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
0.49UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.13UNLIKELY
Fear
0.08UNLIKELY
Joy
0.59LIKELY
Sadness
0.48UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.63LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.36UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.89LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.74LIKELY
Extraversion
0.28UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.67LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.71LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
*Luke 19:1-10*
*Through the Eye of the Needle*
v There is that funny scene in “When Harry met Sally” when they are having an argument over who has a darker side to their personalities
Ø Harry says to Sally:
§ /When I buy a new book I always read the last page first that way in case I die before I finish I know how it ends.
That my friend is a dark side./
v I’d like us to do something different today
Ø Let’s read that last line in our text today first
*READ 19:10*
* *
v
Ø And his life and mission is summed up absolutely perfectly in verse 10…
§ “For the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost”
v I think that verse 10 is the key to not only this story about Zacchaeus…
Ø *But Jesus’ whole life and ministry*
§ We have been working our way through Luke’s gospel since October 2004
· Here we are at the end of Jesus’ 3 years life and mission
· During that time we have witnessed Jesus encounter 12 different people
¨ People of different socio-economic backgrounds
¨ People from different moral and ethical backgrounds
¨ Sick people and healthy people
¨ Young and old
¨ Men and women
Ø But they all had one thing in common
§ *They were lost people*
* *
v You see…
Ø There are two types of lost
§ *Not knowing where you are*
· *Illustration*
¨ My mother always told me that you are never lost if you have your mouth
¨ You can always go up to someone and ask where you are
Ø Wrong!
§ E.g.
Japan
Ø But then there is another type of lost…
§ *Not knowing where you are going*
· And in every encounter we have witnessed
¨ Jesus seeks out this type of “lostness” and corrects it
Ø The Paralytic (5)
§ Friend, your sins are forgiven
Ø The Centurion (7)
§ I have not found such great faith even in Israel!
Ø The Sinful woman who anoints Jesus (7)
§ Your faith has saved you, go in peace
Ø The Bleeding woman (8)
§ Your faith has healed you, go in peace
Ø The Crippled woman on Sabbath (13)
§ Woman, you are set free from your infirmity
Ø The 10 lepers healed of leprosy (17)
§ Rise and go, your faith has made you well
Ø The Blind beggar (18)
§ Your faith has healed you
Ø And the R.Y.R. (18)
§ Offered salvation, but turned and went away
· He took the other road that leads away from the gates of the celestial city
¨ He remained lost
v Here we have the final encounter
Ø The final time recorded that Jesus seeks and saves a lost person
§ The well known story of Zacchaeus the Tax Collector
*READ V. 1-4 ~~ The Pursuit*
v Recount the story
Ø Jesus enter Jericho
§ Not the original
· The new built one mile apart
§ Jericho a wealthy city at the crossroads of the trading route from the east
Ø Again here is a person who could not get close to Jesus
§ Just like woman bleeding, Blind Bartemaus
Ø He could not see Jesus because of two reasons
§ First, he was short
§ Second, he was hated
· The crowd was not going to give Zacchaeus any special treatment…
¨ He was a tax collector!
Ø They were hated
Ø They were hated not only because they worked for the occupying Romans
§ They took advantage of their position and extorted money from their own countrymen
Ø Now Zacchaeus was not only a tax collector…
§ But a *Chief* Tax Collector (ἀρχιτελώνης) “architelones”
· Only time this word is used in NT
¨ Zacchaeus was in charge of tax collections for the whole region
Ø 3 inland regions
§ Caesarea in North
§ Capernaum in the middle
§ And Jericho in the south
Ø So, at the top of the “hate pyramid” sat Zacchaeus
§ And this crowd was certainly not going to make room for a person such as this
· And Zacchaeus knew this
v But he was an ingenious man
Ø He did not get to where he was by chance!
§ So he looked ahead and saw a tree in the distance
· An easy tree to climb, a sycamore fig tree
¨ So he ran ahead of the crowd and climbed
v He wanted to see Jesus
Ø Why?
§ Perhaps he just wanted to get a glimpse of this famous man
· Just like we do when we hear that one of our famous residents is in town
§ Perhaps he wanted to get a glimpse of the man who lured the tax collector Matthew away from his post
§ Perhaps he heard that Jesus was known to eat and drink with tax collectors like himself
§ Perhaps he was just curious…
· “What could Jesus do for me?”
¨ Maybe dissatisfied with life
¨ Maybe dissatisfied with wealth
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9