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
0.68LIKELY
Disgust
0.05UNLIKELY
Fear
0.09UNLIKELY
Joy
0.13UNLIKELY
Sadness
0.49UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.45UNLIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.3UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.56LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.61LIKELY
Extraversion
0.02UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.59LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.82LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
JONAH: THE RELUCTANT MESSENGER
*PART III*
* *
INTRODUCTION:
Let’s review:
1. Jonah
a. called by God
(1) to go to Nineveh
(2) to warn the Ninevites of their coming destruction
b. fled from God
(1) to Joppa
(2) to set sail on a ship
(3) to fall into a deep sleep
2. chastisement by God
a. very strong storm rose up
b. tossed the ship
(1) side to side
(2) up and down
3. Jonah
a. thrown overboard
b. swallowed by a great fish
c. went tot he bottom of the sea
d. began to pray (Chapter 2)
e. spewed upon the dry land
THIS IS WHERE WE FIND JONAH AT THE BEGINNING OF CHAPTER THREE
I.
THE SECOND CALL OF GOD
A. The first call found in Jonah 1:1—2 “The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amattai: ‘Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”
1. at the first call Jonah ran away
2. resulted in his chastisement
B. The second call:
1. v. 1 “Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:”
a. God
(1) calls Jonah a second time
(a) after Jonah’s chastisement
(b) after Jonah being in the belly of the great fish for 3 days and nights
(2) shows mercy to Jonah
(a) could have told Jonah “You said ‘No, the first time: therefore, I can’t use you this time.”
(b) instead, shows mercy to receive Jonah again
(c) in other words: “Jonah, you said ‘No’, the first time I called you, but today, after your prayer to me, I’m giving you a second chance.”
b.
David Guzik “God’s mercy towards His wayward people is amazing; though Jonah did everything he could to resist the first call of God, after Jonah repented, God called him again—though He was under no obligation to do so.”
2. in verse 2 “and proclaim to it the message I give you”
a. “Go to the great city of Nineveh:”
(1) “Go”—not an uncommon command
(a) God had told others to “go”
i) from Abraham in Gen. 12:1 “go to the land I will show you.”
ii) Moses: Exodus 3:7—10
(b) same with Jonah
(2) “great city of Nineveh”
(a) a large city
(b) center of
i) military
ii) economy
iii) religion
iv) power of Babylon
b. “and proclaim to it the message I give you.”
(1) not
(a) go and visit
(b) go and scope it out
(2) but “go and proclaim”
(a) preach
(b) speak
(c) tell
NOT JUST ANTHING
(3) “the message I give you”
(a) not
i) just any message
ii) the message of the world
(b) the one give to him by GOD
II.
THE OBEDIENCE OF JONAH V.
3-5
A. The Trip to Nineveh V. 3
1.
“Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord” v.
3a
a. God had called Jonah to go to Nineveh
b. Jonah had
(1) disobeyed God
(2) fled from God
(3) been chastised by God
c. now Jonah ready
(1) to obey God
(2) to do what God called him to do
2. “and went to Nineveh”: Jonah
a. left the area where the fish had spewed him out
b. walked to Nineveh
3. 3c “now Nineveh was”
a. “a very important city”
(1) cannot stress enough the importance of Nineveh
(2) city of
(a) government
(b) commerce
(c) culture
(3) compare it to
(a) New York City
&
(b) Washington D.C. combined
b. “a visit required three days”
(1) so huge that for that day it would take a man
(a) walking 20 miles a day
(b) 3 days to walk around it
(2) description of the city
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9