Sermon Tone Analysis

The Torment of the Christian

Rom 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith,

we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

(NIV).

Because man has not trusted God, he has looked to every other source in the world to find the answers to emotional health.

But the more theories man comes up with, the more mental and emotional sicknesses that sweep down on our society.

Year by year, as we have cast away God’s standards, we dove deeper and deeper into a crisis that is giving rise to every imaginable horror.

*The arrogant unbeliever insists* that if we will just reject more of God’s standards, we will ultimately find the man made utopia.

Since there is not a single scientist that can explain the processes of the brain, much less the mind, I feel that I should reconsider who I take my advice from.

*The only theories of man that have worked are the ones that have been consistent with the Word of God.

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Therefore, I (we) must look to the Word of God for absolute information about the mind and emotions.

We must be careful to separate the teachings of the church and the teachings of the Bible.

Unfortunately, many theories of the church are as inconsistent with the Word of God as the theories of the world.

*It has been these unscriptural, unworkable concepts* of the church that have caused serious-minded people to look to another source for authoritative answers.

900 numbers, psychics, gurus, fortune tellers, power ball (Money), multiple partners (sex), “club drugs,” RAVE Concerts, ecstasy, coke, meth, marijuana, 2CTT2 (a haulugen equivalent to seven hits of acid), DXM (Robutissn), 2CCT7 which is (a haulughen equivalent to fifteen hit of acid).

The basic kinds that I use are:

1.            *Behavior therapy:* seeks to change behavior rather than underlying personality, teaches new "coping" techniques.

2.            *Interpersonal psychotherapy: *focusing on interpersonal relationships and coping with conflicts in relationships.

3.            *Feminist therapy:*  views symptoms as the response to cultural oppression, focuses on "empowering the client".

4.            *Cognitive‑behavioral therapy: *in addition to correcting the behavior, seeks to correct negative thinking patterns.

5.            *Psychodynamic therapy*: focuses on underlying drives and desires that determine behavior.

6.            *Temperament therapy:* focuses on the intrinsic (genetic) make up of the individual and bringing into harmony the understanding of the individuals inner needs and desires with their enviornment.

7.            *Theophostic therapy (TP):* theophostic therapy is a spiritual approach to dealing with the root cause of the original trauma in the victimns life rather than probing around in or with the symptoms or “triggers” which only provides temporal relief.

I question if that temporal relief is even accomplished.

TP is very effective with Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA), Dissociative Idendity Disorders (DID), Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) and Critical Incident Debriefing (CID).

In Genesis, God created man’s body from the dust of the earth.

He then breathed into man something of Himself, some of His own Spirit.

When these two elements came together, man did not become a living *body,* as the medical world would have us to believe.

Nor did he become a living *spirit*, as the religious world would have us to believe.

God’s Word says that man became a living *soul!

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Gen 2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

(NIV)

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*Gen 2:7 and the LORD God formed man /of/ the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

(KJV)*

 

Man’s body is what keeps him alive to this world.

He can feel things in the physical world.

Those physical feelings are turned into thoughts and emotions in the soul.

Likewise, the spirit of a man gives him awareness of the spiritual world.

That information also becomes feelings and emotions in the soul.

Man experiences and interprets both spiritual and physical life in the realm of the soul.

Since God created man, He is the only one who really fully understands how real mental health should work.

Everything we need to know about mental health should be found in the Bible and supported by scientific experimentation – if either of these two groups could give up their preferential treatment and work together.

But, regardless of scientific validation, time has proven that the principles of the Word of God work consistently.

*John 17:3 now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

(NIV).

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When the Bible talks about life, it talks about a particular quality of life.

The Greek word is */“zoe.”/*

*(INTRODUCE ZOE HERE!)*

 

*John 17:3 now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

(NIV).

* Zoe life is the quality of life as possessed by the one who gives it.

In this case, we are speaking of the quality of life that God has*/.

This is what Jesus came to give US YOU AND ME.

ZOE LIFE!!!/*

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Jesus said the quality of life would be the product of knowing God.

Knowing God is the product of a relationship, not just a singular experience.

While it is absolutely essential that we have a “born again” experience, that experience alone will not produce */zoe/*.

If we do not develop a relationship with God and find fullness of life, that experience can be frustrating and cause us to disbelieve.

In the OT, there were people who believed in God, but they never had the opportunity to experience this quality of life.

*This can only be found in the finished work of Jesus.

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By accepting the love of God as expressed through the Lord Jesus’ finished work, we can be brought into a realm where we experience */zoe/*.

Through Jesus, we have complete peace with God.

*Rom 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

(NIV).*

True mental health is only found when man is at peace with God in his own heart.

That peace only comes when one trusts the reality that Jesus has not only died to become their Savior, *He has also risen again to become their righteousness.*

This meets the deepest need that man has.

This is the basis for all emotional health.

This is the stabilizing factor that brings all of life together.

But this is also the reality that the church and the world have rejected.

Both groups have rejected the truth, neither one realizing the implications.

*Both groups have robbed man of the one and only thing that would bring him absolute stability and peace, the qualification for the total love and acceptance of God.*

 

Romans, chapter 9, talks about Jesus being the stumbling stone.

But it really doesn’t talk about him *personally* being the stumbling stone.

*It talks about the faith righteousness, which is found in Jesus as being the stumbling stone.

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*Romans 9:30-33** 30 What then shall we say?

That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith, 31 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.

32 Why not?

Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works.

They stumbled over the “stumbling stone.”

33 As it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”

(NIV).*

The Gentiles were not looking for righteousness, but they found it.

Why?

They were willing to accept it as a free gift.

Israel, on the other hand, was trying desperately to find righteousness so God could accept them.

They could not find it.

Why?

They refused to believe it could be received as a free gift.

They stumbled at the stumbling stone.

Jesus as Savior is not the stumbling stone, *Jesus, as our righteousness is the stumbling stone.

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*Faith righteousness is the best-kept secret in the church.

*Preachers preach day and night trying to get people to *work harder* to *be more righteousness* so they can be accepted of God.

It is this load that the Jews could not carry, and neither can we.

*This is why Jesus came.*

We didn’t just need a way to get to heaven; *we needed freedom from the guilt of sin and the burden of righteousness*.

By making us righteous, we now have complete peace with God.

It is this burden of responsibility that has made the world turn its back on God.

The world was smart enough to know that no one could ever be righteous enough to please a perfect God.

Laboring under that load has driven many people completely crazy.