Sermon Tone Analysis

God Loves His Glory

Secular:

* When we are asked….

* How are you doing?

* Okay.

* Kind of tired…

* A little sick….

* Surviving

* An expectation of well-being…

* We have a mindset that has been focused on what we get, what makes us happy, what about me!

* Truly if we understand our faith….

Our relationship we would answer… “Better than I deserve…”

* We believe we are sinners….

* We believe that if we received what we are due….

* It would not be pleasant!

* “Better than I deserve…” Counting our blessings…

* It is easier for us to be God-centred in our faith if we believe that God is man-centred in his….

* Easier to appreciate… when the expectation for comfort and happiness are our requirements of God…

* The truth is… we can all answer the question How are you doing?

With the phrase Better than I deserve…

* And not expect God to serve us and our desires but t see God model true worship… recognize true value… for if the Chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever… it is to be modeled after God himself whose chief end is to glorify himself and enjoy himself forever…

Biblical:

Isaiah 48:9, 11

*9 * “For my name’s sake I defer my anger,

                       for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you,

                       that I may not cut you off.

*11 *For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,

                        for how should my name/‍/ be profaned?

My glory I will not give to another.

Personal:

* It is hard to take off our 21st century goggles…

* And see clearly

* In an age of egotism and narcissism

* All about me….

Huge personalities

* Donald Trump…

* Conrad Black…

* Sport celebs

* Movie starts

* Singers

* It makes us fuzzy on the whole idea of God being all about God first….

* Sounds very cultural….

And not that appealing!

* We see the stars crash in the news… the sports celebs fade… the moguls in court, charged with lying or stealing, or just so pompous we want to barf….

Bridge:

* But we have to take off the 21st century lenses and see God and his Word in the right light….

Body:

Who is it about…

1 Corinthians 10:31* *So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

* Context glorifying God is denying self

* Not about self…

* Tim Horton’s line up to make a withdrawal…

* Correct focus

* We need to get past the service agency view of the church, of our faith, of God

*  The church isn’t primarily about us… scratching a social and spiritual itch… we are a response to the glory of God.

* Whether you eat, drink, serve, worship, parent, work,… if you live… live first for God

*  It is too easy to twist it around…

*/Who is it about?/*

God’s Perspective

Is 2:22  Stop regarding man

  in whose nostrils is breath,

  for of what account is he?

*  Between God and Man…

* Man is of no account… his breath….

His words

* (remembering it was God who gave him breath to begin with…)

Ps 146:3  Put not your trust in princes,

  in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

*  Not in the powerful or wealthy or political

* They have no bearing on your eternal well being….

* Trust belongs in the Lord

Je 17:5   Thus says the Lord:

 “ Cursed is the man who trusts in man

    and makes flesh his strength,

    whose heart turns away from the Lord.

*  Either or….

Flesh or Spirit

* Eternal or temporal

* Valuable or useless

Is 40:15  Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,

  and are accounted as the dust on the scales;

  behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.

…

17  All the nations are as nothing before him,

  they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

* Gov’t does not save us

* Gov’t isn’t worthy of our praise

* Nations are not worthy of our laud

* Leaders are not eternal

* God is uniquely eternal

* God is uniquely powerful

* God is uniquely worthy

* Romans 11:36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.

To Him be the glory forever.

Amen.

*/God’s Perspective is the right perspective!/* 

*/His Name’s Sake/*

Eze 36:22-23 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.

23 And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them.

And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

*  It is Apparent that it is all for his name!