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
0.1UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.07UNLIKELY
Fear
0.07UNLIKELY
Joy
0.7LIKELY
Sadness
0.49UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.48UNLIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.3UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.78LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.69LIKELY
Extraversion
0.16UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.69LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.55LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
There is a huge difference between love and lust that this world will never grasp...Love always flourishes and grows when “the needs and the desires of the other person are put first.”
Introduction:
There is a huge difference between love and lust that this world will never grasp...Love always flourishes and grows when “the needs and the desires of the other person are put first.”
Lust always has a selfish motive...like... meet my needs...meet my desires...and the other person simply exists solely for these purposes.
Love takes real effort...self-denial and sacrifice...
Lust takes no real effort, because its very purpose is to gratify my desires...right now!
[Here’s a good example...suppose I’ve made a commitment to eat healthy...and I am I trying to be healthy...and the low carb route is the way I’ve chosen to go.
Now, my wife brings home a delicious, chocolate glazed donut in a little white bag (From Tom’s Doughnuts!!!).
This is all a pretend circumstance mind you!!!
And suppose the health-conscious husband that I am… sees that bag on the counter for two days.
I opened it and smelled it at least four times.
I lust for this doughy, delectable pastry...and I begin to think...One donut won’t hurt...It’ll go to waste if I don’t eat it soon.
This donut and milk would be so awesome... and the tipping point for giving in is really really close for me.
Thankfully this preacher’s youngest son would probably have eaten the only hypothetical donut in the house before “lust” won.]
The Apostle Paul is writing to us as believers in our message this morning to live in a world of donuts, as did the people in Thessalonica.
Followers of Christ have made a more important commitment than to eat healthy.
We have made a commitment to live in order to please God.
We have made a decision to continually grow up to be like Jesus... “more and more!
It’s an intentional decision to seek God’s will and God’s Word as we follow our leaders’ instructions.
What kind of life is that?
What kind of life is worth following?
So, let’s Talk about a few things: First Let’s read 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8
1 thess
I.
A LIFE THAT PLEASES GOD
I.
A LIFE THAT PLEASES GOD
There are 4 ways we can live our lives:
1.
We can live a life of reaction.
Something happens to us and we react to it...something makes us angry...we explode...something tempts us...we give into it...
It’s the default setting that most people choose to live by.
I lose my job...I find another...I lose my relationship...I find another.
We go through the same motions over and over again until something forces us to change...and usually, we then revert right back to the same life.
We live life reacting as we go along...a lot of the time we react the same way over and over again.
The is the definition of insanity!
“doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.”
It’s a dangerous way to live.
When some people were 17 their reaction to bad things was they got high and ate pizza in their basement.
And then they wonder why at 33 they still react to bad things by getting high and eating pizza in their basement.
Something has to change!
The second way we can live life is:
2. We live a life of conformity.
We allow the crowd to shape our lives.
We float along on the current of popular opinion.
We choose to make appearance more important than reality....because we want others to “like us.”
We thrive on others liking us.
And it’s a dangerous way to live.
Author Leo Buscaglia once said, “The easiest thing to be is you.
The hardest thing to be is the you others think you should be.”
It’s a chore to live your life trying to please a fickle crowd.
Or you can choose a third way to live:
3. We live a life of rebellion.
We reject authority, every authority...our parents, our teachers, our leaders.
We say, no one is going to tell “me” what to do, not even God.
We fight...and we reject “old foundational” truths...for more current ideas.
It’s a dangerous way to live because it’s built on pride, and self-determination.
It’s a life that seeks independence from all and everything.
The definition of a rebel is to do the opposite of what everyone is doing!
[Music Artist Lecrae once penned these words, “If you really wanna be a rebel, read your bible.
Cause no one is doing that.
That's rebellion.
That's the only rebellion left.”]
Or as the Apostle Paul advises us:
4. We can live an intentional life.
Let me rephrase that… We choose to live an intentional life.
A life with purpose and direction...a life that believes in a Creator, who has become our heavenly Father.
We choose to surrender to His will and plan for our life.
We choose to live in a way that pleases Him....
We choose to believe we were created by Him for this very reason.
And we stop living for self, and we choose to serve Him.
You see, choosing to live this life in a sexually promiscuous society will require intentionality and a power greater than this world offers.
Verse 4 tells us…
“that each of you should learn to control our own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like pagans (unbelievers) who do not know God;
And that to do this requires “being sanctified.”
We have been talking holiness and sanctification the last few weeks.
Sanctified is a biblical way of saying “set apart” for God’s use.
[In the OT the tabernacle was “set apart” for God’s use by Moses and the Israelites in the journey to the Promised Land.
When Solomon built the temple...it was sanctified, set apart for God’s dwelling place...The Holy of Holy places...was “Holy” because “God dwelt there.”
His presence would fill the mercy seat, between the golden cherubim on top of the Ark of the Covenant.
A curtain kept everyone out, even the Holy Priest who could only enter it once a year...on the day of atonement, when blood sacrifices were made for the sins of everyone, including the priests.
The writer to the Hebrews talks about this old covenant in Chapter 9
This is really interesting stuff listen to this… I am gonna read it.
As long as the tabernacle and temple stood, the real way into the most Holy place hadn’t been disclosed.
What does this mean for a world that has witnessed Jesus dying on a cross, and then conquering death 3 days later?
What does this mean when it comes to us living a “sanctified life” that pleases God?
It means that…
II.
OUR BODIES HAVE BECOME THE TEMPLE WHERE GOD LIVES
When the Lord called us to leave our sin and live a holy life (v.
7) He also is the very God who gave us His Holy Spirit to make that possible!
Think about it!
When we make the intentional choice to surrender our sin for cleansing in the blood of Jesus, it requires our death, burial and resurrection.
Baptism isn’t the “washing of dirt from our bodies.
It’s a commitment to God to wash our hearts” according to .
It’s when we receive the indwelling gift of His Spirit...it’s when our bodies become temples that house His presence.
So, what does that mean pastor?
It means, now God lives in us...while we live in a very immoral world...a world that revolves around lust much more than love.
You see, God intended sex to be an absolutely beautiful art of oneness between a husband and wife.
The two becoming one flesh... but Satan twists the gift of God into lust.
It’s like trading filet mignon for a dollar menu McDonalds cheeseburger.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9