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
0.16UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.12UNLIKELY
Fear
0.11UNLIKELY
Joy
0.59LIKELY
Sadness
0.48UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.64LIKELY
Confident
0.45UNLIKELY
Tentative
0UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.89LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.87LIKELY
Extraversion
0.17UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.81LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.63LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
/A Victorious Self-Image in Virtue Love/
Carl H. Stevens Jr. is pastor of Greater Grace Church located in Baltimore, Maryland.
Pastor
Stevens is also chancellor of Maryland Bible College & Seminary and host of the international
Christian radio program “The Grace Hour.”
This booklet was created from messages preached by
Pastor Stevens.
Pastor Stevens can be seen weekly on cable television stations throughout the United States.
Call us for information regarding programming in your area.
/All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from the King James Version.
Italics for emphasis are ours./
GRACE PUBLICATIONS
P.O.
BOX 18715
BALTIMORE, MD 21206
Printed in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Copyright © 1998
Grace Publications is a ministry of
Greater Grace World Outreach, Inc.
*TABLE OF CONTENTS*
/I//NTRODUCTION //. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
/
/Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
./
/T//HE //P//ROBLEM OF //S//UBJECTIVITY/
/Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
/
/L//OSE //C//ONTROL AND //L//ET //G//OD //R//EIGN/
/Chapter 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
./
/O//VERCOMERS THROUGH //W//EAKNESS/
/C//ONCLUSION // /. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
! INTRODUCTION
Subjectivity is the cause of so many problems for believers in churches today.
It establishes
a mindset that is a direct result of Adam’s Fall.
Beginning with a preoccupation with self,
subjective Christians evaluate people, situations, and even the Word of God according to relative
righteousness (with self as the standard).
Their arrogance masks a poor self-image, and they are
often suspicious of people’s motives and even paranoid.
The good news is that no one has to
live that way!
Be careful how you hear.
Satan will tempt you to hide yourself from objectivity if you
allow him to make you subjective when the Scriptures are being taught.
Remember, /you /are
never the object of the preacher’s message, but each of us is the object of God’s living Word,
which enables us to grow in grace and knowledge and to be renewed in His image.
God’s grace is inexhaustible; it depends upon the Giver and never the receiver.
His forgiveness
is incomprehensible; His mercy is eternal; and His love is unconditional.
It is this
quality of love—‘virtue love’—that sets captives free, because /this /love never demands a response from its object.
Successful men and women are those who hear the Word of God and do it, who find the
will of God and honor it, and who find the virtue love of Christ and experience it.
The foundation
for this victorious self-image is secured in the believer’s heart by faith: “Let this mind be in
you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5).
!! /Chapter One/
THE PROBLEM OF SUBJECTIVITY
“And when the woman saw that the tree
was good for food, and that it was pleasant to
the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
and gave also unto her husband with her; and
he did eat.
“And the eyes of them both were opened,
and they knew that they were naked; and they
sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves
aprons.
“And they heard the voice of the LORD God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and
Adam and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of
the garden.
“And the LORD God called unto Adam, and
said unto him, Where art thou?” (Genesis 3:6-9).
Adam and Eve were in a perfect environment, but Eve was deceived because, as a re-
sponder, she didn’t abide under her covering— and she didn’t receive doctrine from God.
You
see, Genesis 3:8 reveals that God came to the garden every evening in the cool of the day,
seven days a week, to personally teach doctrine to Adam and Eve.
The Hebrew imperfect tense
reveals that He /continued /to meet them at the same time every day.
We also read in Isaiah 50:4
that the Father awoke the Son each morning to teach Him categorical doctrine.
From the beginning, it was clearly God’s plan for every believer to receive daily instruction in His Word.
But the day came when Adam and Eve didn’t show up.
God came to teach them on the day
they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
They didn’t come to Bible class that
day because the fruit of that tree made them subjective, choosing to become the subject of
their own thoughts—to be as gods.
Instead of operating from the objective mind of God imparted
through His Word, Adam and Eve chose to disobey God with their volition.
Volition always determines a man’s condition.
Adam and Eve’s eyes were “opened,” and
they realized that they were naked.
Although they had been naked all along, they had never
been self-conscious, only God-conscious.
They tried to cover their nakedness by sewing fig
leaves together to make aprons.
But that’s not all they did.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9