Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

Last week we learned we should ???????

They had great faith, they were teachable, and the were responsive

We talked how people should talk about us because of our faith and that faith is shown through our actions.

This past week have you who are Christians been showing your faith through your actions?

If so how?

If not why not?

Tonight I want you all to be teachable for me.

We are talking about some big words you need to understand and remember so be teachable and we will learn some neat stuff.

Tonight we are looking at how to live.

So get with the person next to you and discuss how can a person live.

You have one minute.

What did you come up with?

In our passage tonight God shows us how we can live.

He shows us how sinners can live forever with him and how Christians are supposed to live everyday.

So how to live forever and how to live each day.

We Live by God’s Power ()

People can have forgiveness of sin and eternal life with God only because of God’s power.

The greek word for power here is dynamis (dunames) where we get our english word dynamite.

What is dynamite most famous for?

The power to blow stuff up!

So God has this incredible power.

Listen to how God describes his power:

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength

according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die

O Lord God of host, who is mighty as you are, O Lord, with your faithfulness all around you?

God is powerful.

Think about dynamite again.

Dynamite takes a single object and makes it into many objects when it blows up.

It takes one things and makes it something else.

Through God’s power to message of the Gospel takes a person who is separated from God and makes them a part of God’s family.

The Gospel takes a person who is an enemy of God and makes them a beloved child of God.

This can only occur because of God’s power that he has displayed for all eternity.

This specific power Paul is writing about is God’s saving power or the power of salvation

We Live Through God’s Salvation ()

The word salvations means deliver.

So the Gospel is God’s power to deliver us from the consequences of our sin.

What are the consequences of our sin?

For the wages of sin is death

But your iniquities have made a separation between your and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.

The consequences of our sin are death, separation from God, and eternal destruction.

We bring those things upon ourself.

But by God’s power he can deliver us from those consequences.

He can save us from the consequences of our sin because of the work of Jesus Christ.

Listen to these verses:

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachtani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Jesus died, Jesus was separated from God, and Jesus suffered God’s punishment all so that God could deliver you and I, those who have faith in Jesus, from the consequences of our sin.

But we know it doesn’t stop there.

Jesus was raised from the dead three days later and he went up into Heaven to be with God the Father and is waiting for the day when he returns.

On that day when Jesus returns there will be no more delivery from sin.

If you have never placed your faith in Jesus Christ the time is now because it doesn’t matter who you are God will provide salvation to you, he will deliver you from the consequences of your sin if you place your faith in Jesus Christ.

But what brings about this salvation?

Faith is what is required from you but before we talk about faith we need to understand that it is only because of God’s Righteousness that we can live.

The word faith is interest

We Live Because of God’s Righteousness (

Verse 17 starts with “for in it.”

For in what?

The Gospel.

For in the Gospel the righteousness of God revealed.

What in the world does that mean?

The word righteousness has two meanings we must remember:

1.

To be declared right

2. To be made right

To be declared right means that God declares a person to be innocent or not guilty of their sin.

For example in a court of law a judge declares a person guilty or innocent.

However what is different about God is that God also changes the person.

A judge cannot do that but God can.

Which why righteousness also means to be made right.

To be made right means that God uses his power to change or transform who a person is.

When God saves us he not only declares we are innocent of our sin but also changes who we are so that we will have a desire to not sin.

says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

says “Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.”

When we place our faith in Jesus Christ God changes us and makes us a different person.

He gives us the Holy Spirit so that we have the ability to chose not to sin and chose to honor God.

God changes us to where we want to bring him honor and glory.

God makes us a different person.

God declares us innocent of sin and changes who we are so that we can bring him glory.

We have looked at all the things God does but there is responsibility on our part and that is faith.

We Live Only With Faith (

Faith means to trust in or rely on.

Paul says that God’s Righteousness that is God declaring and making us right is revealed by faith.

That means that God’s righteousness is bought about through faith.

Whose faith is he talking about?

Our faith in Jesus Christ alone.

In our everyday lives we have faith in many things like faith that the water is safe to drink, or that a bridge is safe to drive on, or that our alarm is going to go off or our parents will wake us up.

We could not live our lives without faith, without trust in many things.

The same is true with God.

We cannot and will not live with God for eternity if we do not have faith, if we do not trust in Jesus Christ.

When a person places their faith in Jesus Christ then God uses his power to bring about salvation which declares and make a person right before God.

Faith doesn’t stop once you are saved.

Faith is also what the Christian lives by everyday.

True faith in Christ doesn’t stop at believing but it carries over into actions.

I want you to think of Abraham.

God had promised Abraham he would be the father on many nations but Abraham was almost a hundred years old and had no children.

How was he going to be the father of many nations without children?

He had faith, he trusted that God would provide him a son, and God did.