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1. Marriage is not easy.
I heard about a little boy who asked his SS teacher where Adam got his wife.
She told him the Lord took a rib from Adam and that’s how he got his wife.
Late that evening the mother found the little boy lying on the floor with his shirt off holding his side and moaning.
The mother asked him what was wrong.
He said, “I think I’m having a wife.”
I’ve heard it said, “If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock.”
There is some truth in that.
When two sinners combine all, they have and commit to live together as one it is not easy.
It can be painful.
Adrian Rogers said marriages need two funerals and one wedding.
It takes two people who die to themselves to have the type of marriage God desires of us.
A. Satan wants you to have an awful marriage.
He would love for your marriage to end in divorce.
But he will also settle with you having a terrible marriage.
Satan simply wants to give a distorted view of the family to the next generation.
He uses awful marriages to do that.
An ungodly marriage is an awful place to raise children.
It may keep them from wanting to get married at all.
It may keep them from being a godly spouse.
Children are learning how to be husbands and wives my watching mom and dad.
It may keep them from respecting you.
Awful marriages normally encourage children to pick a side.
The family is the building block of society and Satan wants to destroy it.
The easiest place for him to do that is in a marriage.
My mother was married to five different men by the time I was in the ninth grade.
I had no idea what marriage was supposed to look like.
If it were not for the grace of God I would have followed in her footsteps.
Sometimes we look down on the divorced.
But there are plenty of bad marriages in the church as well.
B. Some marriages in the church are barely hanging on.
Some are hanging on because of:
Finances- some couples would divorce if they could afford to.
Family- Some will divorce when the kids finish school.
They are counting down the days.
Or they will divorce in a particular family member dies so they can be sure to get the inheritance.
Faith- Some won’t get divorced because they believe it’s wrong.
I commend you for that but remember a loveless marriage is also wrong.
C. A marriage that is not given the attention it needs will suffer.
Marriage isn’t easy.
A plant won’t even stay alive in your home without sunlight and water.
Your marriage won’t stay alive without the attention it needs.
Let’s be honest with ourselves this morning.
How is your marriage?
Could it be better?
I want to encourage you not to simply endure your marriage.
I don’t want you just putting up with each other.
I want you to have a joyful thriving marriage.
Let’s consider what we need if that is to happen.
2. There must be a mutual submission (21-24).
A. Our submission is ultimately to Christ.
Notice “in the fear of God” in verse 21.
When you were married you made a vow to God.
To love and cherish
To have and hold
For better for worse
For richer for poorer
To obey
Til death do you part
This is what makes protecting your marriage so important.
You made a vow to God.
Not to just stay married.
You made a vow :
To love and cherish
To have and hold
For better for worse
For richer for poorer
To obey
Til death do you part
If you fear God, you will take that vow seriously.
B. Our submission is to one another.
I say this because we sometimes only speak to the women when it comes to submission.
But submission is for all Christians.
Let me speak to our men for a moment.
You are to be the model of submission in the home.
People should learn about submission by watching you live your life.
If you never bend
If you never listen
If you never let go of your own will
Others in the home will not learn what masculine submission looks like.
If you are domineering.
If you run your home like a tyrant, you’re not modeling Biblical submission.
C. The wife is to submit to her husband (22-23).
The first thing I want you to see is when you submit to your husband you are honoring Christ.
That’s Paul’s point in verses 23-24.
You are respecting an office that represents Jesus.
We’ll get into the symbolism of marriage later.
The husband is not better than the wife.
The husband is not smarter than the wife.
The husband is not more holy than the wife.
The husband represents Christ in the marriage.
That is why she is to submit to him.
What does it mean to submit?
It means to place yourself in the proper position.
Let’s be honest wives.
Most of the time you all make most of the decisions.
You’re the manager of the home.
You get on to dad more than anyone else does.
Ladies normally determine:
How the house is decorated
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