Sermon Tone Analysis

*** First a willing mind *                                                                                5~/25~/08 am

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Have you ever found yourself saying or thinking along these lines?

I wish I had the nerve to teach a class

            I wish I had the nerve to sing a song

            I wish I had the nerve to witness to this person or that person

            I wish I had the nerve to step up here or there, in this or that

            I wish I had the nerve to work here or there in the church

            I wish I could forgive them

*            *I wish I could forget

            I wish I could get over it

            I wish I could better understand

            I wish I could stand up for my faith

            I wish I could be happy

            I wish I could have peace about this or that

            I wish I could be stronger in the Lord

            I wish I could be wiser

            I wish I could do more for the Lord

            I wish I could do better

 

I see the need, I’m just too scared

I have the burden; I just don’t think I can do it

The opportunity is there, I just don’t think I’m good enough

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*What if I make a mistake?

Who doesn’t?*

*Let Someone else do it.

God didn’t call them, He called you.*

*I can’t do it.

He would not ask you to do what you are unable to do.

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*I don’t know what to do.

He will lead, guide, and direct your paths.*

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*I’m not *

*as good, *

*as talented, *

*as gifted, *

*as bold, *

*as wealthy, *

*as educated, *

*as experienced as others*

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*2 Co 8:12*   *For if there is first a willing mind, /it is/ accepted according to what one has, /and/ not according to what he does not have.

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*For if there is first a willing mind*

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*For if there is first a *         Readiness, willingness, eagerness, inclination of

                                                                                 feelings, perceptions, thinking, will, and reasoning

*/it is/ accepted*

*4288 **προθυμία* [/prothumia/ ~/proth·oo·*mee*·ah~/] n f.

From 4289; TDNT 6:697; TDNTA 937; GK 4608; Five occurrences; AV translates as “forwardness of mind” once, “readiness” once, “readiness of mind” once, “ready mind” once, and “willing mind” once.

*1* zeal, spirit, eagerness.

*2* inclination, readiness of mind.

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feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and esp.

reasons

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*1**mind* \ˈmīnd\ n

[ME, fr.

OE /gemynd;/ akin to OHG /gimunt/ memory, L /ment-, mens/ mind, /monēre/ to remind, warn, Gk /menos/ spirit, /mnasthai, mimnēskesthai/ to remember] bef.

12c

*1*           *: *recollection, memory 〈keep that in /mind/〉 〈time out of /mind/〉

*2*     *a*      *: *the element or complex of elements in an individual that feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and esp.

reasons

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 *Ex 35:4-9*   4 And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying,  “This /is/ the thing which the Lord commanded, saying: 5 ‘Take from among you an offering to the Lord.

 *Whoever /is/ of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering to the Lord**:*  gold, silver, and bronze; 6  blue, purple, and scarlet /thread,/ fine linen, and  goats’ /hair;/ 7 ram skins dyed red, badger skins, and acacia wood; 8 oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense; 9 onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate.

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*Whoever /is/ of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering to the Lord*

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*Not everyone had;  *gold, silver, and bronze; 6  blue, purple, and scarlet /thread,/ fine linen, and  goats’ /hair;/ 7 ram skins dyed red, badger skins, and acacia wood; 8 oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense; 9 onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate.

*But they brought what they had and presented it to the Lord willingly*



  *Eph 4:11-16*   11 And *He Himself gave some /to be/* apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry,  *for the 5edifying of  the body of Christ*, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith  and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to  a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of  deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the  head—Christ— 16  from whom *the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, *according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

*Noah *  Didn’t have; *     The ability to get 2 of every creature on the ark*/ but they were on it/

 

*Ge 6:20 * 20 Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, *two of every /kind/  will come to you *to keep /them/ alive.

*Ge 7:7-9 * 8 Of clean animals, of animals that /are/ unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, 9 *two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female,* as God had commanded Noah.

*Abraham & Sara   *Didn’t have;  *The ability to have children */but they had Isaac/

 

 *Ge 18:11-12*   11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; /and/ Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.



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*Ge 18:13-14*  13 And the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I surely bear /a child,/ since I am old?’ 14  Is anything too hard for the Lord?

 At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”

                                   

*Jacob    *Didn’t have; *His fathers’ preference */but he was chosen by God  /

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*Ge 25:27-28*    And Esau was  a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was  a mild man, dwelling in tents.

28 And Isaac loved Esau



*Moses *              Didn’t have;*    The pharaohs’ approval to live past birth */but he lived 120 years/* *

 

 *Ex 1:15-16*  15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the  Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one /was/ Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah; 16 and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see /them/ on the birthstools, if it /is/ a  son, then you shall kill him; but if it /is/ a daughter, then she shall live.”

*Moses *              Didn’t have;  *The lineage to live in the kings’ palace*/ but he did/

 

 *Ex 2:10*  10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son.

So she called his name Moses, saying, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

*Moses *              Didn’t have;  *The ability to speak well */but he spoke before Pharaoh /



*Ex 4:10*  10 Then Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I /am/ not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but  I /am/ slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

*Ex 4:15*  And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and  I will teach you what you shall do.

*Moses *              Didn’t have;  *The ability to convince the children of Israel of Gods’ calling */but God worked through him to convince the people/

*Ex 4:1*  Then Moses answered and said, “But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’ ”

 

*Ex 4:5 *  “that they may believe that the  Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

 

*Moses *              Didn’t have; *The ability to convince pharaoh to let the Israelites go free*/ but God used him to show His power/

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*Ex 3:20 * So I will  stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with  all My wonders which I will do in its midst; and  after that he will let you go.



*Ex 12:31-32  *31 Then he  called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise, go out from among my people,  both you and the children of Israel.

And go, serve the Lord as you have  said.

32  Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone;

 

*Moses *              Didn’t have;   *An army capable of defeating the armies of Egypt */but God fought for them and delivered them/



*Ex 14:4*  4 Then  I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, so that he will pursue them; and I  will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army,  that the Egyptians may know that I /am/ the Lord.”

And they did so.

*Ex 14:27-28*  the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it.

So the Lord  overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

28 Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, /and/ all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them.

Not so much as one of them remained.

*Moses *              Didn’t have;   *The power to part the red sea*/ but God used him to demonstrate His awesome power and ability/



*Ex 14:21-22*   21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go /back/ by a strong east wind all that night, and  made the sea into dry /land,/ and the waters were divided.

22 So  the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry /ground,/ and the waters /were/  a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

*Moses *              Didn’t have;  *The ability to feed over a million people for 40 years*/ but God feed the people Moses was obedient to lead/

 

*Ex 16:4*  Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you.

*Moses *              Didn’t have;   *The ability to provide water for those people and their livestock */but God used him to bring water from the rock/