Sermon Transcript Tone Analysis

Well, hello there again.

Thank you.

Good morning to you as well.

Before we get started in the psalm 13, I would like to say how appreciative, and how grateful I am for pastor van.

I am so grateful for our time in the Psalms spend already and last week, when we went through, so may, I was impacted and thankful when he gave a practical application of a book to look at if we need, I think it was Ray Orleans.

Dean Moreland.

Either way, he has given us an opportunity to apply it to our lives.

I see him take throughout the week, and he brings it to Bear each Sunday and as he ministers to our church and I'm so grateful for him.

And so grateful for his ministry, and I'm grateful for the privilege to be going through this song with you this morning.

So if you would buy your head in prayer with me, there we are.

So thankful for your presents.

We are so thankful that you were here in the midst of us.

Even now, whatever we come to you with what we come to you with it, would we be a light in our community?

But we learn to lament well because without it we have muted ourselves to the pain and sorrow that we feel and validating the pain of our world.

Would you guide us with your spirit actively working our hearts this morning?

Not to refer this to others, but to appropriated into our own Hearts minds and Bodies In The Name of Jesus.

Amen.

The stress is a common word.

I often say it when someone ask me how I'm doing they say, how are you doing?

I might say I'm tired, I might seem stressed sometimes it's the same difference to me.

We've become used to it.

A lot of us deal with stress in different ways we have coping mechanisms, some of us, some of us watch TV while it's a good option.

Some of them are benign or neutral options of coping with stress, some are very negative.

We have patterns, and habits in a community, full of addiction, taking and legitimate.

Need an immediate with a legitimate means.

It has become so common.

And so prevalent, whether it's drugs or alcohol can be our phones.

We are addicted to.

We are taking a legitimate need immediate illegitimately We have become accustomed to the vocabulary of stress.

Would I notice?

Observe and experience is that suffering is not something we often talk about.

When someone asks you how you're doing, there's a prescribed to answer and it's not, usually I'm suffering right now.

Tuvok because in our souls, we know it's true.

We are not really allowed to suffer in public.

We suffer privately, we suffer on our own and really, if we turn up the music on the loud stuff, we turn the music down when it comes to our suffering.

I'd like to give us a context for the genre of Lament.

It is a complaint, it is not merely a complaint to anyone or to any party.

It's a complaint to God and it has characteristics because I think complaining is actually something we're really good at whether we do it to our friends, or to our spouses or on social media.

We are very good at complaining.

What I noticed is that we're not often taking those complaints to God, and I am not accusing you.

It's because I know it's true in my own life.

When I, I am struggling, when I am angry, when I am her, I am not taking those things to God.

And I am so thankful for Psalm 13.

Lemon is something that acknowledges God is listening, is the god who hears when we speak to him.

If God was not listening, we might as well stop talking.

If you was indifferent as a brick wall each time, we call out to him and cried out to him, then our prayers would be fruitless and futile.

Thankfully, he hears Lament gives us a voice when we don't have the words to say.

And as it gives us a voice, it gives us a voice for those who are voiceless, it takes this mute.

Aspects of those who suffer in a towel, they are to suffer alone.

that it's okay to do it individually corporately and as a community, I think it's important for us to acknowledge that just as we await a diagnosis by a doctor.

What is not named cannot be healed.

When we are unwilling to admit and to acknowledge we will take no steps to heal or restore.

And I'll repeat it because someone else much wiser and much more tightly than I said it.

What is not named cannot be healed.

So, it is time for us to name our suffering.

Lemon is not about blaming God for our problems, rather it is fully, and readily acknowledging that in bringing, whatever bad stuff is going on.

That he is Dan.

And even when he answers in a way that's not to our liking, he remains the answer.

I'd like to say, praise.

What is high tune happy upbeat praise, which is wonderful and we should do.

Readily praise without lament is cheap.

If we are unwilling to plumb the depths of our sorrow to a God, who hears to reorient, our lives, our minds to plumb the bad stuff, if we're unwilling to do that.

Then why do we have hope in a hopeless world?

If you're unwilling to acknowledge that, sometimes we feel hopeless.

I'd like to give you four characteristics of Lament.

It is vivid and assertive with raw emotion, Rob motion again is common but raw emotion towards God is less common.

Laments are often imprecise and timing.

They will often switch from past tense to present, tense, leaving us a little bit confused.

If what they're talking about has happened or is happening.

There's also vague circumstances when the psalmist writes their writing about a particular situation.

They don't always named it because the lemon is a framework, by which the people of God can walk through sorrow together.

They are vague intentionally.

Not because it's effusive and it just Duluth as it goes forth, but rather that in the vagueness, we can individually and corporately name that unique sorrow, we endure.

And fourthly.

And perhaps most importantly, lament is always something that mute moves from expressions of pain to statements of trust.

It is always acknowledging the evil and the suffering and the sorrow but is not doing that on its own.

It is taking it with an upward thrust to statements of trust even when it's hard to trust.

And thirdly.

This song is split into three stanzas which I have titled.

The question verses 12 to the request in verses three to four and a commitment to trust in vs 526.

Although the men's can be caused by some one's own sin, the sin of others, laments are written for a very for varied reasons.

This lament is specific to David situation, but it's vague that it can be applied to our own lives.

That's for you.

No takers.

You Know Who You Are.

You're welcome.

If you would and you're able, please stand for the reading of God's word.

How long oh Lord will you forget me forever?

How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day?

How long should my enemy be exalted over me?

Consider an answer me O Lord, my God.

Light up my eyes.

Lest I sleep, the sleep of death.

Bless my enemies.

Say, I have prevailed over him.

Let's my foes Rejoice because I am shaken, but I have trusted in your steadfast love.

My heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

I will sing to the Lord because he has dealt bountifully with me.

This is God's word.

You may be seated.