Sermon Tone Analysis

There was a beautiful song that started out with the words “Why Me Lord?” but instead of the words “of the pleasures I’ve known” we sometimes add in “Of the problems I’ve known!

We turned this song into “gloom despair and agony on me”

*/2 Corinthians 12:7-10/**/KJV/*

7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

*/2 Corinthians 12:7-10/**/NASB95/*

     7     Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!

8     Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me.

9     And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.”

Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

10     Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

*/Proverbs 24:10/**/KJV/*

10 /If/ thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength/ is/ small.

*/Ephesians 3:13/**/KJV/*

13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

*/Philippians 4:12/**/KJV/*

12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

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*/Philippians 4:13/**/KJV/

13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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*/Psalm 46/**/KJV/*

1 God/ is/ our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; 3 /Though/ the waters thereof roar/ and/ be troubled,/ though/ the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.

Selah.

4 /There is/ a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy/ place/ of the tabernacles of the most High.

5 God/ is/ in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her,/ and that/ right early.

6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

7 The LORD of hosts/ is/ with us; the God of Jacob/ is/ our refuge.

Selah.

8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

10 Be still, and know that I/ am/ God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

11 The LORD of hosts/ is/ with us; the God of Jacob/ is/ our refuge.

Selah.

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