Sermon Tone Analysis

*Rev 11*

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*God Knows!*

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It is very confronting to find someone and somebody who has all the answers.

Somebody who knows it all or who knows a better way.

If we look at the political process, all the candidates declare that they have a better way.

They appear to know the answer and know the way to solve the problem that has eluded the nation for decades.

People need health care- they know the answer.

How to get out of Iraq- they state they know the way.

How to solve the economy- they confidently blurt out- I know how to do this.

Even within human history, there have been those such as Nostrodomus who claim he knows the future.

Some has even attached themselves to Astrology where their horoscope is an indication of the stars knows what is ahead of them.

We can even look at the palm reader who discerns the lines in the palms of your hands in which God made, to know your future.

Everybody appears to "Know" and everybody wants to be around someone in the "know".

Some just like being a Know it all!

It is comfortable to find someone who seems to be in the Know and know what is best.

There was a show on years ago called Father knows Best" I never personally viewed this program since I am only 24 years old but I am sure some of you here have viewed this program.

It was during a period of great optimism and wholeness in America and this program appeared to broadcast good wholesome values.

The father in this program appeared to have all the answers.

He appeared to know how to handle difficult situations.

He was corny to today's standards but he appeared to know how, what, and when to deal with the issues that surrounded him and the family.

I am sure the kids within this context were confronted that they could go to their father who seems to know what is best.

As Christians we can also have this confront.

We also have a Father, a Heavenly Father, who has all power in His hand, who knows what is best.

Their is no limit to His understanding and knowledge.

There is no limit to His wisdom.

There is nothing our God does not know!

He knows the when, He knows the what, and He knows the Who!

I can use assure that what the politicians,  what the worshippers of the ungod, and what the ideal T.V. father does not know, Our God knows!

 

*Trans:* And in our study today of Rev 11, we will discuss

·                     God knows who is His

·                     God knows who to send

·                     God knows when it is time

 

*Background*

 

 We are still in the period between the blowing of the six trumpet and the blowing of the seventh trumpet.

We are also in the period of the last 3 1~/2 years of the tribulation called the great tribulation in where even all that befell the inhabitants of the earth, the plaques, the wars, famine, natural disasters, and demonic attack, the people refused to repent or cease from their worship of dead things:

 

*Rev 9:20-12*

 

The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.

21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

/The Holy Bible: New International Version/.

Rev 10 was God's pronouncement that the time has come, there is no more delay: the beginning of the End has come- the earth is in the last stages of divine judgment before the 2nd advent of Christ.

It also important to not that throughout our study of Rev. up until this point- God has given the people time to repent

·                     Witness of the 144,000

·                     innumerable martyrs- how long

·                     Limit to five months the infliction of the locust(Rev 9)

 

*Trans:* And in Rev. chapter 11, we will still see God is not without witnesses who still proclaim that their is still time- He extends His hand to even the very last minute- He desires not one to perish but the last sand of the hour glass is running out and now God marks out those who is His for

 

*God knows who is His * (v 1-2)

(somebody say- God knows)

 

 John is told to measure the temple of God and the Altar, and count the worshippers there.

This measurement was more than just taking an account of the dimensions of the temple, the dimensions of the altar- God is not so much concerned with the measurements of our Cathedral or church structures that gain praise from men but he is interested in what dwells within that structure that is ordained as a place of worship.

*John is told to measure- to number, judge according to any rule or standard.*

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 God is specific in who he is judging.

He could have ordered John to measure, judge, and number those who attend

·                     Special services on the holidays

·                     Those who visit God be don't rest in Him

·                     Those who serve in Church but the Spirit on the Church is not within them

·                     Those who can declare that let everything that have breath praise the Lord but    don’t know Him!

 

*No, God is specific- He is searching for Worshippers!*

·                     Those He knows and those who know Him!

·                     Those who recognize His hand and well as His face

·                     Those who Know His voice and another they will not hear

·                     Those who declare if you slay me, I will still praise you

 

Yes, God Knows those who are His, for they are those who worship Him in Spirit and truth!

*How can you judge a worshipper?*

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Worship- *προσκυνέω* [/proskuneo/ ~/pros·koo·*neh*·o~/] -meaning to kiss, like a dog licking his master’s hand)

 

*Scripture bears witness of a worshipper who was not afraid to lick the hand of her Master*

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*Matt 15:21-28*

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21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me!

My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession.” 23 Jesus did not answer a word.

So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.” 24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”

25 The woman came and knelt before him.

“Lord, help me!” she said.

26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to their dogs.”

27 “Yes, Lord,” she said, “but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”

28 Then Jesus answered, “Woman, you have great faith!

Your request is granted.”

And her daughter was healed from that very hour

/The Holy Bible: New International Version/.

*How do you judge a worshipper?*

·                     They are not afraid of what they look like

·                     They not afraid to cry out for help

·                     Another they will not bow the knee to

·                     They understand that worship moves God

 

*They understand the meaning of worship*

 

origin OE /weorthscipe/ ‘worthiness, acknowledgement of worth’ (see worth, -ship*).*

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OE Old English 

 

*Worth*- the value or merit of someone or something

 

*Ship-* (when I think of SHIP, I think of _____ for-)

denoting a quality or condition: /companionship./

- *He is always with me*

*2 *     denoting status, office, or honour: /citizenship.-

*Citizen of the Kingdom*/

†     denoting a tenure of office: /chairmanship./ - *He is the Head of the Body*

*3 *     denoting a skill in a certain capacity: /workmanship./

- *I am His workmanship*

*4 *     denoting the collective individuals of a group: /membership./

- *I am in the Family of God*

 

*God knows who is His!*

 

Be careful of who and what you worship- not all worship leads to God, just as not all paths lead to God- Jesus is the only one worthy of worship and the only way unto God.