Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
This automated analysis scores the text on the likely presence of emotional, language, and social tones. There are no right or wrong scores; this is just an indication of tones readers or listeners may pick up from the text.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
Emotion Tone
Anger
0.18UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.1UNLIKELY
Fear
0.11UNLIKELY
Joy
0.67LIKELY
Sadness
0.51LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.54LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.18UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.84LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.87LIKELY
Extraversion
0.2UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.57LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.76LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
*My God Is AWESOME!*
*Introduction*:
#.
I would like for us, as I begin this message today to ponder the Universe…
#.
We need to do that in order for us to understand a little of what our passage will speak about today.
#.
The moon that we see most nights orbits the earth roughly 239,000 miles above us
#.
If we were to travel by plane at about 500 miles~/hour
#.
It would take 19 days non-stop to get there!
#.
The Sun is 93,000,000 miles from earth.
#.
If we boarded a jumbo jet today and travel to the sun, we would not arrive there until 2029.
#.
That is 21 years from now!
#.
That would also be non-stop…
#.
Where were you 21 years ago?
That is a long time; can you imagine traveling that long without a break, in order to reach the sun?
#.
If you prefer driving… well, it can’t be done in a lifetime, I would take roughly 200 years, NOT including gas and rest stops.
#.
The closest Star is about 4.3 light years away
#.
Light travels at the rate of 186,000 miles~/sec
#.
Multiply that out (/186,000 miles~/second X 60 seconds~/minute X 60 minutes~/hour X 24 hours~/day X 365 days~/year = 5,865,696,000,000 miles~/year/) and you get close to *6 Trillion miles in a year*
#.
If you were to board that same jet at 500 miles~/hour and travel to the nearest star it would take about 51 Billion years to get there!!!
#.
Scientists estimate that there are billions of galaxies, each of them loaded with billions of stars.
#.
Galaxies tend to group together.
#.
Ours (Milky Way) is grouped with at least 30 other galaxies.
#.
Other cluster could contain as many as thousands of galaxies.
#.
In 1994 a cocoon-shaped cluster of galaxies was discovered.
i.
The distance across this galaxy alone was calculated at six hundred and fifty millions light years.
ii.
Can you imagine traveling across that galaxy?
iii.
My brain hurts just trying!!?!?!?!?!
#.
Our finite minds cannot even begin to comprehend distances this immense and yet God can measure all this with the *SPAN* of His hand.
Explain span!
i.
Mine roughly 9 inches
ii.
From thumb to little finger stretched out!
#.
God not only measures this with his hand but he know how many stars there are in the universe i.
Not only that he has them all named…
ii.
*Psalm 147:4-5* /Our Scripture Meditation/ “He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.
Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit.”
iii.
There are estimated to be 70 Sextillion stars up there
iv.
Try to contemplate 100 Billion!
1.
If you were to count to 250 a minute – day and night – it would take you about 1000 years to count to 100 billion
2. 100,000,000,000 (100 Billion – 9 zeros after the number)
3. 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (21 zeros after the #)
v.
That is the number of stars in the heavens and God calls them all by name!
That is all we know about SO FAR!
#.
We are not the first to contemplate the greatness of God! #.
David did it and then recorded his thoughts in our text this morning
#.
*Read* *Psalm 8:1-9*
#.
In this passage David answers this question: */What is it that makes our God so majestic or awesome and therefore Praiseworthy/*?
With five answers.
#.
Let’s us take a look at each of the five answers.
*Outline*:
I *His Majestic Name Is Known Throughout The Earth – Vs. 1*
A David starts and ends this psalm with this statement (*vs.
1*) *Read*
B Again in* Psalm 19:1* David says, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.”
C As we sang in the hymn earlier “/How Majestic is Your Name/” we are to praise Him because of His majesty.
D I would like to read to you Charles Spurgeon’s commentary on this thought…
1 Spurgeon writes “The whole creation is full of His glory and radiant with the excellence of his power.
His goodness and wisdom are manifested on every hand.
The countless myriads of earthly beings, from man to the creeping worm, are all supported and nourished by Him.
The fabric of the universe leans on His eternal arm.
Universally He is present; everywhere His name is excellent.
Travel the silent valleys where rocks enclose you on either side, rising like heaven’s battlements until you can see but a strip of blue sky.
You may be the only traveler who has passed through that glen; the birds are frightened, and the moss may tremble beneath the first step of a human foot.
Yet God is there in a thousand wonders, upholding the rocky barriers, filling the flowers with perfume, and refreshing the lonely pines with His breath.
Descend to the lowest depths of the ocean where the water sleeps undisturbed and the sand is motionless in unbroken quiet.
The glory of the Lord is there, revealing its excellence in the silent palace of the sea.
Borrow the wings of the morning and fly to the farthest parts of the sea.
God is there.
Fly to the highest heaven, and God is praised in everlasting song.
His brightness shines in the sky.
His glory exceeds the glory of the starry heavens and above the region of the stars He has set His everlasting throne; there He dwells in ineffable light.
O come let us adore Him.”
E What a tribute to the glory of God
F The introduction was an attempt to get you to try and think about the Majesty of God, He is so much bigger than we can ever imagine, Praise His Name!
G */What is it that makes our God so majestic or awesome and therefore praiseworthy/*?
II *His Methods In Dealing With His Enemies – Vs. 2*
A To accomplish His victories and to triumph over the schemes of the Devil, God at times uses the most foolish, simplest, and weakest of instruments; which in turn demonstrates his Ultimate mighty power.
B Consider Gideon and how “he” triumphed over such a vast army…
1 He along with 300 men took trumpets and clay pots and at the signal
2 Blew the trumpets and smashed the pots, and what happened?
3 “The Lord caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords”
C This is an amazing *verse 2*
1 What is there that is weaker than children and infants?
2 Yet in the hands of God they can be used and have been used to triumph over God’s enemies and defeat Satan.
3 In *Matthew 21:14-17* Jesus uses children to silence His enemies.
a “The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.
But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
“Do you hear what these children are saying?”
they asked him.
“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, “‘from the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise’?”
And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.”
b “*/God doesn’t use the qualified he qualifies the Chosen/*”
4 Last Sunday morning we saw how Jesus used a child to put the disciples in their place and teach them humility.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9