Sermon Tone Analysis

! Isa 55:1-13

1 "Say there!

Is anyone thirsty?

Come and drink-- even if you have no money!

Come, take your choice of wine and milk-- it's all free! 2 Why spend your money on food that doesn't give you strength(That doesn´t satisfy the soul)?

Why pay for groceries that do you no good?

Listen and I'll tell you where to get good food that fattens up the soul! 3 "Come to me with your ears wide open.

Listen, *for the life of your soul is at stake*.

I am ready to make an everlasting covenant with you, to give you all the *unfailing mercies and love* that I had for King David. 4 He proved my power by conquering foreign nations.(What

are we doing to prove his power?) 5 You also will command the nations, and they will come running to obey, *not because of your own power or virtue, but because I, the Lord your God, have glorified you.*" 6 Seek the Lord while you can find him.

Call upon him now while he is near.

7 Let men cast off their wicked deeds*; let them banish from their minds the very thought of doing wrong!

Let them turn to the Lord (So that he can torture them) that he may have mercy upon them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon!* 8 *"This plan of mine is not what you would work out, neither are my thoughts the same as yours! 9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours, and my thoughts than yours.* 10 "As the rain and snow come down from heaven and stay upon the ground to water the earth, and cause the grain to grow and to produce seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry, 11 so also is my Word.

I send it out, and it always produces fruit.

It shall accomplish all I want it to and prosper everywhere I send it.

12 You will live in joy and peace.

The mountains and hills, the trees of the field-- all the world around you-- will rejoice.

13 Where once were thorns, fir trees will grow; where briars grew, the myrtle trees will sprout up.

This miracle will make the Lord's name very great and be an everlasting sign [of God's power and love].

(TLB)

 

·         Satisfied?

Is your soul satisfied?

·         The urgency is that your life is at stake here.

·         We first of all have to settle it in our minds that God does not think like we do, and you do not think like he does!

·         How do we get his thoughts in us?  "As the rain and snow come down from heaven and stay upon the ground to water the earth, and cause the grain to grow and to produce seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry, 11 so also is my Word.

I send it out, and it always produces fruit.

It shall accomplish all I want it to and prosper everywhere I send it

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! Matt 16:13-26

13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples*, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?"* 14 They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets."

15 "But what about you?" he asked.

"Who do you say I am?" 16 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." 17 Jesus replied, "*Blessed are you*, Simon son of Jonah, *for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven.*

18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and *on this rock I will build my church*, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.

19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

20 Then he warned his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.

21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

22 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

"Never, Lord!" he said.

"This shall never happen to you!" 23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan!

You are a stumbling-block to me; *you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men."*

24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself (His own way of thinking) and take up his cross and follow me.

25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.

26 What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?

Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

II Ki 5:1-14

/1 Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram.

He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the LORD had given victory to Aram.

He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy. 2 Now bands from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman's wife. 3 She said to her mistress, "If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria!

He would cure him of his leprosy." 4 Naaman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said.

5 "By all means, go," the king of Aram replied.

"I will send a letter to the king of Israel."

So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold and ten sets of clothing.

6 The letter that he took to the king of Israel read: "With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you so that you may cure him of his leprosy."

7 As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, "Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life?

Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy?

See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me!" 8 When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message: "Why have you torn your robes?

Make the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel."/ 9 So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha's house.

10 Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, *"Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed."*

11 But Naaman went away angry and said, "*I thought* that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy.

12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than any of the waters of Israel?

Couldn't I wash in them and be cleansed?"

So he turned and went off in a rage.

13 Naaman's servants went to him and said, *"My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it?*

How much more, then, when he tells you, 'Wash and be cleansed'?"

14 So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.(NIV)

 

·         "My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it?

*1 Cor 2:1-16*

1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came *not with excellency of speech or of wisdom*, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

2 For *I determined not to know any thing among you*, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

4 And *my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom*, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

5 *That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men*, *but in the power of God*.

6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even *the hidden wisdom*, *which God ordained before the world unto our glory:*

8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written, *Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him*.

10 But *God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit*: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?

even so *the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God*.

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; *that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.*

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because *they are spiritually discerned*.

15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?

*But we have the mind of Christ.*

*Eph 1:3,9,16-19*

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

18 *The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, *

*19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, (Eph 3:18-19)*

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*Developing the Mind of Christ*

 

 

A.

*Make sure you are grounded in the Word of God \\ *~*Be willing to put your natural mind aside and operate on the basis of his Word.

\\ ~*Make the *sacrifice* to renew your mind \\ ~*Will you *Humble yourself daily* and Surrender control to Him \\ ~*Don´t allow yourself to be decieved, even by yourself \\ \\

B.     *Make sure you have listened to the Holy Spirit for his council and teaching concerning whatever you are dealing with.

\\ *~*Will you spend the time that it takes?

\\ ~*Will you make the effort that it requires?

\\ ~*Will you trust God´s plan?

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C.     *Most important of all, Take the time to pray in the Holy Spirit!*