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Here are several commands regarding the household.
We had just been exhorted to put on Christ-likeness: compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
(v12)
We were exhorted to bear and forgive one another as we’ve been forgiven in the Lord (v13)
Above all we’re to put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.
(v14)
We were told to let the peace of Christ rule our hearts and that we’re to be a people filled with thanksgiving.
(v15)
And as the word of Christ takes center stage in our hearts, we begin to teach and admonish one another.
(v16)
Seeking to do (in our words and deeds) everything in the Name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the Father through Christ.
(v17)
Life after conversion begins in the home.
and from 3:17-4:1 7x’s the Lord is mentioned.
So on the job or with your spouse or children, each home is to be centered upon the Lord.
The
The home.
That place where anger often surfaces and gratitude most often evaporates.
The place where the things we are called to do in v12-17 are really put to the test.
Anyone can fool people a couple of hours a week by coming to church and putting a smile on etc.
But it’s the home, is where the rubber meets the road.
And it’s husbands and wives who are up first.
vv18-19.
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives and don’t be bitter toward them.
Wives submitting and husbands loving.
Marriage is the doing and the displaying of God.
Please look back to the passage in :
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
What happens when we point this out to husbands and wives,
that marriage is a model of Christ and the church, we place that marriage firmly on the basis of grace.
Because that is the way Christ took the church to be his bride, by grace alone.
And that is how he sustains his relationship with the church—by grace alone.
This is the glory of marriage, it’s from God, and through God, and to God.
The purpose of human marriage is temporary.
But it’s a pointer to something that is eternal, namely, Christ and the church.
And when this age is over, it will vanish into the superior reality to which it points.
eternal, namely, Christ and the church.
And when this age is over, it will vanish into the superior reality to which it points.
Jesus said in , For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.
In the resurrection, the shadow gives way to the reality.
Marriage is a pointer toward the glory of Christ and the church.
But in the resurrection the pointer vanishes into the perfection of that glory.
And as we bring some of what we’ve learned thus far from Colossians into the home, specifically the marriage.
Piper, J. (2014).
Sermons from John Piper (2000–2014).
Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God.
2:13-14 And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive with him and forgave us all our trespasses.
He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.
The record of debt that mounts up against us because of our sin God set aside by nailing it to the cross—
Piper, J. (2014).
Sermons from John Piper (2000–2014).
Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God.
Then, having shown us the basis of God’s forgiveness in the cross, Paul says in 3:13
3:13 bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a grievance against another.
Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you are also to forgive.
bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a grievance against another.
Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you are also to forgive.
In other words, take the grace and forgiveness and justification that you have received vertically through the death of Christ and bend it out horizontally to others.
Specifically, husbands to wives and wives to husbands.
Why the emphasis on forgiving and forbearing rather than, say, an emphasis on romance and enjoying each other?
I gave three answers:
1.
Because there is going to be conflict based on sin, we need to forgive sin and forbear strangeness, and sometimes you won’t even agree on which is which;
2. Because the hard, rugged work of forgiving and forbearing is what makes it possible for affections to flourish when they seem to have died;
3.
Because God gets glory when two very different and very imperfect people forge a life of faithfulness in the furnace of affliction by relying on Christ.
So on the basis of Christ and his sacrifice and having received His forgiveness, we move into marriage.
Piper, J. (2014).
Sermons from John Piper (2000–2014).
Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God.
v18 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
So for wives, “whatever you do” (in v17) “in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”
Including submitting to your husbands.
Here the word “submit” means to voluntarily “put oneself under” the authority or direction of someone or something else:
Piper, J. (2014).
Sermons from John Piper (2000–2014).
Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God.
All believers to God (; )
Or His law ()
Or His law (Rom.
8:7)
The church to Christ ()
Jews to God’s righteousness ()
humans to governing authorities (, ; ; );
Christians to their leaders ();
slaves to masters (; );
young men to older men ();
children to their parents ();
wives to their husbands (; ; ; , ).T
To be sure, as the husband loves his wife, he will often, in effect, “put himself under” her, deferring to her interests and needs ().
But this “submission” of the husband to the wife is of a different character than the submission required of the wife to the husband.
Just by the shear definition of the word that the Holy Spirit chose to put there:
It’s a compound word: The verb being translated is hypotassō, which etymologically could be rendered “order” (tassō) “under” (hypo).
The wife “put (or orders) herself under” her husband in recognizing and living out an “order”
The wife “puts herself under” her husband in recognizing and living out an “order” established by God himself within the marriage relationship (and by extension, in the family of God, the church).
As Paul puts it in , “the head of a wife is her husband” (ESV)—the husband, as the “prominent” and “directing” member of the relationship, is to take the lead in the marriage relationship.
The wife “puts herself under” her husband in recognizing and living out an “order” established by God himself within the marriage relationship (and by extension, in the family of God, the church).
As Paul puts it in , “the head of a wife is her husband” (ESV)—the husband, as the “prominent” and “directing” member of the relationship, is to take the lead in the marriage relationship.
established by God himself within the marriage relationship (and by extension, in the family of God, the church).
As Paul puts it in , “the head of a wife is her husband”
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