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
0.08UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.06UNLIKELY
Fear
0.6LIKELY
Joy
0.65LIKELY
Sadness
0.16UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.18UNLIKELY
Confident
0.56LIKELY
Tentative
0UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.69LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.7LIKELY
Extraversion
0.21UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.85LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.62LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Where is the gospel?
// ?
// sometimes ‘grace a NT thing’ -
// God of OT a different god?
God’s Blessing
Genesis 12:1–3 (NIV)
1 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2 “I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”
God’s Place
God’s People
God’s Blessing
Good news for us too - not parochial only or primarily, not ethnically exclusive either -> this is the good news for all the nations...
As opposed to the human efforts.
Other gods...
God has come to bless.
God the creator - who spoke the cosmos into being by his powerful word;
Has spoken this blessing in the midst of a cursed world to start something new.
God’s Place
God’s People
God’s Blessing
Traced through the Bible - as we look now for the promised seed to rescue humanity and defeat the snake, we’re also watching for these three.
Place begins to be Canaan // but shifts via Jesus (as the holy place) to new creation
People begins as Israel // but shifts via Jesus (as holy Israelite) to the church
Blessing begins as material prosperity // but shifts via Jesus to sharing God’s glory as forgiven renewed children of God
// move with security (guarantor, another’s word)
/// is faith a blind step into the dark?
Faith
He’s given a promise that relates to the future, that is mostly intangible (famous, blessing) - and has to leave all he knows (family, home town).
On top of that, Ur is the centre to all appearances - probably largest city in the world, civilized,
Ziggurat of Ur.
He obeys.
Leaves his dad, and everything else.
Abram’s journey
Modern day middle east
His permanent contributions are acts of worship.
Worth reflecting on our own life and acts - [what is our legacy in this world?/what
do we leave behind us? - worship, or stuff]
Faith takes what God gives:
Lot and land
God has promised.
Abram will trust that word.
God will give him land.
Tithe and treasure:
Abram wins a great battle, rescues Lot and additionally also rescues Sodom.
Gives.
Abram takes what God will give.
Faith takes what God gives.
Faith takes God at his Word.
Hints here that the promises are not satisfied merely in Israel:
tents, fruitlessness:
Faith sees by hearing God’s word.
The eyes of faith are fed by the ears.
// be like Abram? // []
Failure and God’s faithfulness
Famine forces him to Egypt.
He has a barren wife (Gen 11:30)
sons of God taking beautiful daughters of man (Gen 6:2)
Well founded fear.
But this is hot on theheels in the account of his obedience into the unknown, constructing altars, calling on the name of the Lord.
(Though it is conspicuously absent - only recurs again back in the land in Gen 13:4)
His fear endangers Sarai.
Puts the entire ‘great nation’ progeny at risk if she genuinely becomes Pharaoh’s wife.
Not in God’s place.
A real threat to being God’s people.
Famine and fear do not look like God’s blessing.
[Nor a blessing to the nations here either].
So quickly, everything is under threat and in danger.
The BIble is not a morality tale (though there is much to learn).
Not Aesop’s fable- the moral is don’t lie.
It’s a rescue story, good news - God’s work:
This is gift/grace from beginning to end.
God preserves Abram because God’s rescue is all God’s Work to bring people from every nation into rescue.
As we sit here in Alice Springs let us take God at his word now too.
Our rescue comes through Abram’s seed Jesus - by grace.
But it doesn’t end with us.
The many language and people groups in this town of Alice Springs are not yet blessed by coming into God’s family.
They do not know Jesus.
God’s people, God’s place, blessed in Jesus - may God do this here.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9