Sermon Tone Analysis

God is Glorify Is Revealed In All Things

God's Glory is Revealed in the Suffering and Redemption of the World (v.

19-22)

All of Creation is under the curse.

When Adam fell sin destroyed not only Adam and his wife but because of their sin God cursed all of creation.

But despite the fact that sin has broken creation, this does not mean that God is not in control.

No in fact, scripture states that God is in control of all things in creation.

Nothing happens in all of creation, from the birth of a star to it's catastrophic explosion that God did not allow to happen.

This includes all sorts of natural disasters on earth.

NOTHING HAPPENS IN ALL OF CREATION THAT GOD DOES NOT ALLOW.

Why He allows it to happen is a question we cannot answer (and should not try to), but we can say, on the testimony of Scripture, that God does indeed allow it or cause it to happen.

Or

Or finally

These things happen, and they happen under the watchful and sovereign eye of our God.

And in these things God will ultimately be glorified.

Now we may not see how or why here today.

We most certainly will not see how he is glorified when they we are in the midst of the rubble of our homes following a hurricane or at the funeral of a loved one following the destruction of a tornado, but the scripture says here that all of creation joins us in mourning sins deadly effects and joins us in groaning for the coming of God’s deliverance from suffering.

One Day this world will be redeemed

God's Glory is Revealed in the Suffering and Redemption of Man (v.

23-25)

Like creation, we have been subjected to futility.

Our own bodies are corrupted by sin.

Psalm 90 begins with a triumphant proclamation of God’s Gracious provision

But then in v. 3 it shifts in tone:

Like creation, man is wracked by the effects of sin.

From daily aches and pains to the cancers that wrack our bodies.

But Paul says that those who are in Christ has a special longing, a new suffering that we are experiencing: A longing for home.

As Christians we bring Glory to God by faithfully living in this fallen world for him as “firstfruits of the Spirit” and by eagerly waiting for our “adoption as sons”.

So what does this look like?

We live lives of Joy in the midst of Suffering in light of God’s Sovereign Grace and Mercy.

(1 Thess.

5:16)

We serve others Faithfully as they mourn and suffer the effects of sin in a broken and fallen world (Gal.

6:9-10)

We point others to the Gospel the only answer for the suffering that is common to all men.

(Romans 1:16)