Sermon Tone Analysis

Context: Historical and Cultural

The Bible can never mean what it never meant.

Ask: What is the Historical setting of this book?

Chapter?

Think about Jonah and Ninivah

​ NET“For the Lord says, ‘Only when the seventy years of Babylonian rule are over will I again take up consideration for you.

Then I will fulfill my gracious promise to you and restore you to your homeland.For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the Lord.

‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you.

I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers.When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you.

If you seek me with all your heart and soul,I will make myself available to you,’ says the Lord.

‘Then I will reverse your plight and will regather you from all the nations and all the places where I have exiled you,’ says the Lord.

‘I will bring you back to the place from which I exiled you.’

Ask: What is the culture like for this book?God and Abrahams Covenant

​ NETThe Lord said to him, “Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”

So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.

​ NETWhen the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River—

Rev

Who is writing this book?To who is this author writing?Why is he writing this book?

​ NETNow many have undertaken to compile an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.So it seemed good to me as well, because I have followed all things carefully from the beginning, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know for certain the things you were taught.

Hebrews is harder, but has intent also