Sermon Tone Analysis

Joke - An elderly lady was well-known for her faith and for her boldness in talking about it.

She would stand on her front porch and shout "PRAISE THE LORD!"

      Next door to her lived an atheist who would get so angry at her proclamations he would shout, "There ain't no Lord!!"

      Hard times set in on the elderly lady, and she prayed for GOD to send her some assistance.

She stood on her porch and shouted "PRAISE THE LORD.

GOD I NEED FOOD!!

I AM HAVING A HARD TIME.

PLEASE LORD, SEND ME SOME GROCERIES!!"

      The next morning the lady went out on her porch and noted a large bag of groceries and shouted, "PRAISE THE LORD."

The neighbor jumped from behind a bush and said, "Aha!

I told you there was no Lord.

I bought those groceries, God didn't."

The lady started jumping up and down and clapping her hands and said, "PRAISE THE LORD.

He not only sent me groceries, but He made the devil pay for them.

Praise the Lord!"

Recap from last week :

Eros - Love between a man and a women.

Eros - Love between a man and a women.

Phileo - Love between friends.

Brotherly love.

Agape - Love that is deep, abiding and self - sacrificing and looks out for the other person first.

Love enriches.

Love edifies.

Love endures.

We talked about how your actions will always speak louder then your words.

So let your actions speak and not just your words.

See show me a man who loves his neighbor and I’ll show you a man who truly loves God.

Maturity in Christ will cause you to look past enemies short comings.

See the love of God in us, is what draws those around us to Christ be it enemy of friend.

You cannot love God without loving Christ our savior.

Fall in love with God everyday as he loves His son and His son teaches us to love with the love of God through the Holy Spirit.

True love begins with loving God and it will transcend to loving all.

Jesus sacrificed himself because of the love he had for us, how simple is it for us to die to our pride and become more like Him.

So what is faith?

Message says: The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living.

The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living.

About 3-4 years before I returned back to Michigan I was in a dark place where I felt like God was not with me and I even began to question if he really existed.

I would wake up in the morning and as my family left to go to work and school I would sit in my office and ask God to reveal himself to me.

None of this, what I would call peep rally stuff.

I wanted a real experience!

I would call people in my life whoI knew would let me challenge them on God and wouldn’t look at me like I was crazy.

I really wanted a mountain top experience and I wasn’t going to let up until I had one.

Then one day the Lord gave it to me.

Then you know the rest of the story about the house We lived in for that time being.

But what’s interesting when I look back on it, God was really showing me the mountain tops all along, I just couldn’t see it because I was already on top of the mountains.

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Things always look a whole lot different from another view, but when you are at the wrong position you really can’t tell what your looking at.

a particular kind of matter with uniform properties

If your flying in a plane at 30 thousand feet over a city you don’t know what that city is because your in the wrong position to distinguish the details, but when you come in for a landing things become a whole lot clearer.

See there is story a Minister a Rabbi and a Priest who were all fishing buddies and one day as they sit in their little boat fishing, the minister get’s up and says he’s going to the bathroom he’ll be right back, he gets out the boat and walks to the rest room a few moments later he comes back and gets in the boat, not long after that the Rabbi has to use it as well so he does the same exact thing, with the same results.

Well not going to be out done the Priest decides he has as much faith as the both of them and so he decided to get on out and walk on water as well, jumping out the boat the Priest went straight down into the water flapping like a fish.

The Minister looked at the Rabbi and stated , I guess we could’ve told him where the rocks were.

See that’s not faith, that’s just common sense, pay attention to the details.

Your faith brings forth the details, and that’s where God lives. in the details.

See that’s not faith, that’s just common sense, pay attention to the details.

There is something fundamentally beautiful about not knowing what God has planned next for you, but it’s also scary.

It’s letting go and letting God.

That’s not how we are wired because of our sin nature.

We like to now what God is going to do next, but in reality we don’t know and this is why the bible says:

There is something fundamentally beautiful about not knowing what God has planned next for you, but it’s also scary.

It’s letting go and letting God.

That’s not how we are wired because of our sin nature.

We like to now what God is going to do next, but in reality we don’t know and this is why the bible says:

Matthew 6:26

See there is story a Minister a Rabbi and a Priest who were all fishing buddies and one day as they sit in their little boat fishing, the minister get’s up and says he’s going to the bathroom he’ll be right back, he gets out the boat and walks to the rest room a few moments later he comes back and gets in the boat, not long after that the Rabbi has to use it as well so he does the same exact thing, with the same results.

Well not going to be out done the Priest decides he has as much faith as the both of them and so he decided to get on out and walk on water as well, jumping out the boat the Priest went straight down into the water flapping like a fish.

The Minister looked at the Rabbi and stated , I guess we could’ve told him where the rocks were.

See that’s not faith, that’s just common sense, pay attention to the details.

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I love what the author Watchman Nee says in his book Back to The Cross.

Faith is drawing money from a bank, someone gives you a check, they have money in this bank.

That is a fact, If now you will go out and with draw that money, it shows that you admit there is money in that bank and you do this in faith.

You have confidence.

Faith is to confess that all which God has said and done is true, faith is accepting the fact and taking it as factual.

Faith is a gift from God

Faith is a gift from God

Faith helps us grow into all that God has called us too.

Here is the thing about God

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In 1958, America’s first commercial jet air service began with the flight of the Boeing 707.

A month after that first flight, a traveler on a piston-engine, propeller-driven DC-6 airliner struck up a conversation with a fellow passenger.

The passenger happened to be a Boeing engineer.

The traveler asked the engineer about the new jet aircraft, whereupon the engineer began speaking at length about the extensive testing Boeing had done on the jet engine before bringing it into commercial service.

He recounted Boeing’s experience with engines, from the B-17 to the B-52.

When his traveling companion asked him if he himself had yet flown on the new 707 jet airliner, the engineer replied, “I think I’ll wait until it’s been in service awhile.”

Even enthusiastic talking about our faith doesn’t mean much if we aren’t also willing to put our lives where our mouth is.

Unless you exercise your faith like you do your body, it will become weak and atrophied which will eventually lead to death spiritually.

Faith comes through God’s word

Faith following a direct word from God

Moses receives God’s instructions at the Red Sea

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Joshua receives God’s instructions concerning Jericho

Moses receives God’s instructions at the Red Sea;

Joshua receives God’s instructions concerning Jericho;

Your faith in God provides for you.