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
0.08UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.06UNLIKELY
Fear
0.04UNLIKELY
Joy
0.59LIKELY
Sadness
0.51LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.71LIKELY
Confident
0.07UNLIKELY
Tentative
0UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.81LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.54LIKELY
Extraversion
0.13UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.89LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.49UNLIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
PERSISTENCE-PRIDE-PARDON
Luke 18:1–17
Jesus speaks about three things in this passage of Scripture.
(1) Persistence—all Christians must be persistent in their living, or they will be a failure in the Christian life.
(2) Pride—Christ speaks of selfish, spiritual pride, which keeps many people away from God. (3) Pardon—those who are sincere toward God will find pardon from their sins.
No sin is too great.
No one is too great a sinner to receive this pardon.
I. SINCERE PERSISTENCE—vv.
1–8
1. Prayer—v.
1. Man should always pray and not faint (compare 1 Thess.
5:17).
2. People—vv.
2–3.
A judge, who feared neither God nor man.
A widow, who came again and again, seeking justice.
3. Persistence—vv.
4–5.
The judge ignored her plea for a long time, but because of her persistence he finally meted out justice.
It was her continual coming to the judge that caused him to give her the desires of her heart.
4. Picture—vv.
6–8.
If the ungodly judge gave the woman justice because of her constant pleas, how much more will a just God hear and answer our prayers (compare James 5:16; Jer.
33:3; Matt.
7:7–9).
II.
SINFUL PRIDE—vv.
9–14
1. Parable—v.
9. A parable of a publican and a Pharisee is used by Jesus to explain a truth.
2. People—v.
10.
The Pharisee and the publican both go to the temple to pray.
3. Pharisee’s prayer—vv.
11–12.
His prayer is filled with boasting and self-righteousness.
The personal pronoun I is mentioned five times.
4. Publican’s prayer—v.
13.
His prayer is simple, without any boasting.
“God be merciful to me a sinner.”
5. Pride—v.
14. God answers the publican’s prayer, not the prayer of the Pharisee.
Note: If a person exalts himself, he will be humbled … if he humbles himself, he will be exalted (see Matt. 23:12).
III.
SIMPLE PARDON—vv.
15–17
1. Bringing children—v.
15.
Children are brought to Jesus to be blessed.
The disciples rebuke those bringing them, claiming that Christ has no time for them.
2. Blessing the children—v.
16.
Jesus accepts the children and blesses them.
He then says that of such is the kingdom of God.
In simple words, His kingdom is simple enough for children to accept.
3. Becoming as children—v.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9