Sermon Tone Analysis

*Jude* *24 **To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—* *25 *to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore!

Amen.

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*To Him who is able…*

We saw a scripture last week as I shared about “who is setting the limitations of our lives?”

*To him who is able….*

All limited by our inner strength by the Holy Spirit, our relational depth with Christ, our understanding of his love and how much of his fullness we receive.

This week we see again the phrase *“to him who is able…”*

 

* *Fact #1            God s able, No question, no doubt.*

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* *there is nothing to hard for God*

*Luke 1:37 *For nothing is impossible with God.” NIV (Angel spoke to Mary)

*Luke 18:27 *Jesus replied, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.” NIV

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* *Fact# 2            I am unable to do…* * *

*Romans 7:14 *We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

*15 **I do not understand what I do.*

For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

*16 *And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

*17 *As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

*18 *I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.

For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

*19 *For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

*20 *Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

*21 *So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

*22 *For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; *23 *but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.

*24 *What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

*25 *Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

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*John 15:5 *“I am the vine; you are the branches.

If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; *apart from me you can do nothing.*

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·         *Fact# 3             God can enable us.*

*Acts 2:4 *All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

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*Act 4:29* ..Oh Lord, enable us to…and he did

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*Acts 7:9 *“Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt.

But God was with him *10 *and rescued him from all his troubles.

He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt; so he made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace.

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*Acts 14:3 *So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to do miraculous signs and wonders.

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*Hebrews 11:11 *By faith Abraham, even though he was past age—and Sarah herself was barren—was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise.

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*Jude 20 *But you, dear friends, *build yourselves up* in your most holy faith and *pray in the Holy Spirit*.

*21 **Keep yourselves in God’s love* as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

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Once again *pray* in the Holy Spirit and *stay* in God’s love.