Sermon Tone Analysis

Worship Music:

What A Day That Will Be - Bart Millard

I Worship You - Big Tent Revival

In Your Hands - Unspoken

Choose Life - Big Tent Revival

Glorious Freedom - GVB

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Introduction:

Resurrection Sunday

March 27, 2005

In Thy Heaven Lord, I want to be With You Your Majesty

I want to be With You Your Majesty

Your name is majestic, Your Heaven better than a fantasy

Your Heaven better than a fantasy

How large are Your walls Lord, How I long to be in them

How I long to be in them

And answer to Your call, The gold has such beauty

The gold has such beauty

It is the only gold to be so pure, The river flows throughout

The river flows throughout

It gives life without a doubt

written by Kevin Foster 12/6/1988 - 3/27/2004

O God, do not remain quiet;

Do not be silent and,

O God, do not be still

Do Not Be Still

Writen by:

Kevin Foster & Joshua Peterson

Verse I:

I want to be with You, my King, How lovely is Your majesty

Your Heaven, what a fantasy, The only place I long to be

Pre Chorus:

I gave You scars, and You called me friend, I cursed Your name, but You brought me in

Chorus:

O God, do not be quiet, Do not be silent

Your beauty is… so captivating

Your power is… invigorating

O God, do not be quiet, do not be still

Verse II:

I want to be, with You my King

How lovely is Your majesty

Your Heaven, what a fantasy

The only place I long to be

Pre Chorus:

Take everything I am, and make me new, Because a life without peace is a life without You

A Godward Appeal:

THE POWER OF GOD’S WORD:

An entire nation is at risk, an entire people are suffering.

The first plea, is not for a mighty leader, nor for a deliverer.

The eyes of the Psalmist already knows from where his help comes and they look to none other than the Almighty.

As such the first plea is that the almighty not remain silent, but that he would speak.

By the word of God and by the word of God alone comes a mans damnation or salvation.

By His Word he spoke all things into existance.

It is the Word of God which became flesh, God incarnate in Jesus Christ as He dwelt amoung us and by the Word of God did Jesus lay down His life and take it up again.

It is according to the Word of God that Jesus accended and sent the Spirit to dwell within believers and it is by the Word of God that we know that we will dwell with Him again for all eternity.

Oh God do not be silent is a powerful poetic statement that causes all the cosmos to shake.

For when God speaks there is not the smallest cell or organism that is not outside the wavelegnth command of His voice.

Even the man that has made himself deaf to God cannot escape the spoken command of God.

Be not silent & Be not still.

When God speaks, He then moves.

God never proclaims, He never commands without then acting upon what He has spoken.

Even when we do not see or cannot comprehend God is activley about completing His spoken Word.

When God speaks salvation to His people then you can be certain not matter what enemies surround you God is moving to bring about salvation.

THE ARROGANCE OF MAN’S WORD:

The Psalmist here is calling for God to speak because those that surround them are His enemies.

They are boldy revolting against the almighty.

There words are many and in arrogance they rave against God and threaten the inialation of His people.

Notice the many frightening words of the enemy, yet the people are not destroyed, and there only need be one word from God and the enemy will meet her end.

MAN’S COUNSEL:

The enemies of God take councel from one another.

They plot and scheme their plans together for the destruction of the righteous.

They are as snakes in their craftieness.

“Malice is cold-blooded enough to plot with deliberation; and pride, though it be never wise, is often allied with craft.” - Charles Spurgeon

It can be frightening how evil can appear so unified as though the have one heart and it is a cold one hell bent on destruction.

Their aim at God they seek to devour all represntations of Him upon this earth that all reminders of Him be blotted out.

Yet in their scheming and cleverly devised plans they fail to recognize that you cannot erase the creator from the creation, but He can an certainly will remove such treachury and the workers of it.

All of their counsel serves only to breed hate and build the evils of pride.

But not this:

They speak and the Christian Warrior Psalmist speaks to God that God might speak.

They counsel together and the Christian Warrior Psalmist counsels with God:

Psalm 83:

This portion is key to understanding the petition of verse one.

The Psalmist does not out of ignorance ask God to speak, but He has already been counseled by the previous speaking and works of God as to how He has dealt with similar situations in the past.

The boldness of the Psalmist request is found in that He is asking God to do what God has done, to act as He has acted.

The Psalmist in hearing the Word of God understood God’s counsel:

His help comes from God and not the schemes of man.

What the Psalmist lays out here is the mighty works of God and as such he offers stregnth to the people of God, that God will not be defeated nor his people left alone, thus the one to be feared is not man and all of his coniving but God alone.

Why shame?

Because shame has a way of seperating men from idols and set them about seeking the Lord.

But if this shame not turn them, then may the Lord cause them to perish rather than they cause His people to perish.

And let it be in disgrace lest the people of God be led astray.

And let that disgrace lead them to know even in their hardness that God alone is Lord and Most High over all of the earth.

Yes, let all who seek to erase God from life, teaching, morals, and culture even in their hardness never excape the knowing of the truth that God is the Most High over all of the earth and His name endures forever.

STILL TODAY:

Still today my friends are such enemies surrounding the people of God.

Today still the depraved heart seems as united as ever to remove the fame of God from the earth.

Yet still today do the people of God remain with the sole purpose of proclomating His greatness through the gospel as we make disciples, teaching them to know and obey all that He has commanded.

This mission is ongoing till Kingdom comes.

Yes indeed there are seasons where it may seem as though we are a breath away from defeat, but remember you restle not flesh and blood and as such do as the Psalmist,