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
0.13UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.09UNLIKELY
Fear
0.1UNLIKELY
Joy
0.59LIKELY
Sadness
0.48UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.57LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.49UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.81LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.84LIKELY
Extraversion
0.06UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.78LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.63LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
“Listen” - Pay attention.
Note the highlighted words in Isaiah 48
We speak of someone not paying attention as it “went in one ear and out the other”
As I have thought about this message all week long, I want to ask a question
DO YOU COME TO HEAR A SERMON LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO OBEY, OR DOES IT GO IN ONE EAR AND OTHER?
It should be pointed out that great emphasis is placed on hearing to obey throughout the Scripture.
Consider the Words of Jesus
And the Words of James
And from Hebrews
Let’s Pray together that God would help us obey what we hear.
I don’t want to be a person who hears from God and its in one ear and out the other.
What is it that God is SAYING in this chapter?
He speaks to sinful people!
Judah were a frequently rebellious people and their rebellion had led them to come under God’s hand of judgment for a season.
Is the thought that God speaks to sinful people good or bad?
YES
Bad in the sense that He is not overlooking sin.
He never does.
Note that these are people who are calling themselves believers.
They lean on God.
But God is calling them out for not walking in truth or righteousness.
He is wanting them to ACT on what they say they believe
But it is also good, because it shows that God still desires to fellowship with sinful people.
He has not given up on them.
He wants to them to walk close and clean with Him.
And he desires the same from us.
HE CONDEMNS LIP SERVICE, and going through the motions.
He predicts and it comes to pass!
This major contrast between Him and any other God is that He knows the future.
He causes it to happen.
He is already there.
Note why he reveals the future.
Verse 4-5
They are stubborn, and would try to claim that their deliverance was at the hand of an idol.
So God tells them ahead of time so they can know the deliverance came from HIM.
Remember that God is preparing to sent Judah out of exile from Babylon and back home.
Isaiah is writing about 150 years before it ever happened.
Verse 6 is the big question.... Will you acknowledge the source as the Lord.
You heard.
You observed.
BUT WILL YOU GIVE HIM THE GLORY? or will it go in one ear and out the other.
He works for our good and for His Glory!
What are the new things?
I think they are that he plans to restrain Himself.
No doubt God disciplines His children.
“Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love.”
Thank God he never leaves us nor forsakes us.
He refines us and tests us but He does it for our good and for His glory.
I want to return to this next Sunday.
For now, what is the Master saying to you?
Give you life to me?
Don’t just give me lip service?
Learn to walk close and clean?
What you are going through is for your good and for My glory?
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9