Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Jab1

What does it mean to be safe?

-In our world today there are colleges that have places they designate as safe spaces

What does it mean to be safe?

-In our world today there are colleges that have places they designate as safe spaces

-Numerous schools – Armstrong State University in Georgia, Concordia College—Moorhead in Minnesota, Kent State University in Ohio, the University of South Carolina and James Madison University in Virginia, among them – have Safe Zone and Safe Space programs in place that train students, faculty members and administrators to be special allies to minority groups.

-creation of places where students can retreat from the stresses of being in the minority and spend time among like-minded peers

-Safety can be an elusive idea

-do people’s words make us unsafe?

-being in a place where I am the minority in race or ideal.....am I unsafe?

Jab 2

Jab 2

-One thing I think it is important for us to understand in our current situation is that the definition of being safe and feeling safe have a pretty large gap.

-You can become acclimatized to your environment no matter where you live

Here in the US by and large the safety that we talk about is many times personal safety.

-Make sure you walks in groups at night, make sure there are people who know where you are going and who you’re going with so they can check in with you.

-There are areas of our country that deal with gang violence, drugs, homelessness.

-However there are a different set of experiences living in a sections of the world who live in worn torn countries, and villages.

-In these places of the world you take your own life into your hands going outside of your house for any reason and many times even being in your house doesn’t guarantee any kind of safety.

-People learn to live their lives in these regions and soon it becomes a normal part of their life to know any day could be their last.

Scripture says

explanation

Hook

Explanation

6 In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together;

the leopard will lie down with the baby goat.

The calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion,

and a little child will lead them all.

7 The cow will graze near the bear.

The cub and the calf will lie down together.

The lion will eat hay like a cow.

8 The baby will play safely near the hole of a cobra.

Yes, a little child will put its hand in a nest of deadly snakes without harm.

9 Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain,

for as the waters fill the sea,

so the earth will be filled with people who know the Lord.

3 themes happening.

1st theme of equity

and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,

eq·ui·ty

/ˈekwədē/

and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;

noun

noun: equity; singular proper noun: Equity; noun: Equity

1. the quality of being fair and impartial.

and a little child shall lead them.

Interestingly enough a synonym for equity is righteousness

-It says a wolf and a lamb WILL LIVE together.

-In this place hear think about the food chain

-What makes an animal higher or lower on the food chain?

-What determines the place in life this animal has?

-The ability to assert power on another and who else can assert their power over you.

Who or what hunts you?

-Children in the context of this writing were one of the most powerless people in the political and social structures........and In this context of how this new community will function they are leading the powerful.

2nd theme addresses issues of physical position

7 The cow and the bear shall graze;

have you ever seen how groups of animals eat in the wild?

slide of groups eating with one animal watching for danger

their young shall lie down together;

There is always one animal that waits till the last or eats first and then allows the group to eat so they can watch for danger.....other predators.

Isaiah gives us a picture here where not only is there no animal keeping watch....because the predator is eating hay or grass alongside of the animal that would typically be their prey.

3rd theme addresses issue of power

and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Verse 9 gives us the climax as to the reason all of this can be held in place

- Knowledge in the Old Testament connotes an intimate acquaintance with something.

This is not so much knowledge “about,” in the sense of an objective, mental apprehension.

Rather, a personal relationship is implied between an individual and the object, whether a spiritual relationship as between worshipper and deity

and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.

Knowledge in the Old Testament connotes an intimate acquaintance with something.

This is not so much knowledge “about,” in the sense of an objective, mental apprehension.

Rather, a personal relationship is implied between an individual and the object, whether a spiritual relationship as between worshipper and deity

9 They shall not hurt or destroy

Myers, A. C. (1987).

In The Eerdmans Bible dictionary (p.

631).

Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

in all my holy mountain;

for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord

as the waters cover the sea

For the Hebrews, knowledge was acquired through experience

In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together; the leopard will lie down with the baby goat.

The calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion, and a little child will lead them all.

In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together; the leopard will lie down with the baby goat.

The calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion, and a little child will lead them all.

-Children in the context of this writing were one of the most powerless people in the political and social structures........and In this context of how this new community will function they are leading the powerful.

Application

Application

In the Lion Lamb Community there is no power structure because all fall under the head of Jesus Christ.

This week I asked us what makes us feel safe and you all answered

Ways that God has made us feel safe

- because it was self- sacrifice that broke the power of sin and death.

because it was self- sacrifice that broke the power

-physical

Ephesians 6:10-

Protection

-Spiritual

-The Lord provides us what we need to stay in a relationship with him and resist temptation should we desire to remain in that relationship with him.

Proverbs 3:25-26

Ezekiel 34:25-31

2Thessalonians