Sermon Tone Analysis

The Best I’ve Seen

Father our dependency is on you, for there are times when we have no one else to turn too but you.

Our way seems hard at times, the road is ruff, but then again we realize that we don't think like you and we don't act like you do, please dear Father give us to strength to grow day by day into your image and to come to have the mind that you have bring us into the reality of who you are and how you move we ask this in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Lift your hands and think about how faithful God has been to us.

If it had not been for the Lord that was on our side we would have been consumed.

He has sustained in a wilderness, some people understand that concept.

Making it and don’t even know how you making it.

It doesn’t even make sense how you are making it.

All dressed up hair fixed just right people think you got it going on and they don’t even know.

We are making it and making it by faith; because we’ve come with a sense of expectancy.

We don’t even have to see it with our natural eyes; but we sense in our spirits that God is up to something if you can sense this tonight through your head back and give a loud praise!

May the grace of God grace give us an understanding into some of the profound truths, written in the Bible, and to importance that God Himself placed in the work that Christ performed on the cross and the blood that was shed for you and for me!

Can you thank God for His Son Jesus?

If you will allow me to paint this picture of the text with words; then come on and go with me for a little while in your mind and in your imagination.

We are going on an journey in the text.

We are going to the battlements of heaven.

Get ready children because heavens court is about to be called into order.

We like John are the spectators in the courtroom; we can’t say anything all we can do is just look and listen.

There is God the Father sitting on the bench serving as the Almighty judge.

I see Justice serving as the prosecuting attorney.

Mercy is the attorney for the defense.

Jesus himself is the defendant.

Philosophy is the clerk.

The Holy Ghost is the secretary.

Gabriel the head of the angelic host is the sergeant of arms.

There are twelve jurymen who are all virtues of God.

Faith, hope, love and salvation, are on the jury.

Redemption, repentance, regeneration and sanctification are on the jury.

Truth, holiness, peace, and goodness are all on the jury.

They are trying to reach a decision as to whether or not Jesus the defendant is worthy to return to the earth this time not as savior of the world, but as the judge of the earth.

At the time of the text bound books did not exist sot the word “book” v.1 refers to a scroll.

This particular scroll is Christ’s title deed to all of creation.

A roman will was sealed with seven seals; thus this scroll is the will, or testament, giving Christ the right to claim victory and ownership of creation by virtue of His sacrifice on Calvary!

So six expert witnesses have been summons to give their testimony and appraisals of Jesus.

They are trying to determine if this Jesus, is worthy to take the scroll and open the seals thereof!

These six witnesses are: Natural Law, Time, the Blood, Death, the Grave, and Eternity.

The court is called to order!

The judge God rattles the gavel and calls the court to order.

And gives instructions to the clerk Philosophy “summons for me if you please, the first witness.

“ He is instructed to come down and stand in the witness box.

Philosophy says to him “raise your right hand and repeat after me.

Do you solemnly swear that the testimony that you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?”

He says “I do” sit down and mercy the attorney for the defense gets up and proceeds with his questioning.

Natural Law

Mercy: He says to him; for the sake of the record tell this court what is your name.

Natural law: My name is Natural Law

Mercy: Natural Law tell us if you please what is your job as it relates to God’s universe?

Natural law: He says, I am the watchman over the order of things.

I see to it that everything that happens is done in some kind of lawful orderly fashion.

Mercy: What do you mean orderly fashion?

Natural law: Well, it’s my job to see to it that the contract between day and night is kept.

I see to it that there is not too much daylight and not too much night.

I am natural law.

It’s my job to make sure that four seasons come within a realm of a year.

I see to it that spring time comes in March that summer comes in June, that fall comes in September, and winter comes in December.

I make sure that the showers fall, flowers bloom, that the wind blows, that the sun shines.

It’s my job, to see to it that peaches are always sweet, that lemons are sour, that salt taste salty, and pepper is hot.

I put vitamins in vegetables, proteins in meat, calcium in milk.

It’s because of me that watermelons are green on the outside, red on the inside but still the rime is not stained.

It’s because of me that a black cow can grow red hair, eat green grass, give off white milk, and churn yellow butter.

I am natural law…

Mercy: Oh yes, I see.

Well tell the court if you don’t mine how do you carry out these things in orderly fashion?

Natural law: Well I do it by laws.

Mercy: What are some of your laws natural law?

Natural law: Well, one of my laws that would be most familiar is the law of gravitation.

Mercy: Tell the court how that works.

Natural law: The law of gravitation means that every thing on earth stays on earth.

Because I have a kind of magnetic pull under the surface of the earth a kind of centrifugal force that causes the earth to stay in its own orbit.

And to move in its own path.

I see to it that the nine planets are in a 360 degree orbit around the sun.

Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto all move Clock wise and Uranus is the only one that moves counter clock wise.

But so far because of my laws none of the nine planets have ever strayed off course or had a collision of any kind.

Mercy: I see that’s good I am glad to see that you are well qualified.

Tell us now is there anything in your laws to govern how man reproduces himself?

Natural law: Oh yes, of course I have a law of reproduction.

Mercy: Well then tell the court how does this law of reproduction work.

Natural law: Well before man can reproduce himself in a baby there has to be a union or coming together between male and female.

The man supplies 24 chromosomes and the female supplies 24 chromosomes and those male and female chromosomes all 48 of them get together and mix and co-mingle to form what they call genes.

This determines the height, the size, the texture of hair, the skin color that the baby would have.

And then after nine long months that embryo is developed into a full baby.

And I see to it that man reproduces himself through my laws of reproduction.

Mercy: Oh yes, I see it’s rather complicated, but you carry it out?

Natural law: Yes, I carry it out says natural law.

Mercy: Well tell the court this has there ever been a time that your law of reproduction has ever been violated?

Natural law: Oh no… That’s impossible the only way a baby can be born is there has got to be a coming together of male and female chromosomes.

Mercy: Now wait a minute I am asking you have there ever been a time since the beginning of time that man was not reproduced in the manner you just described?

Natural law: No, no you know that the only way a baby can be born is there has to be relations between a man a woman.

Mercy: Wait a minute now I want you to think hard has there ever been a time it’s been violated?

Justice: Your honor I object to that line of questioning, the defense is trying to put words in the witness’s mouth!

God the judge: Takes the gavel and rattles it and says, objection sustained.

By that time natural law says.

Natural law: Wait a minute I don’t want to commit purgery.

Excuse me your honor I forgot there was just one time that my law of reproduction was violated.

Mercy: Uh Hugh, I told you so.

Well go on and tell the court what happened.

Natural law: Well I can’t tell you all of the particulars because it was not by my natural law, but by divine order.

That when man fell in Eden’s garden God the judge was plagued with a problem of how He would get someone in the world to take away the sins of the world.

And Jesus the defendant volunteered to go down and take away the sins of the world.

But when he volunteered to go down God said well I have got to get him there although He has to been born of a woman He still has to be with out sin.