Sermon Tone Analysis

·      How many really want to be led by the spirit?

·      This will mean that we have to decide to obey what the spirit leads us to do, don’t we?

·      What is the opposite of being led by the spirit?

I want, I think, I feel….

I constantly confuse my feelings with the will and the moving of God.

(We charismatics tend to think that God's voice and our feelings are pretty much the same thing.)

·      Knowing the will of God is not the same as doing it.

*Luke 9:23-26*

23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, *let him deny himself*, *and take up his cross daily*, and *follow me*.

24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and *lose himself*, or be cast away?

26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.

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1.    *You must be willing to die to yourself *(*let him deny himself)*

*2.    **You must be Willing to make an investment: (**and take up his cross daily)*

*3.    **Free from the fear of Man.

(**follow me)*

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*Gal 1:10*

10 You can see that I am not trying to please you by sweet talk and flattery; no, I am trying to please God.

If I were still trying to please men I could not be Christ's servant.

(TLB)

 

*John 5:41-44*

41 I receive not honour from men. 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

44 *How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?*

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·      If men can lift you up they can tear us down.

Many of us have the opinions of ourselves that men (Parents, friends etc.. ((Remember Jabez)) have of us or have had of us.

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*1 Sam 15:1-24*

1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD. 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. 3 *Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.* 4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.

So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

9 *But Saul and the people* spared Agag, and the best of the

 

sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and ~* *all that was good*, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.~*

10 Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, 11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for *he is turned back from following me*, and hath not performed my commandments.

And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him*, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD*.

14 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

15 And Saul said, *They* have brought them from the Amalekites: *for the people* spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night.

And he said unto him, Say on.

17 And Samuel said, *When thou wast little in thine own sight*, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?

18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

21 But *the people* took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.

22 And Samuel said, *Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD?* *Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.*

23 *For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.*

Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words:* because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.*

(KJV)

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*Matt 21:23-27*

23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things?

and who gave thee this authority?

24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.

25 The baptism of John, whence was it?

from heaven, or of men?

And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?

26 But if we shall say, Of men; *we fear the people*; for all hold John as a prophet.

27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell.

And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

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