Sermon Tone Analysis

1) God created everyone and everything for His glory and paid special attention to the creation of man.

: Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, 7 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made."

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: …in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory.

2) Everything should worship God, especially man.

(God created man to worship?)

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

When God’s creation

3) God is most pleased when man trustingly and lovingly worships Him with a true and contrite heart.

4) Prayer is a form of worship that preserves and manifests man’s dependence of God for His grace and power.

5) When the Spirit inspires and directs the groanings in our hearts, the ultimate purpose of the universe happens: God gets the glory because God the Spirit creates the groanings in us; God gets the glory because God the Father is the one who hears and performs what the Spirit asks; God gets glory because God the Son purchased for sinners every blessing they ever receive; and God gets glory because our hearts are made the theater for this divine activity, so that we know and experience God's gracious intercession for us and consciously give him thanks and praise.