Sermon Tone Analysis

Title: What if God does not answer Me?

Text:

Application: People want a God to give them everything they ask for.

They want to hear in the storm, it will not affect you.

They want to hear they will be free from sufferings.

People just want God’s blessings, but they want it now!

Give me peace (welfare), a future, and a hope.

Give me a prescription for my problems.

So we come to Jeremiah, and we lean on a verse for personal satisfaction, BUT, what does it really say?

Can we rely on it for immediate results?

1.

There is always a ROOT cause to the problem.

Think about this.

What was the Problem?

They abandoned the Word of God.

Notes: God always is in control.

was fulfilled in (We want a King)

A copy of the law was for private reading and every 7 years the people were to hear at a public setting the Word of God.

Jeremiah was born during a very wicked King.

His name was Manesseh.

He destroyed the Work of his father Hezekiah.

He reigned 52 years and built pagan alters, involved the people in soothsaying, witchcraft, consulted fortune tellers, and built a carved image of the goddess Asherah in the temple and temple ritual prostitution occurred.

Josiah was 8 when he took the throne and for a moment he attempted to bring revival b/c Hilkiah the high priest (the one who made sacrifice for the people behind the veil once a year, and possibly Jeremiah’s father) discovers the lost book of the Law in the wall.

Jeremiah was called to preach the Word of God and remind the people they must repent.

He was called to pluck, destroy, break down, overthrow, and build and to plant.

(notice 4 negatives before 2 positives).

The people sinned with two great sins

1. Forsakened God

2. Made cisterns that could not hold water

They forgot God

They played the Harlot

Jeremiah stood In the temple door and proclaimed to them judgement was coming

He was basically proclaiming the Word of God to a people who had not heard the Word in over 100 years.

Today, less than 20 % attend some form of church.

Fornication, adultery, millions of babies are aborted, divorce is rapidly happening, homosexuality is legal across the states, and worse is yet to come.

Sept 7th 2017- A man sues The State of Alabama b/c they will not recognize him being married to his computer.

He considers himself a ex-gay and ex- transgender and now is an active machinist meaning he is married to his laptop.

When you break God’s law there is no morality.

Then comes someone along saying you can’t stop love, it’s my right.

So they say, I want to have sexual relationships with children and I want to mate with my animals, and I love _____ and the state can’t stop me.

Jeremiah proclaims to Word to a sick, twisted mind, kind of people.

41 years he proclaims and no one repents.

He proclaimed b/c the neglected the Word of God and he proclaimed no matter the cost and no matter the response.

It was generational sin.

Meaning that the wickedness occurred b/c once generation let their guard down and did not tell the next.

2. Everything comes with a PRICE.

41 years with no results.

23 years documented and no repentance

God says:

He almost gives up:

People wanted him dead:

This verse comes with 70 years of exile to the Babylonians.

We see God’s plan even in the midst of using wicked people.

So when the marriage fails, the cancer is not healed, a job is lost, or the bank want give you a loan, did God break His promise?

Remember, the people God promised this to would never see it occur.

We bounce the ideas through our head, This is my fault and Did I cause this?

The reason we do this is b/c we expect immediate results for whatever hardship we are in.

What about peace, prosperity, and personal happiness?

Instead their circumstance was shackles, oppression, and exile.

When do we grow the most?

Is it when we work for it or when it is handed to us?

3. The Plan was for PEACE.

“shalom”

4 things to remember:

A. Pray about the present and don’t complain

B. Realize He is not finished

C. Give Him Time

D. Live by Faith

Story of Daniel : Shadrach, Meshac, and Abednego (possibly tell EV Hill story).

They would not bend b/c the immediate results did not matter.

4. God wanted them to know their FUTURE HOPE.

5 Things for you to be reminded of:

A. It was not immediate

B. Many would visually never experience this promise

C.

They believed it would occur

D. Trust in His promises

E. Life is one step to Eternity

Remember Jesus is our Hope

A. Forgive your sins

B. Make you a Child of God

C. H.S will come to comfort you

D. Prepare a place for you

E. Come back to get you

F. Live forever with Me

5. God wanted INTIMACY.

A. Call to me

B. Pray to Me

C. I will hear you

D. You will seek Me

E. You will find Me

All of this was during the 70 years exile even though they didn’t see immediate results, God was there with them.

He does not want one single evil circumstance to come against us.

6. God desires our WORSHIP

After 70 years they came back.

He stayed true to His promise.

They rebuilt the temple and rebuilt the walls.

He will give you hope in the midst of suffering.

What if God does not answer Me?

He is not finished Yet.

Do you feel like God is not listening.