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
0.1UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.13UNLIKELY
Fear
0.1UNLIKELY
Joy
0.63LIKELY
Sadness
0.53LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.37UNLIKELY
Confident
0.12UNLIKELY
Tentative
0UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.89LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.95LIKELY
Extraversion
0.32UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.75LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.8LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
› › Bibles
I want to clear up something I said last week concerning Hebrews.
If you recall, I said this letter does not have the typical opening of a 1st century letter stating clearly who the intended recipients were.
Like Paul’s letters “To the saints who are in Ephesus.”
Some of you may have gotten the impression as you read this and I hope some of you did read it that the letter was clearly written to people with a Hebrew background.
We don’t know the specific group of Jewish Christians the letter was written but they were as the letter states Hebrews
› › Pray
ESV
Let brotherly love continue.
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
So we can confidently say,
“The Lord is my helper;
I will not fear;
what can man do to me?”
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God.
Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.
We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.
For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.
So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.
Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
If you recall last week we talked about three basic categories for MORALS in the chapter:
1) How we act toward others.
2) How we act toward ourselves
3) How we act toward God.
› (1) Brotherly Love and how we act toward others
Remember Jesus is our example of Philadelphia; He had compassion for the Apostles, for people who were just curious and even those who came to arrest Him and kill Him, “Father forgive them for they no not what they do.”
› (2) Hospitality and how we act toward others
We never know how far-reaching the kindness and hospitality we give will go in spreading the gospel and glorifying God.
Jesus said “I was a stranger and you invited me in … I was in prison and you came to visit me.” , :
› (3) Sympathy and how we act toward others
Just as the Apostle Paul received aid from the Philippians there are those persecuted brothers and sisters today around the world in need of our prayers and support.
They are worthy of our help for their faith in the Lord.
Even the vile and cruel sinners in prison for crimes beyond our imagination deserve to hear the Gospel for the first, second, third or infinite number of times.
Paul plants, Apollos waters but God gives the growth.
› (4) Purity and how we act toward ourselves
Our impurity and love of riches will break down our lives internally and it does more damage to us than to others, it condemns us to eternal suffering.
Once we let, impurity or desire for money in, our heart hardens toward God and His commands.
Then our brotherly love, hospitality, sympathy and contentment go out the window.
› (5) Contentment and how we act toward ourselves
The true follower of Jesus has contentment because we are centered on the Lord in our hearts and our faith in Jesus Christ.
He is our Savior and an always-firm foundation, never rocked or washed away by trials, persecutions or the shifting sand.
Because while we were sinners He came and died for us so that, we are covered in His righteousness.
Christ and the salvation he has given us will make us put aside our worldly possession, cares and the fleshly desires to see the Glory that surrounds Him in eternity and to glorify Him.
This peace will lead us to brotherly love, sympathy, Purity and Contentment.
› (6) Faithfulness and how we act toward God
If you recall we briefly touched on verse 7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God.
Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
The author of Hebrews was encouraging the readers to imitate their leaders from the past.
We should do the same today, look to the leaders in scripture; the Apostles Barnabas, Timothy, or take the women Lydia as an example from .
So, setting sail from Troas, we made a direct voyage to Samothrace, and the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony.
We remained in this city some days.
And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.
One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God.
The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.
And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.”
And she prevailed upon us.
I encouraged you also last week to look and watch and imitate leaders in the local church.
1. Are they reverent to the Lord and do they respect His place and time of worship?
2. How do they conduct themselves, how do their families conduct themselves?
3. Are they good stewards of what God has given?
4. Are they faithful to God and do they display love, hospitality, sympathy, purity and contentment.
8 “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” This verse recounts the words spoken about Jesus already in Hebrews and reminds us of His faithfulness to us.
1.
He is the same 1:12 “like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed.
But you are the same, and your years will have no end.”
2. Yesterday 1:1 “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by prophets”
3. Today 3:7,8 “Therefore as the Holy Spirit says;” ‘Today, if you hear his voice’ do not harden you hearts as a rebel-lion on the day of testing in the wilderness”
and verse 4:7 “again he appoints a certain day, “Today”, saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts”
4. Forever, turn to chapter 7, stay with me I want to go through a few verses here.
7:17, 21, 24 and 28, 6:19
He is our High Priest, constantly interceding on our behalf.
Laws and Sacrifice
Laws and Sacrifices were very very important to the New Testament Jews.
They were the products of generations that had grown up over centuries to be a society called to follow the laws given by Moses in the Pentateuch (the first 5 books of the Old Testament).
After the exile and the period between the testaments, the religious leaders began to develop laws to surround the laws give to the Jews.
The idea was to design man-made laws to protect the law give to Moses.
This resulted in the six parts of the Jewish Talmud, If you have ever seen one it is truly fascinating to see the detail they have put into these volumes of books.
The six parts are; a section on agriculture, a section on feasts, a section on women, a section on civil and ceremonial law and legal matters, a section on sacrifices and a section on unclean things and their purification.
All of these are focused on what you can do and what you can't do in relating to the topic of each section and law give in the Pentateuch.
Now all of those sections are loaded with law after law after law for the conduct of the Jews.
This came from just to help us understand why the Jewish nation was so faithful to the law we need to look at some of this so we’ll start in verse 5.
See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Keep them and do them, Moses was telling them Look God gave you these laws and commands, He is giving you land to posses and took you out of bondage.
Continuing in verse 6, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Other nations had gods they worshiped and sacrificed to but none had laws and commandments that set them apart.
Just think about the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments.
No other nation had this moral law.
They worshiping numerous idols, man made of course, mistreating others and took what they wanted because they coveted.
Here was a nation different, living by a moral law.
Verse 9 in Deuteronomy continues “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life.
Remember last week?
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9