Sermon Tone Analysis

Identity, Worth, Meaning , Significance

You Are Blessed

I heard a long time ago about a man, a farmer, who’d never been to a big city—lived out in the farm all his life, never seen a building over three stories tall.

And he went to town for the first time and saw an elevator for the first time.

It fascinated him.

He didn’t even know what it was.

And he was standing there watching with his big half-grown son, and he noticed an old lady got on the elevator and the doors shut behind her.

The dials moved.

The door opened again, and a beautiful young lady stepped off.

He couldn’t believe his eyes.

He said to his son, “Son, you stay right here.

I’m going to go get your mother and run her through that thing.”

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

From eulogeō (blessed)

THE BLESSED ONE—GOD

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

From eulogeō (blessed)

We get eulogy, a message of praise and commendation, the declaration of a person’s goodness.

Because no one is truly good but God (), our supreme eulogy, our supreme praise, is for Him alone.

Goodness is God’s nature.

God the Father not only does good things, He is good in a way and to a degree that no human being except His own incarnate Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, can be.

Nothing is more appropriate for God’s people than to bless Him for His great goodness.

In all things—whether pain, struggle, trials, frustration, opposition, or adversity—we are to praise God, because He is good in the midst of it all.

For that we praise and bless Him

Nothing is more appropriate for God’s people than to bless Him for His great goodness.

In all things—whether pain, struggle, trials, frustration, opposition, or adversity—we are to praise God, because He is good in the midst of it all.

For that we praise and bless Him

Consistent with His perfection and praiseworthiness, the One who is to be supremely blessed for His goodness is Himself the supreme Blesser who bestows goodness.

It is He who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing.

“Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift,” James reminds us, “is from above, coming down from the Father of lights” ().

Paul assures us “that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” ().

God blesses because He is the source of all blessing, of every good thing.

Goodness can only come from God because there is no source of goodness outside of God.

The us whom God has blessed refers to believers, “the saints … in Christ Jesus” Paul addresses in verse 1.

In His wonderful grace, marvelous providence, and sovereign plan God has chosen to bless us.

God has eternally ordained that “those who are of faith are blessed” ().

When we bless God we speak good of Him.

When God blesses us, He communicates good to us.

We bless Him with words; He blesses us with deeds.

All we can do is to speak well of Him because in ourselves we have nothing good to give, and in Himself He lacks no goodness.

But when He blesses us the situation is reversed.

He cannot bless us for our goodness, because we have none.

Rather, He blesses us with goodness.

Our heavenly Father lavishes us with every goodness, every good gift, every blessing.

That is His nature, and that is our need.

Father of Our Lord :

MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (1986).

Ephesians (p. 7).

Chicago: Moody Press.

THE BLESSER—GOD

Love, by its very nature, cannot dwell by itself; and so, since God’s nature is love, God created people like us, and chose us, that He might love us.

And that brings me to say something I’ve said before, friend: God does not love us because we’re valuable; we’re valuable because God loves us.

Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Because Jesus is our Lord We have been blessed

Because of the Finish work of the cross God is our Father.

I’m going to Reject Rejection: Because through what Jesus did on the cross

Do You Know Your Identity?

Identity

Identity

the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.

A person that is battling with the Spirit of Rejection or is bound by a Stronghold of Rejection

Simply Put Does Not Know WHO THEY ARE

identity crisis noun

They are very Critical of themselves because they are always wondering why was I looked over?

Why was I rejected ?

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Why did they walk away from Me ??

Why wont they comeback??

Why was I not picked ??

Why was I not picked ?

Whats wrong with me??

Not knowing who they are causes them to have a very Critical Spirit they are critical of everyone but because they battle with rejection they are Extremely Critical of those who seemly have been accepted, the popular , the beautiful

In a real sence

In a real sense they have an ...

Identity crisis

personal psychosocial conflict especially in adolescence that involves confusion about one’s social role and often a sense of loss of continuity to one’s personality

1: personal psychosocial conflict especially in adolescence that involves confusion about one’s social role and often a sense of loss of continuity to one’s personality

a state of confusion in an institution or organization regarding its nature or direction

So they constantly fight feelings of Inferiority because they feel inferior to everyone else

1 the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.

They go one or two ways either they don't care about there appearance because whats the use anyway ?

No one will notice, No one will care

Or

They will over compensate on their appearance

They will always try to be the best dressed , they will always try to look the nicest , they will always try to be the head turner

Now I’m not speaking of people who like to dress nice because they have a sense of self worth

I’m speaking to people who are specifically fighting this nasty demon called rejection

and because folk haven't accepted you, you think that the nicer that you look will cause them to notice you

The Skinner you are will cause them to notice you

The thicker you are will cause them to notice you

The Longer your hair is it will cause them to notice you

The shorter your hair is it will cause them to notice you.

But the fact that He Chose us before I could do any right or any wrong

Who HAS BLESSED ME...

With EVERY

Spiritual: What Did He Give Us??

They are permanent and perfect and eternal, lasting for ever.

Our heavenly Father blesses us with every spiritual blessing.

In the New Testament pneumatikos (spiritual) is always used in relation to the work of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore it does not here refer to immaterial blessings as opposed to material ones but to the divine origin of the blessings—whether they help us in our spirits, our minds, our bodies, our daily living, or however else.

Spiritual refers to the source, not the extent, of blessing.

Many Christians continually ask God for what He has already given.