Sermon Tone Analysis
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INTRO
TNCC Verse
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INTRO
There is a pandemic in America today… Lack of godly men playing their role as fathers
God Our Father
ultimate example
other biblical examples
How are we doing?
Is the church really any better then the world?
What can we do to improve?
Is there hope for future generations?
Illustration of need addressed.
Connect illustration to present day hearers.
Transition = Show this need or similar issue was also the question behind the biblical text.
Clearly state the theme of the text/sermon.
Title & Text
God Our Father
Theme
For better or worse the child is shaped by the father.
Pray
Oh LORD, Your word says:
This is a prescription for us as parents and even more specifically to us as fathers to teach our children diligently.
Heavenly Father please speak specifically to dads today.
Please give us wisdom and discernment though Your word today.
As dads we are in such great need of your Spirit to help us do the job of raising our children in the fear and understanding of the Lord Your word commands.
As we look at the text today please help us apply it to our lives in this great task You have called us to.
God please speak specifically to the fathers today.
Please give us wisdom and discernment though Your word today.
God as dads we are in such great need of your Spirit to help us do the job of raising our children in the fear and understanding of the Lord.
Amen
THE SERMON BODY
Text
What we have been given must be communicated.
Disobedience must be dealt with… now!
Focus on the heart and not the surface issue.
Deal with it now, do not wait.
34 When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite
Esau was 40 - so was Isaac
TXT
Abrahams command to his servant
Gods design for Adam
The first polygamist was Lamech (4:19), who also was of a rejected lineage (Cain).
Truth
doctrine
tradition
legacy
Child responsible for actions and choices
What we have been given must be communicated.
to our own hearts and lives
to all in our charge
to those around us
35 and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.
As a child, are you making your parents job enjoyable?
Apparently fairly serious issue
Rebekah’s defense later
1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son”; and he answered, “Here I am.”
Isaac’s eyes were dim
physically
spiritually
his sons folly
his own folly
beware blindness!
Fathers love and tenderness
he called him… = our effort
2 He said, “Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.
Mathew Henry =
Old people should be reminded by the growing infirmities of age to do quickly, and with all the little might they have, what their hand finds to do.
Old people should be reminded by the growing infirmities of age to do quickly, and with all the little might they have, what their hand finds to do.
Be aware of deaths approaching
Do what we are able to when we are able to
Isaac lived another 20 years
Disobedience must be dealt with… now!
in our own hearts
in the hearts of those we are responsible for
3 Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me
Tools and weapons are often the same
tools
weapons
The way to a mans heart is...
Isaac’s heart
our hearts?
Childs propensities and fathers bias = false assurances
Ishmael
4 and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.”
Irony - food = birthright / blessing
Irony - food = fall in Eden
Our own temptation to indulgences
“such as I love”
Soul’s part in blessing / cursing and worship?
Focused on the physical
Focused on the spiritual
Focus on the heart of the matter and not just the surface issue.
the symptoms
the disease
the treatments
the cure
Expose the structure of the text.
Main points should support the theme.
points should follow textual sequence unless good reason to change.
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