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
0.13UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.09UNLIKELY
Fear
0.12UNLIKELY
Joy
0.62LIKELY
Sadness
0.17UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.48UNLIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.1UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.82LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.79LIKELY
Extraversion
0.25UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.58LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.77LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
This morning, we're going to look at God's plan for giving.
We're going to be dealing with the subject of money.
And money is a good barometer on spirituality, because the way you handle your money is an indication of your Christian stewardship of life.
More than any other single commodity, money is your hands.
You're constantly dealing with money.
Some of you are now feeling your pocket to make sure you're still dealing with money and that you didn't lose it on the way in, and you pay bills constantly.
You write checks.
You receive paychecks.
You go to the savings.
You go to the bank.
You take your wallet out.
You put change in this and that.
Money is a constant thing.
And the stewardship of money is a critical area of life.
And the Bible has very much to say about.
In fact, we're going to look at God's plan for giving in the Old Testament this morning.
And the next Lord's day, God's plan for giving in the New Testament.
And we're going to find out that they're no different, that they're the same.
But the definition is...it really in the New Testament so much more vast in the particulars, that I'm sure the two part study in itself will give us once and for all.
I trust the real understanding of this area.
Now the Christian is faced with many decisions regarding money.
I ought to say this too, that for you that are visiting, this is something that we do not normally do.
We usually continue with a book study, but as I said, we're making a break for this particular reason.
And I trust that you'll understand that.
But the Christian is faced with many decisions regarding money.
Basically, they fall into four categories.
Number one, how we feel about money.
Number two, how we earn money.
Number three, how we spend money.
And number four, how we give money.
The total stewardship of money can fall into those categories.
How feel about it.
How we earn it.
How we spend it.
And how we give it away.
Now, first of all, what about the area of how we feel about money.
Does the Bible say anything about that?
Well, you know it does.
And I'm just going to briefly introduce the subject, because we want to dwell on the fourth one.
But the Bible says a lot about how we feel about money.
First of all, it says we are not to love it.
In in verse 10 it says, "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."
We are not to love money.
Now that is not an easy thing since it's around us all the time.
Another thing the Bible says in regard to how feel about money is that we are not to trust money.That is we are not to put our confidence in our money.
In it says, "Charge those that are rich not to trust in their money."
So trust in money is idolatry.
Even when you derive your sense of security from the money that you say God provides for you, that's still idolatry.
In it says, "You cannot serve two gods.
You can't serve the true God and money."
That kind of divided allegiance doesn't make it.
That's why when the Bible lays down the qualifications for an elder, it says, "You cannot be a man who is greedy of money."
Because you cannot serve God and money.
Not only that, the Bible tells us that we are not to seek to be rich.
We are to seek to honor God.
If He desires to make us rich, that's His business.
We're to seek to work as hard as we can, do the very best we can for His glory.
If He desires to make rich in response to that, that's His business.
says, "Those who would be rich fall into many hurtful lusts and their souls ultimately are drowned in destruction and loss."Also in regarding money, we are not to regard money as our own.
It is God's.
We are stewards of it.
There are other things in that area.
Let me go to the second one.
What does the Bible say about how we earn money or how we get money?
It says a lot.
First of all, we're not to steal it.
That's a no-no.
We cannot steal money.
You say, "I...I would never do that."
Listen to .
"The wicked borrows and pays not back."
There are lots of ways to steal.
In fact, in and the prophets talk about falsifying the balance owed and then deceiving somebody out of money.
No, you're not to steal money.
Secondly, we are not to exploit others by usury.
In other words, we are not to overcharge desperate people.
If your brother has a need, you give him to meet his need.
You don't loan him what he has to have and then charge him exorbitant and high rates of interest, that's usury.
Also, we are not to defraud people by not paying them what we owe them.
You know what says?
It says, "The money that you should have paid to your laborers is crying out against you."
You've defrauded them, because you didn't pay them what they deserved for their work.
In terms of how we get money, the Bible also says that we're not to gamble for it.
And this, of course, I think, is an inference in the Scripture from the standpoint that if you trust the sovereignty of God and the providence of God, chance has no part in it.
The word for dice-play is used in connection with the ministry of Satan in .
Now, those are negative things as to how we're not to get money.
How are we to get it?
Well, we are to get it by receiving gifts.
And this is a wonderful way.
You don't have to do anything.
You just have to be nice.
Or know somebody who is nice.
And Paul received money a lot.
They gave him gifts constantly.
And...and I supposed that I've been the beneficiary of such things.
Sometimes people send a love offering, you know, in response to a ministry that you've had.
And this is expressing love.
And this is a legitimate way.
In the Old Testament, they received money without working and the basis of inheritance didn't they?
The first born received the inheritance of all that his father possessed in general.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9