Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

‘All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players.

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages.

At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.

Then, the whining school-boy with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like a snail

Unwillingly to school.

And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.

Then, a soldier,

Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon’s mouth.

And then, the justice,

In fair round belly, with a good capon lin’d,

With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws, and modern instances,

And so he plays his part.

The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,

His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide

For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound.

Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.’

— Shakespeare, As You Like It

‘A walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more: it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.’

— Shakespeare, Macbeth

Body

The Psalmist answers the question by continuing.

However because of the fall, we see this added to the text in Hebrews after the writer quotes this verse.

So, because of the fall, all things are not yet put under our feet, but they will be

They are presently put under Jesus’ feet

Man is a created being

Mankind was created by God.

We did NOT evolve from a lower life form

All living matter is basically alike; a single atom differentiates animal blood from plant chlorophyll.

Yet the body senses infinitesimal differences with an unfailing scent; it knows its hundred trillion cells by name … To complicate the process of identity, the composite of Paul Brand—bone cells, fat cells, blood cells, muscle cells—differs entirely from my components ten years ago.

All cells have been replaced by new cells (except for nerve cells and brain cells, which are never replaced).

Thus, my body is more like a fountain than a sculpture: maintaining its shape, but constantly being renewed.

Somehow my body knows the new cells belong, and they are welcomed.

What moves the cells to work together?…

The secret to membership lies locked away inside each cell nucleus, chemically coiled in a strand of DNA.

Once the egg and sperm share their inheritance, the DNA chemical ladder splits down the center of every gene much as the teeth of a zipper pull apart.

DNA reforms itself each time the cell divides: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 cells, each with the identical DNA.

Along the way cells specialize, but each carries the entire instruction book of one hundred thousand genes.

DNA is estimated to contain instructions that, if written out, would fill a thousand, six hundred-page books … (The DNA is so narrow and compacted that all the genes in all my body’s cells would fit into an ice cube; yet if DNA were unwound and joined together end to end, the strand could stretch from earth to the sun and back more than four hundred times) … A nerve cell may operate according to instructions from volume four and a kidney cell from volume twenty-five, but both carry the whole compendium.

It provides each cell’s sealed credential of membership in the body.

Every cell possesses a genetic code so complete that the entire body could be reassembled from the information in any one of the body’s cells … The Designer of DNA went on to challenge the human race to a new and higher purpose: membership in His own Body … In reality, I become genetically like Christ Himself because I belong to His body.

— Dr. Paul Brand, Chief of the Rehabilitation Branch of the U.S. Public Health Service, and a Professor of Surgery speaking about the genes’ chemical code DNA, specifically how the DNA maintains how everything propagates after its kind according to Genesis chapter one, and preventing the evolution of any kind into another.

Later, evolutionists came up with the hypothesis of evolution by mutations, popularly called “neo-darwinsim.”

This hypothesis is also replete with scientific and logical problems of its own.

Mutations are almost universally detrimental to life

Mutations are ALWAYS the result of a loss of information, not a gain.

We need more information to get higher life forms, not less!

We were created unique from the rest of God’s created order

Three Hebrew words are used in Genesis 1 and 2 to describe our creation:

Bara - “the production or effectuation of something new, rare, and wonderful.”

Asah - “To form, to construct, to prepare, to build.”

Yatzar - “to form or shape (as a potter forming vessels)

So we read the scripture text as follows:

Genesis 1:27 - Let us MAKE man (asah)

God constructed Man in conformity with His own image

Genesis 1:27 - So God CREATED man (bara);

God created Man as something new and wonderful in His purpose

Genesis 2:7 - And the Lord God FORMED man (yatzar).

He forms man using the earth as a potter forms a vessel out of clay

Man is made out of the earth, but is infused with God’s Breath

Man is of the earth, but is created for fellowship with God

We are the result of Divine Purpose

The immutable council of God

We were not created like any other creature

Every other creature was simply spoken into existence

We were formed by His Hands, made in His Image, and God breathed something of Himself into us

This demonstrates that man was intended to be special to God above every other created being

God takes council with Himself to create man, and give to him a purpose

To have fellowship with our creator

To give God glory

To have dominion over His creation

God’s creative purpose

Paul refers to the council and purpose of God

We see here referenced by the Apostle the idea that God had this planned out before the creation week.

Explain “predestinated”

So now we understand the following:

Man is created by God

Man, of all God’s created beings, received the Breath of God