Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction.

Unbroken - A Striking story of Forgiveness of Louis Zamparini.

Run in the olympics, , Adrift, POW,

The Hollywood version of The story is about outlasting his enemies.

About inner strength, digging deep.(jolie)

But the True story was about Gods strength sustaining him and Forgiving his enemies, (jolie You see after Louis Got back he relished in his victories but secretly battled PTSD

Louie claimed that his greatest challenge was not running a 56 second lap, surviving on a raft for 47 days or even enduring torture at the hands of the infamous “Bird.”

He stated:

Billy Graham and the Conversion of his enemies.

Louie claimed that his greatest challenge was not running a 56 second lap, surviving on a raft for 47 days or even enduring torture at the hands of the infamous “Bird.”

He stated:

“I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive.

Hate is self-destructive.

If you hate somebody, you’re not hurting the person you hate, you’re hurting yourself.

It’s a healing, actually [to forgive], it’s a real healing…forgiveness.” –

If we have truly experienced God’s forgiveness, then we will have a readiness to forgive others.

Religious Hypocrites just pretend to love God, but true lovers of God will be characterised by a forgiving nature.

The Big Idea.

The real life Louie Zamperini died on July 2 at the age of 97 and his accomplishments could span another half hour biography.

He battled post-traumatic stress and alcoholism becoming a born-again Christian after hearing a young pastor by the name of Rev. Billy Graham speak in September 1949 and made forgiveness the theme of his life.

In subsequent years, he devoted himself to spreading the word of spirituality, fortitude and forgiveness...going so far as to travel back to Japan and making peace with the very tormentors who had starved him and beat him senseless.

Only "The Bird" refused to meet with him.The Big Idea.

If we have truly experienced God’s forgiveness, then we will have a readiness to forgive others.

Religious Hypocrites just pretend to love God, but true lovers of God will be characterised by a forgiving nature.

if we have truly experienced God’s forgiveness, then we will have a readiness to forgive others

Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996), 26.

Lets Raise The Stakes

The Lord Jesus striking blunt warning - For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

The Lord Jesus striking blunt warning - For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

The Lord Jesus striking blunt warning - For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

Exegesis

14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

Recap

Hypocrisy - Jesus has been delivering his teaching on Religious Hypocrisy and calls his followers to a greater integrity in their religious observances.

He teaches his followers how to pray .

Recap Last time we looked at the first half of the Lords prayer

Prayer is a family affair - Our Father we are praying with Jesus and With our brothers and Sisters in Christ.

Who’s Glory Who’s kingdom?

True prayer seeks to Glorify God’d name and seek Gods Kingdom on earth rather than building our own kingdoms and Glorifying our own names before men

Body - Second half of Lords Prayer.

Give us today our Daily Bread - If we put God’s concerns first, then we can bring our own needs.

God is concerned about our needs and knows them even before we mention them ().

If we put God’s concerns first, then we can bring our own needs.

God is concerned about our needs and knows them even before we mention them ().

If this is the case, then why pray?

Because prayer is the God-appointed way to have these needs met

why pray?

Because prayer is the God-appointed way to have these needs met.

It is right to pray for daily physical needs, for forgiveness, and for guidance and protection from evil.

Forgive us our Debts as we forgive our Debters - The assumption that we will do this

Application

“Lead us not into temptation” does not mean that God tempts His children ().

In this petition we are asking God to guide us so that we will not get out of His will and get involved in a situation of temptation (), or even in a situation of tempting God so that He must miraculously rescue us ().

It is right to pray for daily physical needs, for forgiveness, and for guidance and protection from evil.

Forgivness -  For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

Application

Do we earn Gods forgiveness?

He was not teaching that believers earned God’s forgiveness by forgiving others; for this would be contrary to God’s free grace and mercy.

One way process.

The point is not so much that forgiving is a prior condition of being forgiven, but that forgiveness cannot be a one-way process.

Like all God’s gifts it brings responsibility; it must be passed on.

To ask for forgiveness on any other basis is hypocrisy

The point is not so much that forgiving is a prior condition of being forgiven, but that forgiveness cannot be a one-way process.

Like all God’s gifts it brings responsibility; it must be passed on.

To ask for forgiveness on any other basis is hypocrisy

However, if we have truly experienced God’s forgiveness, then we will have a readiness to forgive others (; ).

Our Lord illustrated this principle in the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant ().

The point lies not in the time-sequence, but, as vv.

14–15 will explain, in the insincerity of a prayer for forgiveness from an unforgiving disciple.

The point lies not in the time-sequence, but, as vv.

14–15 will explain, in the insincerity of a prayer for forgiveness from an unforgiving disciple.

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He was not teaching that believers earned God’s forgiveness by forgiving others; for this would be contrary to God’s free grace and mercy.

However, if we have truly experienced God’s forgiveness, then we will have a readiness to forgive others (; ).

Our Lord illustrated this principle in the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant ().

Application

Why this extra teaching?