Sermon Tone Analysis

Heal Our Land

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Political Sacrifice For God, Trump Last Night

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What Sacrifice are you willing to make for Christ

Make a sacrifice for Christ made the ultimate Sacrifice for You!

Patrick Morley, in Man in the Mirror, tells about a group of fishermen who landed in a secluded bay in Alaska and had a great day fishing for salmon.

But when they returned to their sea plane, it was aground because of the fluctuating tides.

They had no option except to wait until the next morning till the tides came in.

But when they took off, they only got a few feet off the ground and then crashed down into the sea.

Being aground the day before had punctured one of the pontoons, and it had filled up with water.

The sea plane slowly began to sink.

The three men and a 12-year-old son of one of them, Mark, prayed and then jumped into the icy waters to swim to shore.

The water was cold, and the riptide was strong, and two of the men reached the shore exhausted.

They looked back, and their companion, who was also a strong swimmer, did not swim to shore because his 12-year-old son wasn't strong enough to make it.

They saw that father with his arms around his son being swept out to sea.

He chose to die with his son rather than to live without him.

There is a fact of life that most kids do not know.

We love our children so much that we would die for them.

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2. Humble yourself

Definition of humble

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1: not proud or haughty : not arrogant or assertive

2: reflecting, expressing, or offered in a spirit of deference or submission

“To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ” ().

Here Paul goes further than calling himself the foremost of sinners and now considers himself “the very least of all the saints.”

That is about a great of an example of humility that I have ever read by Paul.really, by anyone.

Finally, Paul writes “I am the least of the apostles” in .

That’s because he felt that he was an apostle “untimely born” who came after the other apostles who were with Christ during His earthly ministry.

Once again Paul was being modest because He actually wrote about half of the contents of the New Testament (13 books but possibly the author of Hebrews, making it over half of the New Testament).

Paul considered himself last in rank in comparison to the other Apostles but instead of stating this as fact, he wrote this down for the church to read because of his humble nature.

Paul never considered himself more important that the other apostles, the saints, and ranked himself highest only among sinners.

That is a model of true humility.

3. Seek the Face of the Lord

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This setting of the mind is the opposite of mental coasting.

It is a conscious choice to direct the heart toward God.

This is what Paul prays for the church:

2 Thessalonians 3:5

It is a conscious effort on our part.

But that effort to seek God is a gift from God.

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It is a conscious effort on our part.

But that effort to seek God is a gift from God.

The heavens are telling the glory of God.

So we can seek him through that.

He reveals himself in his word.

So we can seek him through that.

He shows himself to us in the evidences of grace in other people.

So we can seek him through that.

The seeking is the conscious effort to get through the natural means to God himself — to constantly set our minds toward God in all our experiences, to direct our minds and hearts toward him through the means of his revelation.

This is what seeking God means.