Sermon Tone Analysis

*Prayer - Healing (the good side)*

*Romans 15:17-20*

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*Introduction*

* *Last the bad - comments*

* *This week the good*

* *Next week – Healing Service*

*Cut short*

* *Favorite dessert is gone when you get there*

* *The meal was good but if only I had had the dessert... then it would have been complete*

* *I feel like this with the gospel*

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*Two things really stand out for me*

#. *The word** Sozo*

#. *Ro 15:19*

*Sozo – means** salvation (sozo=salvation) Makes sense*

* *Sozo – deliver or healed or cure (no good)*

* *Lk 17:19** – **the ten lepers -   “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”*

* *NIV has made a textual error *

* *Context of the text – physical could be the focus...*

* *Do you see the predicament*

* *Lk 8 uses sozo 3 Xs – vs. 12, 36, 50*

* *12 – saved; 36 – cured; 50 – healed*

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*Healing conference*

* *Tim Vink read** **Ro **15:19 - by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit.

So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.*

* *Sounds like they didn’t run short or out... full load at all times, everywhere he went*

* *By power of signs, and miracles*

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*An Aahha moment...*

* *This makes the sozo word make more sense*

* *The good news or the gospel is not just about salvation, or heaven but the kingdom of God is now, it is here*

* *52 Xs** – **Kingdom of God (gospels)*

* *Doing this fully... what else should be happening*

*Mk 16:17-18 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”*

* *Mark’s version of the Great commission*

·         *“The glory of God is a human being fully alive.”

St Irenaeus*

*Ro 1:16 - I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes:*

* *This is for you, for your children...*

* *Jesus told the parable of the sower*

* *The gospel message is** exponential *

*Mt 13:23 - But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it.

He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”

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*So what does this all mean...? *

#. *We have to look at the gospel** differently*

#. *Aahhaa moment...*

#. *Do you want the full deal, or part of it...*

#. *Take** **ownership** **of it*

#. *We need to live it... take the plunge*

#. *Jesus did this with His disciples – followers –** Mt 9:35 – 10:5*

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**I do it you watch*

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**You do it with me*

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**You do it, someone else watches you*

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*What does it look like...? Let’s do it now*

#. *Leading** from God – Gary on my heart *

#. *Talked to him to be sure*

*The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within and we need not be afraid to follow it.”

Agnes Sanford*

#. *The greatest of these is** Love...*

#. *It is easier to be yourself when you focus on love*

#. *Pay less attention to ourselves and more on God*

#. *Healing is not just about faith, but God dumping His love on us*

#. *If anything happens in prayer – the person prayed for should feel loved and closer to God*

#. *No one should ever feel hurt or scared*

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#. *Ask the person what to pray for...** specific*

#. *What is the problem*

#. *What is causing the problem*

#. *How do they want prayer... as well as listening to God *

#. *Pray *

#. *Sometimes it just means to be there*

#. *Laying of hands shows love, connection (you do not have to lay hands)*

#. *Turn to God in complete trust, He has the power*

#. *Be honest about your own doubts, adequacy and prediction of results*

#. *Faith-action is praying for the person *

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**When God tells us *

#. *Pray obediently and leave the results to God*

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**Sometimes God will want follow-up (Love)*

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