Sermon Tone Analysis

Looking At The Eye

The expressive power of the human eye is so great that it determines, in a manner, the expression of the whole countenance.

It is almost impossible to disguise it.

It is said that gamblers rely more upon the study of the eye, to discover the state of their opponents’ game, than upon any other means.

Even animals are susceptible of its power.

The dog watches the eye of his master, and discovers from it, before a word is spoken, whether he is to expect a caress or apprehend chastisement.

It is said that the lion cannot attack a man so long as the man looks him steadily in the eyes

Our great need as a nation, as a Church, and as individuals is to have our eye’s opened to the presence and reality and might of Spiritual Forces.

Have you ever experience fear, through your human observations?

Have you ever needed the prayer of another when something looked impossible?

Well, I have some good news....

The bible gives us an example of God’s power over the spiritual world,

When?

When we can’t see what he see’s.

If you’ll turn to .

I’ll give you 3 observations so you can see what Elisha’s servant saw, was victory was his.

The Same young man, the same eye’s, but now his eye’s had been opened.

(Servant)

Satan uses the “fear of man”, forces that seemed impossible to defeat, But Elisha prayed his “eye’s would open and see”

A man of God is worth more to a nation, more than a battleship, a regiment of soldiers, or even a squadron of bombers.

When the King of the Syrian army planned to invade Isreal, Elisha had been given a word of Knowledge of the details of there attack ahead of time and Elisha would give Israel’s king notice, To when and where to move.

Elisha is a striking demonstration of God’s power over the enemy by opening the servants eye’s and later he blinded the eye’s of the enemy soldiers and then opened them up again to then see the mercy of God.

my first observation today is,

The Nations Spiritual Forces

The nation stood in the past for Christian and Moral values that were the foundation of our beliefs.

Satan’s forces are destroying the moral code written on our hearts and lives as a thief does,

The Bible states in,

Here are the results of what we can see?

Crime

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1 Murder every 30.6 sec--1 Violent crime 25.3 seconds—1 Property Crime every 4 Seconds—

1 Burglary 20.9 seconds

Crash

1 Fatality every 14 Minutes— 1 Person injured every 13 seconds— 1 Property damage every 7 seconds — 1 Law-enforcement reported crash every 5 seconds.

The Home is breaking down

The Home is breaking down, We already know 50% of marriages end in divorce but what I saw on Nightline news was Romantic Robots.

The reporter asked a man who had three, Why?

He stated,

God is everywhere, yet sin-blinded eyes see him not.

When our eyes are opened, we can see God everywhere

“They never hurt you, they can keep you good company rather than a good fight.”

If only man could see God as that companion that never hurts anybody, God is everywhere, yet sin has blinded the eyes that see him not.

It has stolen away the authority of Man’s power and dominion, like a thief.

God is everywhere, yet sin has blinded eyes that see him not.

But their is hope.....

They look to political parties or governments but if they would repent and we pray the eyes of the world could see again.

But when they look to political parties or governments rather than repent and pray the eyes of the world grow cataracts.

When our eyes are opened, we can see God everywhere, a person who has restored there relationship with God can see the good around them, good imposing itself on the darkness.

15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him:

When our eyes are opened, we can see God everywhere, a person who has restored there relationship with God can see the good around them, good imposing itself on the darkness.

I will be with him in trouble;

I will deliver him, and honour him.

When our eyes are opened, we can see God everywhere, a person who has restored there relationship with God can see the good around them, good imposing itself on the darkness.

When our eyes are opened, we can see God everywhere, a person who has restored there relationship with God can see the good imposing itself on the darkness.

So let’s observe now...

The Church And Spiritual Forces

Just like this servant of Elisha we look abroad and we see in every direction drawn up against the Church of Christ discounting the Moral Law and the authority of God’s word, so goes some churches who don’t preach against Sin, judgement, redemption in a the specific way of the Apostles doctrine which was taught by Jesus to them.

so goes some churches who don’t preach against Sin, judgement, redemption in a the specific way of the Apostles doctrine

How do we withstand the tide of worldliness and paganism?

The answer is… As long as we see the horses and chariots of fire on our side.

Just like the 7000 that didn’t bow to Baal

Just as “God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, recieved up into glory”

The church that proclaims that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever and he was supernaturally conceived, died, and rose again, saved me and loved me before I knew him.

Tell it…He did miracles in my Life the day he appeared in my stormy Life, peter kept his eyes on Jesus!

Isaiah spoke of the Church ....“No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper”

with that said, lets observe our....

Personal life and spiritual powers

The Devil

Satan uses a defense mechanism called “projection” which attributes the desires, impulses or ideas onto another that he see’s in oneself.

“FEAR”

Which results in how we react like the young servant did and said...

The young servant saw and said “What shall we do?” but Elisha had prayed for him to see through the Eye of Knowledge which is a gift from God. (Elisha asked God to give him what he had)

“What shall we do?”

But Now, Elisha had prayed for him to see through the Eye of Knowledge which is a gift from God. (Elisha asked God to give him what he had)

We May Distinguish Four Kinds of Knowledge:

The gift of the “word of knowledge” is not a human “ability” at all, but the sheer gift of God.

The gift of the “word of knowledge” is not a human “ability” at all, but the sheer gift of God.

It is not “developed” but is manifested as a result of staying close to the Lord.

It’s when we think independently that we become spiritually blind, puts us in a dark prison house.

It’s when we

We shall through Faith in Christ of whom it was said, “Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world!” “And of God be for you, who can be against you!”

To bring out the prisoners from the prison,

And them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

We shall through Faith in Christ of whom it was said, “Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world!” “And of God be for you, who can be against you!”

We shall through Faith in Christ of whom it was said, “Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world!” “And of God be for you, who can be against you!”

To bring out the prisoners from the prison,

When Paul and Silas were set free because they trusted him.

God will sustain us if we follow the bible in...

The disciple had trust issues because of fear,

And them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

We shall through Faith in Christ of whom it was said, “Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world!” “And of God be for you, who can be against you!”

But, the disciples had trust issues because of fear.

He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

The disciple had trust issues because of fear,

The frightened disciples were on a boat and the storms were raging, Jesus asked

The frightened disciples were on a boat and the storms were raging, Jesus asked

First: Natural human knowledge, which certainly is on the increase.

The Book of Daniel says of the end times: “… Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Daniel 12:4 KJV).

Just recently a college professor friend stated, for example, that the increase of knowledge in the area of higher mathematics is so great that in some instances, researchers in two different math fields cannot even communicate with one another.

Computers have become a necessity in an attempt to relate and process the tremendous stockpile of facts, since it has gone beyond the human mind to do so in any reasonable length of time.