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
0.12UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.49UNLIKELY
Fear
0.1UNLIKELY
Joy
0.62LIKELY
Sadness
0.47UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.52LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.1UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.85LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.51LIKELY
Extraversion
0.38UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.97LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.62LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
INTRODUCTION
The Apostle Paul told his young protige Timothy that, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching...” ()...
As we look at these scriptures,...
We see the great WISDOM of SOLMON on display, but buried in the narrative is the story of an amazing mother who was unlikely to be the envy of any woman.
The focus of these verses is the wisdom of Solomon.
The only mention of their profession; otherwise, they are referred to as “the (other) woman.”
Despite their low social standing, the women are allowed to appear in court; the text even describes one positively (v.
26)
Despite their low social standing, the women are allowed to appear in court.
Secondary to the display of Solomon’s wisdom (but no less important) is the story of an amazing mother who was unlikely to be the envy of any woman.
The bible doesn’t tell us her name, but simply refers to her by her decisions...-she is described as a “prostitute”; otherwise, also referred to as “the (other) woman” in other tranlsations.
FCF: Because she may have fallen/engaged in sin doesn’t mean she is a sinner.... “for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again!!!”
The bible describes.... “When I looked closely at him” The Hebrew phrase used here can be translated “I discerned him” or “I was attentive to him.”
Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016).
Faithlife Study Bible ().
Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
When I looked closely at him The Hebrew phrase used here can be translated “I discerned him” or “I was attentive to him.”
When I looked closely at him The Hebrew phrase used here can be translated “I discerned him” or “I was attentive to him.”
FCF: That’s what the enemy want’s you to do…to live behind shame and unforgiveness....
“We’ve been saved by grace through faith...”
Keep in mind, this incident took place only three days after giving birth yet, she was able to know the child belonged to her.
Susannah Wesley (mother of the great John & Charles Wesley) spent one hour each day praying for her 17 children.
In addition, she took each child aside for a full hour every week to discuss spiritual matters.
No wonder two of her sons, Charles and John, were used of God to bring blessing to all of England and much of America.
But behind every success is a story of determination not to give up.
Susanna experienced many hardships throughout her life:
.
Her husband left her and the children for over a year because of a minor dispute.
To her absent husband, Susanna Wesley wrote:
Susannah Wesley, for example, spent one hour each day praying for her 17 children.
In addition, she took each child aside for a full hour every week to discuss spiritual matters.
No wonder two of her sons, Charles and John, were used of God to bring blessing to all of England and much of America.
...I am not a man nor a minister, yet as a mother and a mistress I felt I ought to do more than I had yet done.
I resolved to begin with my own children; in which I observe the following method: I take such a proportion of time as I can spare every night to discourse with each child apart.
On Monday I talk with Molly, on Tuesday with Hetty, Wednesday with Nancy, Thursday with Jacky, Friday with Patty, Saturday with Charles.
She became the primary source of her children’s education
Their house was burned down twice and after the second fire, she was forced to put her own children in different homes for nearly 2yrs while they were rebuilding.
Despite the conditions of themselves or what they have to contend with, MOTHERS DO WHAT IS NECESSARY.
Their house was burned down twice;
She was the primary source of her children's education.
After the second fire, Susanna was forced to place her children into different homes for nearly two years while the rectory was rebuilt.
During this time, the Wesley children lived under the rules of the homes they lived in.
…And to do what is necessary, you have to recognize when God is trying to streatch your greatness.
Some mothers don’t know when their job is finished.
They figure the longer the kids hang around, the better parents they are.
I see children as kites.
You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground.
You run with them until you’re both breathless...they crash...you add a longer tail.
You patch and comfort, adjust and teach—and assure them that someday they will fly.
Finally they are airborne, but they need more string, and you keep letting it out.
With each twist of the ball of twine, the kite becomes more distant.
You know it won’t be long before that beautiful creature will snap the lifeline that bound you together and soar—free and alone.
Only then do you know you did your job.
Erma Bombeck, from “Forever, Erma,” quoted in Reader’s Digest, March 1997, p. 148
Some mothers don’t know when their job is finished.
They figure the longer the kids hang around, the better parents they are.
I see children as kites.
You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground.
You run with them until you’re both breathless...they crash...you add a longer tail.
You patch and comfort, adjust and teach—and assure them that someday they will fly.
Finally they are airborne, but they need more string, and you keep letting it out.
With each twist of the ball of twine, the kite becomes more distant.
You know it won’t be long before that beautiful creature will snap the lifeline that bound you together and soar—free and alone.
Only then do you know you did your job.
Erma Bombeck, from “Forever, Erma,” quoted in Reader’s Digest, March 1997, p. 148
“Someone once asked "who was greater, Thomas A. Edison or his mother?
When he was a young lad his teacher sent him home with a note which said, ‘Your child is dumb.
We can’t do anything for him.’
Mrs. Edison wrote back, ‘You do not understand my boy.
I will teach him myself’.
And she did, with results that are well known.
“I ask you, who was greater, Thomas A. Edison or his mother?
When he was a young lad his teacher sent him home with a note which said, ‘Your child is dumb.
We can’t do anything for him.’
Mrs. Edison wrote back, ‘You do not understand my boy.
I will teach him myself’.
And she did, with results that are well known.
POINT: Mothers don’t give in or give up…They get over it and do what is necessary.
· ( ESV) “For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind.”
Lets look again at the two women....
The bible said two prostitutes came before Solomon (THE FIRST POINT)
· Prostitution was forbidden and frowned upon by Levitical law but the woman
SHE PRESSED PASS THE SHAME
1King 3 16Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.”
Not just one
Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.”
Not just one
To a Mother, her condition/situation is secondary to the needs of her children.
The real mother of the child was not standing before any king, but she was standing before a King whose own mother (Bathsheba) was caught in adultery, and was accessory to murder yet came to be a trusted and loving wife.
I got a chance to visit the national Holocaust Museum this past week and heard the story of a jewish family that was hiding under the floorboards when a Nazi Soldier entered their house to kill them.
If they were found out, they would have been executed on the spot.
When the mother’s baby started crying because she was thirsty, the baby’s mother urinated in her hand to give to the baby to keep her quiet…they survived.
ILLUSTRATION 2
In the dispute, Solomon knew there was a real mother among them despite their circumstances, because of his own mother’s love despite her past.
In December 2005, an apartment building in the Bronx caught fire.
With flames engulfing her third-floor bedroom, the mother leaned out the window with her baby and let the child go.
The infant tumbled three stories down into the waiting arms of Felix Vazquez, who performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the baby until paramedics arrived.
The mother was later rescued and when asked why she would drop her own baby, she said, “I prayed that someone would catch him and save his life.
I said, ‘God, please save my son.’
And he did.”
FCF: The lesson is from these mothers is that you must be resolute to approach Jesus despite being marred.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9