Sermon Tone Analysis

Bricks Used in Repairing and Rebuilding the Spiritual Wall!

 

Faith

Repentance

Diligence

Knowledge

Perseverance

Patience

Obedience

Godliness

Service

Brotherly Kindness

Hope

Love

 

*Faith*

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This is the cornerstone of the spiritual wall.

Remember the 12 spies Moses sent into the Promised Land?  Remember 10 lacked faith in Gods Promise to give over the land, and said we are grasshoppers among giants, and two of the 12, Joshua and Caleb, believed that God would give Israel the land in spite of the obstacles that stood in the way.

Remember Joshua and Caleb were the only two, because of there faith, that entered into the Promised Land, the other ten died in the wilderness.

Are you a Joshua and a Caleb or are you one of the 10 spies that lacked the faith?

I encourage you to become a Joshua and Caleb and come to the United Prayer each month placing this first brick in the Spiritual Wall, encouraging other leaders in the community to place this first brick in the Spiritual Wall.

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*Repentance *

 

Repentance is not just for the unbelieving sinner it also applied to the Christian.

Sin is anything that would hinder the work of the Holy Spirit.

Division, and separatism are two sins present today.

Look to the 7 churches in Revelation.

In Revelation 2:5 we see this statement:

5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—*unless you repent*.

Unless you repent!

The time is NOW! Repent and prepare the way of the Lord.

Ask The Lord Jesus to forgive us of our sin of division and separatism and unite together in prayer each month placing this second brick in the Spiritual Wall.

*Diligence*

 

Be willing to give the constant effort to the United Prayer to accomplish the will of God.

Come each month in constant effort placing the third brick in the Spiritual Wall.

*Knowledge*

 

9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing /Him,/ being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed /us/ into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:9-11

 

We need to come together praying for the Knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

Fully Pleasing Him! Strengthened with all might, according to His Glorious Power!

When we become united the glory of God will shine so brightly that the World will “Want Some” of what we have.

Come each month United in Prayer adding this fourth brick into the Spiritual Wall.

*Perseverance*

 

Judges 8:4.

When Gideon came to the Jordan, he and the three hundred men who /were/ with him crossed over, *exhausted but still in pursuit.*

Like Gideon and his 300 we must continue until we have total Victory.

Come each month even though you may be exhausted, until total victory is achieved adding the fifth brick into the Spiritual Wall.

*Patience*

 

We cause ourselves most of our troubles in an effort to control outcomes, times, results, goals, and other events of life.

We have so little patience and much less faith.

Faith requires trust.

We trust Jesus to do the best for us—even when (and especially when) the circumstances do not look to us like what we would have wanted.

We must meet all things in life with the idea that either He has sent them or He will use them for our good.

If the event is indeed evil, God’s wisdom is available to help us discern how to respond, how to resist the evil with good.

But God will use even evil to demonstrate His love and power, as He did in the Exodus, when the Israelites were trapped at the Red Sea, or in Luke with the man who was born blind.

Often we interpret events only as evil when God intends to use them to produce discipline or stronger faith (James 1:2–4).

Come each month in Unity of Prayer adding this sixth brick into the Spiritual Wall waiting for God to answer in His own time table.

*Obedience*

 

Submission to God’s will is something we need to renew moment by moment.

In Gethsemane Jesus provided an example of moment-by-moment obedience.

God’s will is Unity!

Let us submit each month to Unity of Prayer adding the seventh brick into the Spiritual Wall

 

*Godliness*

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We must, out of love on one hand and godly fear on the other, seek to live a life that is pleasing to Him.

Division will not be fully pleasing to God. 2 Timothy 3:5 -- *holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof:*—the retention of a mere outward form of godliness, a sort of adherence to religious observance, is a sign of Satan’s craft in getting people professedly to acknowledge Christian doctrines while yet denying their true power, the power of the Spirit of God, who leads true believers to cleave to His word and to glorify Christ.

The religious world often has much to say about God, but how little does it really acknowledge the person and work of Christ His Son!

And how much less is there true and devoted loyalty to Christ as Lord of the life as well as Savior of the soul!

When we walk in the will of God we become fully pleasing to him, therefore, come to the monthly United Prayer meeting that we may become more pleasing to Him, and add the eighth brick into the Spiritual Wall.

*Service*

The body of Christ encompasses many denominations and independent groups.

There are also many different liturgical expressions of worship and service in the various church fellowships.

But the true church is one body, and Christ cannot be divided.

He prayed that we all may be one (John 17:21).

It is a powerful testimony to the world when believers from the various Christian traditions come together in unity.

It is especially desirable that Christian leaders be open to the spirit of unity and true ecumenism.

Paul demonstrated an ecumenical spirit when he wrote, “For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift so that you may be established—that is, that I might be encouraged together with you by the /mutual faith both of you and me/” (Rom.

1:11,12).

Mutuality of the faith is to be honored in the Christian community at large.

*No one segment of the church of Jesus Christ has exclusive rights or claim to the faith.*

Faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ is the cement that holds true believers of all traditions together in Christian fellowship.

Come each month to United Prayer and add your service to all true believers adding the ninth brick into the Spiritual Wall.

*Brotherly Kindness*

1 Thessalonians 4:9-10

9 But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; 10 and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia.

But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more;

Reference The Believer’s Bible Commentary

*The Love that Thinks of Others (4:9, 10) *

4:9* *Not only is the believer to have a controlled body; he should also have a heart of love for his brothers in the Lord.

*Love* is the key word of Christianity as sin is of heathenism.

There was *no need* to *write* to the Thessalonians about this virtue.

They were *taught by God to love* their brothers, both by divine instinct (1 John 2:20, 27) and by the instruction of Christian teachers.

The believers at Thessalonica distinguished themselves by loving all the Christians in all of Macedonia.

By commending them for it, Paul memorialized them forever.

4:10* *As has been mentioned, brotherly kindness is not an achievement; it is something that must be practiced continually, and so Paul exhorts the believers to *increase more and more* in this grace.

Why is love of *the brethren* so important?

Because where there is love, there is unity; and where there is unity, there is the Lord’s blessing (Ps.

133:1, 3).

Come each month in Brotherly Kindness to United Prayer as in Thessalonica let us display our love in St. Albans and place the tenth brick in the Spiritual Wall.

*Hope*

Where the presence of Jesus is, dead hopes are resurrected.

Just as in the Book of Acts chapter 2, unity will bring a Spiritual awakening.

Come each month to United Prayer adding the eleventh brick into the Spiritual Wall.

*Love*

Philippians 2:1-4