Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Good morning to all, thank you for being hear today,

We also want to consider the theme “Think Possible” As Christians, how are we to think? and what influence our thinking?

Illustration point

In a church service one Sunday, the offering plate came to a little girl at the end of a row.

She took the plate, put it down on the floor, and stood in it.

When the usher asked her what she was doing, she responded, “In Sunday school I learned that I was supposed to give myself to God.”

Genesis 18:1-14

Genesis 18:1–14 (CSB)

1 The Lord appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day. 2 He looked up, and he saw three men standing near him.

When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them, bowed to the ground, 3 and said, “My lord, if I have found favor with you, please do not go on past your servant.

4 Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.

5 I will bring a bit of bread so that you may strengthen yourselves.

This is why you have passed your servant’s way.

Later, you can continue on.”

“Yes,” they replied, “do as you have said.”

6 So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick!

Knead three measures of fine flour and make bread.”

7 Abraham ran to the herd and got a tender, choice calf.

He gave it to a young man, who hurried to prepare it.

8 Then Abraham took curds and milk, as well as the calf that he had prepared, and set them before the men.

He served them as they ate under the tree.

9 “Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him.

“There, in the tent,” he answered.

10 The Lord said, “I will certainly come back to you in about a year’s time, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.

11 Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years.

Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

12 So she laughed to herself: “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I have delight?”

13 But the Lord asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Can I really have a baby when I’m old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord?

At the appointed time I will come back to you, and in about a year she will have a son.”

"Think Possible”

Paul says in 2 Corinthian 5:17 that “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are new.”

- Not re-educated but re-created, Not reformed but transformed, a new creation.

-This recreation is not by our own human efforts or work but by the divine power of God through Jesus Christ

This new creation comes with new thinking not rooted in looking in inner self but looking to God through Jesus Christ

MAKE CHRIST FEEL AT HOME

New creation brings a Christian in Communion with Christ.

Abraham was in a hurried to make Christ (one of the three visitors) feel at home.

He was in a hurry to please God, We must be in a hurry to make Christ feel at home in our hearts, and minds.

Eph.

3:17 “And that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,”

DON’T LAUGH IN UNBELIEF

So Sarah laughed in unbelief- saying “ after I am worn out ( translation - I am worthless, nothing, no use) Sarah was right physically, and biologically speaking but because of her standing before God, she was dead wrong and unbelieving.

Christians thinking must centered on what God can do not what we can do.

We must look to God not within ourselves.

“Is Anything Too Hard For The Lord.?”

You must have an answer backup with personal experience.

We must think clearly and have an answer of absolutely nothing in too hard,

-Too old, too worn out , too sinful , too broken for God.

-You may not know how it can be done and like Mary you may want to know “How Can This Be? “ but we must never doubt in unbelief in the word of God.

We must trust God to have His well.

For His word Never fail.