Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro- Blindness is terrible.

Having to navigate through this life without being able to see colors, details, beauty, or avoid danger is a frightening thought.

However, that is exactly the way that many people live spiritually.

They are blind to so many beautiful things, as well as not being able to see the dangers that lie before them.

It is time for us to open our eyes.

We need to open our eyes to...

The beauty of His Word.

What does this book mean to you?

Is it just a book?

Is it just a list of rules?

If we have reduced this book to a list of rules that we just have to follow so we can go to heaven, we have missed it.

What is wondrous about the law?

It reveals God to us.

With each command, statement, example, we come to know God better

It keeps us protected physically and spiritually

It gives us a lit pathway to walk on in a dark world ()

ill- Zelda video game, without the eye of truth, you will just be wandering around aimlessly until you lose the game.

It is so easy for us to wander around aimlessly because we aren’t allowing our lives to be guided by the truth.

God’s providing hand

One of the biggest challenges that we face in a society where we have more material blessings is that we can lie to ourselves and tell ourselves that we have provided for ourselves.

How easy it is for someone who gets up early and puts in a full day’s work and takes their paycheck to the bank and looks at their home, food on the table, cars in the driveway, vacations they go on and say… man I have really done good.

All along the way they are blind to the providential hand of God in their life.

Most of us did not “earn our citizenship” we were born here

We may have worked hard, but who gave us the health to do what we do?

There are many who would love to do what we do but they are simply physically unable.

We can raise our children in a certain way and when they accomplish different things we can kind of stick our chest out in pride… not thinking about the fact that their very existence is a blessing from God, one that not every family is blessed with.

Even if we find something in our life that we can try to twist and convince ourselves that “we did this” we are left woefully defeated because we are only on this earth because God is letting us be (Psalm 3:5)

In this incredible passage we see clearly that God was the one responsible for the deliverance of Elisha.

The man who thinks he is self-sufficient is a man who is woefully unable to stand when challenges come his way.

Our sin

One of the easiest things for us to turn a blind eye to is our sin.

It is easy for us to read and dismiss - We say, “all have sinned” I am part of all so I guess that means I’ve sinned… But we fail to examine the gravity of the fact that I am a sinner.

Turning a blind eye to our own sin is one of the biggest causes of spiritual blindness

The beauty of the Word.

This is always a funny mental picture to me.

Someone trying to get in close enough to someone else to pull out a speck from their eye while they have a log hanging out of their own eye.

Our dependance on God.

Have you ever been around someone who was hyper critical?

usual those speck-hunting specialists are the ones with logs hanging out of their own eyes but they are too blind to see it.

When we fail to open our eyes to our faults, we will never see clearly.

When we open our eyes to our sin we open our eyes to our dependance on God.

When we do these things, “opening our eyes to the beauty of God’s word, His providing hand, and our sin” we see our deep need for Him.

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