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Who am I?
Why the Bible?
I love getting the opportunity to teach out of the Bible because in it God is trying to show us something about Himself, something about humankind, and something about how we can live this one and only life we’ve been given.
It’s important stuff, so let’s dive in.
What’s the passage?
Read the passage
John 14:18-20 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.
Because I live, you also will live.
On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.”
Context: The very worst thing.
The night that Jesus was betrayed; the night that He would go to the cross.
What were the disciples afraid of?
First, they had grown to love their teacher, their leader, and their friend.
They were terrified of being without Jesus; left alone.
Abandoned.
And this was a real fear, right?
I mean, in the first century, it was bad news to be on the wrong side of a political coup.
Second, they had great messianic expectations.
They had a certain idea about how the future was going to look.
If Jesus was going to die, then they were terrified about the future.
And so they were asking basically two questions: Will I be alone, and will I be alright?
Aren’t we just the same?
(Can you imagine?)
Will I be alone?
Will my friends reject me when they find out about..... Will my coach still give me attention if I...... Will my parents stay in my corner when.... Or will I be alone?
Man we were never meant to be alone.
When God was creating the world He said it was good, and then He created Adam and all of the sudden the first not good thing came into being: Lonliness.
God said all I’ve created is good, but “it’s not good for man to be alone.”
Will I be alright?
What does my future hold?
What’s high school going to be like?
Will I go to college?
Man the future is this giant cliff of possibility.
And maybe not all of it is going to be good.
The future is unknown, and sometimes that can be terrifiying.
The disciples were facing their very worst thing.
I wonder: What’s your worst thing?
What’s the thing that causes you stress and anxiety?
What’s the thing that keeps you up at night?
Man it’s so crazy I remember being in middle school like it was yesterday.
I remember eating lunch in this room.
I remember being bad at sports.
And I remember my very worst thing.
For sure.
I had Mr. Larry Russ as my sixth grade history teacher, and I have seared into my mind so many good memories, but then there’s this one.
Mr. Russ was one of the most godly men I knew, and he would talk to us about life.
And he would tell us these heart breaking stories of times when he would be teaching, and he would get a phone call, and he would be the one to break the news to one of his students about a tragedy in their life.
The one that always stuck with me was something happening to their parents.
I just couldn’t imagine it.
To me, that was the very worst thing.
And I can remember that as a result of that, I was in 8th grade and I got called down to the office from what used to be Mrs.
Enlow’s classroom which was just down the hall, and I’d have to walk ALL THE WAY down the 300 wing, down the next wing, and down the next wing after that to get to the high school office.
And all that time I would think, “Man did I do something wrong?
What could I have possibly done?
Man I know I haven’t misbehaved!”
And I’m like thinking did I leave something like a nerf gun in my backpack, but I knew I hadn’t.
And so I’d be walking and the thought would cross my mind, “man did something happen?
Are my parents ok?”
And on the long walk I’d work myself up almost to the point of tears, and I’d turn the corner to the office and I’d look in the window and there’s my dad, and he goes, “Hey bud… do you wanna go to the Cavs game?”
And I’d be like, “ARE YOU SERIOUS!?
I THOUGHT SOMETHING HAPPENED MAN! THE CAVS AREN’T EVEN THAT GOOD DAD IT’S LIKE 2010!?”
So for me, that very worst thing never became a reality.
But some of my very worst things did.
I’ve experienced heart break, disappointment, and failure.
I’ve experienced loss.
And some very worst things are still to come.
We all live with these fears, and in the face of the reality that Jesus talks about in John 16:33 “In this world you will have trouble.”
TRANSITION: So what comfort does Jesus give in the face of the unthinkable?
What is His response?
Don’t be afraid, I am with you (v.
18)
I will not leave you as orphans.
Yet notice.. “I will leave you.”
Jesus doesn’t say “Don’t worry, it’s going to be fine, we’ll work it out, I’m not leaving.”
No—He is leaving.
He’s going to the cross.
The very worst thing is just around the corner.
He’s going to die in a gruesome way.
And let me just say, unless Jesus comes back, so will my parents.
So will my wife, and my friends.
I don’t mean to be dramatic, but I’m just trying to be real this morning.
Because of sin, death is a reality that we deal with in this life.
Jesus doesn’t ignore this reality.
He doesn’t shy away from it.
He came to address it.
But He goes on…
“I will not leave you as orphans.”
I know that you’re afraid.
I know that the thought of my absence is terrifying to you.
But...
I will come to you.
I will come to you.
I will come to you.
Jesus is looking into the feared eyes of His closest friends, having just told them this is it.
I’m going to be betrayed, handed over to die, but that won’t be the end.
I’m going to the cross.
The very worst thing is about to happen.
We can’t go over it.
We can’t go around it.
I’m going through it; and I’m going to come back to you.
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