Sermon Tone Analysis

Good morning.

Jack.

Pray, that technology would cooperate this morning and that was a mistake e.

I today we are continuing our series on the home, calling work Zone, where were focusing on the things that we do when we gather on a Sunday morning and why we do these things, it is taking so much of our efforts and our creativity to continue to gather throughout the last 22 years.

We have gathered in more ways by more memes than I could ever have imagined when I started here and we put so much time and effort and money, and, and sweat, and tears, and blood and, and all of that into being able to gather the question that I'm asking.

And answering is why, why is that so important?

In the first time, we talked about how we normally, we will, we will turn to two different reasons.

Why the guy who has more than one is because it edifies us, we learn we grow, we are encouraged.

We're equipped.

We receive when we worship.

And there is scriptural.

The basis for that, that if something is meant to happen, when we gather, we also talked about the fact that the Gathering is an opportunity for us to glorify God.

That we I Am to Worship to to thank him and to just make a big deal about God and that is also scripture about we recognize that those answers are incomplete because you don't have technically have to gather to do either of them.

Last week we talked about worshipping about the fact that not only do you not have to be in a gathering to worship anything.

Everything you do can be an act of worship.

Anything to demonstrate your loyalty, love and respect for God can be an act of worship.

So you don't have to beat, you can wash it, whether you're in a gathering of Christian, a gathering of non-believers, or completely by yourself, I also sincerely hope that you're that.

The Sunday worship service is not your only opportunity to be edified to be encouraged to grow.

Hopefully, you have personal devotions, you have small, a small group, you have prayer Partners you out.

You have other things going on during the week.

So why is this Gathering so important?

The answer that we came to, but based on scripture is that there is something unique that happens when God's people gathered together that God is present in a special way when God's people gather and that it matters what people do when they are gathered in God's name in his presence.

It's all.

We've been looking at the worship service as something that not that we watch but something that we do that, you are here to do certain things.

And there is value in, what we do is we got her last week, we looked at worship, we started with a call to worship cuz we're just going down to order of service.

And the things that we do every week, we talked about the fact that we gather everyone together.

Everything we do is worship because it is all meant to show our loyalty, love and respect to God and to Proclaim that to the world.

And it worship is one of the most powerful things that God's people do.

Worshiping God and not worshipping anyone or anything else as God.

That is one of those powerful things that Christians do.

And I pointed out that contrary to popular usage Worship in singing or not the same thing.

Where's your community thing that you do?

So worship is not singing and singing is not automatically worship.

But as you can tell by today, sermon singing is important.

It is a uniquely important version type of worship.

If you remember, if you were here with us, when we weren't singing Because of covid-19 are there ways to worship, but we weren't singing you remember that there was something missing the essentials whatever we were still worshiping, but something just was missing.

So today I want to talk about what that is.

What does singing do in our worship service, to our, to talk first of all about why we sing when we gather The Bible isn't actually super strict about telling us to it certainly isn't as strict about telling us to, as we are about making sure we do it.

I think we sing first and foremost, cuz we want to hear anything about talk about, why we worship one, why we sing, when we got there and then we're going to look at what does what are we doing when we sing?

Because if we see the worship service as an opportunity to do to act to work, then there's a special value in singing as part of that work.

So to talk about, why we sing, when we got her, I want to look at the very first time in scripture.

The God's people gather together to sing, that isn't Exodus 15.

This is the immediate aftermath of The Parting of the Red Sea.

If you remember, the people of Israel were slaves in Egypt and Godfrey them from slavery, and so they were able to leave Egypt, and they were headed toward headed East toward the Red Sea.

And when I got to the Red Sea, they were kind of stuck.

And that's when they discover, the Pharaoh had changed his mind.

So pharaoh and his armies are bearing down on them to destroy them early and save them or whatever and they're terrified.

And then all the sudden God Parts, the Red Sea and they're able to walk across on dry land and then as the Egyptian Army follows them, God brings the Seas back in to destroy the Army and free the Israelites.

It's the moment, when not only are they free, but there's no danger.

Any more than being taken back into into slavery to pick up at the very end of chapter 14 and says that day the Lord saved his hero from the hands of Egyptians and Israel and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore and when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord has played against the Egyptians, the people fear the lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant than Moses and the Israelites sang.

This song to the Lord, I will sing to the Lord.

For he is highly insulted.

Both Horse and Rider.

He has hurled into the sea and the song continues on.

Why at this moment?

Did they sing?

What are the immediate obvious answer?

But first, I want to talk about the most practical answer.

Why did Moses and the Israelites sing?

I think if you thought about it hard enough, you could pause the sentence that then Moses and the Israelites and asked, what do you think they're going to do next?

And it's a pretty solid chance you could get to write for two reasons.

But the first one is because what else are Moses and the Israelites going to do together.

Moses and the Israelites are responding together, right?

How many options do we have four ways that we can respond to Something in unison as a group?

But imperfect to see that's the thing.

If you've been to a volunteer opportunity, she said do God's will.

If you volunteered with us you know that it does take some effort to get everybody working synchronize, right?

It takes coordination but singing is something that we do together.

Think right?

That's why we sing so many times when we're gathered together, whether it's at a sporting event or oil, when we want to do things together, we sing singing allows us to express ourselves together as a group.

All of Israel was saved in this moment and so if Israel as a group is going to respond to it, singing is the simplest easiest most obvious way for them to respond.

So it makes a good practical sense.

Now, that's clearly being more practical and analytical than the Israelites were being at the moment, right?

That is not like they sat around and said, okay, what is the best most unified way?

We can respond responded, not out of an animal, the analytical part of their mind, but out of the relief and the emotion in the passion, because one of the unique things about singing is a singing, allows us to express, not just our thoughts, but our feelings and emotions.

They did not simply want to express surprise at the fact that the Seas parted, when they normally don't write they weren't they weren't simply wanting to remark on the strange weather patterns that cause this to occur and cause them to close back over the Egyptians as they when the Israelites were saying they wanted to express their relief, their Joy.

I mean, imagine these are people who have spent their entire lives in slavery and not only had they been freed.

They've been free by the miraculous intervention of God, can you imagine what they were feeling in that moment?

Do you think anything but singing, Could have encapsulated that any of them could talk with a normal voice at that time.

I just speaking in a normal voice of it because there was something special about our defining artists hard.

But I would say it's those modes of expression that we have that help us to express our hearts as well as just the immediate thing that we're doing and singing is is an amazing way to do that.

You know, that the first words spoken by a human being in the Bible are singing and it's Adams reaction to seeing you for the first time.

Also interesting.

Lee enough God the vast majority of his dialogue is poetry Is artistry is music.

And you can see, as you read the poems, you read the song of the sea is what it's called.

You can see that the pros would not have worked, just sentences just descriptions, without emotion, would not have work for what they wanted to say.

The Lord is my strength.

In my defense, he has become my salvation, he is my God and I will praise him, my father's God and I will exalt him, your right hand, Lord was Majestic Empower, your right hand Lord shadder the enemy.

As you read that, you're able to feel something of what they felt in the relief that not only did this abstract that this miracle happen, but it was a miracle that delivered them from slavery and death.

And they described it as a victory Of God.

That's not strange natural phenomenon.

They see it as a, as a victory Of God, which is exactly what it is, and that comes through in their emotional reaction.

You can even if you get a much better reaction or description of what it felt like to go through the Red Sea, when you read the way they poetically describe it by the blast of your nostrils.

The waters piled up the surgeon water, still like a wall, the Deep Waters congealed, in the heart of the sea.

It wasn't just that they know the waters.

Parted it was like the blast of nostrils from an angry horse.

Just blew it is like guy just blew it in his anger and is it his desire to come and save them?

And it stood up like, like Jell-O actually was like canoeing butter.

If I think with the way the word comes from, what is this vivid imagery?

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