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
0.6LIKELY
Disgust
0.12UNLIKELY
Fear
0.15UNLIKELY
Joy
0.55LIKELY
Sadness
0.6LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.68LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.52LIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.79LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.85LIKELY
Extraversion
0.11UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.6LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.68LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Intro Sermon
We live in a very self absorbed society right now.
The majority of people we come in contact with have no interest in what our goals or aspirations are.
They couldn’t care less.
Social Media has parted the waters for this selfish ambition to take root and spread.
Many people act as though they are the center of the universe and expect you to follow suite.
We thrive off of the appreciation of others.
Their opinion means more than anything and we will make sure that any blemish is covered up before they see us for who we truly are.
We need to be very careful about how focused we are in the exaltation of man.
In order to be exalted we may be placed in a situation where we have to step on someone lower to get there.
I’m better than that guy.
He is terrible.
Of course, we would never step on someone who could trip us up later.
We carefully choose someone who is an unworthy future opponent.
Intro Sermon
I have no desire to present myself as one worthy to talk to you this morning.
My words betray me at times.
I struggle to do the things I say I will do.
I want to do so much, but rarely have the time or energy to do much at all.
It is my prayer that the words and ideas I’m about to express as we read the scriptures together give new life to us all in our effort to reach out to those who need us!
How to Find a Neighbor
Jesus said
43-4
Words that help us understand the need to overcome hatred of our enemy.
The one who has taken advantage of every situation where they could make you look bad or cause you some form of harm.
He offers us with a reason to do it… Be like God… and information about a possible reward for doing it.
One would think that these two supplements to the command would help us overcome our struggles with an enemy, but no.
Sometimes we hate an enemy so much that we just can’t imagine praying for them, wishing them well, or LOVING them.
Yet that is commanded by Jesus.
What is the problem?
We live in a very self absorbed society right now.
The majority of people we come in contact with have no interest in what our goals or aspirations are.
They couldn’t care less.
Social Media has parted the waters for this selfish ambition to take root and spread.
We thrive off of the appreciation of others.
Their opinion means more than anything and we will make sure that any blemish is covered up before they see us for who we truly are.
We need to be very careful about how focused we are in the exaltation of man.
In order to be exalted we may be placed in a situation where we have to step on someone lower to get there.
I’m better than that guy.
He is terrible.
I just need to make everyone else believe that he is that terrible too.
Of course, we would never step on someone who could trip us up later.
We carefully choose someone who is unworthy of friendship and whom we have no use for.
This way of life overlooks the purpose of our life and the value that God places on every other soul we come into contact with.
That soul is worth Jesus’ blood.
The truth is that not one of us can read the thoughts or intentions of another.
If we could I imagine we would be surprised.
God didn’t say, “Hate your enemies!”
When we look into the old testament and see God commanding Israel to destroy nations and take over the land of Cannon, God gives a very specific reason for commanding that.
Israel is the instrument of God’s judgment against those people.
God commanded Israel to no kill in the sense of taking an innocent life.
The one who God finds guilty is worthy of such judgment and God inflicts wrath on many of the nations through Israel.
However, being a just God, He also inflicts wrath on Israel for their own sinful rebellion.
He doesn’t command hating anyone.
In fact, God went through the process of describing how Israelites were to treat strangers and foreigners who were in their territory for the night.
They were supposed to be treated like one of them remembering the mistreatment they had in Egypt.
God is compassionate and merciful throughout the OT in many scenarios.
We talked on Tuesday night about the Syrians attacking Elisha and being struck with blindness.
God has them fed and returns them back home.
()
15-
With all this in mind we come to understand that all of the Israelites in Jesus day have not been given free reign to pick and choose who their enemies are.
They have no enemies as they did in the days when they had opportunity to conquer the land.
Those days are over!
Yet, the Jews of that day have come up with a saying that Jesus tears apart.
You have heard it said hate your enemies.
I say love them and pray for them.
We struggle with this idea sometimes don’t we?
The Parable
Luke 10:25-28
The expert in religious law asks Jesus the most important question.
It is a question asked by Nicodemus, the rich young ruler, and countless others because it is a question that makes the most difference in all of our existence.
What must I do to inherit eternal life?
The OT promised it.
Jesus talked about it all the time.
God has made it very clear that this Messiah would have the words that will lead to eternal life.
He tested Him.
I don’t take that to mean that the expert in the law was necessarily full of evil intent.
We don’t have any idea, but what we do know is that he thought He could find some hole in Jesus’ teaching that would take away the relevance of it.
His main goal seems to be to exalt himself.
If Jesus’ explanation doesn’t fit his current lifestyle into heaven, this guy doesn’t want any part of it.
He thinks he’s good to go and you can tell because after Jesus tells him to do those things he seeks to justify himself
Jesus’ response pulls the answer that the man already knows right out of him by pointing to the law.
The problem is that his explanation of the law is so high that none can attain it.
We see all 10 commandments summed up in two phrases.
The reputation of those who were experts in the law is to trust in themselves that they are righteous.
He thinks he can and is doing all of the law, but now he wants to justify himself.
Jesus has just told him that he is guilty of not keeping part of the law.
He knows he is hating his enemies so he asks who is his neighbor.
29-
Explanation
So a man, most likely Jewish is beaten within an inch of his life while walking alone on a very desolate road going down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
The man was not taken care of by his own brethren who should have considered him his neighbor.
His brethren
Maybe they thought like we do.
I don’t want to get tricked into getting the beating that he got.
They could be waiting around the corner.
I’m in a huge hurry and can’t spare a moment or a dollar for that matter.
What can I do at this point without using up what I have?
He probably deserves what he got.
Let him die.
It is God’s judgment.
The Samaritan
The Samaritan on the other hand went above and beyond any expectation.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9