Sermon Tone Analysis

When I was in Seminary in Bonn Germany.

We use to ride our bike by a church that had inscribed above to doors ...

Psalm 46 is divided into 3 sections which build on each other.

The Earth is at war (1-3) Even if the earth joined in the fight God would win.

The City is Besieged (4-7)

The Enemy is Defeated (8-11)

a powerful word-picture, built up of the two things that are most immutable and impregnable, the earth and the mountains, over against the symbol of what is most restless and menacing, the sea

Verse 4

With God the waters are no longer menacing seas but a life-giving river

The mountain may topple but God’s city will not topple.

Look at verse 6, Kingdoms may topple but Gods city will not topple.

verse 5 When the morning dawns.

Exodus 14:27

Verse 6 see II Peter 3:10

for the earth melts

The first line of this stirring refrain speaks of might (whether the hosts are the armies of Israel, as 1 Sam.

17:45 may suggest, or those of heaven, as in 1 Kgs 22:19), and the second line speaks of grace, by the mention of Jacob, God’s chosen.

The word refuge, here and in verse 11, is distinct from that of verse 1, and implies inaccessible height: hence NEB ‘our high stronghold’.

Lord Sabaoth

verse 10 is not something for us to think about or to consider but rather something for us to know!

If you are listening for God with only your ears you are not going to hear everything He is saying to you.

It is in the stillness that God speaks.

The word for ‘be still’ could be translated ‘let go’.

The ‘Rs’ of what God is and does for us.

1 He is our Refuge

4 He is a River

5.

He provides Residence

5.

He Rescues

9.

He makes our enemies retreat

10.

He provides rest, relaxation, rejuvenation

FDR in the secret meeting in U-boat infested waters, where he meet up with the British battleship The Prince of Wales

on board was Churchill, as excited as a school boy his private body guard recalls.

Churchill boarded the US battleship.

the meeting took 4 days on the final day FDR was carried onboard the British battle ship.

Letter FDR would confide to one of his aids.

We are Christians and we are soldiers I just hope we are doing enough.

We don’t have to do anything but be still.

God will do enough and more than enough.

At ease soldier God is on guard.

“Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

29 This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; he can’t rescue you from my power.

30 Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to rely on the Lord by saying, “Certainly the Lord will rescue us!

This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”’

31 “Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘Make peace[h] with me and surrender to me.

Then each of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and each may drink water from his own cistern 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die.

But don’t listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying, “The Lord will rescue us.”