Sermon Tone Analysis

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06-12-17.01

07-01-21.01

*Title:           *“When ordinary becomes extraordinary…!”

*FCF:            *believing we must be extraordinary

*D-Theme:   *God and his calling on our life is extraordinary!

*M-Thrust:   *consecrate yourself to God

*App:*           Since God and his calling on our life is extraordinary we must consecrate ourselves to Him!

*Comment:  *our friends who came said that they really liked the service and were glad they came.

Pam said she had wanted to hear me preach and when I said I hope I didn’t disappoint you she was emphatic in saying that she was not disappointed!

No real reaction from

*Subject:     *consecration

*Date:          *07-01-14.01

*Text:           *Numbers 6:1-21; Romans 12:1-2

 

1Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord, 3he shall separate himself from wine and /similar/ drink; he shall drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from /similar/ drink; neither shall he drink any grape juice, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.

4All the days of his *separation* he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin.

5‘All the days of the vow of his *separation* no razor shall come upon his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord, he shall be holy.

/Then/ he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

6All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.

7He shall not make himself unclean even for his father or his mother, for his brother or his sister, when they die, because his *separation* to God /is/ on his head.

8All the days of his *separation* he shall be holy to the Lord.

9‘And if anyone dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

10Then on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting; 11and the priest shall offer one as a sin offering and /the/ other as a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned in regard to the corpse; and he shall sanctify his head that same day.

12He shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his *separation*, and bring a male lamb in its first year as a trespass offering; but the former days shall be lost, because his *separation* was defiled.

13‘Now this /is/ the law of the Nazirite: When the days of his *separation* are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

14And he shall present his offering to the Lord: one male lamb in its first year without blemish as a burnt offering, one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish as a sin offering, one ram without blemish as a peace offering, 15a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their grain offering with their drink offerings.

16‘Then the priest shall bring /them/ before the Lord and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering; 17and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall also offer its grain offering and its drink offering.

18Then the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head /at/ the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put /it/ on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offering.

19‘And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put /them/ upon the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated /hair,/ 20and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the Lord; they /are/ holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering.

After that the Nazirite may drink wine.’

21“This is the law of the Nazirite who vows to the Lord the offering for his *separation*, and besides that, whatever else his hand is able to provide; according to the vow which he takes, so he must do according to the law of his *separation*.”

• Introduction

•  1Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord…

•   Captivated!

•   How many of us have been captivated by the story…

•   …of *Wesley Autrey*… the extraordinary New Yorker…

•   …who risked his life to save a man who fell on the tracks…

•   Wondering why on earth someone would risk it all…

•   For a complete stranger—without regard for his children…

•   Who, standing on the platform thought he was dead…

•   Or the Story of *Marine Cpl.

Jason Dunham*

•   Another extraordinary New Yorker from Scio, NY…

•   …on his second tour in Iraq.

He could have left the Marines and returned to his hometown in western New York to pursue his dream of becoming a state trooper, but he extended his tour to stay as a machine gunner with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment.

•   “We told him he was crazy for coming out here,” said Lance Cpl.

Marke Dean, 22, of Owasso, Okla., who served with Dunham.

•   “I want to make sure everyone makes it home alive,” Dean said Dunham told him.

“I want to be sure you go home to your wife alive.”

•   On the day he was wounded, Dunham was in charge of a traffic checkpoint set up after the ambush of a convoy.

A man leaped out of a vehicle Dunham was searching and grabbed him by the throat.

Dunham kneed the man in the chest to break the grip and tackled him as he tried to flee, according to Marine dispatches.

•   Three other Marines rushed to help but Dunham shouted, “No! No! No! Watch his hand!”

A grenade fell from the man’s hand to the ground.

•   Dunham ripped off his Kevlar helmet and slammed it on top of the grenade and then dropped facedown on top of the helmet to smother the blast with his body and chest armor.

•   “If it was not for him, none of us would be here.

He took the impact of the explosion,” said Pfc. Kelly Miller, 21.

•   Dunham died 10 days later at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

•   At a White House ceremony this week, his parents, Dan and Debra Dunham, received the Congressional Medal of Honor for their son, awarded for gallantry in the face of enemy attack that is beyond the call of duty.

•   President Bush praised his heroism saying “By his selflessness, Dunham saved the lives of two of his men…”

•   When we stop to think of what we might have done…

•   Can we imagine doing what Jason Dunham did…

•   Sacrificing ourselves for the sake of others…?

•   Why not flee or try to throw the grenade away…?

•   These were extraordinary acts of courage/…/

•   From extraordinary men—right…?

•   Mr.

Autrey made the morning talk shows rounds this week…

•   And to listen to him tell his story and talk of his family…

•   You quickly realize that this is an ordinary man…

•   Who did something extraordinary…

•   And I suspect Cpl.

Dunham was an ordinary man…

•   /…his mother a home-economics teacher…/

•   /…his father a factory worker…/

•   Who did something extraordinary…

•   I wonder how many live believing we must be extraordinary…

•   When it comes to the things of God…?

•   How many of us live with the notion that ordinariness…

•   …is a curse we must break out of…

•   …if we are ever to see God use us in extraordinary ways…

•   How many live thinking God can never use us as we are…

•   Because we live believing we must be extraordinary…

•   Thinking that the greats of the faith were extraordinary…

•   Why Numbers 6?

•   Perhaps you’re wondering why we’re studying Numbers 6…

•   How it might relate to last Sunday’s message…

•   Or to our series and study from the book of Judges…

•   What is this vow of the Nazirite anyway…?

•   And what does it have to do with me…?

•   Well, perhaps you recall the sermon from Dec. 17…

•   The story of Manoah’s wife and the message of the angel…

•  …behold, you shall conceive and bear a son.

And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel…

•   Samson is a Nazirite from birth…

•   And that fact is a central part of his story…

•   What we learn is that those we think to be great…

•   Really were not… Samson was a pretty ordinary guy…

•   One whom God used in extraordinary ways…

•   He came into the world under extraordinary circumstances…

•   But lived with ordinary human attitudes…

•   Perhaps the one thing that made him extraordinary…