Sermon Tone Analysis

TWO WEEKS TO GO

Two weeks to go to your death and what would you do.

many of you will be looking at your bucket list and wondering what can i pack in and do before i die

you may be thinking of all those things that you wanted to do before you would die and put them into some sort of order hoping to fulfil as many as you could before that day would come.

some given the info of only two weeks to live would fall into a deep depression thinking of all the things that i wanted to do and not have the time to do them this person might become very melloncollie and would not be able to do anything because of deppresion.

or you might find yourself in the third catagory having been given this info become quite angry and say why should i die now.

ive only done this or im two young to die

im sure that given this info that you wouldnt get up the monday morning and set of to work or would do just what you had done every monday for many a year.

but i can see by the look on your faces why ask such a question as only a few people ever get given that info when they can do anything about it.

But i ask this question not because i have some bad news to give to someone today but because the man who we follow wasnt just given two weeks to live but he pritty much new from the begining of his life that he was going to die.

heb 10 :5-

here the God man Jesus knew from the beigining that he was to die.so i guess you could say that his life would be filled with all that he could to tell people about his father and reveal God in as many ways to the people as he could and all the more as he saw the time of his death coming ever near.

Jesus who was both God and Man was able to do the thing that God would be able to do but through the body of a human.

we know what God can do because the old testemant is full of his works starting with the creation of our world and finishing with him well what has God finished some might say so but we i think might have something to say.

God is still working in the hearts of man today and the greatest miricle is when God by the Holy spirit( Gods presence in the world today) is able to change the heart of a sinner.

But what was he doing with only two weeks to go before he would die.

was he trying franticly to fulfill his bucket list or was he filled with depresion because of the looming day.

I dont think so he would be found in our later list doing just what he had done every week since he had started his ministry.

matt 19 gives us a breif but inportant look into Jesus’s live leading up to that d day.

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matt 19:

matt 19:2

lets look at what he had to say during his last days on earth

matt 19:1-

hear we find 5 important actions

important actions

he finished teaching in galilee

he left galilee

he came to the coast of Judaea beyond Jordan

multitudes gathered

and he healed them.

here we see very much the ministry of jesus He spent very much of his time dealing with the people in the villages and towns that he came to.

His life was all about telling people about his father and bringing his message home by the miracles that would accompany the message.

Lets look at this chapter and see what if anything it can bring for us today who live over 2000 years later.

first we see the Pharisees who were part of the ruling jewish council these were people who by the Mishna ( a book of regulations)had given the the jewish people a load of rules to help them understand the 10 commandments that were given by God to moses, but infact had durden the people down with more regulations than were nessesary.

such as how you should bath.

and how you should wash the pots.

they were all about the detail and not much about the things of God as the Mishna was more important that the law of God.

One of the fundamental doctrines of the Pharisees was a belief in a future state.

They appear to have believed in a resurrection of the dead, very much in the same sense as the early Christians.

They also believed in “a divine Providence acting side by side with the free will of man.”—Schaff

But the y were always in objection towards the son of God Jesus in his Ministry for various things

But they were always

One of the fundamental doctrines of the Pharisees was a belief in a future state.

They appear to have believed in a resurrection of the dead, very much in the same sense as the early Christians.

They also believed in “a divine Providence acting side by side with the free will of man.”—Schaff

But still Jesus gave them time on this ocasion they would try and tempt him on the divorce Bill.

Divorce then as now was a big issue but Jesus stood his ground firmly with his answer to there question.

Here was a question that was not about the law but was about tradition

law and tradition can be the same but not always

example the law says

ex 20:

tradition says sunday is a day of rest so i do restful things.

the law say

tradition says i don’t have to marry for eveyone’s doing it.

the law says

tradition says do not kill or murder.

in the past the isrealites had come to moses and said we cannot live with this women so a bill of devoice was given

Moses had given this bill of divorce because people are not perfect.

But this was not what God meant when he said

test of strength

This is how we art to be as married people

christs answer to the Pharesees was great

matt 19:4-

Todays idea of tradition and only for about 50 years or so, not to long in the time of the our living upon the earth is that we should not marry but live togeather.

Marrage they tell me is a dyeing thing

living togeather is the thing to do.

some people say i dont have to get married in church to be married

some people say as long as God is in the relationship i can get married any where.

some people say as long as God is in the marrage i can marry as many as i like.

but all these are not right according to the word of God and time dose not allow me to go into the all right know.

But HERE we have two forms of marrage by tradition on in the sight of God and the other in the sight of the state.

church and regestrary office.

But have you ever wondered why there is only one place where you can go to get a divioce

God ideal was for us to be always married.

Jesus was happy to deal with the contentous matters of the day and we should also.

say whats right and not what accepted by tradition.

If you are living in tradition you can still come back to the way that God wants you to live God still forgives sin.

The pharisees push him again on the bill of divorcement

matt 19:

but Jesus speaks to them about the hardness of there hearts about fornication and about adultery

matt 19:8-.

but what is fornication and adultery according to scripture for tradition says that these words or acts don’t exists.

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1 cor 6:18

forication is sexual acts ouside of marrige

adultery is sexual act inside of marrige with another person other than your wife or husband.

marrige was the first of the subjects that Jesus was happy to instruct upon

then came men or wonem that do not marry

Then came the children

matt 19:13

the disciples had no time for the children but Jesus did.

we have time for the children so that they too might grow up to love and serve God as we do

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instruction is good for both male and female.

christ word were

is christ saying that only children are in the kingdom of heaven

No

But he is saying that for such is the kingdom of heaven

those who are will to come to me and learn of me those who have a child like faith