Sermon Tone Analysis

1 Samuel 26:1-25

Memory Verse 1 Samuel 26:23

God’s plan for your life will test your faith and where you fail, you will be tested again.

God does not tempt you to sin but he will test your faith.

It seems evident from the narrative that Joesph’s “fear of the Lord“ is announced only after a period where his faith and loyalty is Both authenticated and refined in Egypt.

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But what great and wonderful and Christian patience is to be found in David from whom Christ descended according to the flesh!

David often had the opportunity to kill King Saul, his persecutor, who was eager to destroy him.

Yet when Saul was subject to him and in his power, David preferred to save his life and did not retaliate on his enemy but, on the contrary, even avenged him when he was killed.

In short, many prophets have been killed, many martyrs have been honored with glorious deaths, and all have attained their heavenly crowns through the merit of patience, for a crown for sorrow and suffering cannot be obtained unless patience in sorrow and suffering precede Cyprian of Carthage

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

A bad man, happy, is a man without the least inkling that his actions do not answer, that they are not in accord with the laws of the universe.

No doubt pain as God’s megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepentant rebellion.

But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment.

It removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebellious soul.

- Lewis “Problem of Pain”

God’s plan for your life will require you to scarifice your selfishness.

God’s plan for your life will mean that God is in charge and in control.