Sermon Tone Analysis

Now, let's look at this. "...for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.

And again, I will put my trust in him.

And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage".

So, death is the master fear.

That's where it starts.

It is the fear of death.

And it is bondage.

Now, if you don't know Jesus as your Lord, you've got a lot to be afraid of.

You better hope you don't die.

But now, when Gloria and I accepted Jesus, both of us were scriptural illiterates.

I said, "Gloria, did you notice that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John all tell the same story"?

She said, "Isn't that wonderful"?

T.L. Osborn said, "Kenneth," he said, "you're born free, brother.

You didn't have any religion to unlearn".

Well, I didn't.

And so, I had a different take on everything that I saw.

And then, I got over to the 11th chapter of Hebrews and I said, "Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria.

I found the Hall of Faith".

Good Lord.

"I found the Hall of Faith.

If we could get this faith.

If we could get a handle on this, there ain't anything we can't do".

This is it.

And we can go to church.

"Oh, we want this faith".

And somebody to say, "Well, you need faith.

And this is what you need.

This is what will happen.

This is what will happen if you don't".

And then they'd preach on Paul's thorn and Job's turkey.

If Job had any turkeys, they weren't poor.

And start back over again.

And so, my mother gave us our first tape of Kenneth E Hagin's.

Now, I carried my New Testament, right here, all the time.

I put it in my pocket when I got up.

And I take it out at night, because that's where my cigarettes were before.

They are about the same size.

And that's where that New Testament went.

Oh, my.

Lord have mercy.

And I found out faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

And my lightning-fast mind figured out fear comes the same way.

Fear comes by hearing, and hearing by the lies of the devil.

And if you just get on television and watch all the reports... I'm telling you, when this thing first started, I could have given the news report.

How many died this week?

How many died last week?

Well, we think some of them didn't die.

Well, some of them did.

Some of them died with something else, and COVID got the credit for it.

They did that.

So, Gloria said, "You have to learn to talk back to that TV".

Well, I knew something better than that.

I just turned it off.

I don't watch much of.

I have an iPad.

Glory to God.

I can watch Healing School anytime I want to.

Glory to God.

Fear of death.

Now, again, I'll close with this, that "made a little lower than the angel for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor that he, by the grace of God, should taste death for everybody".

And we know, "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord".

And you can't taste it, when you die.

You can't smell it when you die.

You can't see it when you die.

And you can't hear it.

Now, the man, Bob Deweese, he was Oral Robert's manager, and he was captain of the airplane.

And so, I flew co-pilot to him.

Bob Deweese had a heart attack on the handball court.

And he said, the next thing he knew, he was in the most beautiful spot he'd ever seen in his life.

He said, "Kenneth, I've never had such life going through me in my life".

And he said, "I walked over", and he said, "on this road.

And there was a fence on each side".

And he said, "As close as I could tell, it was hand-carved mahogany".

He said, "It was magnificent".

"But", he said, "then I saw the lights of the city".

And here's what he said, "Oh, my God, I'm home".

He said, "I started running".

See, he wasn't aware he didn't have a body.

He said, "I started running".

He was telling this to Gloria and me.

And he said, "All of a sudden, I began bogged down".

And he said, "I came to myself".

And he said, "There I was in the City of Faith, and Charlotte hollering, 'In the name of Jesus.

In the name of Jesus.'"

And Charlotte just butted in.

She said, "Kenneth, you want me to tell you what he said"?

I said, "well, yeah".

Did he say, "Thank you, Charlotte, for saving my life"?

No. No.

He said, "Charlotte, what'd you do that for"?

He didn't want to come back.

Don't ever feel sorry for somebody who goes to Heaven.

But I'm not done yet.

And neither are you.

And we're going to live out our lives here.

Amen.

And the Lord dealt with me some years ago, as most of you know, about living to be 120 years old.