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
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Disgust
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Fear
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Joy
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Sadness
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Language Tone
Analytical
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Confident
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Tentative
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Social Tone
Openness
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Conscientiousness
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Extraversion
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Agreeableness
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Emotional Range
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Tone of specific sentences
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Anger
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A command—4:6
• None of you be puffed up (pride)
• Do not exceed what is written
An argument—4:7
• Pertains to pride
• Idea of superiority—who makes thee to differ?
• What do you have you did not receive?
• Why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
• His argument—God’s grace levels believers
A rebuke—4:8 (sarcasm comes in)
• A manifestation of carnality—the belief you have arrived (sense of sufficiency)
• You are full
o You are not hungry—I can’t feed you
• You are rich
o Nobody can give them anything
• You are kings
o He can’t motivate them with a crown
Suffering and faithfulness in this world are inseparable—v.
9
• The world is no friend to God
• If you are faithful there is a definite relation to suffering
The tone shifts
• Corporate dissension is due to incorrect view of . . .
o Christ
o Cross
o Gospel
o Self
o Wisdom
o Service
• Then he gets personal—4:9 and following
The apostolic example of service—4:9-13
• Treated as filth
• Believer maintains sanity in the midst of mistreatment by seeing the primary cause
o Ultimate sign of a Christian’s maturity is the ability to see the face of God in all situations
• Historical context points to Paul being “entertainment” (spectacle/theater—v. 9) to the city
Observed by angels—4:9
• Unless stated otherwise angels in the NT are always “good” angels
• God’s angels observe the activity of Christians
Why are they a “spectacle”?—4:10-13
• They two viewpoints of the apostles and the Corinthians are contrary to truth (remember they are self-deceived)
• Listing of items . . .
o Items of poverty
o Items of physical abuse
o Items of personal abuse
• Lists what happened
• Lists how he responded
Principle--we as believers are responsible for action and reaction
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