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Love Is Something You Do Pt 2
1 Corinthians 13:4-13
 
When you plan your family vacation, how do you decide which roads to take?
I guess that depends on how old your children are; if they are young you probably look for the shortest route; one that will reduce the number of times you have to hear, “Are we there yet?”
But seriously how do you pick your route?
Do you sit down take out a road map and search for the most indirect, complicated and time consuming route to go? Do you choose roads that might be considered small and treacherous?
Or do you look for the most pleasant way or maybe the fastest way, maybe even the most scenic way?
Whatever way you choose unless you a little unusual you will choose the way that you think is the best way!
If I am going to a place in which I have never been I will take a map and study it for the best way possible and then I will depart with conviction on my way to my destination.
In the 13 chapter of 1 Corinthians Paul is telling us the believers there that the road the choose to travel is not the best way, in fact the verse that reveals the proper context and purpose of this particular chapter is chapter 12:31 which reads,
 
“* But earnestly desire the greater gifts.
And I show you a still more excellent way.” *
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*What Paul is saying to them, “if your desire is right I can show you a more excellent way.”*
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I shared with you last week that Paul has been dealing with the Church at Corinth concerning one problem after another all the way up to this point in chapter Paul reveals that there is a “more excellent way” and that way involves living a life that characterizes the love of Christ.
The problem back then is still the problem of today and that is one of not knowing that there is a difference in what we call love and what God reveals to be love.
In verses 1-3 of chapter 13 Paul tells the Corinthians,
 
“I can posses what you revere to be the best spiritual gifts, I can speak of the love of Christ in every language known to man, I can even speak in the language of angels, I can give all of my passions to feed the poor, I can be a martyr, and have the faith to move mountains, but if I do not have Love, agape Love, then I am worthless, I have nothing.”
Now after telling them what life would be like without the love of Christ being a distinguishing mark in his life, Paul will now answer the question that everyone was surely asking, “What is love?”
We try to answer that question from mans perspective and we always come up short, like the line from the old movie, “Love is never having to say I your sorry” to the line from the old song, “What the world needs now, is love sweet love” our definition is wrong, never having to say I am sorry places the focus on you love is about the other person always!
And the world does not need love sweet love it needs “Agape Love” in the lives of those who profess to be Christians.
As one Christian appropriately stated,
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*“It is no chore for me to love the whole world.
My only real problem is my neighbor next door.”*
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*Turn with me to 1 Corinthians 13, beginning in verse 4.*
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*1 Corinthians 13:4-13 * \\ 4 Love is patient, love is kind /and/ is not jealous; love does not brag /and/ is not arrogant, \\ 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong /suffered,/ \\ 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; \\ 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
\\ 8 Love never fails; but if /there are gifts of/ prophecy, they will be done away; if /there are/ tongues, they will cease; if /there is/ knowledge, it will be done away.
\\ 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; \\ 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
\\ 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
\\ 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
\\ 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
As I stated earlier the previous passage (*vv.
1-3*) focuses on the emptiness produced when love is absent.
In *verses 4-5* we find the most complete biblical description of the fullness of love.
Paul is going breakdown the many facets of Agape love and use each of these facets to paint a picture of the true meaning of love.
In fact Paul will give us 15 true properties of love.
Unlike most English translations, which include *several adjectives*, the Greek forms of all 15 of those properties are verbs.
They do not focus on what love is as much as on what love does and does not do.
*Agape* love is active, not abstract or passive.
It does not simply feel patient, it practices patience.
It does not simply have kind feelings, it does kind things.
It does not simply recognize the truth, it rejoices in the truth.
Love is fully love only when it acts, love is something you do!
 
John wrote in *1 John 3:18*
*18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
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The purpose of Paul's portrait of love is not to give us a mechanical definition of love, but to break it down into smaller parts so that we may more easily understand and apply its full, rich meaning.
*As with all of God's Word, we cannot truly begin to understand love until we begin to apply it in our lives.*
Paul's primary purpose here is not simply to instruct the Corinthians but to change their living habits.
He wanted them carefully and honestly to measure their lives against those characteristics of love.
Paul is painting a portrait of love, and Jesus Christ is sitting for the portrait.
He lived out in perfection all of these virtues of love.
This beautiful picture of love is a portrait of Him.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
!! 1. Love Is Patient
*Love* practices being *patient* or long-suffering, literally, "long-tempered" (*makrothumeō*).
The word is common in the New Testament and is used almost exclusively of being patient with people, rather than with circumstances or events.
Love's patience is the ability to be inconvenienced or taken advantage of by a person over and over again and yet not be upset or angry.
It was *Chrysostom*, the early church Father, who said, "*It is a word which is used of the man who is wronged and who has it easily in his power to avenge himself but will never do it*."
Patience never retaliates or gets even.
Like /agape/ love itself, the patience spoken of in the New Testament was a virtue only among Christians.
In the Greek world self-sacrificing love and non-avenging patience were considered a weaknesses and vengeance was a virtue.
But love, God's love, is the very opposite.
Its primary concern is for the welfare of others, not itself, and it is much more willing to be taken advantage of than to take advantage, much less to avenge.
Love does not retaliate.
The Christian who acts like Christ never takes revenge for being hurt, insulted, or abused.
He refuses to "pay back evil for evil," but if he is slapped on the right cheek, he will turn the left.
Paul said in 2 Cor.
6:6, that patience was a characteristic of his own heart and should characterize every Christian.
Think of Stephen's last words, Acts 7:20, they were words of patient forgiveness: *"Lord, do not hold this sin against them!"*
As he lay dying under the painful, crushing blows of the stones, his concern was more for his murderers rather than for himself.
He was long-tempered, patient to the absolute extreme.
But the supreme example of patience, of course, is God Himself.
It is God's patient love that prevents the world from being destroyed.
It is His patience and long-suffering that allows time for men to be saved.
Look with me at *2 Pet.
3:9*
*9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
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Think of this as He was dying on the cross, rejected by those He had come to save, *Jesus prayed*, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing."
Robert Ingersoll, the well-known atheist of the last century, often would stop in the middle of his lectures against God and say, "I'll give God five minutes to strike me dead for the things I've said."
He then used the fact that he was not struck dead as proof that God did not exist.
Theodore Parker said of Ingersoll's claim, "And did the gentleman think he could exhaust the patience of the eternal God in five minutes?"
Since Adam and Eve first disobeyed Him, God has been continually wronged and rejected by those He made in His own image.
He was rejected and scorned by His chosen people, through whom he gave the revelation of His Word, "the oracles of God."
Yet through the thousands of years, the eternal God has been *eternally long-suffering*.
If the holy Creator is so infinitely patient with His rebellious creatures, how much more should *His unholy creatures be patient with each other?*
One of Abraham Lincoln's earliest political enemies was Edwin M. Stanton.
He called Lincoln a "low cunning clown" and "the original gorilla."
"It was ridiculous for people to go to Africa to see a gorilla," he would say, "when they could find one easily in Springfield, Illinois."
Lincoln never responded to the slander, but when, as president, he needed a secretary of war, he chose Stanton.
When his incredulous friends asked why, Lincoln replied, "Because he is the best man."
Years later, as the slain president's body lay in state, Stanton looked into the coffin and said through his tears, "There lies the greatest ruler of men the world has ever seen."
His animosity was finally broken by Lincoln's long-suffering, non-retaliatory spirit.
*Patient love won out.*
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! 2. Love Is Kind
Just as patience will take anything from others, kindness will give anything to others, even to its enemies.
Being *kind* is the counterpart of being *patient*.
To be kind (chrēsteuoma/i/) means to be useful, serving, and gracious.
It is active goodwill.
It not only feels generous, it is generous.
It not only desires others' welfare, but works for it.
When Jesus commanded His disciples, including us, to love their enemies, He did not simply mean to feel kindly about them but to be kind to them.
"If anyone wants to sue you, and take your shirt, let him have your coat also.
And whoever shall force you to go one mile, go with him two" (*Matt.
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