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
0.14UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.45UNLIKELY
Fear
0.13UNLIKELY
Joy
0.61LIKELY
Sadness
0.58LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.64LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.54LIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.81LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.77LIKELY
Extraversion
0.2UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.87LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.64LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
STEP 1: BELIEVE AND CONFESS THAT JESUS IS LORD
This is a key question we all need to ask .
Who is Jesus?
Just a man, just a prophet?
Who is Jesus to you?
Almost everyone believes in Jesus but who do we say he is?
We need to believe and confess that he is Lord of all!!!
Jesus asked the disciples, “Who do you say I am?” Peter, who usually said the wrong thing, gets it right for once.
He answered, “You are the Christ.”
You grow up hearing what others say about Jesus.
If you’re blessed with in a Christian home and church, you grew up hearing that Jesus loves you this you can know for the Bible tells you so.
But when it comes down to it, it’s not what others say about Jesus.
It’s what YOU say about Jesus.
Right now, Jesus is asking you, “Who do YOU say I am.”
It’s not enough for you to say, “Well, my parents say you’re the Son of God.”
Or you can’t get by with saying, “My pastor says that you are the only way to heaven.”
You’ve got to answer that question for yourself.
Have you believed and confessed that Jesus is Lord?
The Bible says: “If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
()
WHO DO YOU SAY JESUS IS?
Jesus asked the disciples who other people thought he was; then he asked them the same question.
We must each answer this question for ourselves.
T. S. Elliot criticized modern thinking when he said, “Jesus, now there was a man; we need more like him.
Take Abraham Lincoln, for example.”
Was Jesus just a man with some good ideas, one of many spiritual leaders?
Or was he the true God, the one mediator, our only source of life and peace with the Father?
It is not enough to know what others say about Jesus: You must know, understand, and accept for yourself that he is the Messiah.
You must move from curiosity to commitment, from admiration to adoration.
If Jesus were to ask you this question, how would you answer?
Is he your Lord and Messiah?
STEP 2: REMOVE YOUR EGO
Mar
It have many people who look like Disciples but they are really after things of Man and not of God.
Many Christians today are run by their EGO.
Sookchand
After Peter made his powerful confession, he was probably feeling pretty good about himself.
He became Proud Peter.
And while he was busy patting himself on the back Jesus began to tell the disciples the schedule for the rest of His ministry.
He told them He would suffer greatly and that He would be rejected by the Jewish leaders who would kill Him, and after three days, He would rise from the dead.
Proud Peter didn’t want to hear anything about failure, suffering, or death.
He was on the winning team, not the losing team.
He was the right hand man of the Messiah—that meant riches and honor and glory.
So Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke Him.
So picture this, the big fisherman rebuking the Son of the Living God.
“I don’t want to hear anymore silly talk about dying.
We’ve got a good thing going here and we’re going to win big!”
That deserved a real rebuke.
In front of the other disciples, Jesus looked at Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan!
You’re thinking like a man, not like God.”
Simon Peter was full of selfish pride.
His ego was in charge.
Jesus said you could never be a disciple unless you “deny yourself.”
That doesn’t mean you have to deny yourself something like sweets, sleep or food.
It means you deny your Self.
Think of your “self” as your “ego” or the “Big I.” Because we are sinners, our human nature makes us self-centered.
We put the “Big I” at the center of our own little universe and everything revolves around our “ego.”
Gilbert Chesterson - One may understand the cosmos, but never the EGO.
The self is more distant than any star.
Peter wanted Christ to be king, but not the suffering Servant prophesied in Isaiah 53.
He was ready to receive the glory of following the Messiah, but not the persecution.
The Christian life is not a paved road to wealth and ease.
It often involves hard work, persecution, deprivation, and deep suffering.
Peter saw only part of the picture.
Don’t repeat Peter’s mistake.
Satan wants to deter us from sacrifice and service by telling us that our difficulties are meaningless, our pain is futile, and that evil will win anyway.
Instead, focus on the good that God can bring out of suffering and on the resurrection that follows crucifixion.
STEP 3: VISUALIZE YOUR EGO AS DEAD
People follow Jesus for all kinds of reasons
money
fame
pick up a nice church gyul
A person carrying a cross had only one destination: Death.
It was always a one-way trip.
For you to take up a cross doesn’t mean you carry a cross in your pocket or wear one around your neck.
Other people think their “cross to bear” is some kind of physical ailment.
I’ve heard people complain about their diabetes or arthritis “But I guess it’s just my cross that I’ll just have to bear.”
Jesus isn’t talking about aches and pains.
He is talking about dying.
It isn’t physical death but death to self.
After you have denied self, you must constantly subject your “Big I” to death.
In Luke’s account Jesus says we must take up His cross DAILY.
So this isn’t a one-time action.
Actually, since all our sins were nailed to Jesus on the cross and since our ego is the essence of our sin problem, our “Big I” was already crucified with Jesus; we just have to visualize it.
There really was someone who was literally crucified with Christ, and we’ll get to meet him in heaven.
It was the thief on the cross.
When we’re crucified with Christ, we’ll be like that thief.
He no longer cared about what people thought about him.
His ego and pride were long gone.
People could have yelled that he was ugly and stupid, but it didn’t bother him, because he was crucified with Christ.
He didn’t fear arousing the wrath of the Romans for talking to Jesus, because he was crucified with Christ.
Applied to the disciples, to take up the cross meant to identify completely with Christ’s message, even if death were to result.
We must deny our selfish desires to use our time and money our own way and to choose our own direction in life without regard to Christ.
Following Christ is costly now, but we are promised true victory and eternal rewards.
my degree illustration of a cost
Following Jesus doesn’t mean walking behind him, but taking the same road of sacrifice and service that he took.
The blessing for us is that we can fellowship with him along the way
STEP 4: PLACE JESUS ON THE THRONE OF YOUR LIFE AND OBEY HIM
To follow Jesus means that where He leads you go.
Following Jesus means to walk in His footsteps.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9