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Parents, Have you ever said, “This hurts me more than it hurts you.”
A young mom, took her 3 year old daughter clothes shopping.
She thought it’d be a good mother-daughter bonding moment.
And it was.
They went to the store together, and the mother loaded up her arms in new clothes for her daughter to try on.
She even let her daughter pick out different outfits.
Her daughter loved it.
They went to the dressing room, and tried on all the outfits in front of a long mirror.
While the little girl loved all the outfits, her mom said she could only get one of them.
This made the decision harder.
She laid them out in the dressing room.
And agonized over which outfit to pick.
She finally picked out a pink skirt with criss-cross straps.
The little girl was so excited for her new dress.
While they were in line she told her mom that this was her new dancing dress and that she would wear it forever.
They made it home and the little girl quickly put on her new dress.
She twirled in circles till she was dizzy.
She’d go to her dad and ask if he liked her pretty dancing dress.
It took some work for the mom to get her to take off the dress for bed, because she wanted to sleep in it.
The next day she started off wearing her pink dancing dress.
She was upstairs in her room for a while and was very quiet.
The little girl came down the stairs and strangely she wasn’t wearing her dress anymore.
The mom asked why she wasn’t wearing the dress.
The 3 year old girl raised her shoulders in an “I don’t know fashion”, and then there was a very distinct smell.
It was that unique chemical metallic smell of nail polish.
The mom went into her daughter’s bedroom to discover what looked like a crime scene, but instead of red blood, it was red nail polish.
It was on books.
It was on the walls.
It was crusty on the carpet.
It was on the pink dancing dress with the criss cross straps.
The mom was furious.
Part of the girls punishment was that she had to throw her pink dancing dress in the trash because it was ruined.
The day before, the girls eyes were big and shiny as she spun in circles with that dress.
Now her lip quivered and her eyes wept.
The mom loved seeing joy in her little girls face, now there were only tears.
She hated seeing her daughter being heartbroken.
But this was an important lesson to learn.
As her little girl threw the dress in the trash, the mom said those words, “This hurts me more than it hurts you.”
Correcting people is hard.
Correcting those you love is even harder.
Because you know it brings pain.
Paul’s letter to the Galatians is a painful letter.
It hurts him to write these words.
He’s known as a bold man, but here in the middle of Galatians, he’s a heartbroken man.
And with tears in his eyes, he corrects them, essentially saying, “This hurts me more than it hurts you.”
Let’s look at his very personal message in .
Read .
Some kind of change has happened in their relationship.
Paul and the Galatians aren’t buddy buddy anymore.
Our first point asks the question, What do we have?
Paul is writing to a real church.
They are real Christians.
They have been converted.
They have the Spirit.
But real Christians can fall into real problems.
And that has happened to the Galatians.
So he takes them back to their starting point.
He takes them back with a command.
“Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am ...”
I’m sure you are aware of Paul and his background.
He was a Hebrew of Hebrews, a Pharisee of Pharisees.
He was under the law, and obedient to Jewish tradition -
Thinking that in order to win God’s favor, he needed to do something.
That meant:
Observing the right holidays.
Eating the right food.
And wearing the right clothes.
But in Christ, when he was converted, he discovered this amazing freedom.
You don’t win God’s favor.
You don’t try to get onto God’s good side.
That’s what Jesus has done.
Jesus has already done this.
What Paul discovered is that we are saved by faith, and specifically faith in Jesus Christ.
I am not good enough.
I can’t be good enough.
I will never be good enough.
But Jesus is more than good enough.
He died for my sin.
And His righteousness, His obedience, His goodness, is counted towards my account.
So I can’t be good enough, but Jesus’ goodness makes me good enough.
And that’s what our faith is.
Trusting Jesus with what I can’t do.
Paul’s big goal is for people to know this about Jesus.
To help people identify freedom in Christ.
To free them from the impossible trap of trying to be perfect.
And he will do whatever it takes for that to happen.
When Paul first came to the Galatians, who are Gentiles, he put aside his Jewishness, and became a Gentile to win them to Christ.
And now in a strange case of irony, these Galatian Gentiles have now started living like Jews in order to win God’s favor.
Things are backwards.
There’s nothing wrong with being Jewish.
But there is something wrong with thinking that you must live like a Jew to make God happy.
In fact there is something wrong with thinking that you must do anything to make God happy so that you can be saved.
It could be ritualism.
Good deeds.
Baptism.
If there is anything that we can do to some how earn God’s favor, it robs Jesus of His glory.
It’s taking what belongs to Him, and giving it to yourself.
It’s an attempt to one up God.
You ever met a one upper?
This is the person who every time you tell a story, this person tries to outdo your story.
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