Sermon Tone Analysis

Pre-Introduction:

Pre-Introduction:

At this time, we invite any children who desire to join my dear wife for a children’s service to follow her where you can hear a wonderful bible lesson and sing some uplifting songs about Jesus.

For those joining us online, you’re listening to the Services of the Broomfield Baptist Church.

This is the Pastor bringing the Sunday Morning message entitled "The Power of His Presence.”

We invite you to follow along with us in your Bible in the Book of John, chapter six, and verses sixteen to twenty-one.

For our guests and church family present here today, In about 35mins or so, I’m going to ask you to do something.

I’ll be asking you to make a decision based on the information in today’s sermon.

At the end of the service, I’ll invite you to come and kneel front as a sign of God working in your life.

Introduction:

[Start Low]

MANY a dark night has rested over this sea of Tiberias unrecorded.

Many a storm has swept it; many an earthquake has convulsed it; many a wave has risen and fallen o’er its blue expanse; many a scene and hour of danger its steep hills have witnessed; all unrecorded; passing away in silence.

But here is one night, of which record has been kept; one blast written down in history; one storm made memorable for ever.

At what exact part of that lake the occurrence took place we know not; it must have been somewhere towards the north, where Capernaum lay.

Let us read this brief record, and learn its everlasting lesson.

[Horatius Bonar, Light and Truth: Or, Bible Thoughts and Themes, the Gospels (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1871), 299.]

MANY a dark night has rested over this sea of Tiberias unrecorded.

Many a storm has swept it; many an earthquake has convulsed it; many a wave has risen and fallen o’er its blue expanse; many a scene and hour of danger its steep hills have witnessed; all unrecorded; passing away in silence.

But here is one night, of which record has been kept; one blast written down in history; one storm made memorable for ever.

At what exact part of that lake the occurrence took place we know not; it must have been somewhere towards the north, where Capernaum lay.

Let us read this brief record, and learn its everlasting lesson.

[Horatius Bonar, Light and Truth: Or, Bible Thoughts and Themes, the Gospels (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1871), 299.]

“Jesus is the ‘I am,’ the voice behind the unconsumed burning bush in , the one who walks across the stirring sea, who speaks on behalf of God in the first person.

The presence of Jesus silences our fear and exposes our need to receive him in his fullness.”

[ZECNT]

B. Raise Need-

Illustration-

C. State Purpose-

D. Orient Theme-

Main Thought: The power of the presence of Jesus: Brings light to your darkness (v.

17), Sight to your blindness (v.

19), Calm to your frightening (v.

20), Deliverance from your storms (vv.

18, 21)

Sub-introduction:

How does John show the full deity of Christ?

• By His titles.

Jesus is called the Word (1:1), the Lamb of God (1:29), the Messiah 1:41), the Savior of the world (4:42), and Lord and God (20:28).

• By His claim to be the “I am,” or [Jehovah] of the Old Testament (8:58; 13:19), thus equating Himself with God.

• By His own statement in 10:30, where the word one in the neuter gender indicates that Jesus and God are one in nature.

The reaction of the people clearly shows that they understood this to be a claim to be fully God.

• By the seven miracles John chose to use as signs or proofs that Jesus is God.

They are: turning water to wine (2:1–11); curing the nobleman’s son (4:46–54); curing the paralytic (5:1–18); feeding the five thousand men (6:6–13); walking on water (6:16–21); giving sight to the blind man (9:1–7); raising Lazarus from death (11:1–45).

[Charles Caldwell Ryrie, Ryrie’s Concise Guide to the Bible (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life Publishers, 1983), 124–125.]

Charles Caldwell Ryrie, Ryrie’s Concise Guide to the Bible (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life Publishers, 1983), 124–125.

Body:

I. Departing Disciples ()

[Go Slow]

A. An Evening on the Sea ()

“They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep.

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.

They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: Their soul is melted because of trouble.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits’ end.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, And he bringeth them out of their distresses.

He maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still.

Then are they glad because they be quiet; So he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!” (, KJV 1900)

SAVE

CLASSIFICATION OF TEACHINGS

1.

Our Lord

Son of man, 23; Son of God, 26, 31, 33; His humility, love of solitude, dependence upon the Father, 22, 23; teaches His disciples their weakness and dependence by trial, 22, 29; sends His disciples out into the storm, to pull against the wind, 22, 24; sees them while in the storm, 25; upholds them by His prayers while storm-tossed and toiling, 23–26; comes to them in the storm, 25; speaks comfort and cheer, 27; enters the boat with them, brings calm, 32; brings them safely and speedily to land, 34; answers prayer, promptly, stretches both His hands to, takes hold of, saves the sinking man, 30, 31.

2. The Disciples

Sent from the place of refreshment to place of conflict, obeyed and went, 22; sore distressed, pulled bravely against the wind, 24; did not recognize our Lord as He drew near, feared, 26; reassured by Him, 27; received Him into the boat, 32; found calm and a harbor, 34; worshipped Him, 33.

3. Peter

His desire to get to our Lord, to display himself, 28, 29; believed, walked on the waves, 29; got his eyes off from Jesus upon the wind, his faith faltered, was afraid, began to sink, cried unto the Lord, upheld, his unbelief rebuked, 30, 31.

4. Prayer

(1).

When to pray:

In the stillness of the night, after exhaustive labors, in times of emergency, 23; when sinking, 30.

(2).

Where to pray:

In the mountain alone with God, 23; in the tumult, 30.

(3).

How to pray:

Sometimes protractedly, 23–25; sometimes briefly, definitely, personally, to the point, in faith, 30, 31.

(4).

The need of prayer:

The Son of God prayed, 23.

(5).

Results of prayer:

Walking on the waves, 25; deliverance from destruction, 30, 31; brings rest better than sleep, 23.

[R. A. Torrey, Studies in the Life and Teachings of Our Lord (Los Angeles: Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 1907), 111.]

B. In the Darkness without Jesus ()

“By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; Who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea: Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; Being girded with power: Which stilleth the noise of the seas, The noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.”

(, KJV 1900)

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We learn to know the value of Christ’s company, when we have it, by the discomfort we experience when we have it not.

[J.

C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on John, vol. 1 (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1879), 339.]

[J.

C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on John, vol. 1 (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1879), 339.]

SAVE

Application:

Let us look at these words in their more general aspect, as relating to the history of each saint and of the church at large.

(1.) Night.

(2.) Night without Jesus.

(3.) Night with Jesus.

(4.) Day with Jesus.

1. Night.

All have their nights.

The sinner’s history is all one long starless night.

But the saint has his night too; his night of sorrow, of bereavement, of pain.

The Church, too, has her night.

She is “not of the night”; but she has “nights.”