Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Summarize:

Verses 8 and 9 ask and answer the question, “How are we made alive?”

Grace alone through Faith alone.

This work of God is ongoing

Exposition

Author: Paul

Audience: All the Saints

Content: We are eternally secured according to the sovereign will of God.

Context: Sinners deserving of wrath are made into trophies of God’s grace

Comparison: Romans 3:21-31 - Saving faith is the evidence of a just God extending grace toward sinners.

Explanation

Verse 8

For by grace you have been saved through faith.

Grace-A free, undeserved gift

Faith-Belief that is deeper than knowledge, it inspires action

And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

“not of your own doing” modifies FAITH or SAVED?

In reality the language says THIS referring to the entire previous phrase: “ For by grace you have been saved through faith “

Grace from God

Saved by God

Faith according to God

All are given the Spirit and all the gifts of the Spirit must be present in the regenerate believer.

wisdom and knowledge and faith

miraculous gifts (with spiritual discernment right in the middle)

Faith is worked in us by revelation of the Holy Spirit, but even more than Eph 2 and 1 Cor 12, we have

“Help my unbelief” Mark 9:14-29

GOD GIVES FAITH - PRAY FOR INCREASING FAITH

Verse 9

not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Yes, there are works (as we will see next week), but those works are a confirmation and completion of our faith, not the measure by which we are saved

Just as there was one saving work of God, there are many sanctifying works of God.

so that no one may boast:

We keep boasting in our own works

We show off our spirituality on Facebook and are just like the pharisee Jesus condemns.

Our missions have become about sending visible service projects or seeking quick evangelistic decisions and thinking of two years as a long-term instead of going among a people and preaching the whole Word of God and making disciples.

I want to see the believer who quietly acknowledges their sins and thanks God for His forgiveness.

I want to see the believers who believe so surely in the horrors of the eternal wrath of God that they cannot help but prophecy to friends, family, and coworkers.

REPENT of lukewarm belief, PRAY for increasing faith, GO and pour your life into ministry (Make Disciples!)