Sermon Tone Analysis

* Bayless Conley*

You are fatigued and tired because you are doing too many things.

You have got too many irons in the fire.

You are trying to be everywhere, you are trying to do everything, and you cannot do everything.

You cannot be everywhere.

The gospel of John 15:1, “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit

He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

God is into cutting things out.

Sometimes you need to cut certain things away from your life.

1~/ Do not cut out the spiritual.

Number one, always put the spiritual before the material.

Jesus said, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these other things will be added to you.”

2~/ Are the things that I am putting so much energy into producing good fruit in my life?

Is it helping me reach my destiny in God? Or, is it wasting my time?

We read right here in John 15, Jesus said, “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit…” What

happens?

It is taken away.

It gets cut out.

Ask yourself: Are the things that I am sowing so much

time into, are they producing good fruit in my life?

Are they helping me to reach my destiny in

God… the thing that I know God wants me to do or the goals that I have set?

Or, are they

hindering me from doing that?

*And sometimes that might even mean cutting out certain relationships that are not bearing good fruit in your life, cutting out other things that are producing the wrong kind of fruit in your life.*

3~/  What has God led me to do?

David wanted to build a temple but it was not what God wanted.

That was left for Solomon to do.

Every noble objective that you pick up on may not be God’s will for you.

No one can do it all, no one is called to do it all, and God will not permit one person to do it all.

I want to stick to the things that I am called to do and not waste energy on things that I’m not called to do.

Because if I start doing what God hasn’t called me to do, then I’m not going to have time to concentrate on the things that He has called me to do.

*If you are going to fight fatigue and tiredness and win, you are going to need to get rest.

And there are three kinds of rest.*

Genesis, chapter 2:1,Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.

And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh

day from all His work which He had done.

*Here we have the Ten Commandments.

Not the ten suggestions, the ten commandments.*

He didn’t need to rest, But he knows that you do.

I have nothing scheduled.

That doesn’t mean I have

room to schedule other things.

That means I have nothing scheduled.”

Look at Exodus 34:21, “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing

time and in harvest you shall rest.”

These were people were farmers.

And during planting time, you’ve got to work during planting time!

You have got to do it.

That is when you are just hopeful that you are going to get a harvest, that things are going to work out, and you really have to do it.

God says, “Even during planting time you rest.”

And then when harvest comes, when the desire is there, and you have got the momentum and

things are working, and you’ve got success, He says, “Rest in that time, as well.”

And you get some people, they are involved in their business, they say, “Well, I can’t rest.

I’m working hard, and I’m planting my seeds right now.

I’m passing out my flyers.

I’m making my phone calls.

I’m doing all the things I need to do.

I’m networking.

I’m making all the connections I need to make.”

Hey, rest during planting time.

“But if I don’t work hard, I’m not going to get to that place of success where I am going to get a harvest and all of my work is going to be rewarded!

I can’t rest now.

Maybe when that time comes, I will be able to rest.”

No, you rest during planting.

And then when the harvest comes and all of your hard work gets paid off and you start getting clients and the money starts coming in and there is momentum and it’s harvest time, you’re going, “Oh, I can’t rest now.

You know, you need to make hay when the sun shines.

You’ve just got to work.”

Hey, you rest during harvest.

Don’t think you are smarter than God.

If you don’t, you won’t have the health to enjoy all of the fruit of your labors.

The Bible says this, in First Thessalonians 5:23, “May the God of peace sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

God wants your spirit to be preserved, your soul to be preserved, and your body to be preserved until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

There are three areas of potential fatigue.

The first one has to do with your physical body.

You have to get rest and adequate sleep.

Some people are just rundown physically, they’ve drained their natural resources and beyond; and if you don’t rest soon, you are going to be in trouble if you are not in trouble already.

Mark 6:31, And He said to them, “Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.”

For there were many coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.

So they departed to a deserted place in the boat by themselves.This is Jesus talking to His disciples: Come away to a deserted place where there is no work, where there are no people, where there are no schedules, and rest awhile.

They didn’t have time even to eat.

{I knew I was in trouble when I went to the bathroom, and I flushed the toilet before I even started.

I was in such a hurry doing things, I thought, ‘What in the world is wrong with me?}

Some of you are that way.

You don’t even have time to eat you are so busy.

Not even time to sit down and eat a lunch.

You just catch something on the run, “There are just too many things to do, just too much stuff to keep up with.”

I know.

Been there, done that.

Jesus said, “Some of you need to find a deserted place.”

Sometimes after we go on a vacation with the kids, Janet and I need a vacation from the vacation because they are very active, and they like to do a lot of stuff.But I really think it is a word for some of you: You need to get away to a deserted place and rest awhile.

Jesus saw the fatigue on His disciples, and He said, “Boys, you need some rest.”

Mark Twain made the statement, says, “I’ve been through a great many crisis in my life, most of which never happened.”

Some of you are absolutely stressing out about stuff, and it’s really not as big as you think.

You’re just tired.

Secondly, You need to get rest for your soul.

Matthew 11:28.

Jesus said,“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”Jesus,