Sermon Tone Analysis

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‘Fear God, and keep His commandments’ (Ecclesiastes 12:13).
This is ‘the heart of the matter’.
It’s ‘the matter of the heart’.
How can we even begin to fear God and keep His commandments if our hearts are full of sin?
How can our hearts be cleansed from sin? There’s only one way we can learn to ‘fear God, and keep His commandments’.
We must begin by opening our hearts to our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.
We must look to Him for forgiveness - ‘I will cleanse you’.
We must look to Him for a new beginning - ‘I will give you a new heart and put a new Spirit in you’ (Ezekiel 36:26).
Let our fear of the Lord be filled with the love of Jesus.
Let our keeping of God’s commandments be filled with thanksgiving for Jesus Christ, our Saviour.
Let us be devoted to Christ: ‘Take my heart - it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne’ (Church Hymnary, 462).
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