Sermon Tone Analysis

1) Will You Overcome Your snares?

(Heb 12:1-3).

2) Will You Become More Studious?

(1 Tim 4:14-16; 2 Tim 3).

3) Will You Exercise More Self-Control, or Will You Be Controlled? (1 Cor 9:23-27).

4) Will You Become More Engaged With The Church? (Acts 2:42-47).

5) Will You Become A Christian? (2 Cor 5:17-21; 6:1-2).

Isaiah 49:6–8:

6 “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

7 Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.” 8 Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages,

Paul quotes Isa 49:8 to appeal to the Corinthians and emphasize God’s readiness to receive them when they turn to Him.

Just as God restored Israel from exile, He now reconciles people to Himself through Christ.