Sermon Tone Analysis

Thus Says The Lord

Yaweh has something important to tell us

This is coming from His lips to our ears

Hopefully it is coming from His lips to our heart

Thus says the Lord, this is not my thoughts

but this is coming directly from Him

we are going to look at these 4 verses as evangelically

About the un-saved and the saved

setting the scene

God Has brought them into the promised land

The land flowing with milk and honey

a land with plenty of water, rains in their seasons

God has promised them prosperity, and a rich abundant life

but

Deuteronomy 29:22–25 (LEB)

“And the next generation, that is, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, when they will see the plagues of that land and its diseases that Yahweh has inflicted upon it, will say, ‘All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, none of its land will be sown, and it will not make plants sprout out and it will not grow any vegetation; it is as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adman and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in his anger and in his wrath.’

And all the nations will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done such a thing to this land?

What caused the fierceness of this great anger?’

And they will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out from the land of Egypt.

And this is where we pick up this account

But before we read our passage for today lets look at mankind

Adam and Eve in the garden

Adam had dominion over the earth, he spoke to the animals

he tended the lush garden of God

he walked and talked daily with God

His life was perfect no worries, no sickness, no bills,taxes, or hospitals

God told him not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil

and of course we know what happened

and we know the consequence

And to the man Adam and his descendants

now have the background of what God is declaring

read Jeremiah 17 5-8.

Pray

A Juniper in the desert

V 5 Cursed is the person

everyone born is a cursed person condemned to hell

Jesus was cursed on the cross by God

He drank from the cup of the full wrath of God

the cursed person is destined to the lake of fire

to the place of darkness

to the place of eternal loneliness

no love, no hope,

eternal excruciating pain

John 3 says Jesus came to save because we are condemned already

we are cursed by God

some think its pretty bad when you are cursed by a witch doctor

but being cursed by God almighty, the sovereign ruler of the universe

This is a person who trusts in himself, to pull himself up by his boot straps

who is actually an enemy of God and does not even know it

V 6 he is a lone shrub in a barren wilderness

but he is blinded by satan, he thinks life is great

he thinks he is a pretty good person

if we could see the inside of us like God can

we would see the maggot infested decay

the putrid smell of gang green

we would see the worms and roaches crawling though the sewers of our minds

the good works, our righteous deeds

but the unsaved, what theology calls totally depraved

cannot see his own depravity

he is that lone shrub in a desert and thinks

I look a lot better than the desert around me, so I must be pretty good

V 6 He will not see good

Jesus came to the world healing and teaching

all the leaders saw was a threat to their lifestyle

Jesus came to usher in the kingdom, but he was murdered

God came earth to be one of us and we thought it best if we kill him

We are born haters of God and if we could we would join the others in killing him

The life of the unsaved is in total rebellion against God

We may be in the church pew for years

apart of the leadership of the church

but you have not seen the good

you have not seen the grossness of your sin

you have not been next to Jesus and realizing who he is

you look around and compare your self to the desert you live in

and not realize the depravity of who you really are

because of the blindness

Blessed Is The Person

the desert Juniper started in the desert and there it will live

lets look at the blessed person

the blessing come from God

the blessing comes from our trusting in God

the person went from trusting in himself and others to trusting in God

the person went from seeing himself as a pretty good guy

to seeing himself through the eyes of God

that is done by the Holy Spirit making us able to see for the first time

and we realize the depths of our sin, the condemnation that is upon us

but there is good news

Grace is the reservoir that comes abundantly from God

Grace is freely given grace is not earned

cant work for it, or buy it

Grace is given to us for the glory of God

Faith is looking to Jesus on the cross and saying In need you

the Israelites in the wilderness looking at the brass serpent to be healed

There is a tightrope show come to town and they put a cable between 2 tall buildings.

the man goes back and fourth between and does stunts then he takes a wheelbarrow and pushes it across and back.

then he asks the crowd do you think that I could take you across and back? the crowd cheers and says yes. if that is the case could I get a volunteer to come on up?

Faith is getting into Jesus’ wheelbarrow

Faith is taking the hand of Jesus

faith is curling up in Jesus lap and say only you can save me

when that happens grace is flowed into your life.