Sermon Tone Analysis

Gods Voice leads us to Life

Along A Difficult Path

Along the path to life there are difficulties

(NKJV) 13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.

14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Two Ways of Life

13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.

14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Paul's Difficult Thorn

(NIV) 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations.

Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.

For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Thorn In The Flesh

A Messenger of Satan-

Satan Is Sends Messages----

-He Wants You To Hear A Lie from the Father Of Lies

-To Steal

You To Hear.

-To Destroy

“I Want To Send Him A Message”

A Lie from the Father Of Lies

Torment- Buffet/ Get Me Down/ Torment/ Harass

Torment

Take It Away- I've had enough

The Answer “My grace is sufficient for you,

Grace- Divine Influence on the Heart

7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations.

Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.

For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Acceptance, Benefit, Favor, Gift,

(NKJV) 33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

And great grace was upon them all.

Great- Megas- Mega

Mega Power Mega Grace

Grace- Divine Influence on the Heart

Favor

Accepted, Benefit, Favor, Gift, Grace

Revelation Of Grace

Revelation Of Grace

Paul needed to be reminded or have a deeper revelation of Grace and God s power towards him.

(NKJV) 18 I pray the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power

18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power

17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

That power is the same as the mighty strength

Jesus, Grace & Truth

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

(NIV) 14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Jesus Came to the Earth Full Of Grace & Truth

Grace Is Received By Faith

(NKJV) 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

And great grace was upon them all.

(NKJV) 33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

And great grace was upon them all.

Great- Megas- Mega

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

By Faith-

(NKJV) 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

We Walk the Difficult Channel By Faith

7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Mega Power Mega Grace

(NIV) 7 For we live by faith, not by sight.

Faith Is The Channel

Through- dia- Channel, Always Through

Salvation is recieved through Faith

We receive everything God has for us through Faith

Not By Works- Ergo-toil, labour, deeds, doing

Illustration- Lake Mulwala Channels

the water of life flows through the channel.

Without the Channel?????

Block the Channel

Lake Of Grace --Abundant Grace

Grace & Power Connection

(NKJV) 33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

And great grace was upon them all.

(NKJV) ........and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;

Great- Megas- Mega

Mega Power Mega Grace

Paul Experienced Abundant Grace

(NIV) 14 The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

Accepted, Benefit, Favor, Gift, Grace

14 The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

(NKJV) ........and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;

Call It Into Existence

(NKJV) ........and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;

Grace- Divine Influence on the Heart

Standing In Power By Faith

Accepted, Benefit, Favor, Gift, Grace

Saved- Sozo-to save, i.e. deliver or protect, heal, do well, be make whole.

acceptable, benefit, favour, gift, grace

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.