Sermon Tone Analysis

worship is the weapon of heaven against everything that That competes against the supremacy of God in your life

HEART

Our heart is the source of our feelings, thoughts, intentions, and our sense of condemnation or guilt when we’ve done something wrong.

· We are to love the Lord with our heart (everything within – passions, desires, dreams

SOUL

so we could express Him, but because of the fall, we tend to express ourselves.

· WE ARE TO love the Lord with our desires but also we are But we are also to love him with how we talk, and what we do with our hands, and how we utilize our talents, and how we react to challenges — our entire being is to display that we love God.

· the expressions of our life

MIND

· NNN

Preset our bodies a …by the renewing of your mind

STRENGHT

· Both of these may actually be pointing in the same direction, for the strength of a person is not simply who he is, but what he has at his disposal.

Think with me: If Moses’s call to love Yahweh starts with our heart and then moves out to our being, could not our “very-ness” be one step bigger and include all our resources (see Block, Deuteronomy, 183–84)?

SO WHAT IS THE ESSENCE?

· Serve the Lord with the Totality of who you are and with the whole of what you possess

SO THE REVOLUTION MEANS

· Contemplating the bauty of the Lord Jesus and with this picture

o Analyzing everything within (the heart) and revolution

o Analyzing everything of our walk and ways (soul) and revolution

o Analyzing everything within our minds and revolution

o Analyzing everything we possess (strength) and revolution

So, any action of worship that is void of this on-going and daily REVOLUTION is

· empty worship

· man-centered worship;

· NO WORSHIP AT ALL.

For how can you truly worship the Lord when

- Your HEART is being saturated by the passions of the enemy’s kingdom?

- Your SOUL is being guided by the ways of the enemy’s kingdom?

- Your MIND is being occupied by the thoughts of the enemy’s kingdom?

- Your STRENGHT (possessions) are being given to the stuff of the enemy’s kingdom?

INTRO

In the late 1700’s the then 13 colonies in N. America joined together to fight against the British Empire in order to gain their independence and, when the battle was over the United States was formed.

This event is known historically as the American Revolution.

In our text, Jesus commands us to love the Lord…with all….

I want you to know that what Jesus was teaching and commanding us with not the soft, Hallmark version of love; not the spiritual equivalent of the Notebook.

Too often when we read these words of Jesus this is what we think.

We think, immediately, that Jesus is commanding us to have warm and fuzzies for the Lord.

But this is not the case.

In this text Jesus is commanding us to love; But not this: love is an act of Revolution!!!!!!

TO WORSHIP THE LORD IS TO LOVE THE LORD; SO WORSHIP IS AN ACT OF WAR – REVOLUTION – AGINST SIN, SATAN AND EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE THAT PREVETS US FROM OUR COMPLETE WORSHIP OF THE LORD

Like the 13 colonies joined together to fight against the oppression of the British, so too must we unite these four: Our Mind, our heart, our soul and our strength to fight against the tyranny of sin and the seeming oppressive nature of the devil.

When Jesus calls us to love the Lord with… He is calling us to war: to a revolution.

God wants to do something great IN YOU AND somethingGREAT -in this church and I am certain this is why he has called us to do a series on worship.

But I want you to hear what I’m about to say to you and I want you to let it sink in powerfully into you mind and into your soul.

What God wants to do in this church this great thing he wants to do, he will only do through you.

Note this and do not let it pass the mind: God Will not do anything great in the heart that does not see him as great.

You get that?

If you want to see great things in your life and if you want to see great things in this church God must be FIRST in your heart and in THE HEART OF this church.

So when Jesus says that you are to love the Lord your God with all your heart etc. he is saying something powerful and something we can and we did not miss last we missed the heart of God for our lives.

Love is a revolution.

Love is a whole life revolution.

Revolution is the act of producing change by violence!!!!

Worship is the weapon of heaven to overthrow the competing affections of our heart with a complete replacement of the sinful government of the enemy

WORSHIP is an act of revolution because the choice to love is a choice to hate.

When a man chooses to love a woman in that one choice he makes a revolution against all other women.

* Revolution is the act of producing change by violence!!!!

* Worship is the weapon of heaven to overthrow the competing affections of our heart

with a complete replacement of the sinful government of the enemy

Worship is the weapon of heaven to overthrow the competing affections of our heart with a complete replacement of the sinful government of the enemy

To love the Lord is means bringing a revolution upon everything else and everyone else.

This is why Jesus makes the following challenging and difficult statement -TURN TO

Only a fool goes to war without counting the cost because he will lose

Following Jesus is not to be taken lightly because worshipping the Lord demands that we love Him; that we ACTIVELY AND CONSISTENTLY go to war against everything and everyone; TO WORSHIP THE LORD means to go to war against EVERYTHING - JESUS WANTS THE FULESS OF YOUR WORSHIP IN THE TOTALITY OF YOUR LOVE

Jesus says the man does not hate his father mother sister brother etc. can’t be my disciple.

If he will not make me a priority or better if he will notLet his love for me provide discernment about how to love his mother father sister brother you cannot be my disciple.

THE CALL TO GO TO WAR TO MAKE JESUS SUPREME IN YOUR LIFE IS THE ONLY RIGHT, AND REASONABLE RESPONSE TO THE LORD WHO WENT TO WAR FOR YOU! FOLLOW ME HERE

GOD WITH US - GOD WILL FIGHT FOR US

So, the sending of Jesus was an Act of love - a declaration of Revolution from the Lord against sin and Satan the twin enemies that had us bound!

So to love God with all our heart mind soul and strength is an act of revolution against everything of our soul mind and heart and strains that is above Jesus.

Sec Corinthian‘s 10-says anything at graces itself up against the opinion of Jesus must be slayed

When you were converted the revolution began in you.

Jesus started the revolution of your heart and now he’s calling you with the help of the Holy Spirit, to finish it.

So, the Lord began the Revolution for your worship by loving us in sending Jesus for us.

When you were converted the revolution began in you.

Now he’s calling you and I, by the help of the Holy Spirit, to finish it by going t war against everything that hinders or seeks to rob our love for the Lord.

Worship is the weapon of heaven by which we do business against every competing thing, person, desire or possession that seeks to gain control or mastery over our hearts, minds, soul and strength.

LET ME SAY SOMETHING THAT I NEED YOU TO GET THAT THE DEVIL IS DESPERATELY TRYING TO KEEP YOU FROM UNDERSTANDING:

WE STRUGGLE WITH WORSHIP ONLY BECAUSE WE STRUGGLE WITH WARRING

REVOLUTION

WE STRUGGLE WITH LOVING THE LORD BECAUSE WE DON’T GO TO WAR FOR OUR LOVE FOR THE LORD

WOrship is the weapon of

SO PAUL’S COMMAND IN

PUTTING ON THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD NEEDS TO BE UNDERSTOOD IN THE CONTEXT OF WORSHIP

GET SUITED AND BOOTED IN ORDER TO WAGE WAR AGAINST THE SCHEMES OF THE DEVIL THAT COME AGAINST YOUR WORSHIP OF THE LORD!

SOME WOULD ASK THIS QUESTION:

SOME WOULD ASK THIS QUESTION:

HOW LONG AM I TO ENGAGE IN THIS REVOLUTION?

Until Christ is formed in you () -PAUL, IN HIS LOVE FOR GALATIANS SHOWS HIS COMMITMENT AND LOVE FOR THEM SAYING

GALA

GALA

UNTIL CHRIST IS FORMED IN US!

What does Paul mean by this?

‘to be fully developed’ [NLT].

The phrase μορφωθῇ Χριστὸς ἐν ὑμῖν ‘Christ is formed in you’ is translated ‘Christ’s nature is formed in you, you become like Christ was/is’ [LN], ‘Christ may be seen living in you’ [CEV], ‘you truly become like Christ’ [NCV], ‘you trust Christ exclusively and wholeheartedly’ [SSA], ‘you come to have the form of Christ’ [REB], ‘Christ takes shape in you’

Formed =morfaythey

CONTINUE TO GROW’

‘Christ’s nature is fully formed or developed in you

you become like Christ was/is’

‘Christ takes shape in you’