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
0.14UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.11UNLIKELY
Fear
0.14UNLIKELY
Joy
0.63LIKELY
Sadness
0.56LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.67LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.45UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.66LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.84LIKELY
Extraversion
0.1UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.84LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.61LIKELY

Tone of specific sentences

Tones
Emotion
Anger
Disgust
Fear
Joy
Sadness
Language
Analytical
Confident
Tentative
Social Tendencies
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Emotional Range
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Lunch with Pastor 12:30 @ pasta plus
This includes doing them when others wouldn’t do them and to the degree that others won’t do them.
ME
Delayed obedience is disobedience
Partial obedience is disobedience
Acts 5:20
The apostles obeyed.
miraculously, the Sanhedrin let them go
The apostles rejoiced in spite of their difficulty
If we aren’t ready to suffer disgrace for Jesus, we aren’t ready to be bold for Jesus.
Being a disciple means we follow Jesus…if we can’t follow him completely, what’s stopping us?
What do we fear?
Transformed, not conformed
called out of not into the world
Holiness not happiness
Sanctified not safe
Holy living isn’t the path to knowing Jesus…knowing Jesus is the path to living holy.
Holy living isn’t the path to knowing Jesus…knowing Jesus is the path to living holy.
Be holy as God is holy.
ME
We are getting ready to get kids back in school and it got me to thinking back to my school days.
You will probably find this hard to believe, but I got into a lot of trouble when I was a kid.
First time I got sent to the principal was in 1st grade.
The teacher gave us a test and my and my friend thought playing some tictactoe would be a better use of our time.
the principal showed us that the test was actually better.
But that was just he beginning.
I couldn’t sit still in class; I was easily distracted, in fact the one thing I could focus on more than anything else was trying to distract other people in class.
As I look back, I lived in disobedience because I didn’t like being told what to do.
It wasn’t that I thought the right thing wasn’t best thing to do…it was just more fun to do what I wanted.
And frankly, I wanted to have fun, because having fun made me happy.
And frankly, I didn’t respect the principal, the one who put the rules in place.
It was pretty common for me to get in trouble at school.
It happened just last week.
I was reading news on the internet, and as I got to the end of the article, I saw these pictures with links to other articles.
I usually pass them by, but this time I failed.
Before I realized what had happened, I had clicked on two or three of these.
You might not be as rebellious as I was when I was young, I’m not either.
But do you find yourself drawn to doing things because of how they make you feel rather than who they help you become?
How often do you chose the more difficult path? Would you say you live in search of happiness more often than holiness?
The reality is, we never fall into doing the right thing.
We don't slip into holiness.
You might not be as rebellious as I was when I was young, I’m not either.
But do you find yourself drawn to doing things because of how they make you feel rather than who they help you become?
How often do you chose the more difficult path? Would you say you live in search of happiness more often than holiness?
The reality is, we never fall into doing the right thing.
We don't slip into holiness.
The reality is, we never fall into doing the right thing.
We dont slip into holiness.
We weren’t called to be happy though, we were called to be holy.
The question is, how do we get to living bold holy lives?
We weren’t called to be happy though, we were called to be holy.
How do we get to holy living?
Follow me on this.
We can love our church, we can have dinners with great fellowship and engage our community, we can be spiritually uplifted in worship, we can sing powerful songs of God’s love for us, we can serve our neighbors, we can be a loving community of Godly people.
But if we want to be disciples of Jesus, if we want to follow in the steps of Jesus, we will have to live set apart, holy lives, how do we do that?
By choosing to live lives of obedience…bold obedience.
I don’t know pastor, I’m a simple man, I’m a simple woman, I’m not that bold.
We can be bold.
We can live a bold life.
God doesn’t call us to something that is unattainable.
Let’s look at how the disciples did it.
BeBOLD: In Obedience
BeBOLD: In Obedience
I’m sure all of us would agree that the apostles were boldly obedient, but there were a few times they weren’t.
They fell asleep when Jesus asked them to pray for him…that’s not very bold, that’s praying like me.
Later, they ran away when he was arrested…that’s not being bold either.
Peter denied Jesus when asked, that’s not bold.
Thomas had to touch the wounds on Jesus’s body before he would believe it was really him, that doesn’t sound very bold either.
But once Holy Spirit power came upon these men, they began to live boldly.
They could see how everything Jesus had told them had come true, they had to live this way.
People could see their boldness, and God blessed their obedience.
People could see their boldness, and God blessed their obedience.
People could see their boldness, and God blessed their obedience.
God worked all kinds of Signs and wonders, and in response, people believed in the story of the resurrection the Apostles were sharing resulting in more people being saved, beyond the first 5000.
The apostles had been sent by God to proclaim the good news and that was what they were doing.
Even when they were arrested, they got right back to living boldly as soon as they were out.
They brought the sick on mats to be healed.
They put the sick in the streets believing that just for Peter’s shadow to fall upon them they would be healed…and they were.
They brought the sick on mats to be healed.
The put the sick in the streets believing that just for Peter’s shadow to fall upon them they would be healed…and they were.
Crowds gathered, the sick and tormented were healed, and the crowds gathered larger.
Larger and larger.
This created a problem for the religious leaders.
These Jesus followers were getting out of hand and if the sanhedrin didn’t handle it right, Rome would step in and handle them all and removing them from power.
But they had to do something because it seemed everyone was becoming a follower of Jesus.
in, the people may just riot, which would bring Rome in too.
17 Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.
18 They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
19 But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out.
20 "Go, stand in the temple courts," he said, "and tell the people the full message of this new life."
This is no surprise right.
When Disciples act boldly for Jesus, opposition rises up.
BOLD OBEDIENCE USUALLY TRIGGERS OPPOSITION.
In this case, teh opposition got the apostles thrown in jail.
BOLD OBEDIENCE USUALLY TRIGGERS OPPOSITION.
They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
It shouldn’t be a surprise, but unfortunately it probably was.
We just don’t go around looking for the worst to happen when we are walking with Jesus.
This was their 2nd time in prison in just a few days.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9