Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Please, turn to Genesis 3 I want to get right to my assignment tonight

Been looking forward to my time with you all.

I do not want to waste your time nor take more of it than we have non-verbally agreed upon tonight.

I would love to see you here tomorrow night.

Soon after being the pastor I had a friend come up to give a 5 minute testimony.

We were clear on time with him.

Stephanie told me I couldn’t say anything.

I didn’t know better.

Later learned to yell Pharoah, Pharaoh

Missions conference theme is “That all may hear”.

This should be our prayer.

Tonight it lays heavy on me to make sure you hear the heartbeat of God so that all those who have never heard of the name of Jesus will be given the opportunity.

I firmly believe that decisions made tonight will effect how many people around the world have the opportunity to hear the Gospel

I firmly believe that this is not only a business meeting for the fate of the world but is a meeting to determine the fate of the church

I firmly believe that God love being demonstrated from here outwardly to the whole world should be the heartbeat of a church

I firmly believe we have often allowed the noise of this world to drawn out what God wants to hear from Him and the world sits in silence as live so distracted

I have been blessed to see many countries.

Just came back from the amazon.

But the place two places I have been recently are the reasons I believe God just might use my time with you to help.

I have been in the dentist office with my daughter.

I have been up late at night arguing with my wife.

I have been so stressed that I thought about just hiding out in the woods until someone found me.

I have been at a place where I felt like I was barely treading water and certainly not looking to take on anything the size of world missions.

It effects us.

It cripples us.

Recently at the dentist the doctor said hold me accountable.

I didn’t think about sharing the Gospel with him.

I didn’t ask him to consider servign with Medical Missions Outreach.

I just about made a fool out of myself.

1.

That is one place I have been.

The heartbeat of God seemed very faint because the noise of life is so loud.

2. I have also been in this Word.

The things on earth begin to grow slowly dim as I spend time in it.

The heartbeat of God grows louder and louder.

It is from this place I want to speak to you tonight.

Like John the Beloved we should want to lay our heads upon the chest of God and hear His heart beat.

I believe doing so could change everything about our short lives.

Even when we have been in a place of complete shame we should stop and listen for the heartbeat of God

Genesis 3:6–9 (KJV 1900)

6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

Even in the midst of chaos we should be still and know that He has a plan

Genesis 11:1–7 (KJV 1900)

1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly.

And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

Man was trying to make a name for himself.

You have seen the tower of babel.

You may have even been involved in building one your self.

A life that “will keep you from being scattered”.

Self-insured.

This scattering was God’s plan as Adam and Eve were to fill up the up.

God pursues these rebellious people

Genesis 12:1–3 (KJV 1900)

1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: (start walking)

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

God sent Abraham away from his home onto into this world

God told Abraham to walk.

But where.

The answer wasn’t a where but a whom.

God is sending Abraham to the nations.

As Abraham walked he walked in rhythm to the heartbeat of God who was pursuing a rebellious people who thought they could make a life that did not include Him.

God will strategically call Abraham and his center of the worlds activity to be a witness to His love

God’s strategic choice in the location of the nation of Israel supports the idea that they were to be His witnesses.

Ezekiel 5:5 Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

1.

Because of the deserts to the east, all the viable trading routes passed through Israel’s territory.

2. The nation of Israel was given an invasion-prone placement.

a.

They were constantly invaded, bugged, pestered, traveled through, and impinged upon.

b.

Because of their location, they were guaranteed to be invaded (nobody invades Siberia!).

3.

This significantly increased the interaction of Israel with the surrounding peoples.

Traders were, in effect, the bearers of news throughout the ancient world, so the fortunes of Israel, for good or for ill, would quickly be heralded abroad.

God will place them surrounded by people who are ignorant of our God.

Pharoah Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go?

I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

Nebuchadnezzar Daniel 3:15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

Why would God allow His people to be put in such difficult positions.

Because God wants to be known and worshipped by all. 1 Samuel 17:45-46 “45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.

46 This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.”

As Daniel sat in the lions den.

He was not all alone.

He could go to sleep each night listening to the heartbeat of God knowing that he was serving his life’s mission to testify of God’s faithfulness.

As David stood before the giant.

His heart had to be beating our of his chest.

His heart was in sync with the heartbeat of God who the whole world needs to know there is a God in Israel.

So as Moses stands before Pharoah and is surrounded the wreckage of the plaques he moves forward as He hears God’s heartbeat.

Exodus 9:16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

Did it work?

Did God accomplish His goal of global fame through the deliverance of His people from Egypt?

a. Words of Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law Exodus 18:1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt;