Sermon Tone Analysis

What do I matter to God?

¿Que Significo Yo Para Dios?

December 15, 2007

Introduction:

We live without God everyday.

We make decisions without Him.

Why do we need Him?

He doesn’t care about us?

Why should we care about Him?

These are just a few things I have heard as I have talked to people.

It is easy to go on living just the way we have instead of looking at the truth about what God really thinks about you and I. Tonight I want to share with you something that just might amaze you and lead you to think differently about God.

I want to share with you tonight what you really mean to God.

I don’t want to waste anymore time tonight.

I want to get right to the point.

The first thing you need to know is that you are God’s…

I. Principal Creation (Principal Creacion)

That’s right!

Out of everything God has created.

Out of all the planets, stars, galaxies that exist.

Out of all the the mountains, rivers, lakes, animals, plants, and everything else that is on this earth.

Out of every angelic being and living creature that God has ever created…you and I represent His Principal Creation.

We are His most valuable possession.

Listen to this verse in,

James 1:18...

18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

(NIV)

18 Por su propia voluntad nos hizo nacer mediante la palabra de verdad, para que fuéramos como los primeros y mejores frutos de su creación.

Another translation says it this way,

18God decided to give us life through the word of truth so we might be the most important of all the things he made.

(New Century Version)

And one more translation calls us “the crown of all his creatures.”

(Message)

God intended for us to be the best creation out of all things He created.

God wanted you to be important.

Not only does God want you be important…He wants you to know that you are important to Him.

So He wrote it down in this verse.

Here is another verse that God wrote down to give us an idea not only of how important we are to Him but what we are capable of.

(de que somos capaz)

Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)

10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

“10 Porque somos hechura de Dios, creados en Cristo Jesús para buenas obras, las cuales Dios dispuso de antemano a fin de que las pongamos en práctica.”

The word “workmanship” (hechura) is the Greek word (poiēma), where we get our word poem from.

Here it is used to mean not just God’s work of art but His Masterpiece.

His principal work of art! (su principal pieza de arte)!!

We are his workmanship, we are the greatest art that God has ever created!

We are His Principal Creation!

God doesn’t want us to miss this truth.

He wants us to know how special we really are.

How many people in life make it a point to let you know how special you are?

Not many.

God does.

In the book of Psalms in chapter 139 we find a man that God had gotten through to.

He understood what He meant to God.

He understood how much God care about him.

Listen to this verse as I read it.

Psalm 139:13-18 (NIV)

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.

“13 Tú creaste mis entrañas; me formaste en el vientre de mi madre.

14 ¡Te alabo porque soy una creación admirable!

¡Tus obras son maravillosas, y esto lo sé muy bien! 15 Mis huesos no te fueron desconocidos cuando en lo más recóndito era yo formado, cuando en lo más profundo de la tierra era yo entretejido.

16 Tus ojos vieron mi cuerpo en gestación: todo estaba ya escrito en tu libro; todos mis días se estaban diseñando, aunque no existía uno solo de ellos.

17 ¡Cuán preciosos, oh Dios, me son tus pensamientos!

¡Cuán inmensa es la suma de ellos!

18 Si me propusiera contarlos, sumarían más que los granos de arena.

This is a person that understood how valuable he was to God.

You see, God has been very involved in your life even before you were born.

When you sleep He is thinking about you…when you wake up God is still there thinking about you.

You are His most precious creation.

Psalm 139:14 says that you are “wonderfully” made!

(una creacion admirable)

This is a Hebrew word, (palah) pronounced, (“pawlaw”) which also means, “marvelous”.

You were made marvelously!

How is that for a clear explanation of what God thinks of you!

How is that for a clear explanation of what you really mean to God?

It doesn’t stop there.

God doesn’t just think about us, He doesn’t just revel in the fact that He created us.

He is not satisfied to just look at His work and say… “wow!, this is very good!”

That is not why He created us.

That is not why He decided to make us so marvelous.

God wanted His Principal Creation, His Masterpiece, His most wonderful and marvelous creation to become His…

II.

Eternal Family (Familia Eterna)

He thinks so much of us that He wants to spend all of eternity with us.

Not just the time you have on this earth.

His plan is to be able to communicate with you, love you, protect you, and give you a great life for eternity…time without end.

If someone doesn’t like you…they don’t spend a lot of time with you.

If someone likes you a lot they want to spend a lot of time with you.

God loves you and thinks so much of you that He was careful to make you a marvelous person that He wants to spend an infinite amount of time with.

Listen to this…the Bible tells us that

John 1:12 (NIV)

12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—

12 Mas a cuantos lo recibieron, a los que creen en su nombre, les dio el derecho de ser hijos de Dios.

When you are a child of God, you are at the top!

There is nothing higher, nothing more powerful, nothing more glorious, nothing more loved, nothing more rich, nothing more important…other than God Himself!!!

That is the position that God wants to give you.