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Introduction
I have spent most of my 25 years of ministry counseling people in their marriages.
Everybody seems to be longing for a happy marriage.
But it also seems that very few are able to really have the kind of marriage they have in their minds.
I believe this is because we don’t think properly about marriage.
and we don’t understand the true reason for marriage.
This morning we are going a a biblical journey to try and discover the meaning of marriage.
And once we understand marriage, I believe you will be able to function better in it.
Marriage is a high goal in many people’s minds.
Little girls start planning it early and often.
Boys start
We believe that if we just find the right person they will be the
love or our lives,
our soul mates,
The missing piece to my puzzle,
The one that completes me.
So we go on the hunt.
Who is this person that is going to fulfill my needs of love, sex, partnership, companionship, friendship, and relationship.
Who is the one that will know me inside and out.
Take all my insecurities and sin and still love me with that unconditional love that I need.
Then we wonder why they don’t measure up.
why don’t they take all my crap.
Why don’t they love me through all my insecurities.
Why don’t they perform sexually for me the way they do on the internet.
Why do they want to break their vow and leave me.
Could it be that because we don’t understand marriage that we put undo pressure on it.
So much pressure that it would never be able to hold up for a life time.
I think that if we really could understand the gift of God called marriage we could find the fulfillment in it.
Marriage like everything else is messy!
In Paul is responding to a statement written to him:
This leads Paul to put sex into its proper context of marriage.
1 Cor 7:2
Paul was dealing with the same thing we deal with today.
Everybody is concentrated on having sex.
Biblical Storyline
God Views Marriage differently than Men and Women.
1 Cor 7:
Marriage is for a lifetime.
One man one woman living as one flesh.
This was God’s creation and design before sin entered the world.
The goal of life is “to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.”
Marriage is ment to help you accomplish this goal.
Marriage is a tool given to man to help accomplish his mission.
Marriage is not forever.
Matt 22:
Marriage is only for this life.
You are only bound in your marriage until death, then you are free to marry another.
God never intended for marriage to replace His relationship with you.
The reason many marriages are struggling is because you are looking or fulfillment in the wrong place.
You are asking your spouse to be God in your life.
Every person, Male & Female, should find their worth and fulfillment in your relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
Your mate is never going to be able to fill the God sized puzzle piece of your heart.
Your mate is a sinner just like you.
They have their own hurts and wound they are dealing with.
They have insecurities and fears of their own.
Sometimes we ask to much.
We expect to much.
A happy marriage takes place when two people who love God with all their heart come together to share that love with the world.
You don’t have to be married to find real love.
God is love.
God is the one that you need to set your affection on.
God is the eternal love that will be with you forever.
Until you experience and live in the love of the Lord you will never be able to share that love with your spouse.
Don’t put an expectation of God on your spouse.
They won’t be able to measure up.
Do put an expectation on your spouse to fall in love with Jesus.
Marriage is about accomplishing the mission of God during our time here on Earth.
1 Cor
1 Cor 7:30-31
No matter how you got into the situation your are in:
The goal of each person should be to love God with all your heart and accomplish the mission God has for you.
Closing Thoughts:
Are you asking your spouse to take God’s place in your life?
Are you striving to love God first and foremost so that you can share that love with your spouse?
Is your marriage a tool that God can use to bring others into a personal relationship with him?
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