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
0.47UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.1UNLIKELY
Fear
0.49UNLIKELY
Joy
0.55LIKELY
Sadness
0.59LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.56LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.42UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.83LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.92LIKELY
Extraversion
0.1UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.88LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.58LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
A.W. Tozer
Read the excerpt from Tozer with this slide up.
Anger
Anger
Each of us has a limp.
The limp may be greed, anger, lust, idolatry or many other things we deal with on a daily basis.
Tonight we begin with anger.
Anger comes in many different forms and we all deal with it.
The question is, will we control it or will it control us?
The thing is, we have gotten good at hiding our anger from others, but we can never hid from God. He’s always present and he always knows what’s on our hearts.
Pretty simple example: Say someone bumps into you while you’re holding a cup of coffee.
What comes out, tea, water, soda, no coffee does.
The same is true in life; when we get bumped, whatever is inside WILL come out.
What’s your typical response when some one cuts you off in traffic?
If We Would, We May
If
If we would, We may...
If we would, We may...
hkhkhk
Here
What happens when you pray for something and don’t get it?
What happens when you pray for something and you don’t get it?
Give an example of a time you asked God for something and you didn’t get it.
What was your response?
Greed
Need short responses.
klk
If we blame God.....Why?
Anger is often preceded by an unmet expectation or series of unmet expectations.
Oftentimes we don’t get what we want because we ask with selfish motives.
The more unmet expectations we have have, the more anger can and oftentimes does grow.
Would someone mind reading ?
What was your response
What was your response
What was your response
James is right.
Why do most conflicts arise?
Let the men answer.
James doesn’t say, “it’s ok you yelled at the barista, after all your latte wasn’t up to your expectations”.
NO!
He said, It’s from the selfish desires that battle within you.
From the very first two people placed on earth we have been choosing our own way and not God’s.
It reminds me of the old joke that says, “the problem wasn’t the apple in the tree, but the pair on the ground.
Why did you respond the way you did?
Original Sin
Have someone read Genesis 3:1-7
Satan deceived her by suggesting to Eve that God was sinister
Listen to what Paul says here in
Now listen to what Paul says here in Read from printed sheet
But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ
Sometimes anger arises when God says “NO” to something we really want.
That may be not buying that new car, not taking a better paying job because you know it will interfere with your family, or maybe it’s giving up a favorite past time like watching sports.
In Jeremiah we see God talking to the nation of Israel in V29:11.
God says, “for I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.”
The same applies to us.
He isn’t being stingy.
In fact, God wants to bless us, but as it says in we must seek after him first.
When we have done that, then the other stuff will be added, but not garbage, real, meaningful, life-giving stuff.
Ask them “If God promises to add the other stuff, why don’t we seek after him first, but after what we want first?”
Let them answer, then remind them of .
Read it to them again.
That can be a tough pill to swallow when we have to realize WE’RE the problem.
Anger is Fear’s Bodyguard
Earlier I asked for an example of a time you asked God for something and you didn’t get it.
Let’s go a little deeper.
Give an example of a time you asked God for something you felt you desperately needed and he didn’t give it to you.
God wants us to be honest with him.
In we see David seeking God in the midst of his agony.
1 LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger
1 LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.
2 Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint;
heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.
3 My soul is in deep anguish.
How long, LORD, how long?
4 Turn, LORD, and deliver me;
save me because of your unfailing love.
5 Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
Who praises you from the grave?
6 I am worn out from my groaning.
or discipline me in your wrath.
2 Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint;
heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.
3 My soul is in deep anguish.
How long, LORD, how long?
4 Turn, LORD, and deliver me;
save me because of your unfailing love.
5 Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
Who praises you from the grave?
6 I am worn out from my groaning.
David sought the lord in earnest and as a man with a great fear of the lord.
I wonder how often we approach God with the posture of a petulant child.
The truth is God want’s us to bring our problems to him, but we should be careful to approach his throne with reverence and not in anger.
Approaching God with our anger is different than approaching him in anger.
The former is simply being angry, while the latter is attacking his character out of a posture of pride.
When we let fear become anger, we give it place.
In Paul says, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind”.
If we are truly in Christ we should never let fear take center stage because in doing so we have moved our focus off of Christ and give it to fear.
7For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind.
Does fear itself have any power outside of our own minds?
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9