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.
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Conscientiousness
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Extraversion
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• The worker is only a servant in the hands of God—3:5-9
o The issue is function not person—v.
5—“servant”
• Service will be rewarded in harmony with quality—vv.
10-17
o The foundation of the church—v.
10
The person who laid it
The one who completes it
The one who comprises it
Christ—nothing added or substituted
o The superstructure of the church—vv.
11-15
The process of building
The quality of materials
The results of the building
o A warning to the church—vv.
16-17
When one does damage to the body, God takes it very seriously and is not passive
• The worker must be assessed by God’s standards (not man’s)—vv.
18-21
o “Temple”—(v.
16)--not the believer’s individual body in this context (the individual indwelling is taught elsewhere)
o All three pronouns are plural (you all) and “temple” is singular
o The worker is nothing
o God is everything
Deception—it is the creation of a belief in one’s own mind or in the mind another that is contrary to fact
• How can you deceive yourself?—mental
dishonesty and fantasy (spiritual)—v.
18. (we are to be in control of our thought life)
• Deceived about what?—they aren’t seeing the absolute contrast between the church and the world—v.
18
Not individual believers’ judgment—vv.
10-17—why not?
• “Work” (v.
13)—singular with the article
• Literally—(vv.
13-14)—“the work of a man”
• “Each man” (v.
13)—taken in the context of v. 10—“wise master builder”—God given ability to teach
• “Another”—in the context it is another teacher (he is talking about teachers as builders)
• Who is the building?--the
Corinthian church (v.
9)
• The issue is the quality of the work a teacher does in the body of Christ
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