Sermon Tone Analysis

Sermon on Jesus is My Lord

Title:  /My /Lord

 

Theme:  Lord Jesus must be Lord of /My/ Life.

Goal: to encourage all people to make Jesus Lord of their life.

Need:  People often live life like Jesus’ lordship doesn’t make a tiny bit of difference in their life.

Outline:

Introduction:  Living how Jesus doesn’t make a difference, or very little difference.

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Jesus is the focus of all history.

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Jesus is the point where we all have a decision to make.

Liar, Lunatic, Lord.

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Jesus must be a difference maker in our lives.

Conclusion:  He is LORD.

Make him MY LORD!!

 

Sermon in Oral Style:

Congregation of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Today is the day.

You know the story.

Today is the day a virgin, gave birth.

Today is the day we celebrate the coming of a person who claimed he was God.

Today is the day shepherds saw angels and went and saw a baby that would be good news of Great Joy for all people.

The whole world finally had something to celebrate because of today.

Because of Jesus Christ, the newborn king.

Nice story pastor, but… It would make sense that many of us would have trouble trying to figure out all these things the Bible says happened.

They are not normal.

Is there anything about Christmas that is normal?

Expected?

Truly understandable inside and out?

 

          *Today is the day we celebrate, but that shouldn’t mean we pretend like we have all the pieces put together and Jesus is that familiar story of Christmas time.

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          If we wrestle with trying to understand completely who that little baby in the manger was, *maybe we ought to be wrestling all the time trying to learn more and more about what it means to become a follower of that little baby?*

What makes you a Christian?

*Some people say something like this, well I don’t use bad language, and I try to follow the ten commandments.

That’s fine.

That’s a good start.

But shouldn’t there be more to it than that?*

After all, you remember baby Jesus grew up and the Pharisees followed the ten commandments to a T, but Jesus kept on telling them,  YOU DON’T GET IT YET!

The coming of Christ calls us not just to be followers of Ten Commandments.

The birth of Jesus puts before all of us one of the most difficult and important questions you will ever have to make.

The decision isn’t, will you keep the Sabbath day.

It isn’t will you be a good family man.

It isn’t even will you come to church on Sunday.

*The most important decisions that needs to be made is this:  Jesus is Lord.

Is he /MY /LORD.

* Jesus is I AM, Man, Messiah, Savior.

*BUT IS HE MY LORD!  Master of my work, the purpose I use for making my decisions, motivator for how I use the always decreasing number of hours in my life.

IS JESUS /MY/ LORD!*

Why talk about Jesus being /MY /Lord on Christmas day?

Because Christmas day is the day that raises a decisions for everyone.

Is Jesus real?

IS he not?

Is he God, human or both?

Was he anointed to do justice to the oppressed?

Is belief in him the way to salvation?

*The birth of Jesus puts before us a decision that we can’t avoid having to make and wrestle with.*

Here’s Why.  *First of all, Jesus is the focus point of all history.*

I like the picture on the banner over here.

You see the two triangles, the points are both focused in on this prism here in the middle.

This could represent what happens in history.

The Old Testament times are full of promises.

To all people in Genesis 3 God promises that there would be a descendant of Adam and Eve that would crush the head of the snake, the devil and all evil.

Big promise.

Also, to Abram God promised all nations would be blessed by one of his descendants.

David is told that one of his descendants will be king forever.

There are all these promises in the Old Testament and with everyone the focus gets more and more focused.

All history, all people, all creation is waiting for one thing something.

And it is all coming together.

Every page of the Old Testament is waiting for something, someone.

And its Christmas day, today that changes everything.

Its like the prism.

That’s Jesus Christ, no ordinary baby in a manger, like a baby in a manger would be ordinary anyway, right?

When Jesus comes all that was coming up in the Old Testament finally makes sense.

Wouldn’t you just love to go talk to Adam and Eve today and find out how they reacted when they discovered God’s plan.

Oh!!! That’s what he meant.

Jesus would defeat sin and set the entire world free.

And that’s a spectacular thing in itself.

These promises were getting smaller and smaller.

Forgiveness for all people.

A child from Abrahams line.

A king from Davids line.

Finally, it seemed like salvation was only for the two faithful tribes of Israel.

But the minute Christ was on the scene, Wham.

It spreads out instantly.

Salvation for all.

Even covering non-Jews like most of us here.

A baby in a manger, Jesus is the turning point of all history, the lynch pin of every year, decade and millennium that ever has been.

I can say it and tell you what the Bible says.

*But the question is, Believe it or NOT?*

Because of what Christ taught, he also is the lynch pin in every persons life as well.

What did he teach about himself?

He said he was the great I AM, he is the Son of Man.

He is the Messiah.

He is the savior.

He is the Lord.

He said all of those things about himself.

Do you believe him or not?

 

          *How do react to others who have said these things about themselves.

David Koresh and the Branch Davidians down in Waco, Texas.

Marshall Applewhite who told his followers to commit suicide to rendezvous with the spaceship behind the comet*.

They claimed to be God incarnate.

It is so easy to discount them as frauds, and not believe a word and not even think to follow anything they taught.

What about with Jesus?