Sermon Tone Analysis

Outline

Introduction: Develop the need have a life of true significance.

Tension: There is a massive gulf between chasing the pleasures of life and finding the purpose of your life.

Proposition: God reveals to his servants life’s ultimate purpose.

Question: What would be different about your life if you knew beyond any shadow of a doubt God ultimate purpose of your life?

How would you discover God’s ultimate purpose?

Part 1: You need the Divine Mentor to give you a hedgehog concept ()

Go To a Place of Encounter ()

Seek a Revelation of Yeshua () - second chair Michael

Anchor Your Confidence in God’s timing ()

Let Him Give You Your Hedgehog Concept ()

Scripture Introduction

How many of you set some new Year resolutions?

How many of you have already broken them?

Generally this season of the year is

How many of you set some new Year resolutions?

How many of you have already broken them?

Generally this season of the year is

Self-Improvement

Generally speaking, during January Gym’s see a spike in new member enrollment.

Vitamin stores will see an up-tick in new vitamin purchases.

Congregations will see a new surge of people who are going to “get more spiritual this year.”

During January, at least here in America, this time of the year most people are thinking about:

What should I do about me?

How do I make me a better version of me?"

And that's not a bad thing, "How do I get slimmer?

How do I get stronger?

How do I get smarter?

How can I get out of debt?"

All those things are good.

But for us, for the next few weeks as we look at Paul’s life, I want to try to focus your attention, and to focus our attention on a bigger, better, broader question.

It’s one that Paul had to come to grips with.

It's a little bit threatening, in fact, some of you are gonna be really disturbed by the question, and that's good, that's why we're gonna talk about it for three weeks and not just one week.

Some of you who are married, you're really not gonna like this question, because your husband or your wife already thinks about this stuff all the time, and you're constantly trying to reel them in, like, "Okay, look, you have to keep your job.

You gotta go to work, you gotta go to school."

And so, this is gonna disturb you a little bit, that's okay.

And in fact, we would love for those of you online to begin discussing this question, just for a few weeks, then we can get back to our normal lives.

In we were introduced to Rabbi Saul, a man whose sole purpose in life was to destroy faith in the Messiah wherever he may have found it.

Wherever Jewish disciples of Yeshua were meeting to encounter God, he was going to destroy them, destroy what was anchoring their hope.

Now imagine you are one of the Jewish believers that was uprooted from you home because of Saul’s persecution.

Imagine you are the husband of a wife who is imprisoned because of Saul.

Imagine you are the wife of a husband who received lashes as punishment from the Sanhedrin.

Every night for weeks you had to re-dress the bandages and care for the scars Saul’s zeal for the Law created.

Imagine it was one of your parents.

Then imagine that there are rumors that Saul has now joined your cause.

Someone comes up to you and slips you a note that says, “Peter has embraced Saul.

Saul has been welcomed to our table.”

You recoil in horror.

Not only are you shocked that Peter of all people would welcome Saul you wonder, “How could I learn anything about Yeshua from a man like this.

What could Saul really teach me about the faith the Messiah established, the faith that Peter preached, that James the Lord’s brother upheld?”

Surely this is no man to tell other about our Lord.

But, what if it were true, you think, what if Yeshua revealed himself to this man.

What if he did anchor his hope in Yeshua, how could things be different.

What a an amazing sign of God’s power to tackle the heart of the wolf of Benjamin, Saul.

Still, hearing this news may and thinking this way may not be to far from the mark. is actually such a window into the life of Paul.

In says that Paul went to Jerusalem

Messiah did an amazing work but Saul began to ask old questions and found new answers.

Not everyone was convinced about Saul but Saul was convinced about himself.

When we meet Saul in this part of the story in and we call it the decade of silence.

As quickly as Saul appears, he just vanished for almost a decade.

He was not idle, he was meeting with Yeshua and re-discovering the answers to some of life’s most important questions about true meaning and God’s ultimate purpose for Rabbi Paul.

And in

Ha-Foke-Bah

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Our Reading from the Scripture is found in 7

But after this brief moment in Jerusalem what follows is

Alright, so are you ready for the question?

Even if you are not ready say you are ready.

Here is the question:

What Breaks Your Heart?

Then there was the smear campaign

Self-Improvement

What breaks your heart?

When you look around in your community, when you look around in your neighborhood, when you look around in your city, when you look around our country, when you look at the economy, when you look at the school system, when you look at what's happening with families, when you look at what's happening with children, maybe when you look at what's happening with just the whole state of our nation...

I don't know what it is that captures your attention, but when you look around your community, when you look around your neighborhood, when you look around this world, what captures your emotion?

What breaks your heart?

Generally speaking, during January Gym’s see a spike in new member enrollment.

Vitamin stores will see an up-tick in new vitamin purchases.

Congregations will see a new surge of people who are going to “get more spiritual this year.”

During January, at least here in America, this time of the year most people are thinking about:

What breaks your heart?

When you look around in your community, when you look around in your neighborhood, when you look around in your city, when you look around our country, when you look at the economy, when you look at the school system, when you look at what's happening with families, when you look at what's happening with children, maybe when you look at what's happening with just the whole state of our nation...

I don't know what it is that captures your attention, but when you look around your community, when you look around your neighborhood, when you look around this world, what captures your emotion?

What breaks your heart?

In other words, when you're just thinking about whatever it is you wanna think about, what is that one thing that you just, maybe you just can't get it off your mind.

Your heart, your mind, your thoughts, it just goes there.

And when it goes there it's so disturbing, in fact, it's so disturbing you try not to think about it because you tell yourself, like we all do, well I can't do anything about that.

It's always been that way, it's always going to be that way.

Nothing's gonna change.

I don't know anybody.

I'm a nobody.

I don't have any resources.

I am too young, I am too old, I am too middle class, I am too busy, I am too disconnected; and I hope God, God would you please send someone over there to do something about that because that's a really big problem and I can't even think about it for very long because I get emotional about it.

your heart?

When you look around in your community, when you look around in your neighborhood, when you look

What breaks your heart?

It's a dangerous, dangerous question.

And instead of going asking the question that most people will ask,

What should I do about me?

that you just, maybe you just can't get it off your mind.