Sermon Tone Analysis

This Week’s Theme: Growing in God’s Placement

Memory Verse: Exodus 31:3 “3 And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,”

This Week’s Word is Filled with the Spirit: To be filled with the Holy Spirit is to be energized and controlled by the third person of the Godhead in such a way that under the acknowledged lordship of Jesus Christ the full presence and power of God are experienced.

Spirit-filling leads to renewal, obedience, boldness in testimony and an arresting quality in believers’ lives.

Essence of the Text in a Sentence: God provides oversight and ability concerning the construction of His tabernacle.

Sermon Objective: I am looking for

Sermon Text: Exodus 31:1-11

Introduction:

Transition:

Big Idea of the Text:

Saints must build God’s house by recognizing and using the gifts given.

I. God Provides Your Placement

Exposition: Look at the text.

The LORD directs Moses’ attention.

He directs him to witness what He has done.

God says, “See, I have called” this word ‘called’ in the Hebrew is “qara [kaw-raw]” which means to appoint, call out and endow.

God is saying I called, appointed and provided Bezalel (Bets-sal-EL) the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe.

LOOK AT VERSE SIX.

GOD REPEATS

Application (What difference does it make?

Apply it, what, where, why, and how): Positive Application: Describe the conditions if your solution is actually carried out.

Picture the listeners in that situation actually enjoying the safety, pleasure, or pride that your proposal will produce.

Negative Application: Describe conditions if your solution is not carried out.

Picture the audience feeling the bad effects or unpleasantness that the failure to effect your solution will produce.

Contrast Application: Combination of 1 and 2. Begin with the negative method (undesirable situation) and conclude with the positive method (desirable solution).

Are you guilty of thinking the power is in your ability?

Name times in the past when you thought you knew what to do.

II.

God Provides Your Present

Exposition: GOD TELLS MOSES IN VERSE 3 “I HAVE FILLED HIM WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD” AND IN VERSE 6 “I HAVE PUT WISDOM IN . .

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GOD MAKES CLEAR THAT HE PROVIDES WHAT WAS NEEDED.

WISDOM

WISDOM IN THIS CASE IS THE SKILL TO INVENT THE NECESSARY OBJECTS, UTENSILS, FURNITURE, ETC TO COMPLETE THE TABERNACLE.

UNDERSTANDING

UNDERSTANDING IS TO RECEIVE WITH CLARITY AND APPRECIATE THE DIRECTIONS GIVEN THEM CONCERNING WHAT GOD WANTED.

KNOWLEDGE

KNOWLEDGE IS THAT INFORMATION WHICH IS ACQUIRED BY EXPERIENCE AND ACQUAINTANCE WITH FACTS.

Not only did God give Bezalel the spirit of God in wisdom, understanding, in knowledge.

But the Spirit of God was to be working in him in all manner of workmanship, to do what He wanted.

III.

God Provides Your Purpose

Exposition (What does that mean?

Explain it): Hear the confession of Joseph!

After being presented before the king as a someone who could interpret his dream, Joseph did not allow the gravity of this situation to overtake his rational thinking.

TO DESIGN

TO WORK IN

TO MAKE ALL

Application (What difference does it make?

Apply it, what, where, why, and how): Positive Application: Describe

Are you guilty of thinking the power is in your ability?

Name times in the past when you thought you knew what to do.

God will not give you a task to do without providing the means to do it.

Application: Brothers and sister in Christ, just as in the building of the tabernacle, the same is true today for the church, which is the body of Christ.

IV.

God Provides Your Partnership

Exposition (What does that mean?

Explain it): Hear the confession of Joseph!

After being presented before the king as a someone who could interpret his dream, Joseph did not allow the gravity of this situation to overtake his rational thinking.

Application (What difference does it make?

Apply it, what, where, why, and how): Positive Application: Describe

Are you guilty of thinking the power is in your ability?

Name times in the past when you thought you knew what to do.