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.
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Follow—Pursue closely
Goodness—Things that are good, kind, beautiful, pleasant, and agreeable.
Mercy—Steadfast love
Goodness supplies all my needs and mercy blots out all my failures and sins.
HOW TO PURSUE THE SHEPHERD IN EVERY AREA OF MY LIFE
1. Pursue the Shepherd for who He is and not what He can give me
forever--literal translation of the underlying Hebrew is actually “length of days”
house of the Lord—Is it Heaven?
The Tabernacle? Relational?
David applies the idea of dwelling in the house of the Lord to his present life here on earth – “all the days of my life”.
David is more concerned about the relationship than the location...
HOW TO PURSUE THE SHEPHERD IN EVERY AREA OF MY LIFE
1. Pursue the Shepherd for who He is and not what He can give me
2. Put my confidence completely in God
Surely—best translated as an exclamation point!
The emphasis here is on who God is and what He has done.
HOW TO PURSUE THE SHEPHERD IN EVERY AREA OF MY LIFE
3. Obey the Shepherd even when it doesn’t make sense
If I pursue the Shepherd, goodness and mercy will pursue me
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