Sermon Tone Analysis

*/Our God is a Humble God/*

April 7th 2002

 

| SHARP – An Interesting Statement!!!!! Ironside Books – Ironside Illustration – Personal thoughts on this subject

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| POV – What’s Your Main Point?

– Big Idea?Our God is a Humble GodPhil.

2:8 is where we derive thisAlso Mat.

11:29 | Action StepBy the end of our time I want us to see how humble our God is so we can examine ourselves | Benefit – Why Bring That Up?I would like to share this so that we individually and corporately will see what HE seeks, and adjust our lives accordingly |

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God seeks a humble nation  | !! Sub Point 2

God seeks a humble church* * | !! Sub Point 3

God seeks a humble person |

| Explain!

Because God is a humble God, He is seeking a nation that will live in dependence upon Him

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Because God is a humble God, He is seeking for His Church to live and function in dependence upon Him

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Because God is a humble God, He is seeking for His people, His children to live dependent upon Him

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| Prove1) Israel’s desert dependence     Deut.

8:1-3 2) The kingdom of Judah humbled     because King Ahaz’s promoted     wickedness in Judah  2 Chron 28:193) Psalm 44:9 referencing a defeat or    humbling that took place possibly    around the same time as the 2nd     Chron.

passage 4) Micah is speaking to all of Israel in     Micah 6:8 | Prove1) Rev. 3:14-17  Laodicea Church    What humbling words from the Lord    on what they */thought /*they were!2) Rev. 3:8-9 Philadelphia Church    they have kept His Word (contrast)  | Prove1) Luke 18:14…man will be humbled…     man will be exalted if humbled (not    our task to be exalted…His choice!)2)

Luke 1:48-52 MARY God is /mindful //    of the humble state/…and blesses them3) Isa.

66:2 /NKJ but on this one I will //    look/…  McArthur Study Bible note.

This is what God is looking for…but we have a problem…  |

| Apply – For instance?Why is God humbling nations?Because that is what he seeks!

He is seeking a nation that will humble itself before Him!  Israel is not doing it, what about us?  Was September 11th an act of violence, or a humbling by God… or both?

Talk about USA – strong & Independent…now humbled!

| Apply – For instance?1 East Swamp Church…2 How are we doing?

Are we  corporately depending on Him?3 I have heard that East Swamp  Church is a “proud” Church…  Not sure what they meant…but  is that good?*4

We need to be utter dependant on**   Him…for He is a Humble God that**   wants His Church to be humble* | Apply – For instance?Man wants to be exalted…lifted high…make a name for himself…even be praised…when this happens, then the Church is not humble…then the nation is not humble before Him…MAN want to make a name for himself…lets see some from history…  (slide)  *PAGE** 7 & 8*  |

| POV – What’s Your Point?Our God is a humble God…and we are to be the same!

| Action StepsExamine yourself, are you seeking for yourself fame, fortune, status, or humility before the Lord?

| Benefits – So What?If you choose to seek and become humble before the Lord, He will lift you up…let Him do it…not you! |

| SHARP – So WhatPeas on a knife illustration!!!!! Have Jerry close in a song

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SHARP = Story, Humor, Analogy, Reference, Picture

 

 

 

 

 

*MAIN** POINT OPENING SCRIPTURES & ILLUSTRATION:*

 

Philippians 2:8 (NIV)

8 And being found in appearance as a man,

he humbled himself

and became obedient to death—

even death on a cross!

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Matthew 11:29 (NIV)

29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

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Dr.

Harry Ironside was once convicted about his lack of humility.

A friend recommended as a remedy, that he march through the streets of Chicago wearing a sandwich board, shouting the scripture verses on the board for all to hear.

Dr. Ironside agreed to this venture and when he returned to his study and removed the board, he said “I’ll bet there’s not another man in town who would do that.”

/Daniel//, Decoder of Dreams/, Donald Campbell, p. 22.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*SUB POINT ONE SCRIPTURES:*

 

 

Deuteronomy 8:1-3 (NIV)

*8*     Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers.

2 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

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2 Chronicles 28:19 (NIV)

19 The Lord had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had promoted wickedness in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the Lord.

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Psalm 44:9 (NIV)

9 But now you have rejected and humbled us;

you no longer go out with our armies.

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Micah 6:8 (NIV)

8 He has showed you, O man, what is good.

And what does the Lord require of you?

To act justly and to love mercy

and to walk humbly with your God.

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*SUB POINT TWO SCRIPTURES:*

 

 

Revelation 3:14-17 (NIV)

/To the Church in Laodicea /

14 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:

These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation.

15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot.

I wish you were either one or the other!

16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’

But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

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/To the Church in Philadelphia/

Revelation 3:8-9 (NIV)

8 I know your deeds.

See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut.

I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

9 I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.

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*SUB POINT THREE SCRIPTURES:*

Luke 18:14 (NIV) Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

11 The Pharisee stood up and prayed about a himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’

13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance.

He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 1:48-52 (NIV)

48 for he has been mindful

of the humble state of his servant.

From now on all generations will call me blessed,

49 for the Mighty One has done great things for me—

holy is his name.

50 His mercy extends to those who fear him,

from generation to generation.

51 He has performed mighty deeds with his arm;

he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.

52 He has brought down rulers from their thrones

but has lifted up the humble.

Isaiah 66:2 (NIV)