Sermon Tone Analysis

The Lord is my Shepherd

2  He makes me lie down in green pastures.

Today I am going to preach the Word of God.

Hopefully it will not just be some red face rant, I can assure you that it isn’t going to be Amen what this world needs today is not another hug, it doesn’t anymore atta boys, or just look deep within yourself and you will find everything you need.

What we desperately need is the word of God.

We need to know the Word of God, we need to obey the Word of God, we need to proclaim the Word of God.

We don’t need any more hugs, we don’t need any more sloppy agape.

We need the all-consuming power.

Burning passionate love for the Lord Jesus Christ.

He leads me beside still waters.

3  He restores my soul.

He leads me in paths of righteousness

for his name’s sake.

Today I am not going to bring anything that is new to the particular text today.

This passage is familiar to everyone in here.

What I hope today is to stir up your minds and help you to remember some things about God that will help you grow in grace.

4  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil,

for you are with me;

Today’s message is not going to be a focus on what you should not do.

It is rather a message on life, a message on love.

Sometimes, most of the time the focus of Christianity is on the things you should not have but rather it is the exceedingly better things that you can have and you do have though you might not realize it as a child of God

your rod and your staff,

Psalm 23

they comfort me.

5  You prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies;

you anoint my head with oil;

THE BENEFITS OF THE LORD.

my cup overflows.

6  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

Psalm 103

all the days of my life,

and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD

forever.

2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.

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Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

Did you know that there are benefits to living and serving God.

It is not a loss when you turn to the lord.

it is not a bummer to serve the Lord.

It is not like something that you have to grit your teeth and do with this aching, numbing, loathing type of attitude that you have to have.

There are bennefits to serving the Lord… Look at you neighbor and say there are Benefits to Serving the Lord!!!

What are these benefits?

… He gives you a few… Let me tell you

Forgiveness

3 who forgives all your iniquity,

Today I am going to preach the Word of God.

Hopefully it will not just be some red face rant, I can assure you that it isn’t going to be Amen what this world needs today is not another hug, it does not need another counseling session.

What we desperately need is the word of God.

We need to know the Word of God, we need to obey the Word of God, we need to proclaim the Word of God.

We don’t need any more hugs, we don’t need any more sloppy agape.

We need the all-consuming power.

Burning passionate lov4e for the Lord Jesus Christ.

Who doesn’t want your iniquity forgiven ?

This is sin.

But it is not just missing the mark of God’s righteousness.

Iniquity means gross injustice.

Could be hidden or public.

Those things that are obvious, shameful, those things that when they occur you can never forget them.

Though you try desperately, they are like a bad dream that you can wake from.

Healing

Today I am not going to bring anything that is new to the particular text today.

This passage is familiar to everyone in here.

What I hjope today is to stir up your minds and help you to rememeber some things about God that will help you grow in grace.

….who heals all your diseases,

1  The LORD is my shepherd; I shall no 2  He makes me lie down in green pastures.

Todays message is not going to be a focus on what you should not do.

It is rather a message on life, a message on love.

Sometimes, most of the time the focus of Christianity is on the things you should not have but rather it is the exceedingly better things that you can have and you do have though you might not realize it as a child of God

I can’t help but think that these two passages are deeply connected one too another.

Not all disease is caused by sin.

But some of it is.

I promise you that the iniquities of life are connected to some form of disease.

It may be an unrelenting, irrational paralyzing fears.

Some of our diseases caused by iniquities may come in the form of OCD.

It may come in the form of depression, it may come in the form of a lack of peace, restless nights, broken relationships.

It may even be connected with physical maladies.

The Lord has made the spiritual life of man so interwoven with the physical that the long, grueling, laborious, malicious years of sin may show up in the Physical realm.

THE BENEFITS OF THE LORD.

Jesus made it clear that not all physical maladies are not the result of sin.

But don’t think that means that none of them are…..

He forgives our iniquities, He heals all of our diseases,

Redemption AND Glory

2  Bless the LORD, O my soul,

and forget not all his benefits,

Did you know that there are benefits to living and serving God.

It is not a loss when you turn to the lord.

it is not a bummer to serve the Lord.

It is not like something that you have to grit your teeth and do with this aching, numbing, loathing type of attitude that you have to have.

There are bennefits to serving the Lord… Look at you neighbor and say there are Benefits to Serving the Lord!!!

4 who redeems your life from the pit,

What are these benefits?…

He gives you a few… Let me tell you

and forget not all his benefits,

and forget not all his benefits,

3  who forgives all your iniquity,

Who doesn’t want your iniquity forgiven ?

This is sin.

But it is not just missing the mark of god’s righteousness.