Sermon Tone Analysis

This Week’s Theme: Growing in the midst of Pain!

Memory Verse: Job 1:22 “22 In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.”

This Week’s Word is Suffering: The experience of pain or distress, both physical and emotional.

Essence of the Text in a Sentence: Job experience great loss with a godly perspective

Sermon Objective: I want those who are listening to respond to loss and suffering biblically.

Sermon Text: Job 1:13-22

Introduction:

Transition:

Big Idea of the Text:

As followers of Christ, we will suffer loss, but we must handle the loss with a godly focus

I.

You will have Uncontrollable Ruin

Exposition (What does that mean?

Explain it): Job was not looking for ruin to happen,

His possessions, His family, and his workers

FROM ADVERSARIES

JOB 1.3 “3 Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.”

FROM AN ACT OF GOD

Application (What difference does it make?

Apply it, what, where, why, and how): Positive Application: Describe the conditions if your solution is actually carried out.

Picture the listeners in that situation actually enjoying the safety, pleasure, or pride that your proposal will produce.

Negative Application: Describe conditions if your solution is not carried out.

Picture the audience feeling the bad effects or unpleasantness that the failure to effect your solution will produce.

Contrast Application: Combination of 1 and 2. Begin with the negative method (undesirable situation) and conclude with the positive method (desirable solution).

Are you prepared to lose family members?

Are you prepared to lose your wealth?

Are you prepared to lose coworkers?

Name a time when you experienced great loss.

II.

You should have an Unusual Response

Exposition (What does that mean?

Explain it): People are looking for you to respond like them.

The world responds to loss in a different way from Christians.

IS THERE SORROWFULNESS IN YOUR ACTIONS?

IS THERE SENSIBLENESS IN YOUR ATTITUDE?

IS THERE SATISFACTION IN YOUR ADDRESS?

Application (What difference does it make?

Apply it, what, where, why, and how): Positive Application: Describe

Are you prepared to lose family members?

Has your response in the past been in line with God’s Word?

How will you respond differently now in light of what the Word says?

Give the practical steps you will take now so you will respond biblical in the future.

In the lost

In the heartache

In the pain

In the anguish, agonize,

The sting of death

The agony of absence

The pain of a passing

The anguish of undoing

This DILEMMA HAS DESTROYED OTHERS, BUT GOD USED IT TO DELIVER me

This HARDSHIP has HANDICAPED others, but God used it to HELPED me

This CONDITION would have CRUSHED others, but the LORD fashioned it to COMFORT me

This ORDEAL would have OVERPOWERED others, but the LORD fashioned it to TURN ME

INTO AN OVERCOMER

This TEST would have THREW

Not too Big to Bow

Not too High to Humble

Not too Grand to Give

Not too Sovereign to Serve

THE DIDN’T COME CONDEMNING OR CRITICIZE

THE DIDN’T COME WHINING OR WHIMPER

THE DIDN’T COME ACCUSING OR ABUSE

THE DIDN’T COME DISCOURAGING OR DESPAIR

THE DIDN’T COME GRUMBLING OR GOSSIP

worship Him during a weary land

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praise Him during pain

. . .

lift Him up during loss

. . .

glorify Him during grief

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reverence Him during ruin

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celebrate Him during calamity

Dependable through every difficulty

Trustworthy through every trial

Competent in all circumstances

Somebody ought to testify that He is

Effective in every environment

Capable in every condition

Steadfast in every situation

III.

You must produce an Unlikely Report

Exposition (What does that mean?

Explain it): Hear the confession of Joseph!

After being presented before the king as a someone who could interpret his dream, Joseph did not allow the gravity of this situation to overtake his rational thinking.

YOUR WORKS

YOU WAYS

Application (What difference does it make?

Apply it, what, where, why, and how): Positive Application: Describe

Are you guilty of not shining as a light for God in the midst of pain?

What will you do differently today so that others will hear and see Christ in you?