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
0.52LIKELY
Disgust
0.21UNLIKELY
Fear
0.12UNLIKELY
Joy
0.51LIKELY
Sadness
0.53LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.66LIKELY
Confident
0.17UNLIKELY
Tentative
0UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.79LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.8LIKELY
Extraversion
0.25UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.6LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.8LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
*Luke 10:25-37*
Historical study has revealed that Karl Marx, the self-proclaimed defender of the working-class proletariat, never truly knew or had a friendship with a single member of the proletariat.
So far as researchers know, he never set foot in a mill or a factory or a mine or any other industrial workplace in his whole life!
Living a self-conscious, Bohemian, intellectual lifestyle he knew poverty, but he always kept company with middle-class intellectuals like himself.
When he and Friedrich Engels created the Communist League, he made sure that working-class socialists were eliminated from any positions of influence.
It is also clear that for all his endeavors to be the social benefactor of humankind, he disliked people and continuously fought with members of his family.
Marx lived his life in an atmosphere of verbal violence, quarreling with everyone with whom he associated for any length of time.
He worked hard at becoming middle-class, /bourgeois./
What is the point of all this?
All humans find it difficult to live up to what we espouse intellectually.
Further, so often those who are the loudest proclaimers of certain ideas are often the biggest affront to those same ideas.
It is not uncommon to love the idea that you love people and are their benefactor rather than actually love people themselves
v And that is the type of person that we have before us today…
v In v. 25 we meet the Expert in Law
Ø A Lawyer
§ Stands up and he wants to test Jesus
· Could be simply asking an honest question, but…
Ø GK “ekpeirazo”
§ Means to test in a negative way, entrap, tempt
· Same word used in Lk 4:12 as Jesus’ answer to Satan’s 3rd temptation in wilderness
¨ To show your power and prove that you are God
Ø “Do not put the Lord your God to the test”
§ In other words…
· Don’t try to tempt or trap God
v This command still stands today
Ø And there is a very dangerous way we test our God?
§ Living a “Quid pro quo” type of faith
· I do this, God does that
¨ When we expect God to give us something because we have done something for God
Ø Illustration: *Brian Zielinski*
Ø The Lawyer asks a question not only with the wrong motivation…
§ But with the wrong understanding of the Law
· “What must I do to inherit eternal life?”
¨ GK sentence structure more fluid that English (subject, verb, predicate)
Ø He asks literally…
§ By *doing* what, shall I inherit eternal life?
v Here the Lawyer is asking a works righteousness question
Ø What do I need to do
§ That is the temptation we all go through
A 16-year-old girl had been driving at night with friends, and she had backed into a light pole.
The pole had broken off and then fallen forward, crashing down onto the car.
A 12-year-old friend in the car had been severely injured; in fact, she was brain dead when she arrived at the hospital.
Michael, the hospital Chaplin, walked with the 12-year-old's family as they went through the wrenching process of realizing the truth and allowing the life support to be removed.
The following morning, Michael visited the hospital room of the 16-year-old driver.
Physically, she was recovering well, but emotionally, she was overcome knowing that her actions had killed her friend.
"I'm going to be like a daughter to her parents," she told Michael.
"I'm going to go over to their house every day and baby-sit for them.
I'll wash dishes for them every night.
I'll go over there every week and mow their lawn."
Michael gradually helped her realize the truth that no matter what she did, she could never replace their daughter.
She could never do enough to make up for her actions.
All she could do was ask for forgiveness and hope that the parents would find it in their hearts to forgive her.
The parents who lost their daughter, amazingly, did forgive this girl.
She was set free from trying to pay back a debt she could never repay no matter what she did.
/ /
Ø The mistake that the lawyer makes is thinking like the 16 year old girl
§ That he can *do* something to earn eternal life
· He is asking Jesus what part of the law he must fulfill
Ø Just as the Lawyer must learn, so do we…
§ *We can never do enough to make up for our actions*
· You can never keep enough of the Law to earn salvation
¨ That was not the purpose of the Law
Ø The purpose of the Law was a way *of* life, not way *to* life
v Jesus responds to the Lawyer in a very Rabbinic way
Ø With a question
§ *READ V. 26*
* *
v Very religious Jews at that time wore something called Phylacteries
Ø Explain phylacteries
§ Jesus probably pointed to the Phylacteries hanging from his left sleeve
· And asked his question
¨ And among the Scriptures in his Phylactery would be the heart of the Law
Ø *Dt 6:4-5 & Lev 19:18*
§ /Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength/
§ /love your neighbor as yourself/
/ /
Ø So the Lawyer simply gives the rote answer from the OT (*v.
27*)
§ To which Jesus replies…
· *READ v. 28*
¨ /“You have answered correctly, do this and live.”/
Ø That is the right answer, for then and now
§ Seems simple, but…
· Easier said than done
v He believes that his relationship with God is good
Ø But…
v It slowly dawns on the lawyer
Ø His shortcomings in treating his neighbor with love…
§ So he asks another question
· *READ v. 29*
v You see…
Ø The expert in the Law had a clear grasp of the Law’s central requirements
§ And he felt that he was doing a good job with the first
· But it is obvious that he did not feel the same way about the second
¨ Loving his neighbor
Ø He felt he fell a little short in this respect
Ø There are only three ways a person can react when that awareness dawns:
§ (1) We can acknowledge we are sinners and appeal to God for mercy.
· *Repentance*
¨ This is the correct response
¨ This is the response that God wants
¨ This is the response that the Law was intended to evoke
Ø A *Romans 3:23* realization
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9