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
0.12UNLIKELY
Fear
0.15UNLIKELY
Joy
0.57LIKELY
Sadness
0.62LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.75LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.04UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.85LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.93LIKELY
Extraversion
0.04UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.77LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.75LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Introduction:
Pledge (Have them sit down while we read the passage)
Passage:
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
11 As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’
”
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
15 As it is said,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled?
Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?
17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years?
Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
4:1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,
“As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest,’ ”
although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”
5 And again in this passage he said,
“They shall not enter my rest.”
6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,
7 again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.
9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,
10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Segway:
Illustration of Belief
Lady praying for food and he Atheist neighbor heard her praying.
Define belief:
An acceptance that a statement is true or that something exist.
(Webster)
Trust, Faith, or confidence in someone or something.
Its important for us to understand that what this pericope is dealing with is “BELIEF.”
This was a very long pericope.
Let me break down to you what is taking place.
The author reveals to them what the Holy Spirit is saying.
(7) “Today, if you hear his voice”
Don’t do what your ancestors did!
What did they Do?
Harden their heart while in the Wilderness (Moses time)
Put God to the test!
(translated Rod Kincaid - Got on Gods nerves)
They missed out on entering the promise land
The author then issues the warning, “Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you and evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.” (12)
The author then issues action to be done ....
He says to, “Exhort one another every day” (Urge Strongly, encourage)
Why?
so none will be deceived by sin.
For we have come to share in Christ
if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
(Hang in there)
The author then uses rhetorical questions to make his plea.........
(Vs 16-18 - 16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled?
Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years?
Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?)
This questioning was to remind and reveal to the reader what Vs 19 states, “So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.”
16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled?
Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?
17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years?
Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
Chapter 4:1-13 is nothing more than examples the Author uses to hammer home this understanding that everything that happened to those in Moses’ day was due to unbelief.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.
(2016).
().
Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.
If you remember last week, as we started this series (5 Warning Signs)
The First warning was Drifting
Warning #2 - if you haven’t already figured it out - it’s the warning of “UNBELIEF!”
Body:
Significant statement: “In order to “not believe” you must first experience “whatever you do not believe in” within 1 or more of your 5 senses.”
There is that deer in the headlight look again ..... hang with me!
Let me explain ......
The author in Hebrews has made reference to the Hebrew children/the Israelites!
He reminded the readers that they (Israelites) had unbelief!
This is why that generation didn’t enter into the promise land.
To explain this let me remind you of the journey of the Israelites: and How all 5 of their sense’s was tapped into.
SIGHT
Once released from Egypt God led them (By cloud of smoke during the day and a pillar of fire at night (SIGHT) (Exodus 13:21-22)
Parted the water for them to cross (SIGHT)
TASTE
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9