Sermon Tone Analysis

We are on a forward moving Journey with God where new things await those who overcome with and in Jesus.

Revelation 21.

Series Recap — Fresh Beginnings include Necessary Endings

Learn Something

Create Something

Master Something

These are key components of things being made new.

For things to be made new, some old things need to be put away.

Quit Something

It is easy to sleep through the things that merit our being alert and awake!

Eph 5:14

Ephesians 5:14

Sleep physically, emotionally, relationally is not only beneficial, but it is mandatory.

Diet & Exercise needs to be Diet & Exercise & Sleep

The sleep Paul is addressing here isn’t that kind of sleep

Ephesians 5:15-

Some of items to quit are best identified through our sleepy eyes filled with slumber

Story: shower heads and itchy dogs

“Awake, O Sleeper, and arise from the dead”

Some of our items to quit sleep are best identified by their aroma — the stench of death.

“Lazarus, Come out.”

John 11:11-15

Some of the sleepy stench of shame, guilt, fear, anxiety, insecurity, bitterness, grudges, malice… those are in an entirely different kind of sleepy zip code than shower heads and itchy dogs!

“Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead.”

Quitting Something...

Not only taking a good hard look at your schedule and commitments...

Need to take a good hard look through your eyes of slumber… and you need to take a good strong whiff to see what deadly smells might emerge… quit those, and your learning, creativity, and mastering will take on a whole new life.

Moving forward into all things being made new involves us becoming adept and energized to quit the deadening and deadly.