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
0.08UNLIKELY
Fear
0.09UNLIKELY
Joy
0.56LIKELY
Sadness
0.24UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.64LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.78LIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.88LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.85LIKELY
Extraversion
0.36UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.63LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.63LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Unanswered Questions
We have primary doctrines, secondary doctrines and third doctrines.
Primary: We are willing to die for
Examples: Jesus was God in the Flesh
Saved by grace through faith alone
Secondary: Baptism of infants
Third: Christian brothers and sisters in the same church disagree about the interpretation of scripture.
Some of these third doctrines you might disagree with me on but we can disagree on these third doctrines and still be friends.
Somethings we do know
Let me remind you of some of these things we know from scripture that we talked about two weeks ago.
Jesus is Coming Back
Jesus’s return will be unexpected
The Bible is very clear that no one knows when Jesus is coming back.
His return will be visible
His return will be personal
Jesus’s return will be Glorious
We know that Jesus is coming back based upon scripture so we asked the question are you ready for him to return.
Meaning personally is Jesus the Lord of your life?
So these are the things we know.
This morning we are going to talk about some things we don’t know.
These are known as third doctrines.
I know that some of you may disagree with me this morning and tell me no pastor we do know these things.
I would remind you that these are third doctrines that people have talked about and they are not primary or secondary but third doctrines.
I hope I am making this clear.
Again I can see clearly that one thing the Lord hates is a person who stirs up dissension among brothers and so if this drives you to dissension then you have missed the point here.
Unanswered Questions
The first one is something that we have talked about but one the biggest unanswered questions that will not be answered until Christ returns is
When is Jesus Coming back?
There are passages in scripture that talk about what signs must be fulfilled.
So these passages have led pastors and theologians to take these signs and try and figure out when he is coming back.
The year 500 Hippolytus of Rome, Sextus Julius Africanus, Irenaeus
These three Christian theologians predicted Jesus would return in the year 500.
One prediction was based on, get this, the dimensions of Noah’s ark.
October 19, 1533 Michael Stifel a mathematician calculated that the Judgement Day would begin at 8:00am on this day.
How would you have liked to be at breakfast with this guy on October 19th?
What do you say to him?
Some guys who have predicted and had to move their dates
Isaac Newton, Harold Camping (rapture takes place on May 21 and the end of the world was October 21) Jack Van Impe and many others have try to predict when Jesus would return and their dates have came and went.
If someone gives you a date of When Jesus is going to return, then don’t believe it because scriptures tell you that no one knows the day or hour.
The next unanswered question is
What prophecies have been fulfilled?
The preaching of the gospel to all nations.
So has this happened or not?
Depends on how you strive to interpret this passage of scripture and what you believe about he context of Matthew 24
Some people believe it was preached to all nations in the first century and he could come back any day.
Some people believe that the Gospel has not been preached to all nations so he couldn’t come back any day.
The great tribulation
Has the great tribulation happened or are we in the tribulation.
Has this prophecy been fulfilled?
False Prophets and miracle workers
Have the false prophets and miracle workers come on to the scene of human history?
Is this a specific reference to false prophets and teachers or is this a general reference?
Signs in the heavens
Has this happened?
Is this to be understood literally or symbolically
The coming of the antichrist
Who is this talking about?
Throughout the history of the church many people have tried to identify different people as the antiChrist.
Is this a specific person or is this a system?
Anti-Christ describes something that is directly opposed to Christ.
The Spirit of Christ is on Christians as a guarantee of His future coming.
The Spirit of the antichrist is in the world as a guarantee of his future coming.
Christ was preceded and accompanied by a true prophet
The antichrist will be preceded and accompanied by a false prophet.
The Christ speaks the truth
The antichrist spreads deception
The Christ builds the temple, the church, of which he is the cornerstone.
The antichrist stands in the temple, claiming to be its center.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9