Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Two men were talking about a mutual friend.

One was very critical.

The other said, “I am surprised to hear you say that.

It was my impression that he had done many nice things for you.”

Replied the other, “Yes, but he has not done anything lately.”

That is what many Christians have fallen into with their walk.

They fail to remember the amazing grace and wonderful blessings God has for us.

They fail to remain thankful to be signed, sealed, and delivered by the amazing grace and love of the Lord.

We see this amazing grace and love in:

In this passage we see an amazing display of the Trinity at work for us.We see Paul breaking out in doxological praise for each member of the Trinity.

In verses 5-6 we see the Father in His amazing work for us and Paul giving Him great praise.

In verses 10-12 we see Paul praising Christ and our inheritance through Him.

And finally in verses 13-14 we see Paul praising the Holy Spirit in His work in sealing and guaranteeing our inheritance with the Father.

Let us look first at...

The Father’s Work(1-6)

What amazing love we see in these verses.

We see that the Father has blessed all who are in Christ with amazing blessings.

All people who are in Christ are saints they are the elect in Christ they are the church and as such they are adopted into the family of God.

We are blessed beyond measure.

We are blessed by the Father in this.

He has made all blessings available to us.

It is because of Him sending Christ why we have all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places.

This is what Paul was saying in 2 Tim.

1:7

This is the best gift next to our everlasting salvation we can have.

It does not mean we have health, wealth, or prosperity here, that is false teaching and crap that has caused so many to deny Christianity or hate God because they have not received.

Just to have those false teachers to say that those people who did not receive what they prayed for did not have enough faith or did not give them enough money.

Many people have walked away from the faith and hate God now because of those false teachers saying the blessings God has for us is wealth and prosperity.

It is crap and it is a damnable heresy that those men and women out there are selling.

The blessings we have from God are that of heavenly blessings.

Sitting at the right hand of the Father in Christ Jesus.

This means that no matter where you are at in the world whether in a mansion or under an overpass you are already as well as seated with Christ in Glory.

That is true prosperity and the true message of God’s blessings to us.

It is not monetary or worldly and anyone that tells you that is wrong and deceived.

The blessings are for us to be set apart and holy before the Lord not like the world.

The prosperity gospel pushed by so many false teachers these days all of which are named and called out on American Gospel, is making us to be worldly again rather than heavenly.

If we think blessings here is what God has called us out for we are wrong.

God has called us out to be holy and different than all others.

We are holy and without blame before God the Father because of Christ.

God gave us His everything in Christ.

Christ became sin for us so we could become the righteousness of God.

2 Cor.

5:21 tells us

Then we are blessed by the Father in Christ as children adopted by the Father.

That is amazing and wonderful.

Do you know how many children out there want nothing but to have a family that loves them.

They do not care where or what they have otherwise, they just want a family.

With the Father and Christ we have that family.

We have the greatest blessings imaginable.

If we think the worldly desires pushed by Osteen, Copeland, White, and many others is what God has for us, we are severely wrong.

Our blessing is in having Him as our Father who loves us so much He sent His Son to be the sacrifice for us.

That is blessed beyond anything this world can offer us.

This world is nothing to us if we have Jesus.

As Paul wrote in Phil.

3:7-8

That is our blessing and that is what the Father has done for us.

He has delivered to us His Son for us to have these blessings.

To be able to press on towards that goal.

We are His and we are signed into His book as His.

He did this and He will keep us and that is amazing.

But involved with this amazing work of the Father we see

The Son’s Work (7-12)

In Christ we have redemption–acquittal, also the state of being redeemed, through His sacrifice.

He did it so we could be with Him.

Christ not only came into the world for us but He died for us.

He suffered for us and because of His dying and shedding His blood, we have redemption through Him.

By believing in Him all our sins and trespasses are washed away.

In full honesty because of what Christ did in His death, burial, and resurrection the world does not have a sin problem but a son problem.

I have heard said a great theologian named Lewis Sperry Chafer was known to say:

“Because of Calvary, people no longer have a sin problem.

Instead, they have a Son problem.”

This is the grace of God that we can be thankful for.

This is the deliverance aspect of the title of this message.

Because of Christ we have been delivered from our iniquity and evilness.

He did it all for us.

Just as we saw in the Christmas Eve message, God had a plan for this to all happen and He made good that plan by the sending of the Son.

Jesus came into this world to bring together all things that have been separated from the Lord.

We are separated from the Lord if we are not in Christ.

God’s will is for all who believe to be saved eternally through the atoning work of Christ.

God desires all people to be saved and not have to suffer for their wrongdoings and their rejection of the Son.

Our inheritance is through the Lord Jesus Christ and not anything of this world.

We celebrate Christmas by exchanging gifts in honor of the Lord because He gave us the greatest gift ever, Himself.

Why do we think that seeking after worldly items is of any value or what God desires of us?

It is because we still struggle with worldly problems and we have worldly desires even though we are in Christ.

Some have crept in unknown and have begun deceiving many making them think that God’s will is for them to have all kinds of worldly things and that the everlasting life and the promises of eternity with the Lord is not the blessings He has for us.

Our inheritance and glory is in Christ and with the Father.

Christ told us to Matt.

6:20-21

Look at it as an inheritance that is for you but you must reach a certain age before you can use it.

God has this amazing treasure laying in wait for us if we focus on Him and not the world.

He will deliver far more for us in the future than we can ever think of here now.

Sadly, I have heard one well known proponent of the false teaching of the prosperity gospel say that we say this and have taken our magic pencil and wrote that we must wait until then to get it.

This same man says that we can tap into that now for this world.

I believe the text in Matthew says differently and I believe we see differently here too.

Matthew says in heaven.

Here we see that our inheritance is Christ and the blessings of the heavenly places not earthly wealth.

We have hoped in Christ and not the world.

Why would we want to turn to the world for anything else?

I think that we should stay focused on the deliverance Christ has brought to us and for us through what He has done for us.

Let us stay thankful for the deliverance He has for us the adoption we have in Him.

Just like adoption here, the one adopting chose to adopt and God chose to adopt us that is an amazing blessing.

We have an adoption that is most glorious and blessed with amazing blessings.