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Well two weeks ago we began a short time of teaching where we looked at the Joy of the Christian.
And inside of what we were looking at what we found in the idea of God bestowing His love upon His people in an unabashed way.
A way that shows no partiality towards man but where Christ looks at His people and the true affection of the Father is lavished upon them.
It’s splendor is overflowing in such a unique way that often times the heart of man can become overwhelmed.
They look at themselves and the situations in which they find themselves and they become speechless.
That God in His rich grace and mercy would pour out His love through Christ upon them that they fall to their knees weeping.
Weeping that such a righteous and Holy God would choose to bestow upon them such a blessed gift.
The very idea that there are a people called unto the Lord Jesus Christ should cause us to rejoice beloved.
For this did not have to be the way that it was.
We know that the Lord had the ability to leave us in our sins.
The Lord could have left us in our sins and He would have been perfectly righteous and just in doing so.
But behold, what great love is this that the Father would pour out His love upon us.
Beloved does that gladden your heart?
It’s okay to say no.
Because the reality is, sometimes our joy can be stolen.
Sometimes in this life our joy can be taken from us in ways that are truly horrific.
The great joys of the day can quickly turn to sorrows with the ringing of a telephone.
When your brother or your sister calls you to tell you that your parent has passed into eternity.
When your friend calls you to tell you that he caught his wife cheating on him and he’s not sure what to do.
When the doctor walks out of the operating room to inform you that your child didn’t make it through the operation.
In an instant, the joys of the day can be completely cast aside in the blink of an eye.
But why is this?
Why is it that so often we as Christians live out our lives being cast to and fro in every situation?
With every tick of the second hand on the clock, something could take place that steals our joy from us beloved.
Yet that’s not how it’s supposed to be.
The Joy of the Christian should not be removed based upon the day’s events.
The joy of the Christian is not found in what is going right for us at the moment.
The Joy of the follower of Christ is not bound to the temporal and fleeting moments of this life.
The problem is though, we don’t very often live this way!
The Joy of the Christian is not found in how well their spouse appeased them
More often than not we put all of our stock in what it takes to be satisfied into mere moments of time.
Moments of time bound to the hearts of others.
Think about this for a moment.
How easy is it for you as a husband to become displeased with your wife?
Wives, how often is it that your husband is the reason for the loss of your joy?
The human heart has this dependency feature about it that causes it to look unto others to find their satisfaction.
But here is my question, is it right?
Is it right that our joys would come from mere moments of fleeting time where someone else becomes the center of where we get our joy.
For the married people in the room, we are most guilty of this.
We find someone to marry and spend our lives with and the next thing you know we are looking at them in this way.
We’re living out our lives seeking after our joy from our wives.
Now don’t get me wrong here, I desperately love my wife and am overjoyed to be her husband.
But is it or would it be right for me to seek after my joy in her?
For many of us this very well may be a hard question to answer.
Reason number one is that our wives are sitting right next to us...
That was a joke and you were supposed to laugh.
I get it, I put you on the spot in such a way that you’re condemned either way you answer.
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Not that our wives shouldn’t mean the world to us.
They really should.
They we’re designed by God to be elevated to this place of beauty that we would lay down our lives for them.
Yet nowhere does the Bible say to find our joy in her.
We may seek our comfort from her in many ways.
We may have many joyous times together.
But Scripture does not tell me to seek after a joy found in her.
In fact the reality is that no matter how hard she may try, I will never be truly satisfied if I am seeking my joy in her.
We could spend every waking moment of our lives together both trying to be what the other one needs in order for them to have joy.
Yet ultimately, try as we might, that joy will not be found.
I may be happy with her.
I may be able to enjoy her company.
But ultimately I cannot find my joy in her.
Do you know what the difference is?
To enjoy something, you take pleasure or delight in something.
It’s action orientated.
You can enjoy an evening meal with someone at their house.
You can enjoy reading books.
You can enjoy playing video games.
When you enjoy something you are actively being a part of that time.
Joy by itself on the other hand is an emotion.
It’s a state of great pleasure.
One is active and one is inactive.
But only one of them is emotion oriented.
The word in the Greek is the word Xara and it’s used 59 times in the New Testament, 178 in the whole Bible.
Out of those 59 times in the New Testament, did you know that 54 times this word is used in emotional terms?
Emotions for most of us seems to be a term that we would rather lay aside.
We would rather not talk about them.
We would much rather pretend they don’t exist and move about our day.
But the reality is that whether we tuck them deep down into that deep and dark place or we wear them on our sleeves, we have them.
Not only do we have them but our minds have the ability to be controlled by them.
We make rash decision because of them and often times end up going back and apologizing for things we said or did.
At least when we’re young that’s what we do.
When we’re older we can tuck them away a little bit.
We can tuck them away and keep them from rising to the surface very easily.
But what if I told you that our emotions are designed by God as something that is a very good part of who we are.
Take for example our text for the day.
Digging into 1 John we find this idea of having our joy made full.
However, the actual Greek rendering here is not that our joy would be made full.
The Greek word Plerow is often times mistranslated as being full.
However the idea in the word is not that you would be full but that you would be complete.
That your joy would be made complete.
In other words our main passage in focus today if translated straight from the Greek might best read something along these lines:
And these things we write to you that our joy may be complete.
Now you might be wondering why this is important.
Well here’s the idea given from this great letter.
Do you remember telling you a few weeks ago that this letter is written from the heart of a pastor?
Well this specific letter is so beautifully laid out that John wanted the people to his heart.
And his heart was that the raw emotion and anguish that is inside of each and every one of us as Christians might be turned to the one who gives us our completion.
That’s why we see the terms, my little children.
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