Sermon Tone Analysis

Where’s your heart at?

Psalm 84:1

-

Vs 5-7 (MSG): And how blessed all those in whom you live, whose lives become roads you travel.

Vs 10 (MSG): One day spent in your house, this beautiful place of worship, beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches.

I’d rather scrub floors in the house of my God than be honoured as a guest in the palace of sin.

God-traveled, these roads curve up the mountain, and at the last turn—Zion!

God in full view!

Vs 10 (MSG): One day spent in your house, this beautiful place of worship, beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches.

I’d rather scrub floors in the house of my God than be honoured as a guest in the palace of sin.

One day spent in your house, this beautiful place of worship, beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches.

I’d rather scrub floors in the house of my God than be honored as a guest in the palace of sin.

All sunshine and sovereign is God , generous in gifts and glory.

He doesn’t scrimp with his traveling companions.

It’s smooth sailing all the way with God -of-the-Angel-Armies.

One day spent in your house, this beautiful place of worship, beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches.

I’d rather scrub floors in the house of my God than be honored as a guest in the palace of sin.

All sunshine and sovereign is God , generous in gifts and glory.

He doesn’t scrimp with his traveling companions.

It’s smooth sailing all the way with God -of-the-Angel-Armies.' ,, https://my.bible.com/bible/97/,,

Definition

Collins Dictionary

“Your heart is the organ in your chest that pumps the blood around your body.” - (Collins Dictionary)

“It is used to refer to a person's character, or the place within a person where feelings or emotions are considered to come from” - (Cambridge Dictionary)

Why was Eliab rejected?

,

Do you know Samuel anointed Saul to be king, with similar looks as Eliab?

Surely, Samuel knew how a king should look like.

1Sam

1 Samuel 9: 15-17

The name Eliab means, “My God is Father”

The fact that God rejected Eliab meant Eliab was weighed, considered, scrutinised by God if he was fit to be a king.

He failed God’s test.

Facts about Eliab:

- Eliab enlists to be soldier in king Saul’s army.

- When Goliath defied the army of God that was led by king Saul, Eliab and his other two brothers (Abinadab and Shammah) did not answer the call to restore the peace of Israel, because they were afraid, like the rest of Israel to face Goliath

(, )

- When David comes to the army camp and questions the audacity of the giant Goliath to defy God’s army and asks about the reward that would be given to the one who would take away the reproach of Israel, Eliab gets angry.

Eliab in his anger also accuses David of having a naughty heart alleging that David came to be a spectator of the war.

What Eliab was:

Tall, dark and handsome (He was the manly man - Physical traits)

Does not take initiative, rather responds out of fear and becomes a spectator, instead of faith in God

Quick to take offence when he feels challenged, he becomes cranky and accusatory

Tried to bully David and belittle him

- Quick to take offence (rebukes David)

Tried to bully David and belittle him

1 Samuel 17

Remember, it was on matters of the heart that Eliab was rejected and we see Eliab questioning the character (heart) of David; the heart that God himself said was after his very own

).

Eliab’s insolent pride, which disqualified him from being king and was revealed through accusing David of what he himself was guilty, was in stark contrast to David’s eyes of faith.

Eliab made a point of publicly declaring his superiority by belittling David when he asked “And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness?”.

Eliab was saying to David, “you’re a nobody, spending your time in the middle of nowhere, only taking care of a pitiful handful of sheep” – compared to me “the warrior””.

Functions of the Biological Human Heart

The human heart is an organ that

Pumps blood throughout the body via the circulatory system

When it is pumping blood, it beats, the heartbeat indicates the health of your heart.

How healthy is your heart, does it still feels pumped, excited when you hear about the things of God?

Does it respond to God’s word?

Supplying oxygen and nutrients to the tissues

Is your heart feeding the body?

Through giving, fellowship, being part of the body?

Removing carbon dioxide and other wastes.

Does your heart intentionally get rid of the poisonous substances that could be harmful to the body you belong to?

When you hear words that does not support the gospel, do you takes sides with it, or are afraid to confront it like Eliab, or do you stand against it like David?

He was not a shepherd (did not know what care is in leadership)

God look at the state of your heart through your Spirit

Ways to Improve your heart’s health

Giving

Giving

Serving

Matthew 6:22

Colossians 3:23

Caring

Obedience

Honouring others

Loving God

He does not

See things from his perspective.

Your old life is dead.

Your new life, which is your real life—even though invisible to spectators—is with Christ in God.

He is your life.

When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth, you’ll show up, too—the real you, the glorious you.

Meanwhile, be content with obscurity, like Christ.

And that means killing off everything connected with that way of death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy.

That’s a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God.

It’s because of this kind of thing that God is about to explode in anger.

It wasn’t long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better.

But you know better now, so make sure it’s all gone for good: bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk.

And that means killing off everything connected with that way of death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy.

That’s a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God.

It’s because of this kind of thing that God is about to explode in anger.

It wasn’t long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better.

But you know better now, so make sure it’s all gone for good: bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk.

Don’t lie to one another.

You’re done with that old life.

It’s like a filthy set of ill-fitting clothes you’ve stripped off and put in the fire.