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This is part 2 of a series we are calling “Ghosts of Christmas Past”.
What this series deals with is painful things that tend to emerge this time of year.
Last week we talked about overcoming offenses in our lives and releasing forgiveness.
This week I want to talk to you about overcoming shame.
Shame is that emotion that causes you to want to tuck yourself into a tight little ball, roll into dark corner, and disappear.
You are the bad little girl or boy who is unworthy, unlovable, and cast out.
Shame feels like you've done something very, very wrong — so wrong that your self-esteem withers and you see yourself as seriously flawed.
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Shame is a soul crushing, identity warping emotion.
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Example: When I was little, lived in Marlow, OK on a street full of kids.
Most of us were athletic, but we had one little boy with a disability that lived just down the street from me.
One day, for no reason at all, I was walking by his house and he was outside.
I had a bat in my hand and for no reason at all I walked over to him and acted like I was going to hit him with my bat.
I had no intention of doing so, but was trying to prove I guess that I could if I wanted.
What I didn’t know is that his dad was watching from inside and came busting out the door yelling and screaming at me.
I ran home and jumped under my bed and would not come out because I was so ashamed of what I had done and didn’t want my parents to find out.
My mom coaxed for a long time to come out, but I wouldn’t.
I was so ashamed.
Shame will cause you to hide and isolate yourself from God and others.
Example: When I was little, lived in Marlow, OK on a street full of kids.
Most of us were athletic, but we had one little boy with a disability that lived just down the street from me.
One day, for no reason at all, I was walking by his house and he was outside.
I had a bat in my hand and for no reason at all I walked over to him and acted like I was going to hit him with my bat.
I had no intention of doing so, but was trying to prove I guess that I could if I wanted.
What I didn’t know is that his dad was watching from inside and came busting out the door yelling and screaming at me.
I ran home and jumped under my bed and would not come out because I was so ashamed of what I had done and didn’t want my parents to find out.
My mom coaxed for a long time to come out, but I wouldn’t.
I was so ashamed.
What happens to us is that we often confuse shame with guilt and there is a difference.
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Guilt: I did bad
Shame: I am bad
We connect what we did with who we are.
I did bad therefore I am bad.
Or, “after what I did, I am worthless”
Example: Steph black mailing me when I had cussed and ridden the motorcycle without mom and dad knowing.
Example: lying about my GPA, in Bible College, to part of this thing that was happening.
You might be carrying a secret addiction no one knows about and you might be thinking “I’m a bad person”
Maybe you told a lie about someone or something and you’re carrying that lie, which causes you to think “I’m a bad person”
Maybe you’re engaged in a secret world of lust because of porn sites and other things and it causes you to feel like “I’m a bad person”
Maybe it’s your past.
You think “man if they knew the things I did, they would never let me serve on the Dream Team.”
You’re consumed with the idea of shame
You’re connecting the “what” with the “who”.
When you do this, you begin to put different words on it.
Things like:
I am:
defective, damaged, broken, flawed, dirty, ugly, impure, disgusting, unlovable, weak, pitiful, insignificant, worthless, unwanted
How do I overcome shame?
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We have to re-program our minds to begin to see ourselves the way God sees us.
Receive this as God speaking to you.
If you are in Christ, the old is gone.
God separates you sin from you as far as the east is form the west.
You are free.
There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
God forgives your sins and remembers them no more.
If God is that good and forgiveness that real, then why do we continue to live in shame?
It’s because it becomes part of our identity.
Example:
God’s people were slaves for 430 years.
You were a slave, your parents, grand parents were all slaves, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade, century after century.
Your identity was I am worthless, I am not important, I’m not valuable, I am a slave.
God’s people were slaves for 430 years.
You were a slave, your parents, grand parents were all slaves, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade, century after century.
Your identity was I am worthless, I am not important, I’m not valuable, i am a slave.
Moses went to Pharaoh and through God’s help got them free.
But though they were free on the outside they were still slaves on the inside.
They were slaves of the shame to their identity of the past.
Though they were out of slavery, slavery was not out of them.
Though they were out of Egypt, Egypt was not out of them.
This is the problem with so many of us, though we may intellectually know Jesus has forgiven my sins, Jesus has made me new.
But in our hearts because our identity is not grounded in Christ we are still polluted by the past shame that holds us hostage and keeps us from living the life that God really wants us to live.
You’re still believing you are something that God says you are not.
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The only way to move from shame, is to move the focus from what “I’m not” to who Jesus is.
The only way to move from shame is to move the focus from what I’m not to who Christ is.
I am not bad, because of Jesus I am forgiven
I am not bad, because of Christ I am forgiven
I’m not sick, because of Jesus I am healed
I’m not broken, because of Jesus I am whole
I’m not disgusting, because of Jesus I am loved
I’m not inadequate, because of Jesus I am more than enough
We move the focus off of ourselves and onto Christ and that’s when we find healing.
I am not _______________________________
Because of Jesus I am ___________________________
God has rolled shame off of you.
I’m not sick, because of Christ I am healed
I’m not broken, because of Christ I am whole
I’m not disgusting, because of Christ I am loved
I’m not inadequate, because of Christ I am more than enough
We move the focus off of ourselves and onto Christ and that’s when we find healing.
God has rolled shame off of you.
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You are not what you did in the past, you’re not what others say about you.
You are who Jesus says you are.
Your free, forgiven, changed, healed, chosen, child of God in Christ
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