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    1. To whom is the sermon addressed? The Congregation that he is preaching to. 2. According to Edwards‚ why is God wrathful? People are sinners‚ wicked‚ and his wrath is infinite and inevitable. 3. Reread the sixth paragraph. What people‚ according to Edwards‚ are not in the hands of this angry God? How is this state achieved? We are all sinners no matter what we believe or practice. It is God who keeps us from destruction and that has nothing to do with anything that we think prevents it. 4.

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    The famous Sermon on the Mount delivered by Jesus is considered to be one of the main focal points of the entire religions moral belief system. It delivers many applicable methods to approach salvation and the lifestyles choices/fruits that come along with embracing God’s grace and sacrifice. Jesus gave this sermon at an early point during His ministry. In the previous two chapters‚ Jesus was baptized‚ gathered His disciples and gained more of a following throughout Syria. Once Jesus noticed his

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    Romans 12 and the Sermon on the Mount First of all‚ there is a little different purpose between Romans 12 and Matthew. In Romans 12‚ it is telling people that the doctrinal teaching of this Epistle is now followed up by a series of exhortations to practical duty. (biblestudytools.com) And first‚ the all-comprehensive duty. In Matthew‚ It’s taking about Jesus teaching people when he was still alive. There are some similarities that can be found between Romans 12 and Matthew. In Matt. 5:5-6. One

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    Dry Bones Sermon

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    I can still recall the first time I heard a sermon on the valley of dry bones‚ taken from the book of Ezekiel chapter 37. I was around six or seven years old at Greater Salem Baptist Church in Louisville‚ Kentucky‚ were the Rev. T.B. Boyd was painting a picture of this valley full of dry dead bones toss around like dolls all over valley. I can still hear him as he talk about how depressing and dismal the sight was‚ dead dry bones as far as the eyes could see‚ bone after bone and they were dead. After

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    The Great Awakening The Great Awakening was a watershed event in the life of the American people. Before it was over‚ it had swept the colonies of the Eastern seaboard‚ transforming the social and religious life of land. Although the name is slightly misleading--the Great Awakening was not one continuous revival‚ rather it was several revivals in a variety of locations--it says a great deal about the state of religion in the colonies. For the simple reality is that one cannot be awakened unless

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    Devices used by Jonathan Edward In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” During the Great Awaking on July 8‚ 1741 a minister named Jonathan Edwards preached a sermon of warning to all sinners called “Sinner in the Hand of an Angry God”. Edwards’s sermon brought people of all kinds to tears and to collapse in dread. In Edwards’s sermon he preaches the greats fear of all sinners‚ full of hellish metaphors‚ loaded diction‚ and vivid imagery to scare all sinners into being reborn. One of Edwards’s

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    Pardoner is only concerned with making a profit. He even says this in his prologue that all his sermons are about money being the root of all evil because he is a greedy man. Therefore‚ in the middle of telling his tale‚ the Pardoner interrupts with a sermon about gluttony‚ sin‚ and greed because he is playing the very trick he explained to the pilgrims he himself plays on his visitors. The purpose of the sermon material in the Pardoner’s tale is part of Pardoner’s grand scheme to make the pilgrims feel

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    cgm1502 assignment 1

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    breakdown in communication at any stage of the seven step. Communication gap only occurs if there is a contact between people and exposure to one another and to ideas. Analysis shows that preaching in an oral transmission of a biblical message in a sermon is not always a process without any problem. People live in different ways‚ experience thongs in different ways and process things in different ways from each other. Cultural difference‚ languages differences and might changes things for people. Some

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    BIBL104 D2

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    1. What happens if you carefully consider the surrounding context of a passage‚ but ignore its literary genre? “For communication to occur‚ the reader must be on the same page as the author in terms of genre” (Hays‚ 2008‚ p. 64). Considering literary genre of text is crucial to proper interpretation. This is very important to consider when reading scripture because this could lead to complete misunderstanding of God’s Word. Literary genre is work like a set of instructions to reading text‚ because

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    By: Jonathan Edwards In one of the most famous sermons ever preached‚ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”‚ preacher‚ Jonathan Edwards‚ tries to persuade the ‘sinful’ people to realize that God is real and that they have to live ‘purely’‚ as in to live as a true Christian who is devoted to God. Because of God’s Wrath‚ his judgement‚ on all people‚ will be more painful and fearful than expected by many people around the world. Throughout his sermon‚ Edwards wants describe to them about how God treats

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