Sermon Tone Analysis

*The Power of No Part #2:*

*Seven Places We Need to Say NO!!*

*7-12-09*

 

Series on the Power of Yes and No

 

Let your Yes be YES and your NO be NO Matt 5:37 let 5your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.

We Need that CLARITY—

·                    Because We are a people of FAITH

·                    We have to have clarity of our boundaries

·                    Etc. Develop

*Boundary—Ps 16*

*/5     Lord, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure.

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*/6        /**/The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance/*/.

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Review Last week:

·                    Taking a NO position

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No Positive

·                    Positive Twist on it

·                    Has an attitude with it

·                    An attitude of ‘no more’, enough is enough, I draw the line here

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*World—Flesh—Devil*

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*Conviction—Truth~/Value that you COMPLETELY sell OUT to*

 

·                    *CONVICTION vs ‘free floating belief’*

 

*When there is the LINE drawn—the MOMENTUM shifts*

·                    And that’s the POWER of the NO position

·                    LEVER—Fulcrum

·                    As believers we need to DEFINE our No Position

 

*TITLE*

What you are saying no to:

·                    *No to all of his footholds*

o       *Eph 4:27* *and do not give the devil a foothold.*

o       Position that is useable for base for his advancement in your life

o       Place where he can get further LATER ON in your life

‘Give Foothold’:  Greek definitions

·                    GIVE= Allow, grant appoint

·                    Foothold=*License*, room, place, possibility

 

Literally, to GRANT LICENSE

·                    Give ‘permit’ to build

o       He has License

o       He can choose to build OR WAIT

o       Foothold theme

·                    Legally NOW can build

 

Foothold is literally granting enemy a

·                    Building Permit to build something IN YOUR LIFE!!!!

 

o       Unconfessed sin, unresolved issues

§        Like the BEGINNINGS of MERSA—flesh eating—

§        Starts with just a SPOT—grows

o       Land Mines

§        I would NEVER . . . .

§        However, under THESE circumstances, I might . . .

*ADULTRY . . . .

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*There needs to places where we have a FIERCE RESOLVE*

·                    Do wise things—

·                    Saying NO often *EQUALS A/ction!!!!/*

·                    If I’m going to say no to flesh—I need to BUILD THE SAFTEY PROCEDURES

·                    Example—dating

 

A NO position on footholds

·                    Gives a FREEDOM to our lives

·                    Be aware—‘schemes’—well thought out

·                    If enemy STUDIES our lives . . .

wouldn’t it stand to reason that he would study our footholds??

 

Footholds block us from selling out

·                    We aren’t saying a decisive NO to sin or access

·                    We keep a door open, ‘just in case’

·                    Deadly

 

o       Give

*1443* δίδωμι (/didōmi/): vb.; ≡ DBLHebr 5989; Str 1325—

*Stronghold:  **5117 **τόπος**, **Πόντος* [/topos/ ~/*top*·os~/] n m.

Apparently a primary word; TDNT 8:187; TDNTA 1184; GK 5536 and 4509; 92

*/5117/*.

*τόπος* *topos*; a prim.

word; /a place/:— areas(1), locality(1), occasion(1), opportunity(2), parts(1), passenger~*(1), place(75), places(6), reef(1), regions(1), room(3).

*Linked to THIS:  *

·                    *No to his traps*

o       II Tim 2:26

25 Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and that they will *come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will*[2]

o       That he may come to his senses~/wake up

o       Escape traps~/snares of the devil

o       Recognize the trap!!!!! – Say NO to it!!!

§        Sometimes TRAIN CRASH in SLOW MOTION

§        Sometimes *GENERATIONAL pattern*

§        Alcoholism—where some MAY—we CAN’T

§        *NO involves ACTION*

o       If I could have looked back at people—watch out for the trap

§        Thank God for unanswered prayers!

o       If they had looked at it – been safe

o       *We need to ask God—‘Open my eyes to the traps’*

§        *Lead me not into temptation—deliver from evil*

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*When we see them – say NO!!*

 

 

·                    *No to him snatching away the GOD-seed to your life*

o       Word of the Lord

o       Coming into life

o       But have to guard that seed

o       Matt 13:19 Enemy will snatch away seed from your heart

o       Before you leave today

o       Leave the same way

o       Grab seed—close in hand

o       Hold to heart

 

·                    *No to his intimidations*

o       Is 59:19

o       When enemy comes in SPIRIT of the Lord lift up standard

When the enemy comes in ylike a flood,

     The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.

20     “The zRedeemer will come to Zion,