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
0.15UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.13UNLIKELY
Fear
0.58LIKELY
Joy
0.6LIKELY
Sadness
0.58LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.47UNLIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.1UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.92LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.83LIKELY
Extraversion
0.34UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.77LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.74LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Text
Main Point
JESUS IS LORD, and that demands a response
Introduction
Timeline
Jesus promise and command in - “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Jesus ascension in - and the promise that He will return
The coming of the Holy Spirit in - and the apostles receive power to witness as Jesus promised
Peter’s sermon in - The sign confirms Jesus is Lord, now repent and you will receive the promise yourselves
The Spirit-filled Community of Believers in - Luke’s breakaway to provide a lens into the life of the believers - - - - - what a life after salvation looks like inside a covenant community (like Cambridge)
The Spirit-filled Community
The priorities
Anchored in the Scriptures & the apostles teaching
Caring for each other by being openhanded with their possessions
Obedience to their Lord in keeping the Lord’s Supper
Communion with God through prayer and worship
The simplicity
No entertainment
No big budget
No powerpoint
No bands
Simple
Notice 2 pictures:
The church in public
The church in private worship
Application
The gathering of the saints was all about the Lord and His sheep
The saints in public / in the world was all about glorifying God with their works and witnessing to Jesus
We must not confuse the 2
When the church meets, it isn’t for the lost but for the saved.
The purpose is worship.
The purpose of our meeting for worship is not to cater for the unsaved or the seeker.
We cater for the saved and feed them - with the Word, Fellowship, the Lords Supper, Prayer, Worship
The church service is not the great event that we invite everyone to in the hopes that we can witness to them her
(maybe this is why we get a lot of visitors but few stay)
Witnessing is what we are supposed to do in the world the rest of the week
(maybe this is why we get a lot of visitors but few stay)
it’s not because we aren’t entertaining enough in here
its because we aren’t doing our witnessing out there
When the church is in the world, it is for witnessing
Trusting that through our works and witnessing, the Lord will build his church
If we want to see the church grow and be built, then we worship and get equipped / fed in here, and we do our witnessing out there
so that when they come to meet with us here, its because they have already heard the gospel of truth and now they want the same thing we want - nothing but to know Jesus Christ and to worship Him
Luke’s breakaway gives us a lens into the life of the church and their life together (in here)
But In Chapter 3, Luke gives us a lens into the witnessing of the church out in the world
The Sign
The Sign
A sign and a sermon
Jesus is Lord, and that demands a response.
Peter and John are on their way to the temple
on their way to church - to worship
Its 3pm in the afternoon
They come across a lame man at the Beautiful Gate
Notice the helplessness of the man
Lame from birth
Relied entirely on the kindness of his friends to carry him to the gate - couldn’t get there on his own
Notice the inability & failure of the people to help him
This was a daily routine - carried there daily by his friends
Probably done this for a long time - he was later recognized by the people in the temple
All they could do was give him alms (donations, money, charity)
But it has no lasting help for him - he still lives in a state of perpetual need
He still lies at the gate every day - and its a pitiful picture
A picture of contrast - the grand extravagance of the Beautiful Gate (took 20 men to move it, made of thick silver and gold), ------ contrasted with the pitiful, helpless man lying next to it
The generosity of the Fellowship - contrasted with the religious temple-goers who spend extravagantly on a gate but spare only a few pennies for a cripple
Its an opportunistic arrangement
The temple-goers give him some charity to ease their conscience, and in their minds, earn favour with God before making the sacrifice
The lame man takes advantage of that by getting his friends to lay him down at that strategic position
When Peter & Paul pass by, he asks for alms like he always does
Verse 4 is remarkable: “Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.”
Peter directed his gaze at him - we usually avoid eye-contact
Acts 3:
human compassion
He told the man “look at us”
This man was not looking at them either
He was not used to making eye contact
Others didn’t care about him - just did their “religious duty”
Maybe also a bit of self-pity, shame
Now he looks at Peter and John - expecting to receive some money
Verse 6: “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you.
In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!”
The moment Peter grabbed his hand and lifted him up, he was instantly healed!
Acts 3:
Notice: real healing
not a gradual improvement of condition following months of physio, medication and positive thought help groups
miraculous - creative miracle
Muscles that were non-existent were now there and strong
His brain didn’t have to learn how to use those new muscles - instantly connections were made and his brain knew how to control them
He JUMPED up, walked and ran and jumped
Notice: in whose name he was healed
To invoke a man’s name was to call upon that man’s power and authority
If they had said in the name of Moses / Elijah / David - nothing - they were dead
But then why did his body respond so miraculously in Jesus name??
Because Jesus is alive
He has been raised from the dead and is alive
He is still very much at work in the world
They called upon the power and authority of Jesus - and Jesus acted by healing the man
Notice: the response of the man and the crowd
“And leaping up, he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
And all the people saw him walking and praising God, and recognized him as the one who sat at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, asking for alms.
And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.”
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9