Sermon Tone Analysis

INTRO

Two glasses of water on stage.

Direct audience to observe them and even take a small drink of one.

Explain the results of putting Visene into someone’s drink.

Almost everyone has heard the rumors circulating that Visine, when put in someone's drink can cause them to have explosive diarrhea.

Bartenders often claim that this is their secret for getting back at customers who have been obnoxious or have caused them problems of some sort.

There have even been people who have been angry with someone and have tried to use Visine as an annoyance to get revenge.

What these people may not realize is that putting Visine in a person drink could actually be deadly.

There are many people sitting in jail right now, charged with crimes that involve tainting another person's food or drink with Visine and making them sick.

No one knows for sure where the rumor that Visine would cause diarrhea came from but it is quite clear that it seems to be a common misconception.

Show them a bottle of visene.

Take glases behind the podium so they cannot see.

Make it obvious that you are pouring it into a glass and stiring it up.

What Do Eye Drops in a Drink Really Do?

The active ingredient in eye drops such as Visine is tetra-hydro-zoline HCI.

Ingesting this substance can lead to a variety of harmful side effects such as dramatically lowering body temperature, causing severe breathing difficulty, respiratory failure, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, blood pressure fluctuation, tremors, seizures and even coma.

Each bottle is labeled with a warning that urges people to seek immediate medical attention or call the poison control center immediately, if this medication is swallowed.

With this being said, it is clear that it is absolutely no joke to ever try adding eye drops to anyone's food or beverage.

Doing so could result in dire consequences such as severe medical complications or even death.

Ask audience if anyone would like to drink it?

What about if you were really thirsty?

Why not?… because you know it will cause you pain & death

TITLE & TEXT

Just A Dab Will Do Ya

Genesis 20.1-18

THEME

THEME

There is no small sin before a Holy God.

ISRAEL

Garden

Noah

Tower

Sodom

National Issues

US

Violence

Sickness

Poverty

PRAY

God our father in heaven we ask that you might anoint our ears to hear this text this morning.

Please allow the message to be clear and applicable to us on a personal level.

Please prepare our hearts for your Word as we seek to be under your leadership.

TEXT EXPOSITION

Transition / Introduction

The Information

Sodom

Destruction

sexual sin

inhospitable

Gerar

Philistines

Hagar fled here

The Indiscretion

He took Her

“she is my sister” [ch 12]

Abimelech = [my father is king]

What is Sin?

Do I know what sin is when I see it?

Adam & Eve

Going against God’s will

Sin of Comission

Sin of Omission

Abraham

Us

common sins of both omission and comission.

First Scene = Night

The Dream = v3-7 [3]

Darkness / Light - Night / Day

But… God intercedes!

Method of communication

Message = doom

The Defense = v4-5

Call For Justice

Innocent people

Integrity of heart

he said / she said

The Death = v6-7

Lack of Knowledge =/= Lack of Guilt

Can you sell your car on Sunday?

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage in the business of buying, selling, trading or exchanging new, used or second-hand motor vehicles or offering to buy, sell, trade or exchange, or participate in the negotiation thereof, or attempt to buy, sell, trade or exchange any motor vehicle or interest therein, or of any written instrument pertaining thereto, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday.

[May 12, 1953]

Leaders Are Held Responsible

Matthew Henry

God protected him!

sin that is...

sin that could be…

Call to repentance

prophet - 1st

prayer - 1st

peril

Size of Sin

What do you consider as a “small sin”?

Adam & Eve

1 bite of fruit

gossip

anger

lust

pride

lie

In God’s eyes this is as foolsih as saying in your defense “I only raped one person” or “I only killed him, everyone else I leave alone”.