Sermon Tone Analysis

Sermon Series: Great Expectations.

Title: Allowing God to write your story!

1 Chronicles 17

a.

Essence of the text-David’s eagerness almost made him miss out on God’s Story.

b.

Essence of the sermon- We must live out God’s story

c.

DDST-What changes do you have to make in your life to keep God the author of your story?

d.

Title of the sermon: Title: Allowing God to write you into his story!

e. Outline of the sermon.

** Each major point and supporting point must have a verse(s)

referenced.

No point, either major or supporting point, will be found outside of or void of a

textual reference!

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Introduction:

Invictus Poem

I am the master of my fate: I am the Captain of my soul.

William Henley

Is this not the major idea today.

This was me before I began to follow Jesus.

I had my dream, and my vision and I was going to do everything I could to achieve this vision.

When I got to college, God wrote me into his story.

When I was eighteen years old I became a believer of the Lord Jesus Christ.

My vision went from wanting the American dream to wanting to know God and make him known.

But even as believers we can try to take over and instead of letting God be the captain of our souls we can try and be the captain of our soul.

Sometimes it is because we are completely selfish.

It could be because we are in control

We fight with God, have you ever heard the statement you can‘t have two cooks in the kitchen.

We can’t have two authors of our story.

But other times it just kind of happens: Maybe because we rush into something we should not.

But today I want us to make sure as we are going through life that we allow God to write our story to be the captain of our ship.

What if we are so eager to do something great for God that we actually miss God’s plan.

What if we are so eager to do something great for God that we actually miss God.

David wanted to do something great for God.

David wanted to do something special for God, this is not a bad motivation.

Give some background.

David in wanting to do something great he was literally on the verge of missing out on the story God had for him.

Each person here today, God has a story for you a story that has your name written on it.

And he is a better author than C.S. Lewis, JK Rawling, He is a better author than Shakespeare and he wants to write your story.

Today I don’t want us to settle for anything less than God’s story for our lives.

Today I want to give us 3 encouragement of why we can live out God’s story.

1.

We can live out the story of God by saturating ourselves in God’s word (3-6).

God graciously initiates with man

David did not even know he was off, and God could have blown him off the face of the earth, but isn’t it amazing that from the beginning of time God has initiated with man and here one of his children was off and God initiates with David through Nathan.

Nathan was a spokesperson for God.

Notice when David first came to him with the idea it sounded so good he just assumed it was the right thing.

And this is also a reminder that just because someone is a man of God, God’s word always takes precedence.

The Word of God leads us to the grace of God

Who in the world likes to be told NO!

David was just told NO!

David here is what you wanted to do, but it is not what I wanted you to do.

What are your kids like when you tell them no.

I throw a pity party sometime when I don’t get my way.

What is God asking you to do right now?

Are you willing to ask him, and let him direct your steps in that.

Or are you a lot like me you want to do something now, you are a fast food Christian and you don’t have timer to wait around.

The word of God Corrects our course

2 Timothy 3:16 “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;”

Do you need a course correction

David was not lazy, he had vision his vision was just getting a little off.

He needed a course correction.

Are you a little off today.

Sometimes we can get caught up in good things and they can become primary things.

A good job can tun into what is consuming our lives and instead of being a vehicle to live it become what we live for.

The American dream can easily become our idol.

Do you need a course correction?

God’s word gives us the Why!

Now he dealt with the golden calf!

God’s answer is from the word of God.

God never wanted him to build a house for him.

God never commanded David to build him a house of cedar.

Don’t we see this in marriage so much.

We love our spouse like we want to be loved and not how they want to be loved.

There is a book titled the five love languages.

Our spouses greatest need may be time and we give them a gift.

Or it may be a gift and we give the words of encouragement.

David was giving God what he wanted and not what God wanted.

This would like bringing someone the two worst gifts to a birthday party

A dog

A Cellphone

David’s intentions may have been good but he wast brining God a dog.

Instead of embracing God’s image we try to recreate God in our image.

God tells us plenty of things that he does what us to bring him.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ““You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”

Genesis 1:27 “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”

Genesis 12:3 “And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse.

And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.””

Psalm 1:3 “He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season And its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers.”

Micah 6:8 “He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?”

2. We should live out the story of God because His vision is glorious (7-15).

His vision is connected to who we are

David needed to remember what God had done in his life- (PAST)