Sermon Tone Analysis

Songs of Worship

1.

Every Morning Is Resurrection Morning From Now On - The Children's Choir

2. He's Alive- By: David Phelps (GVB)

3. Majesty - By: Bill & Gloria Gaither

4. Alleluia - By: Tennessee Ernie Ford

5. Hail The Day - By: Charles Wesley, Steve & Vikki Cook

6. Crown Him (Majesty) - By: Chris Tomlin (with Kari Jobe)

Child Dedication - John Foster, Sr.

Kevin Josiah Foster

William Kevin McCray Foster

Children's Prayer - John Foster, Jr.

PRELUDE SONG

7. We Will Rise- By: Sovereign Grace Music

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8.

The Victory - By: Phil Wickham

BENEDICTION SONG

9. Christ The Lord Is Risen Today - By: Charles Wesley (1739)

10.

I Will Rise - Chris Tomlin

Call To Worship Scripture

Sermon Scripture

2Kings 8:

This morning we begin with a fitting story of a child who has died.

His hands to his head, he has passed beyond conciousness.

Heat stroke comes upon someone from being to long exposed to a climate that is not fitting (ie. to hot) and thus effects by raising it’s tempeture beyond that which life can exist at (tepature excedes 104deg.).

This combined with dehidration often proves fatal.

It is a form of hypotheria.

Often it is combined with syptoms of confusion, agitation, disorientation and coma.

My head, O My head proclaims the child…he falls over and eventually is found to be dead.

Now the attention is moved to the Mother.

We will observe the mother and note these three things.

The Word of God births faith

Faith in God must work/prove to be alive

Living Faith in the Word of God has power over death.

The observance of the mother here will not so much point us to the mother but to the power of God.

As you witness what the mother does, you must remember what the Word of God says about a mothers love and how it compares to God’s love for us.

In the scriptures you have more than one account of the unyielding love and desperate faith of mothers and the resurrection of their child.

What really must grasp us however is not the glory of a mothers love, but that the love of God surpasses that of a mother who would stop at nothing to resurrect her child.

If we are to understand the passion, the compassion and the vigor of purssuit that God has displayed towards us - one angle that we must see is a mothers love in conection with her child - the child which has been born from her.

How outrages it is to think of a mother forgetting her nursing child,

How unateral it is to witness a mother having no compassion for her son.

As rare and shocking as these things are - proving that it is against the very nature of a mother, even more so with God - He will never forget, never fail in compassion, and never cease to comfort His people.

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Write this down:

The Word of God

Such a faith is not a mysterious faith with not grounding.

It is not a faith of human decision.

It is a faith of root, a faith of abiding.

A faith in God.

Not a faith in the mere existance of God, but a faith in the Word of God.

A faith in the Word which God has spoken.

A faith in the Word which has become flesh.

A faith such as this is not a faith that can exist and be complacent.

It is a faith which must act, and must work, for it is a living faith, a grounded and spoken faith, a declaired belief.

Living Faith

Resurrected life

, the great chapter on faith states this with the precursor being… “By faith...”:

Christian faith is not of self.

It is not in what we have done nor is it in what we can do.

It is in what God has spoken, what God has done, is doing and will do.

No matter where you are in life, if you are to have true life, then you must have Christian Faith.

You see here that faith is never absent from test, from working, from trial, from endurance, from trust, from victory, from resurrection, from a better life.

This is Christian faith displayed throughout time and history.

The same faith which walks us through the valley is that faith which navigates us to the glorious land of a better life.

Such faith as that which gives opportunity for a woman, for a mother, to receive back her dead by resurrection is displayed in .

A prominent Shunammite women with a beloved child.

A prominent women with a beloved child.

Wealthy, of good faith and strong character.

Yet, even those with much, must live by faith, and that faith must be proven when tested by despair.

And so we see...

A woman with a beloved child.

O my head, O my head cries the child.

Heat stroke, (perhaps) had settled in.

Confussion, delussion, coma…the panic begins

A woman losing a beloved child.

She had been faithful.

She had been hospitable to the prophet of God Elisha.

She had made a room for the man of God to stay upon his travel.

How then had this come upon her on this day?

The prophet Elisha in return for kindness acquired what might be done to repay, the kindess the Shuminite woman to him had displayed.

In finding that she had no son and her husband was advanced in years:

2 Kings 4:15-

A woman with a spoken word from God through His servant Elisha

A woman with a son, now and older child.

O my head, O my head cries the child.

A woman now losing a beloved child promised to her by the Word of God.

(by a prophet of God, Elisha)

She held the child until noon on her lap.

Then upon her lap, her child died.

A woman holds what seems as a dead promise in a dead child.

But God cannot lie.

She arises and lays her beloved child upon the bed of the room that had been furnished for the man of God.

She shut the door.

She went out.

She quickly went to the man of God.

A woman in bitter distress.

-O man of God who speaks the word of God - Do not deceive me!

What God speaks must be true, so in this distress what am I to do?

O man of God, I will not leave thee

What you have spoken on behalf of God, I have believed.

Come and help me.-

A woman in bitter distress, Clings to the word of God spoken