Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

The actors Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey played the characters of two helpless and hopeless women in the movie “The Color Purple,” Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel, is a bonafide classic movie filled with many memorable scenes and quotes.

You may can recall several scenes of the movie that brought about there frustration with Harpo and Mister.

2. “You told Harpo to beat me!” - Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) gives Harpo (Willard Pugh) a bad piece of advice…

Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) gives Harpo (Willard Pugh) a bad piece of advice…

3. “Celie’s Fixin To Shave Mister!” - After putting up with Mister’s (Danny Glover) abusive ways for decades, Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) is nearing her breaking point.

3. “Celie’s Fixin To Shave Mister!” - After putting up with Mister’s (Danny Glover) abusive ways for decades, Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) is nearing her breaking point.

After putting up with Mister’s (Danny Glover) abusive ways for decades, Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) is nearing her breaking point.

4. “I’m poor, black… I may even be ugly, but dear God, I’m here!” - As the movie draws to a conclusion, Celie finally stands up to Mister.

4. “I’m poor, black… I may even be ugly, but dear God, I’m here!” - As the movie draws to a conclusion, Celie finally stands up to Mister.

Tyler Perry wrote a play turned movie called “The Diary of a Mad Black Woman” - Helen McCarter has everything a woman wants: a nice house and rich husband.

However after her husband Charles throws her out of the house after admitting to an affair a distraught Helen turns to her mother, grandmother Madea and cousin Brian who take her in and turn back to God.

Helen learns for the first time in her life to stand up on her two feet and is ready to remove herself from her relationship with Charles and move on with Orlando.

But when her husband is almost killed by a vengeful client, Helen wonders if she has the heart to forgive him despite everything.

In these two movie examples these women where fed up, and there was nothing you could do about it.

As preacher of the Gospel of Jesus the Christ, we have focused on her condition and her suffering.

Today I want to look at this woman “Will(personal strength) for God.”

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

I'm standing here looking in the mirror

Saying "damn" to myself

Saying "xxxx" to myself

I should have known the day would come

That she would find somebody else

And all the things I took her through

Shit, I shouldn't have lasted this long

Now I'm at this telephone booth calling Tyrone

'Cause when a woman's fed up

No matter how you beg, no

It ain't nothing you can do about it (nothing you can do about it)

It's like running out of love

No matter what you say, no

And then it's too late to talk about it (too late to talk about it)

This is an outward look on inward problem.

We have to take this same outlook on this woman today in the scripture.

She was fed up, and it was nothing anyone could do about it because her desire to be heal was now her will to be heal.

In other words, when we become fed up, ours desires should transform to a will to seek God.

We may desire God, but how many of us really follow him, when he shows up.

In other words, when we become fed up, ours desires should transform to a will to seek God.

How many of us really let him operate solely?

We may desire God, but how many of us want him.

How many of us can solely put it in his hand?

How many of us really want our situation to change?

What are we doing about it?

How are we preparing?

Think about this - this woman is bleeding for 12 long years.

She been to several doctors, they gave and probably sold her some of the best medication money could buy at the time.

none of it worked.

We go to the doctor for our conditions, pay some of the best health care money can buy.

Get the greatest and latest medicines.

How many of us work against the meds, work against our prevention plan.

See this woman realize that its not the physical limitation of the condition but its about the Spiritual Greatness of oneself that touches Christ.

This woman being helpless and hopeless desires became helpful and hopeful.

I believe that this no named woman shows us:

1) Hopelessness Approach - Attitude

the second scene is that of a woman’s hopeless approach (see note—Mt.

9:20–22).

This approach always lays hold of Jesus.

Jesus senses the touch of the hopeless and always helps the hopeless who come to Him.

A hopeless approach involves four attitudes.

(5:25–34) Hopelessness—Attitude: the second scene is that of a woman’s hopeless approach (see note—Mt.

9:20–22).

This approach always lays hold of Jesus.

Jesus senses the touch of the hopeless and always helps the hopeless who come to Him.

A hopeless approach involves four attitudes.

3 (5:25–34) Hopelessness—Attitude: the second scene is that of a woman’s hopeless approach (see note—).

This approach always lays hold of Jesus.

Jesus senses the touch of the hopeless and always helps the hopeless who come to Him.

A hopeless approach involves four attitudes.

1.

There is the last resort attitude.

The woman had been hemorrhaging for twelve years; it was uncontrollable.

No one could touch her nor anything she had touched.

By law she was considered unclean, so unclean that she was to be divorced by her husband ().

She was to be totally cut off from society and religious worship.

This particular woman had tried all she knew.

She had seen “many physicians” and “spent all that she had,” and yet she “grew worse.”

There was nowhere else to turn except to Jesus.

(See note— for more detail of her condition.)

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” ().

We as children of God have to seek the Christ for rest, we around here allowing folks to get under our skin, run our blood pressure up, worsen our health, worrying about that weary spouse, disobedient children, worrying about job, worrying about the church.

Tell somebody - Give it to Jesus!

Thought 1.

When all else fails, there is Jesus.

However, most people try all else before Jesus.

Nevertheless, He loves us and He cares for us—enormously so.

We should turn to Jesus, for He is always waiting for us—waiting even if we turn to Him as a last resort.

Thought 2. A person who has been brought to the point of helplessness and hopelessness can be helped.

When there is no hope anywhere else, there is hope in Christ.

Thought 3.

There is no need to reach the point of hopelessness; no need to reach the end of our ropes; no need to become utterly depressed.

Circumstances should never be allowed to destroy us, not to the point of utter hopelessness.

Nevertheless, many reach that point.

The one thing to remember is that Jesus does care and will never turn away from the hopeless.

He opens His arms to all who come—even to the hopeless.

2. There is the shy, embarrassed, unworthy attitude.

Note the woman elbowed her way through the crowd and came up behind Jesus.

She wanted to touch Jesus without being seen or noticed.

Why?

She was embarrassed and felt unworthy.

Her hemorrhaging was a personal, intimate matter for her, something she did not want to be known and discussed.

She was considered unclean; therefore, she felt unworthy to approach Jesus.