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
0.08UNLIKELY
Fear
0.14UNLIKELY
Joy
0.62LIKELY
Sadness
0.57LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.79LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.58LIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.63LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.98LIKELY
Extraversion
0.29UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.93LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.83LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Intro
Forget it!
That can be descriptive, or prescriptive.
There are many things we want to forget, or really should forget, that seem to hang us up.
When we fixate on those things I hope we have a friend who comes along beside us and in love tells us, “For get it!
Move on!”
When it comes to things we ought to forgive, things that draw us back to where we came from instead of encourage us to where God is taking us.
Forget it!
But there are things we forget we shouldn’t.
The flashing school zone sign.
The chicken in the trunk after grocery shopping.
Your keys IN the car when you’re locked OUTSIDE the car.
Time change!
But maybe most importantly, do we forget what God has done?
God desires tremendous blessing for us not only in eternity, but today.
That blessing wont look like the blessings of the world (he doesn’t want to preclude those) but are blessing of joy and contentment and belonging and purpose.
But when we look at God’s heart for us then forget it, we’ll miss so much of what He would give us!
Pary
This passage
“I have Compassion” - Jesus
v. 1-3
Jesus Speaks the Words of life.
Those words draw them/us into faith.
Faith leads to loss of control.
That loss of control leads us to a place of need.
Jesus asks us to trust Him, that He might prove to be our provision.
Our Response Makes the Difference
Our response to what we’ve seen and know.
History Speaks.
The disciples seem unsure how to respond.
Were they at a loss?
were they confident Jesus would handle this situation?
Biblical History
What did Jesus do recorded in scripture?
What hearts/lives/nations did He change?
World History
What has Jesus done in the world?
In our context?
In your family?
Your History
What has He done in you Life? Can you look and see the New Creation?
Do you remember what He saved you from?
Was there a time when your current state would have seemed unbelievable?
Do you respond to Jesus in light of what He has already done?
Compartmentalized or Transcendent?
Do we trust Him in all things or only “Spiritual things”?
Matt 6:25-29
Jesus asks us place real dependence on Him not only with the state of our souls but also the for our food, clothing, and finances.
In those areas, do we pray for provision or miraculous provision?
When we pray for provision, we seek from God what is reasonable within our reach.
When we pray for miraculous provision, we pray for what only He can provide.
We compartmentalism our faith when we trust Jesus in some areas, but don’t even seek him elsewhere.
Hardware store.
Your go the the electrical isle and talk to a very helpful person about your project.
He gives you advise, ideas, expertise.
But then you ask a question about gardening.
He can tel you what isle to go to, but has no expertise in that area.
Oven if he gave you advice, you likely wouldn’t follow it.
This is how we treat God sometimes.
I’ll listen to Him how to pray or have the right attitude toward my neighbor.
But when it comes to parenting, or finances, or entertainment - what does God know about it anyway?
We’ve compartmentalized God.
If we respond to God in this way, we will not receive the abundance He desires to provide.
That means YOU!
Compare again to feeding the 5,000.
They were Jews, these mostly gentiles.
That might not be a big practical deal for us today, but it was then.
The Jews were (and are) God’s chosen people.
But God’s mercies are bigger than that.
Sometimes we think we aren’t high on God’s priorities list.
“God saved me, I can’t expect much more than that!
He’s got bigger fish to fry.”
That sounds humble, but it’s really a lack of belief about what God says.
God wants to bless you!
He wants you to rejoice in His goodness to you?
When God says He wants to fill your cup with blessing, most of us bring one of those little communion cups and not a napkin!
And HOW does God say He want’s to supply this all??
According to His RICHES and GLORY!
Do you know how much that is? It’s certainly bigger that a communion cup.
Bigger than a soup bowl.
Back to the text…
To the Jew first, and then the gentile
There were even two different kinds of baskets used: for the 5,000, small wicker lunch baskets (kophinos); for the 4,000, large hampers, big enough to hold a man (spuris, see Acts 9:25).
The small baskets for the jewish audience of the 5,000 (the remnant, yet complete), the large baskets for the mostly gentile audience in the Decapolis (fullness of the Gentiles).
God’s basket of overflow is large enough for you to hide in!
If that’s the overflow, how much he has blacked before you!
Have you taken you fill of God’s miraculous blessing?
Are you responding to God’s overwhelming goodness?
To His proven track record of faithfulness?
Are you forgetting what lies behind, yet remembering where He saved you from?
Are you pressing forward in response to His overflowing love?
In short, does your life show that Jesus matters?
That is our call, that is our testimony.
Pray
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9