Sermon Tone Analysis

Thessalonians series #7

The Man of Lawlessness

Scared, Standing, or Busy?

*2 Thessalonians 2:1-17*

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*A paradoxical statement appears at the beginning of Dickens Tale of Two Cities: */"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."/

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*Panic Over Fiction Story*

On *October the 30th 1938 Orson Welles broadcast* The /War of the Worlds/ on the Radio.

Even though he told people upfront that what they were about to hear was fictional, it was presented in such a way that more than 1 Million people thought it was real and panicked.

It was *9 p.m., October 30, 1938.

A* woman anxiously *dialed* the New York City *bus* *terminal* asking *information* about the *next* *bus* departure.

*/"Hurry, please!" she cried.

"The world is coming to an end, and I have a lot to do."/*

The woman was serious, for she had just heard Orson Welles's radio broadcast of the novel, /The War of the Worlds/.

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Don't be Unsettled*

 

definition -

*un**·**set**·**tled* *: *not settled: as

*a (1)* *: *not calm or tranquil *: *disturbed 〈/unsettled/ political conditions〉

*(2)* *: *likely to vary widely especially in the near future *: *variable 〈/unsettled/ weather〉

*(3)* *: *not settled down 〈/unsettled/ dust〉

*b (1)* *: *not decided or determined *: *doubtful 〈an /unsettled/ state of mind〉

*(2)* *: *not resolved or worked out *: *undecided 〈an /unsettled/ question〉

*c* *: *characterized by irregularity 〈an /unsettled/ life〉

*d* *: *not inhabited or populated 〈/unsettled/ land〉

*e* *: *mentally unbalanced

*f (1)* *: *not disposed of according to law 〈an /unsettled/ estate〉

*(2)* *: *not paid or discharged 〈/unsettled/ debts〉

 

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What *Unsettles* us?

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*When* we *don't* *know* the *truth* about the future.

So *every* *time* we *hear* something *new* or *something *else* happens* on the *world* scene, we become *unsettled*

 

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*deception* - we *live* in an *age* of *deception*;

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we are *deceived* by "*good"* people, by "*godly"* people by "*church"* people" by people we *trust*; "*educated" *people;

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we *live* in a day where people *don't* *believe* the *Word* of God any longer.

c. in the *day* *when* *Paul* *wrote* this letter, *God's* *people* *believed* the *truth* that was *taught* them by *Christ*, the *prophets*, the *Apostles*.

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*no* *one* *doubted* the Authenticity of the *Scriptures*, the *diety* of Christ, the *Virgin* Birth, the *Miracles* of Jesus, the *Teachings* of the Apostles

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