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
0.15UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.13UNLIKELY
Fear
0.14UNLIKELY
Joy
0.55LIKELY
Sadness
0.51LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.51LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.33UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.88LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.88LIKELY
Extraversion
0.34UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.61LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.86LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
*The Invitation*
Matthew 22:1-14
*Intro:*
#.
Remember famous line from the Godfather?
“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
That is anything but an invitation.
It is clearly a threat.
But God has an invitation to offer.
*What I want to say:* Though many are invited, not all will respond to God’s invitation to His kingdom.
These parables show both the plan of God and His intense desire to shake our world free of indifference to see what He is offering.
The Setting: (21:23-27) the Authority of Jesus challenged
* After the triumphal entry, Jesus proceeded to the Temple and there drove out those who made the Temple a place of commerce.
He then healed the blind and the lame.
Meanwhile children were singing His praises loudly.
* The next day (Monday) He returned to the Temple where He was confronted by the chief priests and elders.
* Who are you to do miracles?
* Who gave YOU (of all people) this authority?
Jesus’ response: two parables
!
I. Two sons – two hearts(21:28-32)
!! A. Actions reveal the heart
!!! 1. Right words – wrong heart
!!!! a) One said “Yes, sir” and did not go
!!! 2. Wrong words – right heart
!!!! a) The other said, “No” but went
!! B. Which did the will of the Father?
!!! 1. Jesus then reminded them that when John came preaching righteousness, the Pharisees did not respond but “sinners” did.
!!! 2. Jesus came to save sinners –
I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
Luke 5:32 ESV
!! C. Serving God is not about right words but right actions coming from a heart that is right with God.
!!! 1. Application:
!!!! a) repentant sinners are nearer to God than self-righteous professors of religion.
!!!! b) Obedience is more important than accent
!!! 2. The difference between the two is obedience from the heart.
! II.
The Landowner (21:33-46)
!! A. The Landowner can expect a return from his land
!!! 1.
When he tried to collect the rent, the tenants beat and killed his messengers and finally even his son
!!! 2. The absolute reasonableness of this story is the power of it.
Of course a landowner can determine what he will do with his land!
!! B. How will God respond to those who rebel against Him?
!!! 1.
In the Old Testament God used the image of a vineyard to describe Israel.
(Isaiah 5:1-7)
!!!! a) The Jewish leaders knew this and would immediately make the connection
!!! 2. What will the landowner do when he comes?
The answer is self-evident: he will remove the rebellious tenants and give the land to obedient tenants.
!!! 3. In the year 70 A.D. the Roman army came and destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple with it.
!! C. Your response to Jesus has consequences (21:42-46)
!!! 1. (:38) They killed the heir.
!!! 2. (:41-43) Because of Israel’s hardness of heart, the kingdom is offered to the Gentiles
!!! 3. The stone which the builders rejected= Jesus
!!!! a) (:42) This is from Psalm 118:22-23
!!! 4. (:44) This stone (Jesus) will break anyone who falls on Him – i.e. it is only in humility and faith that one can come to Jesus.
!!!! a) The stone will scatter anyone it falls on – i.e. the judgment of God will crush those who reject Jesus.
!!! 5. (:45-46) You can hear the silence when Jesus finished the story.
Their response is amazing.
They did just what the rebellious tenants did.
Their response was not repentance but anger – they sought to take Jesus by force.
!!! 6. Sum up: God is looking for you to honor Him.
! III.
The Invitation (22:1-14)
!! A. Invitation is a privilege (:1-2)
!!! 1.
The wedding feast in ancient Israel was often at least a day-long event, sometimes as long as 7 days.
!!! 2. It is a privilege to be invited to the king’s feast!
This is an opportunity to not only enjoy the food and entertainment but also (most importantly) to be in the presence of the king!
!!! 3. It is evident that not everyone gets invited.
!!!! a) Has anyone here been invited to the White House?
How about to meet the Queen of England?
The Republican Party mistakenly invited an Ohio prisoner to a $2,500-a-plate fundraising dinner in Washington with President Bush.
The invitation and a letter from Vice President Cheney were sent to Robert Kirkpatrick at the Belmont Correctional Institution in eastern Ohio.
Kirkpatrick, 35, was sentenced last year to nearly three years for drug possession and escape.
"I'm going to tell him that I'd be happy to attend," said Kirkpatrick, "but he's going to have to pull some strings to get me there."
/John Bacon (from staff and wire reports), "Guess Who's Not Coming to a Bush Dinner," USA Today (6-5-02) p. 3A/
* *
!!! 4. God continually offers invitations to His feast.
“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
Isaiah 55:1-2 ESV
* *
!! B. Distraction with this life lessens interest in eternity (:3-6)
!!! 1. (:3) In this case the king had an early meal to which he invited guests but they were unwilling to come.
!!!! a) Invitation is a privilege but still they were distracted, rude and unwilling
Busyness is the enemy of spirituality.
It is essentially laziness.
It is doing the easy thing instead of the hard thing.
It is filling our time with our own actions instead of paying attention to God's actions.
It is taking charge.
/Eugene Peterson in The Door (Nov.~/Dec.1991).
Christianity Today, Vol.
36, no.
5./
* *
!!!! b) there are those who are unwilling to come when God calls.
This parable was particularly aimed at Israel
He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
John 1:11 ESV
!!! 2. (:4) He proceeded with the main meal.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9