Sermon Tone Analysis

I. I sought for a man among them!

a. God has chosen to us human instruments to do His work.

i.

He created man in His image and gave man charge over the every living thing upon the earth.

ii.

As a vessel created to do His work we get to partake in the rewards or blessings that are a result of His accomplishments.

b.

God seeks for and responds to men that have answered the call.

i.

Even though God was judging the people of Israel because of their wrong doing Aaron took a censor and ran into the congregation and made atonement for them, or rather worshiped the Lord and stood between the dead and the living and the plague was stopped!

ii.

Abraham interceded on behalf of Sodom and Gomorrah.

(Genesis 18)

iii.

Moses kept God from destroying the people.

(Exodus 32)

c.

God does not always seek a qualified man.

i.

David was a shepherd yet God anointed him King!

ii.

Amos was a farmer, God called him to speak/prophecy on His behalf!

iii.

Ruth was a Moabite and served other God’s, but David came of her seed and Christ came of her seed!

d.

God always qualifies those He calls for the task that He calls you to!

II.

The man God seeks is not just any man, but he must have some certain characteristics.

a.

He must be a man of faith.

i.

Little confidence in self.

ii.

Great confidence in God!

iii.

You will face impossible odds.

iv.

You will encounter impossible situations.

1.

Just have faith in God as Jesus said, because no matter what comes before you, you can overcome!

v. Paul said, “If God be for us, WHO can be against us?”

vi.

In our text God needed a man to “fill up the hedge, to stand in the gap.”

b.

He must be a man not seeking self-glory.

i. Inherent danger of being used by God.

1.

People seek to glorify the vessel.

2. Paul said it this way:

ii.

Pride will destroy your ability to be used to fill in the gap!

iii.

We must be men and women that have come to the cross & reckoned themselves dead.

c.

He must be a man of the Word of God!

i.

We must understand God’s purposes.

ii.

The ignorance of God’s Word is astounding, I’d say rather alarming!

iii.

We are going to be bombarded with false doctrines!

1.

Some of these teachers will sound so right.

2. They will use Scripture to reinforce what they are teaching!

d.

He must be a man of prayer.

i. Communication with headquarters is vital!

ii.

Just like soldiers in the field.

1.

We seek the advice of headquarters!

2. They have advantage of cumulative reports from other units & recon.

3. God looking down on the scene of man know where and how we can be most effective!

a.

His ways far exceed our ways!

e.

He must be filled with the Holy Ghost!

i.

We must walk in the Spirit in order to be in tune with God!

ii.

In order to walk in the Spirit we must be born of the Spirit!

1.

You cannot walk in something that you aren’t a part of!

iii.

We must have the love of God abiding in us if we are to fill in the gap!

1.

When we have the love of God in our lives we give God glory!

2. If the world is going to see God it is going to be through those in which He abides!

III.

But He found none.

a.

The sad part to our text today is that God told His people that He could not find anyone who would fill in the gap!

b.

As I pointed out in the beginning of this message God DOES respond to those who fill in the gap!

i.

This world we live in is a complete and utter mess, and God is looking for someone that will fill up the hedge, stand in the gap.

Because there are still a lot of people that need us to intercede on their behalf.

There are people that need GOD and we are the ones He is depending on!

I don’t want God to look down in this church today and say I am looking for someone, but I can’t find them!

Are you the one that God is seeking?