Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

��Oral

Presentation Text:

The Lord will aaccomplish what concerns me;

Your blovingkindness, O Lord, is everlasting;

cDo not forsake the dworks of Your hands.

Theme: Sanctification

Title: Work in Progress

There are some things about us that needs a lot of work.

We are a work in progress.

What does progress look like?

How does God moves us forward toward restoring the image of God through the finished work of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ through the instruction and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Oswald Chambers

· Make sure sermon ideas are clear and well worded.

· Plan with the dynamics of oral communication.

· Design the presentation to follow the text.

· Design the presentation to engage the audience.

· Balance development for the whole man.

· Plan for the audience and for the occasion.

slov•en•ly \ˈslə-vən-lē also ˈslä-\ adjective

circa 1568

1 a: untidy especially in personal appearance

b: lazily slipshod 〈slovenly in thought〉

2: characteristic of a sloven 〈slovenly habits〉—slo•ven•li•ness noun—slovenly adverb

This exercise involves planning the design of your sermon for an oral presentation.

This form follows the motivated sequence outline combined with the traditional introduction-body-conclusion format.

Introduction:

Last Sunday, we Preached from .

Verse 8 tells us:

(NASB)

8 The LORD will accomplish what concerns me; Your lovingkindness, O LORD, is everlasting; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

There are some things about us that needs a lot of work.

We are a work in progress.

What does progress look like?

How does God moves us forward toward restoring the image of God through the finished work of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ through the instruction and guidance of the Holy Spirit?

Oswald Chambers tells us in his devotional:

My Utmost for His Highest July 31st—Till You are Entirely His

Many of us are all right in the main, but there are some domains in which we are slovenly.

It is not a question of sin, but of the remnants of the carnal life which are apt to make us slovenly.

Slovenliness(Untidyness/Sloppiness) is an insult to the Holy Ghost.

There should be nothing sloppy, whether it be in the way we eat and drink, or in the way we worship God.

Not only must our relationship to God be right, but the external expression of that relationship must be right.

Ultimately God will let nothing escape, every detail is under His scrutiny.

In numberless ways God will bring us back to the same point over and over again.

He never tires of bringing us to the one point until we learn the lesson, because He is producing the finished product.

Need

Let your endurance be a finished product, so that you may be finished and complete, with never a defect.

James 1:4 (Moffatt).

Life is messy!

We can get messy because we live in a world that is messy.

We are messy not just on the outside, but on the inside.

How can we get ready for the next promotion in our spiritual walk if we are not tested?

A faith not tested cannot be trusted.

We need to know that in some cases of making us more like Christ requires the work of the Spirit through the ebbs and flows called life experience to make us more like Jesus.

Work Perfect

Textual Idea:

(KJV)

4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Sermon Idea:

Work in Progress

Interrogative:

Why are we so messy in our walk with Jesus?

Why are we slanderous with our speech, bitterness in the baskets of our hearts, vile in our speech with the venom of Satan, greedy in our giving, disrespectful, distasteful to God and our families; Does anybody in here know that all of us from time to time, epoch to epoch, need some work?

Many of us are all right in the main, but there are some domains in which we are slovenly.

It is not a question of sin, but of the remnants of the carnal life which are apt to make us slovenly.

Slovenliness is an insult to the Holy Ghost.

There should be nothing slovenly, whether it be in the way we eat and drink, or in the way we worship God.

Not only must our relationship to God be right, but the external expression of that relationship must be right.

Transition:

When you walk past a construction site, you see a sign, “ WORK IN PROGRESS” Today, I concur to you that were all wearing that sign when it comes to our spiritual walk in Christ.

We got bricks on the floor, dirt everywhere, unfinished, not fully developed, incomplete, still on Holy Spirt’s drawing board where he has the vision, the plans, the materials, the power, and the green light to execute the plans of the Father through the work of the Son, in the power of the Holy Ghost!

(NASB)

11 'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

There is a purpose to trials and calamity in our lives: The book of James wants us to grow up in our faith.

James tells his audience that is struggling in various trials and tribulations the purpose of them and how God uses them to manifest

Satisfaction

Division 1 Statement

(Count Consider /) the Consequences( end result )v2

Explanation

— Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

Ultimately God will let nothing escape, every detail is under His scrutiny.

In numberless ways God will bring us back to the same point over and over again.

He never tires of bringing us to the one point until we learn the lesson, because He is producing the finished product.

— Behold, we count them happy which endure.

Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

How can we have joy when it hurts so bad?

Joy can be defined as anything that causes cheer and dispels gloom!

Illustration:

Dr. Tony Evans gives us this illustration of Joy:

SOMEBODY has come up with a great concept—putting playrooms in doctors' offices.

Many parents bring their kids to the doctor because they are sick and they need the doctor to see them.

The playrooms are designed to distract the children from the pain of their problem until their problem gets fixed.

The playroom gives them joy in a bad situation.

That's the way God works.

Even though things may not be going the way we want them to be on the outside, God has designed a "playroom" in our soul.

In the midst of our circumstances, His joy can distract us from our pain or discomfort, until He makes provision for our change or healing.

Tony Evans' Book of Illustrations: Stories, Quotes, and Anecdotes from More than 30 Years of Preaching and Public Speaking.

Argumentation

When we count the consequences, we start to examine our current trial which does not make us happy and begin to seek out reasons in God word that can give us a reason to have an alternative response.

King James Version (KJV)