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
0.09UNLIKELY
Fear
0.13UNLIKELY
Joy
0.64LIKELY
Sadness
0.2UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.28UNLIKELY
Confident
0.37UNLIKELY
Tentative
0UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.74LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.95LIKELY
Extraversion
0.59LIKELY
Agreeableness
0.94LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.79LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
The Big Idea: God is committed to us and He wants us to be committed to Him.
• We are currently engaged in a powerful series on commitment.
• We have learned about the discipline which accompanies commitment to God and the temperaments of God’s disciples or soldiers.
• We’ve explored the anatomy of commitment and what it means to be in a “committed” relationship, but what happens when commitment becomes complicated or challenging?
• During our time together, I want us to explore what we as Christians should do when commitment becomes complicated.
NRSV
67 When she saw Peter warming himself, she stared at him and said, “You also were with Jesus, the man from Nazareth.”
68 But he denied it, saying, “I do not know or understand what you are talking about.”
And he went out into the forecourt.
Then the cock crowed.
6 But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified.
He has been raised; he is not here.
Look, there is the place they laid him.
7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him, just as I have told you.
8 So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
Introduction
2
• Peter followed Jesus from the very beginning of His earthly ministry.
He climbed a mountain and invited those he wanted with him.
They climbed together.
He settled on twelve, and designated them apostles.
The plan was that they would be with him, and he would send them out to proclaim the Word and give them authority to banish demons.
The prayer was no sooner prayed than it was answered.
Jesus called twelve of his followers and sent them into the ripe fields.
He gave them power to kick out the evil spirits and to tenderly care for the bruised and hurt lives.
Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2005), .
Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2005), .
Introduction
• In our focal text, Peter’s commitment to Jesus wavered, but Jesus’ commitment to Peter never wavered.
• Let’s turn our attention to our message notes to see what the Word has to say to encourage us when commitment is complicated.
I. God is Committed to us when we are NOT committed to Him.
A. God is committed to us in our Disobedience.
If I climb to the sky, you’re there!
If I go underground, you’re there!
If I flew on morning’s wings
to the far western horizon,
You’d find me in a minute—
you’re already there waiting!
Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark!
At night I’m immersed in the light!”
It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you;
night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you.
Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2005), .
B. God is committed to us in our Dysfunction.
When God realized that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb.
But Rachel was barren.
Leah became pregnant and had a son.
She named him Reuben (Look-It’s-a-Boy!).
“This is a sign,” she said, “that God has seen my misery; and a sign that now my husband will love me.”
Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2005), .
C. God is committed to us in our Disbelief.
Abraham and Sarah were old by this time, very old.
Sarah was far past the age for having babies.
Sarah laughed within herself, “An old woman like me? Get pregnant?
With this old man of a husband?”
Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2005), .
I. God is Committed to us when we are NOT committed to Him.
II.
God’s Commitment to us is NOT bound by TIME or Reason.
II.
God’s Commitment to us is NOT bound by TIME or Reason.
A. God’s commitment to us is Pre-imminent.
Before I shaped you in the womb,
I knew all about you.
Before you saw the light of day,
I had holy plans for you:
A prophet to the nations—
that’s what I had in mind for you.”
Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2005), .
B. God’s commitment to us thrives in our Present Circumstance.
Not on your life!
Israel’s
Not on your life!
Israel’s
Guardian will never doze or sleep.Psalm 121:4
Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2005), .
C. God’s commitment to us spans beyond our existence/Presence on Earth and into the future.
Your love, God, is my song, and I’ll sing it!
I’m forever telling everyone how faithful you are.
I’ll never quit telling the story of your love—
how you built the cosmos
and guaranteed everything in it.
Your love has always been our lives’ foundation,
your fidelity has been the roof over our world.
You once said, “I joined forces with my chosen leader,
I pledged my word to my servant, David, saying,
‘Everyone descending from you is guaranteed life;
I’ll make your rule as solid and lasting as rock.’
”
Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2005), .
I. God is Committed to us when we are NOT committed to Him.
II.
God’s Commitment to us is NOT bound by TIME or Reason.
III.
Our Commitment to God
III.
Our Commitment to God
A. God’s commitment to us commands our Sacrifice.
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering.
Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.
Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.
Instead, fix your attention on God.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9