Sermon Tone Analysis

We’ve all heard that old saying, “Seeing is believing”.

Most of us put that into practice daily in our lives.

Though we have faith, in many circumstances we seem to need a picture painted or have sight of something for us to truly believe it.

But then there are those who see with their eyes and still don’t believe.

This morning I preached on Hell’s Fury and the warnings Christ gave about hell.

Yet there are multitudes who have heard and seen in the scriptures the horror of hell, yet they still don’t believe.

Let me show you a few more scriptures about hell then we will get to tonights text.

This is the time of the Millennium [1000 yrs] reign of Jesus Christ on earth with a peace similar to what Adam and Eve experienced in the garden before the fall.

At this time Satan is bound in the bottomless pit so he has no influence upon man to tempt him to sin.

This scripture is set in the same time frame spoken of in [Isa.66].

How in the world could multitudes of people see the atrocities of hell for a 1000 years and still follow Satan to this terrible end?

If people have the ability to see hell literally, and people have figurative picture of hell today in the scriptures, then what in the world can we do to make them believe?

Text; Psalm 126.5-6

1. Sow in Tears; 5

Have you ever wanted something so much that you just wouldn’t be satisfied until you get it?

That’s what “Sowing in Tears” means.

The Jews had been sowing tears for 70 years in captivity in Babylon praying and hoping for this very day.

That’s the way sinners are won to Christ by sowing tears in passionate prayer for their souls!

Jesus wept because of how death affects a family.

Though Lazarus was fine, many families struggle when they lose a loved one because they are not sure of their eternal destiny.

Jesus stood on a hill outside the city and wept for Jerusalem because the nation had rejected Him.

He wept because He saw their bleak future because they rejected their Messiah

Jesus wept and agonized over a lost world in Gethsemane

If Jesus was so moved about the souls of men to weep, pray and agonize over them to be spared of Hell’s Fury, shouldn’t we do the same?

2. Continually Going Forth; 6a

Continually going forth- “habit forming”; Praying for the lost and continually going forth sowing seeds of the Gospel must become habits in our lives.

Paul had a habit of praying and continually going after his countrymen and those where he planted churches.

Jeremiah had a burden for Israel and those that were slain in captivity

Jude the half brother of Jesus had a burden for the lost

Jesus interrupted His sleep one night to win Nicodemus; He went without food at the well of Sychar to win a woman of Samaria; and He even took time during His excruciating, agonizing death on the cross to snatch a thief from the flames of hell!

So the question we must ask ourselves is, “What are we doing to make soul winning a habit forming priority in our lives?”

3. Rejoicing and Reaping; 6b

Probably the greatest rejoicing in heaven and on earth is when a sinner comes to faith in Christ.

The only treasure we can lay up in heaven from this earth is the souls of men!

Close;

Bringing In the Sheaves, Knowles Shaw 1874

Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness,

Sowing in the noontide and the dewy eve;

Waiting for the harvest, and the time of reaping,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.

Refrain:

Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves;

Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.

Sowing in the sunshine, sowing in the shadows,

Fearing neither clouds nor winter’s chilling breeze;

By and by the harvest, and the labor ended,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.

Going forth with weeping, sowing for the Master,

Though the loss sustained our spirit often grieves;

When our weeping’s over, He will bid us welcome,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.

My hope is that we can all sing that song with gladness because it is true about us of what it says!