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Intro:
Has anyone ever been forgotten before?
Maybe just ignored?
It’s not really a very good experience.
Maybe someone forgot your birthday?
Maybe everyone was asked to go out except for you.
It’s never a pleasant experience.
What may make it even worse is you’re going through a tough time and this just adds to it.
It’s more weight on already overloaded shoulders.
You begin to just feel…alone.
I remember a time when I first had first started teaching.
I taught beginning trumpet, french horn, and percussion.
My primary instrument is trumpet, so it makes sense that I would teach it.
Well, my first year I really was not great at it.
I remember our head director saying David, “Their range isn’t anywhere close to where it needs to be right now.
Work on that.
I would, I’d feel like it was getting better.”
Then it was David, “They have a really bad tone.” and then David, they can’t read music as well as they need to.
I was doing a pretty poor job apparently.
I kept putting my head down.
Plowing through things.
It was stressing me out though.
I would go home and wonder what I was going to do.
How could I fix these issues?
A bad group of kids will affect my middle school band the next year, and the High School band a couple after.
I just knew I was a terrible teacher and there was nothing I could do about it.
After being overwhelmed I finally did what I felt like was “caving” and asked for help.
“Dan, I’m obviously not doing great.
Come take the class and show me what I need to do differently.”
Of course he looked at me and said “David you worthless good for nothing man!” No!
He said yeah.
I’d gladly help.
If you need help, make sure and ask.
That’s part of being a good teacher.
David feeling that hopelessness that I was, but on a much grander scale.
He’s struggling.
So he writes this Psalm to express what he’s feeling, what he’s doing, and what he’s going to do.
We’re going to take a look at this poem written by the anointed king, but not yet King on the throne, David.
Cry of Anguish (13:1-2)
David declared his hopelessness!
David Is in a state of hopelessness.
- He was a great hero in the kingdom.
People loved him.
People sang songs about him.
He loved his country.
He loved his king.
He loved God!
So why were things so rough for him?
Why is he on the run from King Solomon who wants to kill him?
Why is he sleeping in caves and having to work hard to survive?
It’s lonely and hard.
When he writes, he has all of this behind him.
David expresses his feelings to God clearly.
He feels God has forgotten him.
And for a long time.
He uses rhetorical questions- How long will you forget me?
4 times he ask “How long?”
He feels like he’s been going at this for a long time.
He Ask, will you forget me forever.
Other translations translate that as ignore me.
The fact that David was crying out to God showed that he knew God hadn’t truly forgotten him.
He wasn’t truly ignoring him.
If so, what good would crying out to him do?
The obvious answer is, the Lord will not forget him forever.
He didn’t feel that way though.
How long will you hide your face from me.
Or we might say, how long will you turn your back to me?
He felt like God wanted nothing to do with him.
He said he was taking counsel in his soul.
That is to say, David was devising plans to get out of his situation constantly, but to no avail.
He was trapped with his thoughts and couldn’t get away.
And it brought him down.
Not just at night when he sat still.
That’s often the case with us.
Were OK with a situation until were at home in bed, lying in the dark, waiting for sleep to come.
It was with him during the day.
Daily it says.
That word can mean during the daylight.
It was an always thing.
David felt his enemies were defeating him.
The people who didn’t want to see him succeed were getting exactly what he wanted.
These men who didn’t love God or live right were getting the victory.
After all, he was hiding in a hot cave using a rock for a pillow.
He was hopeless!
Illustration- Morgan works with parents and children regularly.
Sometimes she has to have hard conversations such as, your child will likely not overcome this communication problem, or your child may be autistic.
Those can be difficult words to handle.
Especially when mom and dad have been searching for help for so long.
Those parents are overcome with grief, loneliness, and hopelessness.
They feel isolated like no one can help them, and no one cares.
Some one does though.
They’re talking to someone like Morgan who does care.
Someone with some experience in these areas.
Some one who can help direct them and help navigate these unsure waters.
That’s the boat David was in.
He was crying out saying I feel alone to the very One who was there for him.
I think a lot of us can relate to David.
It’s possible that someone in this room right now feels just like David.
You feel as if you’re alone.
You may be in the middle of a fight that you’ve ben in for a long time and feel like it will never stop.
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