Sermon Tone Analysis

In the Mean time..... Work, Wait, and Watch

Homiletical Idea:   \\ You are faithful and practically wise when you work in the Lord's absence and work expecting His return.

\\ You are faithful and practically wise when you work in the Lord's absence and work expecting His return.

\\   \\ Purpose: \\   \\ My pupose is to explain how to be a faithful and wise Christian.

\\   \\ How to Accomplish This Purpose: \\   \\ Explanation \\   \\ Outline: \\   \\ I.  We are faithful and wise servant in our calling when we work in His absence.

(v.45-47)  \\    A.

We must work with perservance (Ex: Nehimaih building the wall) \\   \\    B.

We must work continually (John 9 - Work while it is day for the night cometh when no man can work.

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Ex: \\       2.

The bee has been aptly described as “busy.”

To produce one pound of honey, the bee must visit 56,000 clover heads.

Since each head has 60 flower tubes, a total of 3,360,000 visits are necessary to give us that pound of honey for the breakfast table.

Meanwhile, that worker bee has flown the equivalent of three times around the world.

To produce one tablespoon of honey for our toast, the little bee makes 4,200 trips to flowers.

He makes about ten trips a day to the fields, each trip lasting twenty minutes average and four hundred flowers.

A worker bee will fly as far as eight miles if he cannot find a nectar flow that is nearer.

\\ Therefore, when you feel that persistence is a difficult task think of the bee.

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We are faithful and wise servant in our calling when we work in anticipation of His return.

(v.48-51) \\   \\    A.

We will not mistreat people.

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We will not abuse our position \\   \\      1.

Ex: Ezekial 34 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man,     prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God to the shepherds: a“Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves!

Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? 3 bYou eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you cslaughter the fatlings, ~/but~/ you do not feed the flock.

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   C.

We will not pursue personal pleasures

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