Sermon Tone Analysis

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Standards.

Another word for standard could be filter.

It’s the way we mentally and spiritually sort things out.

It’s the rules or boundaries of how we function.

Here is how we define standard: an idea or thing used as a measure, norm, or model in comparative evaluations.

Most of us don’t have a problem with standards.

Why?

Because where there is no standard, there is confusion.

Imagine if we didn’t have traffic standards, we would crash into one another.

Imagine if restaurants didn’t have standards on how they handled their food, we would all get sick.

Imagine if football didn’t have rules, it would be chaos.

However, if you take those same concepts and apply standards to them, you have nourishment, progress, and goals being met.

You ever play a game with someone but you looked at the rule differently?

Uno games are intense in my house because we all have our own standard on how the game is played.

To understand where we are going, we need to look at the end.

Jesus explains at the end of His sermon, it is wise to hear His words and do them.

Not because they are ingredients that will allow us to avoid trouble but when trouble comes, our foundation is strong enough to survive.

In this series, we will unpack this new standard, this Wild Standard.

It’s when we find ourselves at this place that we start having subjective standards.

Another word for standard could be filter.

It’s the way we mentally and spiritually sort things out.

It’s the rules or boundaries of how we function.

Here is how we define standard: an idea or thing used as a measure, norm, or model in comparative evaluations.

Most of us don’t have a problem with standards.

Why?

Because where there is no standard, there is confusion.

Imagine if we didn’t have traffic standards, we would crash into one another.

Imagine if restaurants didn’t have standards on how they handled their food, we would all get sick.

Imagine if football didn’t have rules, it would be chaos.

However, if you take those same concepts and apply standards to them, you have nourishment, progress, and goals being met.

You ever play a game with someone but you looked at the rule differently?

Uno games are intense in my house because we all have our own standard on how the game is played.

Scripture(s)

(ESV) — 24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.

To understand where we are going, we need to look at the end.

Jesus explains at the end of His sermon, it is wise to hear His words and do them.

Not because they are ingredients that will allow us to avoid trouble but when trouble comes, our foundation is strong enough to survive.

In this series, we will unpack this new standard, this Wild Standard.

(ESV) — 1 Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. 2 And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

5 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. 10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11 “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

IntroStration

Standards.

Another word for standard could be filter.

It’s the way we mentally and spiritually sort things out.

It’s the rules or boundaries of how we function.

Here is how we define standard: an idea or thing used as a measure, norm, or model in comparative evaluations.

Most of us don’t have a problem with standards.

Why?

Because where there is no standard, there is confusion.

Imagine if we didn’t have traffic standards, we would crash into one another.

Imagine if restaurants didn’t have standards on how they handled their food, we would all get sick.

Imagine if football didn’t have rules, it would be chaos.

However, if you take those same concepts and apply standards to them, you have nourishment, progress, and goals being met.

You ever play a game with someone but you looked at the rule differently?

Uno games are intense in my house because we all have our own standard on how the game is played.

Standards provide direction for growth.

I recall visiting an amusement park and getting a behind the scenes tour.

We went to the nursery and they showed us all the plants.

I was blown away to see these structured frames in the shape of characters.

It was then layered with other substances so that as the plants grow, they grow in the form of the standard.

I thought someone just came through with hedge trimmers and designed it.

No, months before it ever comes out in public, it spends time growing according to the standard that was predetermined.

God provides his Word as the standard that will ensure we grow.

JESUS IS THE STANDARD.

Jesus is the Word of God.

Not our opinion or preferences or politics…Jesus is the standard.

If you want to know how we should handle poverty, Jesus is the standard.

If you want to know how we should handle people that struggle in sin, Jesus is the standard.

If we want to know how to handle opposition, Jesus is the standard.

We are all so impressionable.

We all have things that influence the way we see things.

Have you ever seen a movie that you truly enjoyed but when you listen to critics you find yourself not liking it?

Why?

Because you adopted their perspective.

When I was in middle school, I was highly impressionable, as we all were.

That part of the brain the is like wet cement and is constantly looking for validation and affirmation is still being formed.

My best friend wore eye glasses.

So I decided that I wanted to wear eye glasses.

All throughout middle school I was looking through a lens that did not reflect my reality.

When I went to high school, that false lens became my truth.

I damaged my view because I was looking through a false lens.

It can be dangerous to look at the world through a broken lens.

Transition

So many of us are not that different.

We have spent so much of our lives looking through a false lens until it literally becomes our perspective.