Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
This automated analysis scores the text on the likely presence of emotional, language, and social tones. There are no right or wrong scores; this is just an indication of tones readers or listeners may pick up from the text.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
Emotion Tone
Anger
0.14UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.13UNLIKELY
Fear
0.14UNLIKELY
Joy
0.54LIKELY
Sadness
0.5LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.59LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.57LIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.76LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.96LIKELY
Extraversion
0.23UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.68LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.75LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
There are two types of people who build legos.
There are those who open a box of Legos, grab the instructions, and carefully create what the company wanted them to create.
Then there are those who take the box of Legos, open them up, and then dump them in the huge reservoir of Lego….to
build whatever they want to build.
I’m sure there are other types of people who build with Legos.
But, generalizations are too much fun to make.
Which type of builder are you?
Every single person is a builder.
Even if you do not like Legos.
Everyone, if left in a room with just Legos, will build with those Legos.
Now, you say, why in the world is Pastor talking so long about Legos.
Because Paul says that we are God’s builders.
So, let us build.
Read
Paul has been teaching the Corinthians what it means to have unity based upon the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not on teachers or minor points of theology.
We have spent several weeks discussing the Gospel again, how it is based upon what God has said, not on what man has said.
It is based on God’s wisdom, not man’s.
Therefore, we should we trying to share with others what God has done, rather than our own understanding.
Now, Paul is circling back around, after discussing the Gospel, to talk about unity again.
He does this by reminding the Corinthians who he as a servant of God is and by reminding the Corinthians how they should view servants of God.
Several weeks ago, I talked about how we should passionately be sharing the truths of God, because something with no outlet grows stagnant.
This week, based on these verses, we are going to discuss who we are as servants of God.
Next week, we will discuss how we we are to view other servants of God.
Pray
Paul says we are God’s builders, so let us build!
1A.
The Identity of the Builder
First, let us look at the identity of the builder.
Who are we?
We are God’s
Paul writes:
We are God’s.
Each one of us.
Later in this letter, Paul is going to say:
We believe that Jesus died on the cross for our sins.
He earned our forgiveness and reconciled us with the Creator of the universe, so that we can have a personal relationship with him.
We believe that this salvation is a free gift for anyone who believes in Jesus alone.
However, we believe that this gift is a not a free license to do whatever we want.
When we turn to Jesus in faith, we are joining his team.
We are replacing our master of sin with our new master, Jesus Christ.
We seek to serve him.
Paul, in 1 Corinthians 3, uses language like an employer and an employee.
We are workers in God’s service, and he gives us rewards based upon what we do.
We will talk about what those rewards look like later.
But, Paul uses the illustration that we are working for God, promised wages based upon our labor.
We could apply this in so many ways, such as: work well for the Lord.
When he calls us to do something, we should do it with all ourselves, without grumbling or complaining.
We could talk about this and other applications.
But, Paul is focusing on something very specific.
If he as a servant of God is working for God and drawing wages from God, the Corinthians have no hold over him.
He is not working for them.
Neither is Apollos.
Neither is Peter.
The same is true for us.
We are God’s.
Our goal is to please him, not the person sitting next to us.
Yes, in pleasing him, we are to show love to the person sitting next to us.
But, the goal is God’s glory, alone.
We are God’s.
When we have the choice of speaking truth or being liked, we are to speak truth, because we are God’s.
Who are we?
We are God’s.
We are coworkers
Not only are we God’s, but we are coworkers.
Paul said:
Every single person who is a follower of Jesus Christ is a coworker in God’s service.
That means, under God, we are all the same.
Yes, I am a pastor, and we believe that God gave pastors to churches for a specific reason:
Did you hear that?
Perhaps I need to read that again.
God gave pastors to church
We are all coworkers in God’s service.
No matter who we are.
God has given us different giftings and talents to use in his service, but not one of us is higher in that food chain than another.
Paul is going to write
We are all coworkers in God’s service, no matter who we are, no matter what we do.
Sometimes, we can get into hero worship in the Christian church.
We can say: “Oh, there goes Pastor Peter.
Wow, he is such a great Christian.
He does such amazing things for God.
I wish that I could be like him.”
Well, maybe I should use a more realistic example.
Who says that?
We could look at John MacArthur, John Piper, Chuck Swindoll, David Jeremiah, Greg Laurie, and we think: Wow!
They are such great Christians.
They teach things so well.
They do amazing things for God.”
We go to services by them, and we get that flutter in our stomach because we are so close to them.
Maybe we want their autograph.
But, through all of this, we forget that we are coworkers with them.
We are all under God to serve together, each in our own field, each on our building, for the increase of the Kingdom and the glory of God.
We shouldn’t let hero worship get in the way of our service for God.
Who are we?
We are God’s.
We are coworkers.
We are responsible
We are responsible.
Responsible is such a big word.
And it is a word that few people want to truly accept as applying to themselves.
Responsible means that we have an obligation to do something.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9