Sermon Tone Analysis

*BUTUAN: SCHOOL OF THE DESERT *

@@ *Powell: Fight of Life *

@@ *MacArthur: Hand of God *

@@ *Scwarzkopf: Stick In There *

@@ *Eisenhower: Best Man *

@@ *Patton: Leadership Lesson *

@@ *Washington**: Gray Service *

@@ *Rickenbacker: Gull Gospel *

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@@ *Judge Fatigue *

@@ *John Hinckley Jr *

@@ *Elim House *

@@ *Chris Gardner and tears for scholar *

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*MSC: DESERT CLASSROOM [BITTERNESS AND BLESSING] *

*Exo 15:22-27; **… **Matt 14:22-33; **… **Lam 3:18-24; **… *

@@ *John Hinckley Jr *

oo *everything right but wrong *

oo *cycle: TRIUMPH [VS ENEMY], TROUBLE, TESTING, …*

oo *end point in Elim: BLESSING [VS SELF], … *

@@ *Powell: **General**, **Vietnam**, Segregation, Direction *

@@ *Judge Fatigue *

@@ *Ryan Carlos **testimony *

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oooo *Gold Garbage                           mox1wNewDoor *

oooo *CowboyCSCS                          mox2wClassroom *

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*)))) THE WAY OF THE NEW DOOR *

*Exo 15:22-24; Exo 15:25-26, 27** … **Matt 14:22-33; **… **Lam 3:18-24**, … *

@@ *Powell: **General**, **Vietnam**, Segregation, Direction *

@@ *Gold Garbage *

@@ *John Hinckley Jr *

oo *after the victory of the red sea, into the desert of bitterness*

oo *similar to Matt 14:22-33**, sea of galilee door [Chris Gardiner]  *

> *desert factor *

> *drink factor *

oo *understanding cycle of life: Triumph, Trouble, TESTING ON DEEPERS, …  *

oo *cycle: Celebrating, Complaining, and Condemning  *

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oooo *Gold Garbage                            mox1wNewDoor *

oooo *Cowboy CSCS                    mox2wClassroom *

oooo *Judge Fatigue                     mox3wBlessing *

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*)))) THE WAY OF THE CLASSROOM  *

*Exo 15:25-26; Exo 15:22-24, 27; … Matt 14:22-33; … Lam 3:18-24, ** …*

*)))) THE WAY OF BLESSING *

*Exo 15:27, 22-24, 25-26; **… **Lam 3:18-24; 1 John 4:10**; **… *

@@ *ElimHouse *

@@ *Ryan Carlos *

@@ *Washington**: **Gray Service *

oo *dimension of kingdom: beyond man *

oo *in bitter -- sweet: unbounding **in the binding, **bounding **in the unbinding *

oo *testing of God *

*a) **direction to God *

*b) **path thru problematics of life *

*c) **attending to principles of Heaven *

*d) **doing the right *

oo *place of blessings in life in midst of desert *

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@@ *Washington**: **Gray Service *

@@ *Eisenhower: **Best Man *

*MoralCompass *

*mox1wNewDoor *

*mox3wBlessing *

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*)))) THE WAY OF BLESSING *

*Exo 15:27, Exo 15:22-24, 25-26;**… **Lam 3:18-24;** 1 John 4:10**; **… *

@@ *ElimHouse *

@@ *Washington**: Gray in Service *

oo *period needed in healing *

oo *place of blessings in life in midst of desert *

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@@ *Old Man and Gulls *

@@ *Powell: **General**, **Vietnam**, Segregation, Direction *

@@ *MacArthur and Soldiery *

@@ *Eisenhower and Best Man *

*MoralCompass *

*mox1wNewDoor *

*mox2wClassroom *

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*)))) Truth #2: WE ARE NOT CONSUMED.

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*Lam 3:18–24; **… Exo 15:22–27; 1 John **4:10**; **… *

*1 John **4:10** **goes on to say, “ . . .

but He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”

When hopelessness comes, we need not be consumed by it.

God’s Son forgives and heals.*

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*)))) Truth #3: HIS COMPASSIONS FAIL NOT.

The word compassion means, “to have deep sympathy.”

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*God is a Heavenly Father who WANTS OUR BEST, and every day He provides NEW HOPE and a FRESH START.*

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*)))) Truth #4: GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS.

Regardless of our emotional state, God is consistent and faithful.

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*Conclusion: Perhaps Lam **3:22**–24 **is the tonic you need for the beginning of a New Year.*

*-- Drew Wilkerson *

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*RESTING ON THAT WORD **[Verse, January 14] *

*Among the lesser-known heroes of the church is a man with the unlikely name of EBENEZER ERSKINE, who first fell in love with Exodus 20:2 at age ten when his father, REV.

HENRY ERSKINE, was teaching on the SHORTER CATECHISM.

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*The forty-third question asks: “What is the preface to the Ten Commandments?”

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*The answer: “The preface to the Ten Commandments is: ‘I AM THE LORD THY GOD which have brought thee out of the **land** of **Egypt**…’” Young Ebenezer learned the whole Catechism, but this question took **CENTRAL PLACE** **in his thoughts.*

*Eighteen years later he followed his father’s steps into the pastorate.

But I began my ministry without much zeal, MECHANICALLY,… being swallowed up in unbelief.

One day HIS WIFE grew fevered, and in her delirium, she CRIED OUT about her husband’s cold heart.

Ebenezer, sitting by her, was pierced, and the old text came back to him: I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.

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*Shortly after, he offered himself up, soul and body, unto God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

I flee for shelter to the blood of Jesus.

I will live to him; I will die to him.*

*Ten years later, now a 38-year-old pastor, he preached a powerful sermon on his old text: I am the Lord thy God.

It made a lasting impression on his congregation and swept over **Scotland** in printed form.*

*More years passed, and Erskine gave out at age 73.

One of his elders, visiting his bedside, said, “You have often given us good advice, Mr. Erskine, as to what we should do with our souls in death; may I ask what you are now doing with your own?”*

*“I am doing what I did forty years ago,” replied the old preacher.