Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Ps103/1-

Fringe benefits are additions to compensation that companies give their employees.

Some fringe benefits are given universally to all employees of a company while others may be offered only to those at executive levels.

Some benefits are awarded to compensate employees for costs related to their work while others are geared to general job satisfaction.

Common fringe benefits include health insurance, life insurance, tuition assistance, childcare reimbursement, cafeteria subsidies, below-market loans, employee discounts, employee stock options, and personal use of a company-owned vehicle.

- The companies want to close the labor cost gap with workers at plants run by foreign automakers.

GM pays $63 per hour in wages and benefits compared with $50 at the foreign-owned factories.

GM's gap is the largest at $13 per hour, according to figures from the Center for Automotive Research.

- Union members have great health insurance plans and workers pay about 4% of the cost.

Employees at large firms nationwide pay about 34%, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Automakers would like to cut costs.

I am glad i serve a God who will not change on you.

God who will continue to do as he promised.

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God of Integrity

A God who is Fair

Matt 5.48

A God who is in total control.

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Benefits of Christ

David begins by talking to himself (103:1–5).

He urges his soul to praise the Lord.

It is easy, but very wrong, to ignore or forget the infinite goodness of God.

The Lord blesses David in so many ways, forgiving his sins and healing his diseases.

The Lord redeems him, like a close, reliable and generous relative coming to his aid.

Even ‘the pit’ of despair, disaster and death is not beyond God’s saving reach.

The Lord gives every appetite its proper satisfaction, and restores the spring of youth, like the strong and soaring eagle.

I. Bless the Lord

Knowles, A. (2001).

The Bible guide (1st Augsburg books ed., p. 242).

Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg.I.

Bless the Lord

I.Bless the Lord

, Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name!

Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name!

When God is the object of your life there should be some praise.

Praise that is not out of formality but out of and from the inside of you.

This means not by lips only, not his hands upon the harp strings, not his eyes upllfted towards heaven.

Bless the Lord, O my soul,”—he means thereby not his lips only, not his hands upon the harp strings, not his eyes uplifted towards heaven, but his soul, his very self his truest self.

Never let me present to God the outward and superficial alone, but let me render to him the inner and the sincere;

This has and should be an individual decision to praise the Lord for what he as done.

Spurgeon, C. H. (1872).

The Saints Blessing the Lord.

In The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons (Vol.

18, pp.

603–604).

London: Passmore & Alabaster.

This has and should be an individual decision to praise the Lord for what he as done.

David had never risen to the height of saying “Bless the Lord, ye his angels;” or “Bless the Lord, all his works;” if he had not first tuned his own voice to the gladsome music.

No man is fit to be a conductor in the choirs of holy song until he has learned himself to sing the song of praise.

“Bless the Lord, O my soul,” is the preacher’s preparation in the study, without which he must fail in the pulpit.

Self-evident as this is, many persons need to be reminded of it; for they are ready enough to admonish others, but forget that true gratitude to God must, like charity, begin at home.

There is an old proverb which saith, “The cobbler’s wife goes barefoot,” and I am afraid this is too often the case in morals and religion.

Preachers ought especially to be jealous of themselves in this particular, lest, whilst they are crying aloud to other men to magnify the Lord, they should be shamefully silent themselves.

I would this morning glow with the sacred flame of personal thankfulness while I call upon you to bless the holy name of Jehovah, our God.

But what is true of preachers is true of all other workers.

The tendency among men is, when they grow a little earnest, to expend their zeal upon other people, and frequently in the way of fault-finding.

It is wonderfully easy to wax indignant at the indolence, the divisions, the coldness, or the errors of the Christian church, and to fulminate our little bulls against her, declaring her to be weighed in our balances and found wanting, as if it mattered one halfpenny to the church what the verdict of our imperfect scales might be.

Why, instead of a tract upon the faults of the church, at the present moment, it would be easy to write a folio volume; and when it was written it would be wise to put it in the fire.

Friend, mind those beams in your own eye, and leave the Lord Jesus to clear the motes from the eye of his church.

Begin at home; there is in-door work to be done.

Instead of vainly pointing to the faults of others, pour forth thine earnestness in praising God, and say thou unto thine own heart, “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.”

Bless his Holy name

II.

Don’t for get his Benefits.

and forget not all his benefits—a hint to David’s seed that they, too, should not (as the human heart is apt to do) forget all God’s benefits.

So many times in life as we have success, move forward to achieve our goals, we often forget our hearts are filled and we often forget the the Giver.

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In hebrew benefits means retribution or reward.

Our only claim is his own grace and our great wretchedness which moves his infinite compassion.

God gives benefits or bountiful dealings according to his own goodness.

III.

Forgiveness and Healing

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God remembers what man forgets, and forgets what man remembers.

Not just sin but forgives our iniquities.

Sin easy to say i have sinned or you caught.

The Lord gets deeper speaking of our iniquities.

Those things deep down in heart, our premediated plans.

The plans you just havent been given the opportunity.

Those thing that only you and the Lord know about.

Misdeed, guilt caused by sin.

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Family there can be no healing until sins are forgiven.

Disease is a result of sin, and before healing can take place the sin in question must be settled.

Christ was delivered for our offenses.

He was raised for our justification.

And not until we are justifed by faith in Christ can we be forgiven.

Ultimate physician is taking the knife to some relationships, jobs, situations, places.

And Some will have to stay in the healing stage because thats where he gets the most out of us.

IV.

Redemption and Crowning

God doesn’t stop at forgiving our sins and redeeming us.

He “crowns [us] with loyal love and mercies” (Psa 103:4).

Although we have greatly offended Him, He doesn’t hold it against us: “He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us according to our iniquities”

- He purchases our lives from destruction from eternal damnation.

- Jesus preplanned dying on the cross for our sins.

- What about the time car just missed from hitting you?