Sermon Tone Analysis

I am not alone.

1677 גֹּלֶם (gō·lěm): n.[masc.];

≡ Str 1564; TWOT 354b—LN 9.41–9.45

embryo, beginning fetus, i.e., what is in the mother’s womb, and perceived to be life with an unformed body (Ps 139:16+), note: for other solutions, see WBC21:252

Summary: David sensed his value and purpose because he realized he was not an "accident".

He was a man created in the image of God and he is was not alone.

Have you ever felt alone?

Of course you have, we all have.

We all have those times we can feel alone.

We know in our heads, that God is with us, that God is there for us and yet isn’t it hard to see it?

To really know it?

Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of passage?

On the night of the boys 13th birthday sis dad takes him into the forest, blindfolds, and leaves him alone.

He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not take off the blindfold until the rays of the sun shine through it.

He is all by himself.

He cannot cry out for help to anyone.

Once he survives the night, he is a MAN.

He cannot tell the other boys of this experience.

Each lad must come into his own manhood.

The boy was terrified and could hear all kinds of noises.

Beasts were all around him.

Maybe even some human would hurt him.

The wind blew the grass and trees.

But he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold.

It was the only way he could become a man.

After what must have seemed like an eternity, the first rays of sunlight entered the interior of the forest and started shining through the blindfold.

He took it off and looking around, the boy saw flowers, trees, and the outline of the path.

Then, to his utter astonishment, he saw the figure of a man standing just a few feet away, armed with a bow and arrow.

It was the boy’s father.

He had been there all night long.

It is a lesson in bravery ... in independence.

But it is an important lesson in DEPENDENCE as well.

Tribe and family matter.

You aren’t alone, even when you are most lonely."

We are not alone, I am not alone.

We are never alone.

Even when we do not know it, out Father is protecting

us.

We are never alone.

Even when we do not know it, out Father is protecting

us.

"On the night of a boy’s thirteenth birthday, he was placed in a dense forest to spend the entire night alone.

Until then he had never been away from the security of his family and tribe.

But on this night he was blindfolded and taken miles away.

When he took off the blindfold, he was in the middle of thick woods.

By himself.

All night long.

Terrifying!

How out of his element the young brave must have felt.

How very un-BRAVE, in fact.

Every time a twig snapped, he probably visualized a wild animal ready to pounce.

Every time an animal howled, he imagined a wolf leaping out of the darkness.

Every time the wind blew, he wondered what more sinister sound it masked.

No doubt it was a terrifying night for many.

As I was studying for this sermon, I decide to look at .

By Jeff Strite

it is written by David and is a wisdom psalm—meant to pass along wise teachings—that has the features of a hymn and lament.

These features are expressed in the themes of the psalm rather than its structure; the hymn-like elements focus on God’s greatness, while the lament-like elements focus on God’s power over the psalmist.

Psalm 139 is a wisdom psalm—meant to pass along wise teachings—that has the features of a hymn and lament.

These various features are expressed in the themes of the psalm rather than its structure; the hymn-like elements focus on Yahweh’s greatness (especially His knowledge), while the lament-like elements focus on Yahweh’s power over the psalmist.

Summary: David sensed his value and purpose because he realized he was not an "accident".

He was a man created in the image of God.

David talks about the greatness of God in there “omnis”

OPEN: In Robert Wise’s book “Your Churning Place” he tells a story about Burt Lancaster - a famous movie Star who made almost 100 movies between 1939 and 1989.

But before he began working in the movies Burt Lancaster was a circus performer - a job he was fortunate to land, considering his less than flawless audition.

He was asked to perform on the parallel bars, so he leaped on the bars and began his routine.

Because he was nervous, his timing was off, and he spun over the bar falling flat on his face some 10 feet below.

He was so humiliated that he immediately leaped back on the bar.

As he spun again in the same point, he flipped off and smashed to the ground once more.

His tights were torn.

He was cut and bleeding, and he was fiercely upset.

He leaped back on the bars again, but the 3rd time was even worse because this time he fell on his back.

The agent came over, picked him up, and said "Son, if you promise not to do that again, you’ve got the job!"

APPLY: Burt Lancaster was frustrated.

omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence.

He just knew he could do the job, but every time he tried he failed.

A lesser man would have given up.

But Lancaster was so convinced of his own abilities that he kept at it even when he fell down repeatedly.

Many of the great men and women of the past have approached life in this same fashion.

I. HIS OMNISCIENCE (139:1–6): God knows all about us.

A. What we do (139:1–3)

B. What we think (139:2)

C. What we say (139:4–6)

Henry Ford was broke at age 40, and yet he created the first automobile empire.

Albert Einstein flunked in math and yet he devised some of the most powerful math equations.

One of Great Britain’s greatest admirals – Horatio Nelson – suffered from seasickness.

Helen Keller could not hear nor see - graduated with honors from a famous college.

Helen Keller could not hear nor see - graduated with honors from a famous college.

I. His Omniscience (): God knows all about us.

God examined David, knows every detail.

Omniscience.

God’s infinite knowledge and understanding of things past, present, and future.

A. What we do (139:1–3)

He knows you, when you rise, sit, going out and lying down, He knows all my ways.

A. What we do (139:1–3)

B. What we think (139:2)

He perceives our thoughts from afar.

C. What we say (139:4–6)

before I speak a word, God knows it.

He knows, what I’ve done, thought and said.