Sermon Tone Analysis

I. Our Text James 3:13

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?

Let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

The question in our text looks for a person with two qualities.Where is the person among you that is both wise and has knowledge?The writer recognizes the importance of this combination for one without the other can leave us ineffective in walk with God.

But put together we have a winning combination.

“Knowledge is proud that she has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.”

It has been said that “a mind is a terrible thing to waste”.

The United Negro College fund used this slogan to ignite a pursuit to further education.

This pursuit is about more than the accumulation of facts and figures, it is the pursuit of understanding the capacity of an individual mind.There is no computer capable of processing more information faster than the human mind.

Its ability to handle multiple task a once is the model the template of multitasking.

The exercise of the mind fuels the acquisition of information.

It is this act that we refer to as knowledge.

II.

The Bible speaks of the importance of knowledge

A. Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

1.

Without knowledge my people are destroyed

2. God rejects those that reject knowledge

3. Held Positions are lost because knowledge was forgotten

4. Identifies knowledge as the law of thy God

5. When his law is forgotten in one generation it affect the next generation.

B. Pro 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The word knowledge is defined as information in mind: general awareness or possession of information, facts, ideas, truths, or principles specific information: clear awareness or explicit information, e.g. of a situation or fact all that can be known: all the information, facts, truths, and principles learned throughout time.

C. Two Type of Knowledge

1. Indirect knowledge is to know something or someone through the witness of another.

(Joh 4:39 KJV) And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.

Many Samaritans only had indirect knowledge and they believed.

Indirect knowledge will only go so far.

What was it about the testimony of this woman that made others want to meet Jesus?

I believe her encounter with Jesus change her in a way that no one expected.

It revealed to her something about God himself.

2. Direct knowledge is to know something or someone personally.

Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

God is not limited

Ethnicity

Gender

Societal norms

True worship is not subject to the opinions of man

Man’s opinions are limited to only what they see.

"You don’t have to sing to worship"

"You don’t have to shout to worship"

"You don’t have to dance to worship"

"You don’t need to be noisy to worship"

"You don’t have to come to church to worship"

No one has to know just do it on the inside

It doesn’t take all that

But until you have walked in my shoes

Until you have faced what I have face

Until you know what I know

How can you know what it takes?

It is easy to look at a person’s worship and judge them through our own lives and experiences.

D. True worship

1.

The power of his Spirit

2. The power of truth

What truth it’s about what the Lord has done for you.

Rom 14:4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth.

Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.

You don’t know like I know What the Lord has done for me.

You were not there when he saved me

When he raised me

And filled me with Holy Ghost

But it was on that day that my life was changed forever

a) Not because of a church

b) Or and ministry

c) Or a message

d) Because within us we want more than indirect knowledge

3.

This woman found out that God wants what we want.

a) True worship is not regional it is relational

(1) It is not format but as function of the hear

(2) It is not religious it is revolutionary

(3) It is not a place we come to it is the place that God lives

(Joh 4:40 KJV) So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

b) They were not interested

(1) in merely meeting Jesus.

(2) in one of his messages

c) They besought him, begged him, they pleaded with him,

(1) to tarry with them.

(2) They wanted him to stay.

What a difference in what we see today.

People don’t have a problem hearing about Jesus

People don’t have a problem being introduced to him

But how many people are ready for him to come home with them?

How many really want Jesus to stay?

(Joh 4:41 KJV) And many more believed because of his own word;

E. Though many would believe because of indirect knowledge

1.

Many more would believe because of direct knowledge

(Joh 4:42 KJV) And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

2. The testimony of another can serve to inspire and encourage others to know.

It is the visible impact on their life that causes others to act.

3. Proverbs was designed to help the reader to fear of the Lord and know the knowledge of God.

(Pro 2:5 KJV) Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

F. Paul told Timothy the purpose of study

2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

1. Shew thyself

a) Approved unto God

b) Workman (not lazy)

c) Unashamed (confident)

(Jer 1:17-19 KJV) Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

Paul stated Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.