Sermon Tone Analysis

What are the side Effects of Obedience?

Tale of two disobediences:

Saul Disobey’s God towards Amalekites.

The Healed one leper of ten.

This story of the Amalekites and Soul’s disobedience has impacted my life.

I always wanted to obey God and not do what I think is right.

That is a good lesson to learn from this story, but there is something much more to learn here.

This story has always impacted me to be grateful.

I don’t want to just come to Jesus for a need and then not come back to Him.

That is not the kind of relationship I want with Him.

The fact that nine did not come back, Jesus is trying to tell us something about us.

The disobedience in this story is harder to find because it appears they all did has He said.

One of them did more or maybe he did not listen all the way.

Who are the Amalekites?

Amalek was the son of Eliphaz, the son of Esau.

Amalek represents one who despises God’s people.

The Amalekites were the first to attack Israel after Egypt for no reason.

After Israel get their first well by miracle they were attacked by them agian.

The second time they attacked Israel was in the 40th year of the wilderness disguised as King of Arad.

To this day because of Saul’s disobedience the descendants of Amalek still hate God’s people.

Haman was a descendant of Agog who was part of the Persian empire plotted to annihilate all jews.

Amalek = “dweller in a valley”.

Amalekite = “people of lapping”.

What do the Amalekites represent?

In a valley.

In a time of hardship and trusting God.

After a miracle in your life something comes to kill you or the miracle.

Right before a promise fulfilled something comes to destroy you or the promise.

What do the Amalekites represent?

What tries to take away a miracle and keep you from a promise.

God gets angry at an enemy that robs His children.

Any time you see God angry towards people in the bible, it is in response to cry of a people being tormented.

How do you beat the Amalekite spirit in your life?

Obedience to Father

Not allowing any resentment toward God, or that you may know better than God does.

Obey what He is saying to do or not do in your life all the way.

In the ten leper story there is a hint on how to go about our breakthrough.

Cleansed, Healed, and Well

Cleansed: katharizo

Cleansed means they saw their skin healed.

Outward evidence of some sort.

Healed: iaomai

One man saw that he was healed.

Healed means to cure, to heal, to be making whole.

Outward and inward evidence healing is happening.

Made Well: sozo

Well means to be made whole.

Outward and inward evidence that you are whole.

Nine were cleansed and only one was made whole.

Nine started their healing process.

That one came back to Jesus face to face and with gratitude.

This story show us that we have stages of healing and what brings the fullness of that is our coming to Jesus with gratitude and faith.

Paying attention to what God has done is the first step.

The second is to return back to Jesus after you experience healing and thanking Him.

If you want to be whole, if you want the full promise of God, come back to Jesus.

Dont just do what He says, come back to Him, be with Him, thank Him.

Closing:

Your obedience to Jesus will make you whole and defeat the robber of miracles and promises.

Jesus has heard the cries of His people and wants to defeat the robber of miracles and promises.

Jesus has already starting your healing and wants the full healing to come about.

The key to all this is obedience from the heart and in the flesh.

Do you have something trying to take away a miracle?

Do you have something trying to keep you from a promise from God?

What did He ask you to do?

Are you obeying?

Are you going to His face and thanking Him for what He gave you?

Activation:

Break out into groups of four

Tell each other one way God has healed you.

If your brave enough, tell them what He is asking you to do now?

Take a step towards obeying Him today.

Other resources:

History of Amalekites

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3942715/jewish/Who-Were-Amalek-and-the-Amalekites.htm

Cleansed

2511 καθαρίζω, καθερίζω [katharizo /kath·ar·id·zo/] v. From 2513; TDNT 3:413; TDNTA 381; GK 2751 and 2760; 30 occurrences; AV translates as “cleanse” 16 times, “make clean” five times, “be clean” three times, “purge” three times, and “purify” three times.

1 to make clean, cleanse.

1A from physical stains and dirt.

1A1 utensils, food.

1A2 a leper, to cleanse by curing.

1A3 to remove by cleansing.

1B in a moral sense.

1B1 to free from defilement of sin and from faults.

1B2 to purify from wickedness.

1B3 to free from guilt of sin, to purify.

1B4 to consecrate by cleansing or purifying.

1B5 to consecrate, dedicate.

2 to pronounce clean in a levitical sense.

Healed

2390 ἰάομαι [iaomai /ee·ah·om·ahee/] v. Middle voice of apparently a primary verb; TDNT 3:194; TDNTA 344; GK 2615; 28 occurrences; AV translates as “heal” 26 times, and “make whole” twice. 1 to cure, heal. 2 to make whole.

2A to free from errors and sins, to bring about (one’s) salvation.

Well

4982 ἐκσῴζω, σῴζω [sozo /sode·zo/] v. From a primary sos (contraction for obsolete saoz, “safe”); TDNT 7:965; TDNTA 1132; GK 1751 and 5392; 110 occurrences; AV translates as “save” 93 times, “make whole” nine times, “heal” three times, “be whole” twice, and translated miscellaneously three times.

1 to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction.

1A one (from injury or peril).

1A1 to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health.

1B1 to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue.

1B to save in the technical biblical sense.

1B1 negatively.

1B1A to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment.