Sermon Tone Analysis

Sermon Psalm 1

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!!! Eric Truesdale

!!! Dr. D.L. Lowie

!!! Homiletics 102

!! 11-23-2007

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!! Truly Blessed Lives

!! Introduction:

I.       Blessed Man

A.    Sits, Stands, and Walks

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Not with the ungodly, sinner, scornful

2.      But with God

B.     Delight and Meditate always

1.      Loves the Law

2.      Always in the law

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Blessings to Man

A.    Like a tree

1.      Planted at the river

2.      Becomes Fruitful

B.     Will not wither

1.      Eternal life

2.      Prosper in all that he does

 

!! Conclusion: There are several facts that we must look at to understand what makes a man blessed or not.

When we understand these things then we become blessed not by the world’s standard but Gods standard for our lives.

The blessings will consist of eternal live in Jesus Christ, being prosperous, and fruitful.

What blessing has been bestowed upon you today?

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! Truly Blessed Lives

What makes a man blessed or not?

Has anyone wondered about this question?

We must look deep into this to fully understand it.

First we must look at what it means to be blessed.

In society we have come to the notion to be blessed is to mean we have great wealth, or fame.

We believe that truly being blessed is when we receive abundant supply of materialistic things.

But what does the bible say is a blessed man.

Do you believe it is the one who has the biggest house, nicest car, or the largest bank account?

I don’t think so.

God does not judge us on our earthly possessions.

It is measured on a standard that most cannot comprehend and most do not care to comprehend.

It’s sad that this is the American way but it is.

America is caught up in what makes us great with the things we have.

Look at the commercials on TV.

We always have to have the greatest and best of everything.

The best phone, the best clothes, and the best personnel belongings.

This is the reason we have forgot what it truly means to be blessed.

In the past to be blessed could be as simple as to have good health, or even a place to live no matter the size.

We would be blessed just to have a family and friends.

But instead of pointing to what I have to say and others lets look at the bible and what it says.

If you read Psalm 1 we see that right at the begging we see that he tells what a blessed man is.

The first psalm first verse and first word starts out blessed is the man.

So we see how important this must be.

But who is blessing this man.

Is other man, is it he, or who?

Some would say it is just a game of chance.

But there is no reason behind it except it just happens.

But the truth is that God I behind it and is the author of all blessedness.

He is the one that choices and lets the things happen that will.

If you take him out of the equation it is the same as taken parents out of the gifts of Christmas.

Since we know where the blessings come now let’s look at how we begin to receive them in our lives today.

Verse 1 says that blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly.

What is the psalmist stating here?

It is stating that a man of God should not be participating in the things that they do.

Should a man of God be in the bar with ungodly people that are his friends and drink, should he participate in the same things that they do in there life or should there be a change in his heart.

Will he not want to live a life for Christ and not for man?

Is this not one of the main ways to know that a man is changed that he no longer lives the way he did before but lives now to glorify God.

Then it states that he will not stand in the way of the sinner.

It is a reference to the above to he will no longer stand in the wide path that Jesus talks about in Matthew 7:13 but will enter through the narrow gate.

Which do you stand before today?

Are you on the wide path to destruction or the narrow gate that leads to life?

Finally it states that he sits not in the seat of the scornful.

That is to reject or dismiss the Christian faith, church, Jesus and God.

We should not sit with these as they do this.

We should instead take a stand for Jesus in the world today.

I have just one thing to say about this before we move on in this text today.

As a Christian and parents, grandparents, children or friends of other parents, we must take a stand against this.

We are letting atheism, and other so called gods (notice that gods are lower case because they are not the true God) be brought into the schools and our kids to learn about these things as they are taking out Christianity.

If we want to make a difference for our young ones and ourselves we need to request that the school board take a different look at what they are doing we cannot sit in the seat with scornful as the psalmist says just watching and wishing something could be done.

We have to stand up and walk together down the path and stand strong in our faith to make a change it is our duty and responsibility to the young people to do this.

If not generations that come in the future will have no clue what the bile is and who God is but just believe he is a imaginary character in a fairy tale book.

Because in school when there taught history there is no talk anywhere about Jesus, or God.

Now with that said we must take a look at what the bible says about the good things that make a blessed man.

We look at verse 2 and see the word delight.

This word carries the meaning of desire or longing to do something.

My question is what do you desire to do in your life when you wake up, what do you desire to do before you go to bed, what is the desire you have when you go through the day?

Is your desire to follow the people in verse 1 or is it to follow God?

It states that we must desire to follow the law and law here is the teachings in the bible.

This also will include the teachings of Jesus and all the New Testament books and their teaching.

So do we desire to learn, and read the law the book?

Or is it just a task that we partake in because we should or have to.

Do we just not worry about it at all on our own because we have the preacher to read it 1 or 2 times a week and that is good enough?

But we should also meditate on it day and night.

Meditate is to utter or go over in our head all the time.

We should constantly be thinking of what scripture says and where it guides us in our lives.

That is the reason it is called the living word of God.

Not the dead word or word.

It is not just called a book or collection of writings.

It is the living word of God infallible and without error.

It speaks today just as it did in the beginning when it was written and will forever.

But we have to read it, meditate on it to understand it.

Think of this when you read this verse.

God is before you and he has this book open, you are sitting before him, he places his hand on your shoulder, and says son or daughter have you heard about being blessed and then he begins to read from verse 1 to 6 and you see his face light up with the glow of love as he looks at you to see the impact it has on you and your life.