Sermon Tone Analysis

Name

    

Eaves-dropping test

 (If you were in a restaraunt and overheard someone saying this what line of work would they be in.)

1."spec-buying has pretty much squeezed the shorts out of the action"

 

2.

"interfaces through such service modules such as database handlers can be packaged using macros"

 

3.

"cantilevre those joists"

 

4.

"50% of the line is a facultative placement and the other 50% is on a treaty with an excess loss provision of 1,000,000"

    

5.

"She'll require an equilabration before any final restoration"

 

6.

"I ordered a CBC"

 

7.

"The kerygmatic imperative is teleologically soteriological"

 

8.

"The apgar score was 10"

 

Answers:

1. stock-broker or commodities trader

2. computer programmer, salesman

3. carpenter

4. insurance salesman

5. dentist

6. doctor, medical person

7. theologian

8. pediatrician, nurse in delivery room

 

Phrases that are dead give-aways

"Oh God"  Jesus Christ -

ill.

Daley Fogle at the auction

profanity crosses all lines

     Anyone that takes God's name in vain can be put into one of thrree categories.

     1.

Uninformed

     They profane God's name regularly and are oblivious to the matter.

It is in ignorance.

They don't know the gravity of the crime they are committing.

It is quite possible.

(read v.7) "The Third Commandment"

     To believers, He is saying, "Don't use carelessly in a song, prayer, conversation My Name.

Be careful with my Name."

To everybody, certainly - never use it as as form of cursing or as an outlet for anger.

Why is God so sensitive about this?

What about sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

ill.

what happens when you say the name of someone you know?

Doesn't the mention of their name bring to mind the essence of who that person is?

     Dick Grant

     When you bring up the name of a person, you'd better be fair to his memory.

Abraham Lincoln, you dwell on his memory for just a moment.

You bring his memory and identity and character into focus and at that split second there had better be reverence.

Worship.

Wonder.

tenderness.

gratefulness in your heart for who He is.

When you use His name, you bring Him into focus and that is the time to honor Him.

20:00

     When we pray, we think about who He is.

reverence Him

     When we sing, we pause to reflect on Him .

Never when you mention My Name do I want My character discarded like yesterday's trash.

Never.

Whoever does it will not go unpunished.

The ease with which people can use His Name and then demolish His identity, makes me think that they just must not recognize the depth of the sin that they are committing.

Or they wouldn't do it.

How strong set God is against profanity, Lev.

24:10-16

     ill.

fist fight - one man profanes God's name

     after the fight the curser was brought in by the spiritual leaders; God spoke to Moses and demanded that the curser be executed.

read v.16  

     Capitol punishment in the OT for cursing God.

How many of us, in a weak moment, would be deserving of the same sentence.

"Amazing Grace"

    

     NT - The most famous prayer ever prayed.

The first and foremost request in that prayer, "Hallowed be Thy Name"

     all men everywhere might revere your name

    

If you have been uninformed violators, from this point on you are informed violators.

You know from the Ten Commandments, Leviticus and the Lord's Prayer that it is wrong.

(a few seconds to say you are sorry to the Lord)

 

     II.

Unable to control their tongues

     They know but sometimes they just lose control.

I get angry, I get cut off in traffic, hit my thumb, and it is not my pattern, but I lose it and curse.

Some comfort can be taken in that even the Bible recognizes that the tongue can be very difficult to control.

James 3

     But a scarier passage is Matt.

12 where Jesus tells us that the tongue is expressive of what is in the inner recesses of the heart.

"The only thing that comes out of your mouth is what is in your heart."

The only way to clean up the mouth is to undergo a complete heart transformation by the cleansing work of the Holy Spirit.

We have to leave behind spiritual infancy and spiritual adolescence and grow up.

Let the teaching of the Word of God and our personal prayer lives, the fellowship we enjoy as we challenge one another toward growth; let these elements spurn us on co that our heart undergoes that transformation that will finally lead us to have pure mouths.

Goal: Eph.

4:29 "Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth"  No lies, slander or tearing down.

Eph.

5:4 "There is to be no filthiness, no silly talk, no coarse jesting, which is not fitting for you now."

Eph.

4:15 "Only speak the truth and speak it in love."

Only through the work of God's spirit with God's people.

It feels great to have clean lips

 

     The uninformed need information

     Those unable to control their tongues need transformation

     This group needs conversion.

Uninformed, uncontrolled

III.

Unsaved -

     They don't know God.

They don't worship Him.

And truth be known, they don't even respect Him much.