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Memories and Emotions
I rec’d an interesting phone call this week.
Turns out this DTS development guy is the SIL of my old high school baseball coach.
He’s telling me about what it’s like having him as a FIL, grandfather to his kids, and I’m telling him about the “glare.”
The look!
When you messed up you could feel the heat.
No words, at first anyway, just the look.
So, as I’m tell the stories, more memories flood back and the emotions that I associate w/ them come, too.
We were a good team.
Varsity as a soph.
My job was place filler.
By moving me to 2nd base the guy that was there moved to his best position, CF.
They in CF moved to his best position.
Things gelled.
We got hot, went on a roll, and won the state championship as underdogs.
My senior year we had a lot of talent.
Experienced.
I’m still just a place filler.
5 of the guys ended up w/ scholarships to D-1 schools.
Best I got was a Juco offer.
We stormed thru the season undefeated.
Heavy favorites to win another state.
And, we did.
Then, there was my junior year.
We were good, won a lot.
Made it to the state tournament as favorites, we’d won the year before.
Playing up in KC, there had been a number of rainout days.
Schedule was all out of whack.
We go up to play, it’s a hot afternoon game, high humidity, sweltering.
B/C of the rain and rescheduling, we ended up having to play the day after our prom.
I don’t want to say we were irresponsible w/ our girlfriends, but we all decided we owed it to them to give them a good experience that night.
Needless to say, we weren’t on our game the next day.
The only game all year we were shut out; 2 - 0.
The other team, KC Ward, the scored their first run, the only run they needed, the run that cost us that game and another championship, scored from third when I made an error on a ground ball.
The quote in the Wichita Eagle newspaper the next day was, “booted a leisurely hit ground ball.”
The whole city, the whole state who read about the baseball playoffs read that quote about me.
I had one particularly obnoxious peer who sat next to me in class and repeated that quote several times back in school.
I let the whole team down, and the entire state knew about it.
It’s pretty cool when you get your name or picture in the paper for doing something good.
I was 17 years old.
For what it’s worth, didn’t know Jesus, yet.
I carried that guilt for a while.
Sandwiched between really good experiences, but it could have been 3 championships.
What do I do w/ the guilt?
First, understand there’s no moral failure in an error in a baseball game (depending on who you ask of course!)
According to the bible.
The sin, I didn’t realize it at the time, was in the arrogance of letting my self-worth be determined by that error.
I messed up.
I hurt a lot of people.
They were angry at me.
The whole state knew about it.
We typically think of an arrogant person who brags and talks about how great they are.
Understand, it’s the same arrogance that causes someone to talk as if and believe that they are worthless.
“I am so uniquely horrible, no one is as bad as me.”
I made an error in a baseball game.
But the emotion that I carried after that...
What do I do w/ that?
I’m 57, approaching the 41st anniversary of that error and I still feel it.
What do I do w/ that?
I tried to forget.
I tried to get over it.
I tried a lot things and they didn’t work.
I discovered, I couldn’t do anything about it.
I needed somebody who could to do something that worked so I didn’t have to carry that guilt around any more.
People have been dealing w/ guilt like this from the beginning of time.
Adam and Eve.
Cain and Abel.
And everyone who followed.
During the years of the OT what could they do?
One day, every year they did something that they hoped would help them cope w/ their sin and guilt.
Every 10th of Tishri, the 7th month of the year, in the fall.
The Day of Atonement.
Of all the other feasts and worship practices this was the day they focused on atoning for their sin so they could be close to God.
Keep the relationship tight.
It’s first described in .
On God’s Terms
We are God’s creation and these were His terms for taking care of the sins of the people.
His game, His terms.
Authority.
God literally resided behind the curtain.
It was a thick curtain, a foot and a half thick.
Intended to keep a separation between Holy God and sinful men.
Make sure Aaron, the priest, knows he can’t just come behind the curtain whenever he pleases.
God takes our sin this seriously.
They had to, too.
On the Day of Atonement the priest would need to go back there to do what he needed to do to make things right w/ God.
If the priest didn’t, then the separation remained.
God is life.
Everything in the presence of God lives.
Everything not close to God dies.
In order to live they had to be in the close presence of God.
In order to be in His presence their sin had to be atoned for.
The priest was the only one who could do that and he had to do it on God’s terms.
They couldn’t do it on their own.
The priest was the designated representative between people and God.
So, the priest would have to go behind the curtain but he couldn’t go just whenever he wanted and he couldn’t go until he was ready.
Before he could deal with the sins of the people he had to deal w/ his own.
Put On New Clothes
We immediately see the symbolism and reference to the NT.
Take off the old, dirty clothes and put on the new clean clothes.
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