Sermon Tone Analysis

Hersel gets reunited with his long lost Daughter… She said there was always something missing.

I know what it is like to not know your father or have a remodel.

This morning we will be looking at a Father that longs to be with us.

God the Father is the source of all love and life.

He sent His Son to save us from our sin and ourselves, and to show us what He is like.

God the eternal Father is the Creator, Source, Sustainer, and Sovereign of all creation.

He is just and holy, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

The qualities and powers exhibited in the Son and the Holy Spirit are also those of the Father.

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God is our creator… Our Master builder

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This text speaks to the wonders of God such as His greatness in Creation (32); speaking to the burning bush (v33); delivering them from Egypt.

He warns against Idiot

110:1 The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand.”

The heavenly Father speaking to David of his Messiah, elevating the Messiah to the throne, His enthronement.

Stress is on the close relationship between the Lord and the Messiah.

The oracle implies that King David acknowledged two divine persons above himself: God the Father and another Lord, the Messiah whom he serves.

right hand.

Place of honor and power beside the king.

Your footstool.

Image of the defeated enemies lying under the feet of the Messiah.

Opposition and victory are envisioned.

Ancient kings liked to be portrayed as placing their foot on the defeated enemy as a symbolic act of their victory and the nothingness of their enemies (see Josh. 10:24; Is. 51:23).

See Paul’s application of that imagery in 1 Cor.

15:25; Eph.

1:20–22.

Psalm 120”1-4

110:1 The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand.”

The heavenly Father speaking to David of his Messiah, elevating the Messiah to the throne, His enthronement.

Stress is on the close relationship between the Lord and the Messiah.

The oracle implies that King David acknowledged two divine persons above himself: God the Father and another Lord, the Messiah whom he serves.

right hand.

Place of honor and power beside the king.

Your footstool.

Image of the defeated enemies lying under the feet of the Messiah.

Opposition and victory are envisioned.

Ancient kings liked to be portrayed as placing their foot on the defeated enemy as a symbolic act of their victory and the nothingness of their enemies (see Josh. 10:24; Is. 51:23).

See Paul’s application of that imagery in 1 Cor.

15:25; Eph.

1:20–22.

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To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.~

Knowing God by J.I. Packer

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All the paternal love which has come down from generation to generation through the channel of human hearts, all the springs of tenderness which have opened in the souls of men, are but as a tiny rill to the boundless ocean when compared with the infinite, exhaust-less love of God.

~ Testimonies for the Church, Vol 5 by Ellen White

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