Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

Don’t Thank Me

In a concert in Chicago, Harry Lauder, Scottish singer and songwriter, sang to an overflowing audience.

At the conclusion, the audience stood en masse, and applauded uproariously.

After the applause subsided, the audience said in unison, “Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!”

Showing splendid humility, Lauder replied, “Don’t thank me! Thank the good God who put the songs in my heart!”

Tan, P. L. (1996).

Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (p. 479).

Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc.

Don’t Thank Me

In a concert in Chicago, Harry Lauder, Scottish singer and songwriter, sang to an overflowing audience.

At the conclusion, the audience stood en masse, and applauded uproariously.

After the applause subsided, the audience said in unison, “Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!”

Showing splendid humility, Lauder replied, “Don’t thank me! Thank the good God who put the songs in my heart!”

Tan, P. L. (1996).

Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (p. 479).

Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc.

1870 Don’t Thank Me

In a concert in Chicago, Harry Lauder, Scottish singer and songwriter, sang to an overflowing audience.

At the conclusion, the audience stood en masse, and applauded uproariously.

After the applause subsided, the audience said in unison, “Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!”

Showing splendid humility, Lauder replied, “Don’t thank me! Thank the good God who put the songs in my heart!”

This musician chose to allow God to get the glory.

He played the music but God gave him the ability!

God was the source of talent and great happiness that others obviously felt through the music.

The question I would pose to the listener is this.

Is God glorified in all you do?

Don’t Thank Me

Is God glorified in all you do?

In a concert in Chicago, Harry Lauder, Scottish singer and songwriter, sang to an overflowing audience.

At the conclusion, the audience stood en masse, and applauded uproariously.

After the applause subsided, the audience said in unison, “Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!”

Showing splendid humility, Lauder replied, “Don’t thank me! Thank the good God who put the songs in my heart!”

Paul challenges the church at Corinth to do everything for the glory of God.

He tells them as they argue over whether or not it is OK to eat food offered to idols, to always give glory to God.

No matter what!

And what that means is this; Can the nature of God be seen in what you do?

Can the world see who God is based on your attitude?

Can the world see God based on who you are?

Tan, P. L. (1996).

Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (p. 479).

Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc.

glory (divine) n. — the manifest presentation of God’s infinite and majestic nature; normally conveyed to humanity as superlative brightness.

What is glory?

Can the nature of God be seen in what we do?

Can the world see who God is based on our attitudes?

Can the world see God based on who we are?

3 Ways the World sees dating

A means of finding a spouse.

An eternal BF or GF

A means of the hookup.

(casual sex)

Today we will examine dating.

While the Bible may not speak on the topic, as the culture of the Bible is very different from ours, it does speak on what should be the end result.

Marriage should be the goal of dating or courting.

The world may have us to examine only physical attributes, credit scores, and social media profiles but I believe that God asks us to take a closer look.

I believe that God would be pleased if we glorified Him in our dating.

Showing the world the nature of God based on who we date and how we behave while dating.

A Truly Fine Woman!

When you are a man seeking a woman you may have a list of things that you would like to see in your perfect woman!

You may seek out a coke bottle shape, 2 liter shape, Oprah rich, Michelle Obama powerful, or Angela Davis militant!

But I want you to understand that God calls us to look in a different way.

In order to glorify God in your dating you need to see her through God’s eyes!

In Samuel is tasked by God to go and find a king to replace Saul.

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“…for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

The Bible does not specifically speak about dating but we can take the end result and back track what a desirable, or truly fine woman looks like from the perspective of looking at a Spirit filled wife.

A Woman Capable of Affection

Affection, Child’s Need of

Salimbene, a thirteenth-century historian, wrote this about the attempt of King Frederick II to raise children without maternal affection: “He wanted to find out what kind of speech children would have when they grew up if they spoke to no one beforehand.

So he bade foster mothers and nurses to suckle the children, to bathe and wash them but in no way to prattle with them, or to speak to them, for he wanted to learn whether they would speak the Hebrew language, which was the oldest, or Greek, or Latin, or Arabic, or perhaps the language of their parents, of whom they had been born.

But he labored in vain, because the children all died.

For they could not live without the petting and joyful faces and loving words of their foster mothers.”

(Cited in Gary Collins, Fractured Personalities, [Carol Stream, Ill.: Creation House] pp.

35-36.)

If you are dating a woman who is incapable of being a good friend or one who can show affection (Tender attachment) then that’s a sign.

Humanity needs affection.

You need affection, your possible future children will need affection!

A Woman Who Understands Respect

One thing I was told by one minister is that sometimes you have to sit back and watch people.

You have to observe the actions of people when they are behaving as they naturally do.

But for this purpose you do so to see what you as a man will have to later deal with in your headship of a Christian home.

A Woman With a Meek & Quiet Spirit

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Instead of seeking to have external beauty as a main priority, which fades, you want to seek a woman who is more concerned with having meekness and being gentle.

Some women are like interviewers at a TV award show, their first question is “So who are you wearing tonight?!”.

You want a woman who clothes herself in meekness and a quiet spirit.

Meek- enduring injury with patience, not violent, or gentle.

Quiet or tranquil- Being untroubled and free from disturbances

This is a woman who is more concerned with putting on the meekness than she is putting on Mac, more concerned with putting on the peacefulness of God than putting on a purse made by Gucci, more concerned with the D.B.R than D&B.

A Woman Who is Modest

Adorn- To adorn means to make oneself look better by.