually go to court to change there name because they don’t necessarily like the one they have.

There has been a time when names were a trend.

Like Joe, Bob, Alice, Paul, Jonathan, etc., but one expert has done a study on names and the most popular for today are:

!!!!! (1)                 *Girls*—Ashely, Haley, Sarah, Maddeson, Katelin, Hannaha, #1 is Gertrude, just kidding, it is Emily.

!!!!! (2)                 *Boys*—Christopher, Joseph, Andrew, Matthew, Joshua, Nicholas, Michael, #1 is Ronnie, Jocob.

!!!!! (3)                 *Virtue names *are becoming popular as well, examples from last years data include examples like: Faith, Grace, Hope, Charity, Mercy, Honesty

!!!!! (4)                 *Geographic names* are becoming more popular for boys: Austin, Houston Dakota, Dallas,

!!!!! (5)                 Then there are people who think its funny to give there child an unusual name if they already have an unusual last name:

!!!!!! (a)                 A couple last name was Turner, so they name their child Page-Turner

!!!!!! (b)                A couple last name was Peace, so they name their child Warren-Peace

!!!!!! (c)                 Justin Case

!!!!!! (d)                Chris-B-Bacon

!!!!!! (e)                 Ilene-Dover

!!!!!! (f)                  Gene Pool

!!!!!! (g)                Douglas-Fur

The naming of a child in Biblical times was very important.

Their names seemed to always have a significant meaning behind it.

Proverbs 22:1 says, A /good/ name is to be chosen rather than great riches.

!!! 2.                  The Name of Jesus (Matthew 1:21).

Jesus Was A Common Name In Hebrew.

!!!! a)                  The angel told Mary ‘you shall call His name Jesus’ (Luke 1:31-32).

!!!!! (1)                 Mary was told by the angel how she was to be favored by God.

She was to bear and be the mother of the Messiah.

Note three startling and profound things about Mary’s Son.

!!!!!! (a)                 */His name/*.

Mary was actually told what she was to name the Messiah: Jesus.

!!!!!! (b)                */His great person/*.

(i)                   He was to be called the Son of the Highest.

The Highest, of course, is God.

Therefore, Jesus is the Son of God, that is, of the very nature of God.

He is “over all, God blessed for ever.

Amen” (Romans 9:5).

(ii)                 He was to be the Son of David and was to receive the throne of David.

He was of the line of David.

This indicates that Mary was a descendant of David; therefore, Christ Himself would become a descendant of David (Luke 1:32-33.)

!!!!!! (c)                 */His eternal kingdom/*.

Jesus was to teach that His kingdom would not be of this earth, for nothing on this earth lasts (John 19:36).

Therefore, the kingdom was to be spiritual, by which it would be eternal (Matthew 19:23-24).

!!!!! (2)                 The Name Jesus Is The Greek For the Hebrew “Yashua” Joshua.

This is a contraction of “Yahweh Shua” which mean “God or Yahweh or Jehovah is salvation,” therefore the name means, I have become salvation.

!!!! b)                  The Name "Yashua" Is The Greatest Name On Earth (Philippians 2:9-11).

!!!!! (1)                 *What Hope That Name Brings*.

/"For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ," (Titus 2:11-13, NKJV) /

/"This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil," (Hebrews 6:19, NKJV) /

/"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead," (1 Peter 1:3, NKJV) /

/"Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;" (1 Peter 1:13, NKJV) /

!!!!! (2)                 *What Comfort That Name Brings.*

/"But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus."

(1 Thessalonians 4:13-14, NASB95) /

/"“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."

(Matthew 5:4, NASB95) /

/"For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ."

(2 Corinthians 1:5, NASB95) /

/"Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace," (2 Thessalonians 2:16, NASB95) /

/"Therefore comfort one another with these words."

(1 Thessalonians 4:18, NASB95) /

!!!!! (3)                 *What Power That Name Has*.

/"She continued doing this for many days.

But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!”

And it came out at that very moment."

(Acts 16:18, NASB95) /

/“Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son." (John 14:13, NASB95) /

/"But Peter said, “I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene—walk!”" (Acts 3:6, NASB95) /

 

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!! B.                  His Name Expresses His Mission.

!!! 1.

He Shall Save His People From Their Sins (Matt.1:21)

/For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10 NKJV)/

/For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many (Mark 10:45 NKJV)/

/For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved (John 3:17 NKJV)/

/This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners (1 Timothy 1:15 NKJV)/

/For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them."

(Luke 9:51-56 NKJV)/

/Note that you and I cannot save ourselves from our sin, it is only Jesus who can save us: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12)/

!!!! a)                  That Means That All Men Need Salvation Or Someone To Save Them From Their Sin.

!!!!! (1)                 God told Adam that he would die (Gen.2:15-17;

Rom.5:12)

!!!!! (2)                 God said the soul that sins will die (Ezek.3:18-20;

18:4,13,32; 33:8,14)

!!!!! (3)                 The wages of sin is death (Rom.6:23;

James 1:15) & all have sinned (3:23)

!!!!! (4)                 Sin brings forth physical death, separating the soul from the body; then sin brings spiritual death, separating the soul from God; and sin brings eternal death, separating both body and soul from God forever this is the second death (Rev.20:11-15).Therefore, if we are not saved from our sin, then our sin will destroy us, for the wages of sin is death.

/His Very Name, Implies His Mission, He Has Come To Be The Savior Of The World/.

q        *One day as the religious people were finding fault with Him for eating with sinners, He replied, "For the Son of Man, has come to seek and to save those who are lost."*

q        *Peter in responding to the question as to by what power or what name they made the lame man to walk said (Acts 4:9-12): **If we this day are judged for a good deed /done/ to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well,   "let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, *that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth*, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.

"This is the `stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.'