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
0.12UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.68LIKELY
Fear
0.69LIKELY
Joy
0.48UNLIKELY
Sadness
0.61LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.57LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.57LIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.71LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.5LIKELY
Extraversion
0.03UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.72LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.6LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Please turn to Genesis 4
We looked at creation.
God made everything and made it “very good.”
Nature, humans
Male/Female in God’s image
Marriage
Work and rest.
Everything is as it should be.
But Adam and Eve listened to Satan and questioned God’s goodness, and chose to go their own way.
Sin.
Missing the mark.
Falling short of the glory of God.
Rebellion.
The wages of sin is death.
Romans 3:23
Our relationship with God died.
Death invaded our relationship with each other.
Work is hard.
Childbirth is hard.
Marriage is a power struggle.
We’ve been driven out of the garden, away from God’s presence and out to work harder land, scraping and struggling.
And eventually we die.
Not as it should be.
And this horrific event, often called The Fall, has fallout.
Last effects.
Did they wonder… Is this the promised one?
(Genesis 3:15 promise)
Genesis 4:2
2 And again, she bore his brother Abel.
Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.
Cain, the firstborn, follow’s his father’s profession- working the ground.
Farming.
One of the mandates God gave Adam.
Abel kept the sheep.
The first shepherd!
Asserting dominance over animals, another of our mandates.
Why were they keeping sheep?
Clothing.
Remember how God clothed them in chapter 3.
But also, sacrifice.
There have been no instructions so far about offering God sacrifices.
However I believe they understood something.
What you produce belongs to God and some of it should be returned to him in appreciation.
An offering.
Sending it to God via fire may have been used here but we cannot be sure.
Some people believe they were bringing this offering to the door of Eden, knowing God was “in there”.
Whatever the case here is what we can know.
Notice the wording of the story though.
It’s interesting.
Cain brought “an offering of the fruit of the ground”
Abel brought “from the first born of his flock and their fat portions”.
Firstborn and best part vs “an offering of the fruit”.
Some people say “hey Cain should have brought an animal sacrifice too” but we don’t have any evidence of Cain having been told that.
The Law of God hasn’t been given yet.
And even when it does get given there are instructions about grain offerings and stuff like that.
I believe Abel brought an offering that truly demonstrated a heart of loving God, wanting to give God something that best represented love and appreciation and thankfulness whereas Cain brought “whatever”.
1. God accepts what is offered to Him in true faith and devotion.
a.
There are a lot of stories in the Bible of people bringing correct sacrifices as God instructed and God hated it because it was lip service.
It was fake.
Their hearts were far from God.
b.
What God wants is a heart that is near.
c.
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts.
d.
Offerings, singing, service- all done for God.
How’s your heart?
e.
It is completely possible to do what looks like “all the right things” but for yourself, to impress someone else, and not at all for God.
How to know:
i.
Is what I do a sacrifice?
ii.
When someone doesn’t like what you do, what do you choose to fix and why?
iii.
When you don’t get thanked enough, why does that make you mad?
f.
Cain’s offering was convenient.
And God confronts him.
g.
God didn’t like Cain’s therefore….
his “face fell”
i. Hear what God is saying?
He’s warning Cain.
You know what to do buddy.
It’s totally fixable.
It isn’t as bad as it could be.
j.
But keep letting your heart be disrespectful to me, and being angry instead of repenting… it’ll lead somewhere bad.
Sin is crouching at the door like a predator.
k.
Remember: sin costs you more than you want to pay, keeps you longer than you want to stay, and takes you farther than you want to go.
l.
But you can master it.
You have a choice.
m.
We all do.
Be satisfied in God, do all we can to appreciate, worship, give God our best in every decision or act with dissatisfaction, hoping to satisfy the soul, find Eden in things that are not God or despite God or any other way.
n.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9