Sermon Tone Analysis

Wrestling gym pic

I sent this to Amy yesterday.

This was a cool old gym.

My text to her was don’t scratch and sniff whatever you do.

Last week, we did some digging to show that indeed some of us have some deep wounds.

I was thinking yesterday that everyone in the gym just became accustom to the smell yesterday.

I am sure if you arrived late and walked in then you would know for sure.

The same can be true for deep wounds.

You notice that the wound exist in the beginning and then slowly in your flesh you learn to live with it.

Pretty soon the wound is all over you and you don’t even realize it.

You are setting in a pool of stink thinking it’s normal and yet Jesus never intended that we live like this.

As I said last week, there was an extremely heavy spirit here last week as I taught through Hope for Deep Wounds.

I had planned to only spend one week on this topic, but after sensing how heavy this topic was, then I decided we needed more than one week.

The goal here is to move from Deep Wounds to healing.

There is so much here for us as we move from deep wounds into healing.

Let me remind you of this

The serpent wants you to believe that deep wounds can’t be healed and you can’t experience freedom.

The serpent wants you to believe that it is super complex and your problem is too complex for you to experience healing from.

May our minds not be corrupted and may we believe that Christ does bring healing.

Jesus died and rose again as creator of the universe to set us free from the bondage of deep wounds.

Jesus is the solution.

The enemy says it’s complex and the Savior says it’s simple for me.

I came to heal, save, and deliver you.

Genesis 32.

Let me remind you that Jacob stole the blessing from Esau.

Esau was the victim.

Jacob is following what the Lord told him to do and he is about to encounter Esau.

Esau hears that Jacob is coming and he goes to meet him.

Notice that Esau hears of this and he is not outright seeking Jacob out but Jacob is coming near Esau.

The purpose of healing deep wounds is not to go fix it with whomever hurt you.

Married couples who are at odds with one another tend to want their spouse to change but do not want to change their own life.

-Kerry Skinner

The purpose of healing deep wounds is to come into right relationship and freedom with our Lord and Savior.

People want to try and heal deep wounds by running to those that hurt you and hoping they will say all the right words to make you feel better.

I see this in relationships all the time.

People get hurt by a boyfriend or girlfriend or spouse and they want to run to the person who hurt them and try to make it right and the other person is not ready for that.

The type of healing we are talking about in deep wounds is not available through the actions of someone else or something else.

The healing we are talking about is only available through Jesus.

I like that Esau’s heart is ready for when Jacob returns.

That’s my hope for us who are working through deep wounds.

My prayer is that our hearts are right and ready for when the person who hurt us walks back into our life.

My prayer is not that we all take off running to find the people who hurt us and try and be healed that way.

(That’s counterfeit healing) it has the appearance of healing but it doesn’t heal.

Esau’s heart is ready for the return of Jacob and he runs to meet him when Jacob is trying to get everything lined up.

Healing

Steps of Repentance

God I am Wrong

God I am Sorry

God Forgive me

God Cleanse me

God Empower me

Our focus this morning will be on step 5. God Empower me.

God empower me says that I am forever dependent upon the Lord to heal me of the sin or deep wound I am dealing with.

Lord, I want to show mercy and so Lord empower me with Mercy.

Empower me with the ability to forgive and spare someone of their consequences.

My flesh is weak and I am not able to live a day without you filling me with Mercy in this situation.

Illustration

Bring someone on stage and ask them to place the screw in the board (without any equipment)

Give them the impact driver

It amazes me how we as humans want to be healed without giving God a thought.

That is we want to accomplish the act of forgiveness in our flesh.

We don’t want to admit that we need God in order to experience true forgiveness.

When I say I don’t believe that true forgiveness can really be experienced without the work of the Holy Spirit.

The flesh wants to argue that.

We want to say no no no I believe I can in my flesh forgive people.

(I want to scream out that’s a bad call haha)

The greatest failure as a believer will be when you are full of yourself

Kerry Skinner

We are drowning in a pool of our deep wound.

We are there in the mess of our stink of a gym believing that we have the ability fix it in our flesh.

We are in the flesh and acting Godly.

We are appearing like we are anchored.

We act like we love those we hate

You can do NOTHING without me.

The one who abides in me or the one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit.

These are red letters meaning words Jesus spoke and were recorded.

The Father will send Him in my name.

He will teach you ALL(Circle All) things and remind you of everything I have told you.

One of my pet peeves when it comes to the Holy Spirit is that the Baptist have put him on the back shelf not to be messed with too much and the Pentecostals have made the Holy Spirit to be a show we see or encounter on Sunday.

The more I study the more I see that the Holy Spirit will teach us ALL things.

That is the Holy Spirit is present in daily deep wounds.

The Holy Spirit is present in loving enemies.

The Holy Spirit does not belong on the back shelf and the Holy Spirit is not just present on Sunday.

The Holy Spirit will teach us ALL things.

I love that after the promise of the Holy Spirit he says, PEACE I leave with you.

My PEACE I give to you.

Is the peace that Jesus gives insufficient?

NO

You were also sealed with the promised Holy Spirit

He is down payment(circle) or our inheritance.

The downpayment is not delayed.

It happens at purchase.

His divine power has given us EVERYTHING required for life and godliness.

Through God’s great and precious promises you may share in the divine nature.

We are promised a share in his moral excellence during this life, and of his glory hereafter.

For, taken together, the triple agency of the promises, the power and the person of the Lord Jesus regenerate a man and make him a sharer in God’s own nature, so that the family likeness begins to be seen in him.

Have you experienced the divine nature of Mercy in Jesus.

Have you felt what is to be forgiven and spared of the consequences of your sin?

Through Jesus and the Holy Spirit you share in the divine nature.

That is divine Mercy, love, patience, forgiveness, self-control is part of your Heavenly Father and through His promises the likeness of Him can be seen in you.