Sermon Tone Analysis

Big Idea:

Short Term Challenge / Call to Action:

Pray over Word

I thank you, Father, that your word has the power to change my life.

I'm a hearer of the word and a doer of the word and I'll never be the same after today.

In Jesus name Amen.

SERIES SETUP (2min)

[STORY POINTING TO PROBLEM]

Story about lady not using power

We sing songs about power and authority and yet so many live lives that feel powerless

the world happens to us instead of us happening to it.

i know how it feels to feel powerless.

victim, hopeless

[WHY THE SERIES]

We will discover what our authrity is

step into the power and authority He gave us.

Many christians are not living the life god means for us us

Now is no time to allow darkness to overcome us.

Jesus never meant for us to be subject to the world around us.

[SERIES BOTTOM LINE]

Luke 10.19

I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

THE PROBLEM (8min)

[STATE PROBLEM]

We don’t understand our authroity or how to walk in it.

[REASONS FOR THE PROBLEM]

We don’t understand the unseen

[RELATE EXAMPLES TO GROUPS EXAMPLES]

Tables

Car

Cell Phone

(students) dinner

House (don’t see the power

What happens in the unseen is as important as what is seen.

I want to help you understadn so you can not be bogged down by your own needs.

The higher you want to go, the deeper you have to go.

this is how god develops us

we all have a higher we want to get to, (peace, joy, provision, healing)

You can only go as high as you can go deep.

Humans resist the deeper.

[TRANS 2 SOLUTION]

James 1:5-6 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.

But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

James 1:7-8 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.

the deeper foundation keeps us stable.

if we don’t have the foundation of why, Greed, and power will turn you away from God

We are going to go deeper.

THE SOLUTION (15min)

[CONTEXT]

Moses wrot genesis after slavery in Egyption

He’s trying to get them focused on who hey were created to be.

They had been opressed, enslaved for hundrds of years and had slave mentality.

they needed to be retaught.

Starts with creation.

and then

[SCRIPTURE]

Gen 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness...

Gen 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

[STATE SOLUTION / BOTTOM LINE]

God created us to rule over the environment we live in.

God was trying to change their mentality.

but there was a problem.

sin entered the garden through mans choice to disobey god

why would god put the tree in the garden - FREE WILL

They gave authority over to Satan

[SUPPORTING SCRIPTURES]

Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.

fast forward 4000 years

Jesus is born and living sinless so he has the authority God gave A&E

Luke 10:17-18 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”

He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Luke 10:19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

unless jesus wanted us to use that authority he would not have taught them to use it.

We shouldn’t live like slave, subject to our world

If there was any question as to if jesus meant for us to have this authority, he answers it in the great commission.

Mark 16:15-16

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Mark 16:17-18

And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

Jesus took back the authority from the devil that A&E gave him and give it back to its rightful owners - Mankind

[OBJECTIONS]

But that was just for the apostles.

Actually the proteges of the disciples exercised their authority.

Paul, stephen, phillip, barnabas,

[GOSPEL]

We didn’t earn it.

Jesus paid for it and gave us

we are sinless in the fact that if you are born again your are sinless because of his payment.

God created us to rule over the environment we live in.

THE CHALLENGE (5 min)

[APPLY TO INDIVIDUALS / WHAT IF YOU DID]

imagine where all circumstances are under your feet.

mental/ emotional

work / school

family / relationships

[APPLY TO CONGREGATION / WHAT IF WE DID]

what if we can get the distractions behind us so we can focus on the great commission

[Short term Challenge / Call to Action:]