Sermon Tone Analysis

Opening & Intro

Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.

even though compliance was high, some complained that the masks were uncomfortable, ineffective or bad for business.

Officials were caught in public without masks.

And after the war ended, and there was no longer a sense that people should wear masks to keep the troops safe, some dissenters even formed an “Anti-Mask League” in San Francisco.

Detroit health commissioner J.W. Inches said gauze masks were too porous to prevent the spread of the flu among the public.

Also, masks are most effective when worn properly, which wasn’t always what happened.

In Phoenix, where most people apparently complied with the city’s mask order, some nonetheless poked holes in their masks to smoke—which greatly reduced their effectiveness.

Still, for the small percentage of people who went without a mask entirely, reports suggest their issue had less to do with the science behind them, and more to do with personal comfort.

“You read routinely about people not wanting to wear them because they’re hot and stuffy,” says Nancy Bristow, chair of the history department at the University of Puget Sound and author of American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.

“Some people argue against them because they say that they create fear in the public, and that we want to keep people calm; which I think is really an excuse to critique them because someone doesn’t want to wear them.”

Some businesses worried customers would shop less if they had to wear a mask when they went outside, and some people claimed mask ordinances were an infringement upon civil liberties.

Yet “more important in terms of critiques,” Bristow says, “is this idea that we’ve heard today as well that they give people a false sense of security.”

As she points out, wearing a mask is less effective when people don’t follow other health guidelines too (and especially if some are poking holes in their masks to smoke).

Cities that passed masking ordinances in the fall of 1918 struggled to enforce them among the small portion of people who rebelled.

Common punishments were fines, prison sentences and having your name printed in the paper.

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What is my point with this?

A lot of these same headlines were in our newspapers during this pandemic.

As i was reading the many different articles I could not tell if it was today or 100 years ago.

To be honest the first time I heard of the Spanish flu was when I first moved to Moncton.

(First Baptist)

TO be honest we never really spoke of it until Coivd hit...

Main Point

God has a plan and the Quality of our Journey matters.

Why Does it Matter

I will state it again.

Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.

Scripture

1:1-6 - Remember everything we have covered to this point.

Who is God to you?

1:7-17 - A patrol of the whole earth (1) and 6:1-15 God patrols the whole earth (8) - Vision 1 - God Wins and wants us to win too.

Salvation is for everyone.

Judgement is coming

1:18-21 - The nation meets retribution (2) and 5:5-11 Jerusalem purified (7) - Vision 2 - After His victory He will rebuild

Hope comes after judgement

2:1-13 - Jerusalem has a divine protector (3) and 5:-4 Evil Meets retribution (6) - Vision 3 - Man's way is clearly not going to to cut it.

He wants us to do it His way.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.

3:1-10 - High Priest Reinstated (4) and 4:1-14 Divine resources for High Priest (5) - Vision 4 - God has prmised to do it and it will be done.

God is in control and He will get it done.

Application

How do we show that we are spiritually restored?

We are restored but James chapter 2.

Closing

Take a step back and remember where we have come.

Theme for this series is Hear and Live.

Are we sold?