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
0.14UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.1UNLIKELY
Fear
0.09UNLIKELY
Joy
0.64LIKELY
Sadness
0.58LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.79LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.7LIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.8LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.96LIKELY
Extraversion
0.19UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.88LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.84LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Intro
, Matthew 18:21-35
Recap:
Beatitudes...Blessed are those…what does “blessed.”
Mean?
Different than #Blessed
Blessed are those…what does “blessed.”
Mean?
Instead, blessed in their attitude and outlook on life due to the presence of God in their life.
Not “given things.”
Instead, “happiness,” implying peace Those who do these things aren’t necessarily blessed in their circumstance, they’re blessed in their attitude and outlook on life.
Blessed are the poor in spirit; Intellectual Realization
Blessed are those who mourn; Emotional Response (mourn their sin)
Blessed are the Meek; Attitudes and Actions
Hunger and Thirst after Righteousness; Desires (nothing else satisfies)
RESPONSE
Blessed are the merciful; Response
Those who show mercy (v.
7)
Mercy Defined
Mercy Experienced
Mercy Given and Reflected
Mercy Defined
“forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is without one’s power to punish or harm”
“forgiveness shown toward someone to whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm”
different than just forgiveness; narrowly defines who you can show mercy to.
I can’t show mercy to Dak…I can to my kids.
Different than grace; grace = giving what you don’t deserve
It’s grace when I
It’s grace when I give my kids something they haven’t earned; which, is everything!
free-loaders
mercy = withholding that which we DO deserve.
Sometimes they break a rule, etc., and they’ve earned punishment.
Sometimes they get it, other times I show them mercy, withholding it from them even though they fully deserve it.
Blessed are the merciful…like everything else we are commanded to
Basic distinction; let’s look at Scripture to see it defined.
Two sides of this coin; first, let’s look at some people that received mercy from Jesus later in the book of Matthew.
God is called “merciful”
1st part of mercy; Mercy is a compassion and active kindness towards those who are suffering.
Next, want to look at the other side of mercy, on a more personal level.
How to handle when a fellow Christian sins against you
, Peter has questions
Rabbinic tradition said 3 times; give Peter effort, he doubled it and added one to be safe .
But Jesus did what he did a lot; took the man-made rule and blew it up.
70x7, or 77; either way, the point remains the same, Jesus is saying, “don’t even keep track.”
God is passionate about mercy.
, Love keeps no record of wrong
Two sides of this “mercy” coin, this is one side: constant forgiveness marked by unconditional love of those in your life.
We think of OT God has this spiteful being that smites people who disagree with him.
This is 100% countercultural isn’t it?
God is
GODLY mercy = an unconditional and consistent compassion for those in need and forgiveness to those who wrong you.
Mercy Experienced
Jesus then continues in with a parable to make his point.
1 talent=20 years wages
around $10 Billion today
Cowboys; $5.5 Billion, Chiefs, $2.3 Billion, Washington Nationals, $1.8 Billion, have $400 Million leftover, enough to buy some terrible teams like the Raiders.
How do you even get into that much debt??
How do you even get into that much debt?
Jesus used hyperbole to make a point; he literally thought of the highest number he could;
Cowboys; $5.5 Billion, Chiefs, $2.3 Billion, Washington Nationals, $1.8 Billion, have $400 Million leftover, enough to buy some terrible teams like the Raiders.
Myrias, where we get “myriad,” meant 10,000, and was the highest number that the Greek language had a word for.
So this was a HUGE debt.
Look how the king responds.
()
Couple things to point out here;
the king’s initial reaction was JUST
the king’s mercy was unprecedented
It’s here that I hope you can identify with this servant.
Jesus compares our sin to a debt so great we could never pay it back.
payment plan wouldn’t have worked.
It’s forgiven, even though the servant did nothing but ask for mercy.
This is a picture of our salvation.
Sin can NEVER be paid back.
Can never earn right standing
It’s only by repenting and asking for forgiveness we can have the debt cancelled.
Mercy is EXPERIENCED by all who would receive it.
Imagine you’re the servant who was just forgiven…no really, imagine.
not just winning the lottery, it’s getting a stay of execution.
How would that change you?
Let’s see how this servant than responds to the mercy he’s experienced.
I’ll tell you now, this is where I hope you no longer look like the man in this story.
Mercy Given
100 denarri=100 days wages
Somewhere around $15,000 today
not nothing
Look at how he reacts (v.
28-30)
Again, justified initial reaction; was LEGALLY allowed to do what he did.
BUT…what he did makes NO SENSE when you know what he’s experienced.
He’d been forgiven BILLIONS…but would not forgive thousands.
The master finds out…and is understandably upset.
He asks the servant a question, and it’s one I think should echo in our own hearts today as well.
“Shouldn’t you have mercy on others, as I had mercy on you?”
This is the point of this story.
Those that EXPERIENCE mercy should become those that GIVE mercy.
It should overflow out of us.
Reflection
This concept of an inward change showing up outwardly is talked about all throughout Scripture.
Trees and fruit
Abundance of the heart the mouth speaks
faith without works is dead
So this theme running through Scripture is that even if you look the part of a follower of God on the outside, if it isn’t reflected in your actions, you probably are not a true believer.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9