Sermon Tone Analysis

Psalm 11:1-3

Introduction

In this life we will have trials and tribulations.

John 16:33 “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace.

In the world you will have tribulation.

But take heart; I have overcome the world.””

These trials and tribulations are tools used by the enemy to distract us, keep us away from peace, and even to bring us to unbelief.

On the contrary these trials and tribulations are used by our Lord to refine us, bring out any impurities, test our faith in hopes that we would grow closer to Him and find even more peace.

What looks like an attack can easily be turned into a opportunity for the believer..... IF our perspective is changed.

Perspective.

This is one of the tragic attributes we often times lack.

Matthew 6:22-23 ““The eye is the lamp of the body.

So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.

If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!”

What is He saying?

He saying if you aren’t willing to see things how I see them, you will have a hard time in this life.

He says when the eye is bad the WHOLE BODY will be FULL of darkness.

BUT if your eye is HEALTHY your WHOLE BODY will be full of light.

Friends, I want to encourage you that we are all children of light indeed if we have truly tasted that the Lord is good.

We as children of the Most High God shall never let darkness overtake us.

We were called to overcome, situations do not have to define us rather HE should define us in every situation.

We have a sure foundation that is Jesus Christ.

He is the chief cornerstone that WE have not rejected, indeed He has came into our lives and given us victory over death, hell and the grave!

That will be the heart of this message.

Trials and Temptations Will Come

See this: the wicked, that is every force of darkness has bent its bow, to shoot an arrow that is fitted and tailored to you a follower of Jesus Christ.

We need to understand this simple truth if we are going to stand on the foundation Christ has given us: Attacks will come.

Jhn 15:19 “If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

Furthermore

1 John 5 19 “We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.”

Notice the Holy Scripture mentions two truths:

1.

The world is a enemy of God and His people because satan is at work in the world.

2. We have been chosen by God, out of the world.

No longer should the world influence our behavior.

No longer should it drag us down.

No longer should we place our hope in it.

Because according to Scripture nothing good will come from it

1 Peter 1:23 “since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;”

Friends the world indeed is perishing, but us who have been born again are imperishable.

We shouldn’t let what is dying affect us who are living!

Praise be to God that He in His abundant mercy has chosen us out of such a evil place.

Praise be to Him who looked down on us in the midst of our sin and shame, and said I will give my life.

Praise be to Him who while we were neck deep in the evil of the world chose to come down from the glory’s of Heaven to sweat, to cry, and work with us, as well as to teach us, to heal us, and to save us.

He is our liberator!

Jesus said in John 8:36 “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”

Friends we were bound!

But He set us free!

The devil is a liar!

That slimy dog satan would have you to believe in the lie that your bound again and you have no hope.

Your just a mess, nobody wants to help you, not even God.

What is he actually doing, that slimy dog is actually trying to destroy your foundation.

He is trying to steal the truth that has set your heart free!

Notice what Psalm 11: 3 says

If our foundation is destroyed by these arrows of the enemy what can we do?

The foundation is the support for the home.

Without it the house would fall.

It takes a long time to rebuild a house.

But not in the kingdom of God.

Jesus said he would in John 2:19 “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.””

Jesus is in the business of rebuilding spiritual houses!

If He did it for Himself how much would would he do it for the one in which He died for?!

You do not have to wait weeks, months, years to get your life back with God, No He says “today is the day for salvation” 2 Cor 6:2

“All who call on the name of the Lord shall be saved” Rom 10:13

Friends I want you to know that we have a solid foundation.

Do not let the enemy steal your foundation.

How can we protect our foundation?

Everything has a seed or an origin.

Nothing is born big except elephants.

Our foundation has a seed to which it was laid, that being the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

If you had not heard the Gospel, Christ would have never built a foundation in you.

In order to understand ways to properly protect our foundation lets compare it to a seed:

For a seed to grow into something beautiful it must go through a few things.

First it must be planted in a good position, and it must be watered or fertilized consistently.

Without these things the roots will never grow deep or be strong.

The roots are the plants foundation.

What I am saying?

I’m saying the development of the seed of the Word of God is crucial to how strong your foundation will be.

Jesus is our strong foundation but if we do not take heed to His message we will miss the growth of our foundation.

Matthew 13: 3-8 “And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow.

And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.

Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched.

And since they had no root, they withered away.

Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

We have all heard this parable, but the truth of it should not be missed: Clearly from this parable we can see that the see of the Gospel must first be planted within us in the right manner.

That is the wholeness of the Gospel must planted in our hearts.

As christians we were all born to bear fruit.

It is in our God given DNA.

Bearing fruit depends on how deep our roots are or in other terms the strength of the foundation we have.

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We protect our foundation by developing the Word of God in our hearts.

To do this we must:

Allow the Word into our hearts.

This is planting the seed, but not in any area.

It must be in a good position in our hearts.

This part mustn’t be taken lightly.

Without proper implantation the seed will not grow.

This part involves doing what Romans 10:9 says and “confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord, and believing in our heart that God raised Him from the dead.”

Simply believe and confess that He is LORD that means that when you say this prayer you are telling God Almighty you are following Him, you are done being your own lord and living and doing what you want, you are submitting your will into His hands forever.

This is where a lot of people get it wrong, they wonder from the faith very easily because at the planting of it, they did not understand what was required of them and they got up from their knees after confessing, and believing they are okay with God but went about doing whatever they wanted and when things in their life got sideways they had no root in themselves because it wasn’t planted with the full Gospel.

We must commit ourselves to trust Jesus as Lord.