Sermon Tone Analysis

The world or God?

What does our passage say about God?

God cares about the truth and He is the only source of truth.

God is warning us to not be false to the truth, why?

Why does God care about the truth?

Let’s look at verses 15-17 of our text.

So ther are only to sources of truth.

Let’s look at them.

Numbers 23:19 (ESV)

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind.

Has he said, and will he not do it?

Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

What does our passage say about people?

Let’s begin in verse 13 of our passage.

I think we need to start with teh word meekness, what does meekness mean?

I want to share the definition given by Pastor John Piper

Meekness begins when we put our trust in God.

Then, because we trust him, we commit our way to him.

We roll onto him our anxieties, our frustrations, our plans, our relationships, our jobs, our health.

And then we wait patiently for the Lord.

We trust his timing and his power and his grace to work things out in the best way for his glory and for our good.

The result of trusting God, and the rolling of our anxieties onto God, and waiting patiently for him is that we don’t give way to quick and fretful anger.

But instead, we give place to wrath and hand our cause over to God and let him vindicate us if he chooses.

Meekness loves to learn.

And it counts the corrective blows of a friend as precious (Proverbs 27:6).

And when it must say a critical word to a person caught in sin or error, it speaks from the deep conviction of its own fallibility and its own susceptibility to sin and its utter dependence on the grace of God (Galatians 6:1).

So back to verse 13.

I think the first thing our passage says about people is we want to be wise and the truth is we probably all think we are wise.

But what we want to exaimine this morning, is where is our wisdom coming from because remember, the world has it’s own wisdom which is opposed to the wisdom of God.