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Introduction
A common theme in this series is how counter cultural these disciplines are, and how they really go right against cultural identity.
These disciplines and practices are not just foreign ideas to our culture, but are often meet with down right hostility.
Fasting for example
Solitude & simplicity.
I would say though that none is more misunderstood and reviled in our broader context than the discipline of submission.
One of the big reasons for this to be the case, is because the bibles teaching on the matter has been used and twisted in the past, to justify some horrible behaviour.
Submitting to husbands used to justify domestic violence & abuse
Submitting to church authority used to cover up sin within the church
Even using submission as an excuse/short hand for bullying practices of some leaders.
“You just need to do what I say, and submit to my authority.”
Misunderstood, this discipline which like all the disciplines is designed to be a gift of grace for us, can become a law which breaks us.
Misunderstood, this
This morning, I want us to see how submitting to God and each other, creates a heart within us of obedience to God, and creates fertile soil in our lives for God to transform us.
We have already talked a little about what a bad misunderstanding is on a biblical vision of submission, so what is the biblical view of submission?
Submission to God
God requires us to submit to him.
Already, that idea, for many ruffles our feathers.
We hate abdicating our power or choices.
Being a control freak, not wanting to give over the power to choose
But we make terrible choices.
Example of the fall in .
God required that we submit to his authority and his ways, and we could experiences the perfect life, free from death.
We choose to define good evil for ourselves and the result was sin, death and a decaying world.
God wants us to submit to him, because he knows best.
When we submit to God’s authority we are in the safes possible hands
1 Peter
Do you know who thought it was important to submit to God?
JESUS!
Jesus submits to his father
Luke 22:
1 Cor
Jesus, while he walked the earth, completely submitted to will of God.
This serves as an example to us
He need to submit in order to fulfil God’s intention for the earth.
So we see that we should submit to God, just as Jesus did, but submission is also to play a role in our relationships as followers of Jesus.
“A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none.
A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.”
Martin Luther
Submissive spirit the Church
With one another
Submission to each other is something that marks us out as incredibly different to the world around us.
Php @:5-7
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John 13
We see this play out in the church, when we don’t see anyone as being any less important than ourselves.
The image of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples is such an incredible one!
This is the model that he wanted to give.
We are talking next week about the discipline of service, so I don’t want to creep to much on that territory, but there is a link between submission and service.
When we have the attitude of submission, like Jesus did, it sets us up to understand that no one is bellow our service.
So where else do we see required of submissive spirit?
Submission to Jesus
Jesus is the head of the church, and as the head we submit to his authority.
He is the living head of his church.
So where else do we see required of submissive spirit?
Submission to the Bible
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The bible is not a list of suggestions from God, but it is his word, to us!
It is a living word that is relevant for all time, because it gives us the insight into what God desires.
It is one of God’s revelations to us.
It holds the words that lead us to the truth, and when we submit to it’s authority in our lives, we create the fertile soil in our lives for God to transform us.
So where else do we see required of submissive spirit?
To Church leaders
Their is obvious accountably when in leadership, ultimately to God.
This is why we see so much written in the NT about expectations for leaders with church.
1 Timothy
Paul wanted his mentee Timothy to understand how important is was to have the right people in leadership.
All this to say, that leaders have an important job.
One that they will be required to give an account for.
And it’s important for us to submit to our leaders.
So where else do we see required of submissive spirit?
Submission to civil government
Jesus didn’t even really want to debate about it!
Matt 22:17
So where else do we see required of submissive spirit?
Submission of Wives to husbands
There are also requirements for husbands, as the head of the house.
Eph 5:25
This is completely counter cultural in the day it was written.
Women were essentially property, and here you have teaching that advocates a self sacrificial love that husbands are to have for their wives.
It’s is impossible to take these verses and justify any sort of violence or abuse in marriage.
These are joint responsibilities in a marriage, that wives submit to their husbands but that husbands have the same love as Christ has for the church.’
What does this look like practically?
Submission in marriage doesn’t mean wives are to be simple little “yes” people!
In Naomi and my marriage, we make decisions jointly, because when we have done that, the outcomes have been better.
But ultimately I’m responsible for my family.
There are other responsibilities that we have as husband and wife.
Along with submitting to her husband, a Christian wife also has the responsibility to be transparent, speak truth, confront sin, and challenge her husband to ever increasing levels of holiness.
As heirs together of the grace of life, both husband and wife have the responsibility to love, encourage, and build one another up; and to interact with forbearance, kindness and humility.
Biblical authority and submission contribute to mutuality, and do not diminish or detract from it.
(It’s “both-and” not “either-or.”)
This is a choice we each make.
A husband does not have the right to demand or extract submission from his wife.
Submission is HER choice—her responsibility… it is NOT his right!!
Not ever.
She is to “submit herself”— deciding when and how to submit is her call.
In a Christian marriage, the focus is never on rights, but on personal responsibility.
It’s his responsibility to be affectionate.
It’s her responsibility to be agreeable.
The husband’s responsibility is to sacrificially love as Christ loved the Church—not to make his wife submit.
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