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
0.1UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.1UNLIKELY
Fear
0.1UNLIKELY
Joy
0.63LIKELY
Sadness
0.59LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.71LIKELY
Confident
0.09UNLIKELY
Tentative
0UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.84LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.91LIKELY
Extraversion
0.06UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.85LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.7LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Recap
Turn with me to our scripture for this year
Jesus says, hey look at him.
He was dead and now he is alive
He is hindered by the bandages of death - Loose him
He is held back from where he has come from - let him go
And that is what Jesus is saying to his church today - loose them and let them go
But first, his church must become unhindered themselves.
And Jesus gave us the model for that when he showed us how he became in people’s lives whatever they needed.
If they needed saving - he was the savior
If they needed to be healed - he was their healer
If they needed to be found - he was the way for the lost
If they were dead - he was the life
and we looked at these two already from the viewpoint that if this is who Jesus was and Jesus is working through his church, then his church needs to be these things or at least an example of them in our world.
We said the church should be living in the WAY
We need to learn how to love the Way - and allow that to cause us to love what He loves.
And then as that love changes our hearts, we will become the people who stand up for His Way but with a heart of compasssion
And then last week we said that the church should be living the Life.
That Jesus offers us the greatest life around
And so as we live that life, we lead others to THE LIFE
That when the world sees us fulfilled in Christ, they will desire what we have.
That the Church should be full of life so that when people visit, they are blown away by the presence of THE LIFE (Jesus) in the life of the church.
And I asked this question - Jesus’ physical body was strong enough by the activation of the Holy Spirit to rise from the dead and walk out of the grave.
Is his spiritual body strong enough to do the same?
Because He expects us to.
So let’s go over to
How does the truth come into play here?
We could not know the way, or follow the way, or walk in the way or even see the way - if we first didn’t know the truth.
We could not know true life, or know what to do with Jesus’ life if it first weren’t for the truth.
In other words, without truth, how do we know what is the lie.
If you tell me something that is not true, how do I know that?
I have to have something to compare it to - correct?
I have to have truth to know what is not of the truth.
Without truth, I will accept the lie.
We see this in Adam and Eve.
We see this in the account of Jesus standing before Pilate - What is truth?
Jesus said, I am the Truth.
Jesus is the Truth
Remember back in we are told that he was the Word of God in the Flesh.
How could Jesus say that His Words would never pass away?
Because he knew that they were the truth.
Truth is rooted in something that is rock solid - it cannot change.
The circumstances surrounding it cannot change it
Man cannot make a new meaning for it
Even God himself cannot change it.
It’s truth.
It’s eternal
God is rock solid, God cannot change, Man cannot change God (though we sure are trying) God is eternal
So truth is rooted in God
So to the many people that come to me and say Pastor, how do I know what is true?
I always say, you cannot know what is true, until you know truth - so get to know God - not religiously, but personally
Truth is More Than Facts
In
We looked into this a little last week, when we spoke about living connected to Christ.
Facts don’t always set someone free.
I can give a list of facts from the Bible today, and there are other facts that someone might be able to stand up and refute my facts with.
But when you are connected to Jesus - When He truly becomes your lord and savior.
When you live for him - It’s not about facts, it’s about what the truth is working in your life.
It’s not about what we think or feel - it’s about what we know.
Which is why John says in
When the accuser came against them, they just didn’t spurt out facts.
They showed him the blood of the lamb - What Jesus had done - and showed who they were because of them.
Truth is more than Moral Guidelines
Again, moral guidelines are taken from truth., but moral guidelines just give us away to apply truthful living to our lives.
Jesus said, I am the Truth.
He wasn’t saying that I am giving you some truth so that you can live life a little cleaner
He was saying I am the truth and because of me your life will be much fuller and rich.
The Church Must Be People of The Truth
We must be walking in the Truth
When we walk in the truth our souls prosper.
It defeats the lies and the tricks of the enemy.
It gives us ground to stand upon
If you aren’t walking in the truth, we are walking in a lie
We will fall for things that might lead us away from where God wants us to be
We will be speaking things that aren’t truth.
Teaching things that aren’t truth - leading others away from where God wants them to be
The Pharisees -
We must love the truth
Jesus is talking here about the great apostasy.
The great falling away from the church of Christ
When satan will attempt and succeed at leading many who claim to be believers and followers of Christ away from doing so
How will he do this - through lies and deceit.
Through Lawlessness.
and it will be those who were not lovers of truth that will be lead astray.
To love something is to desire it
To love something is to commit to it
To love something is to care for it and to nurture it and to protect it
This is what the church needs to be doing with the truth today.
We need to believe in the truth.
I would take that from this last verse that we read.
To love something is to believe in something.
Teaching from - importance of foundations without cracks in them.
And then
This is the where it comes together.
We are to speak the truth in love
So we love the truth, but we also allow that love to dictate how we speak the truth.
This is the difference again between truth and facts and guidelines.
The truth will set you free - it will make you miserable at first, but in love in brings healing.
Today, you are hearing truth.
It might even be stepping on your toes a little, but I guarantee you are all feeling good about it.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9