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Walking on egg shells.
The message this morning is about Wives and Husbands, particularly about Wives being submissive to their husbands as found here in 1 Peter as well as the 5th chapter of Ephesians is not a popular message in 2019.
I believe that is because it has been misused, mis-interpreted, mis-understood and quite frankly, abused.
The results are most every time I have heard this preached from a church pulpit, the preacher tip toed around it, so afraid to step on toes, that they didn’t do justice to what God was trying to say through Peter and Paul.
I have heard preachers almost apologize for this passage of scripture and relegate it to a past culture that is not that important to today’s culture.
They will let loose on the guys and give them the full weight of the council of God, but take it easy on the ladies.
The justification they use for giving women all but a pass on this scripture is found in where Peter refers to women as “someone weaker” or “weaker vessel”.
(which we will talk about later) I say that is a load of crap!
I think that approach to this passage is insulting and patronizing to women.
It does them a disservice and completely underestimates the amount of power and influence wives have over their husbands.
When I read this verse, what I see is the Word of God
It is my intent this morning is to not shy away from this scripture, but preach it boldly.
My prayer this morning is that the results of preaching this Word, we find answers that we can apply to our marriages and end up with stronger and happier marriages.
Also, I hope to show how, when things are going off course in your marriage, God’s plan to right the ship.
And finally, and most importantly, I hope to show how God can and will use your marriage to glorify Himself and bring unbelievers to salvation, and protocols back into fellowship with Christ.
I know that sounds ambitious, and it is.
Two of my goals for Sunday morning are to 1. preach truth, and 2. beat the Methodist to lunch, so we will break this message into two parts.
This week we will talk about wives and next week we will address husbands.
So, if you drug your wife here this week so your wife could hear this message, be a man and come get yours next week.
Let’s get into the Word, shall we?
1 Peter 3:
First: Everyone take a deep breath!
Three scary things about this passage:
Be submissive
The manner of your dress
Women are “someone weaker”
We will talk about them, but know this:
It’s going to be OK.
This is God’s Word, he loves you and He want’s His BEST for you.
Challenge yourself not to trade God’s BEST for just OK.
That, I believe, is what is at steak.
God has a vested interest in your marriage.
1. God created the institution of marriage.
Gen 2:
Gen 2:
Gen 2:
Marriage was the first institution God set for mankind.
Not government, not communities, not churches.
Marriage.
2. God intends marriages to last:
Jesus said in
3. God uses marriage to glorify himself.
In God compares the Husband wife relationship to the relationship of Christ and the Church.
Paul references Genesis that the Husband and Wife will become one flesh.
Ephesians 5:
The marriage of the church and Christ is a future event that is a mystery to us that John writes about in
Rev. 19:7-
Somehow in a Christ centered marriage we see the Glory of God revealed.
And so, God wants us to use the relationship between Christ and the Church as a model of how to live out our married lives.
While our marriages can glorify God, the model is Christ and the Church, not the other way around.
God determined the hierarchy
Ephesians 5:23
Men and women are equally loved, equally important, but differently equipped.
Pam and Bill Ferrel are contributing authors for Focus on the Family wrote this:
As research accumulates, it is becoming increasingly obvious that God made men and women different in many ways.
They think differently, they process emotions differently, they make decisions differently and they learn differently.
And yet men and women complement one another so beautifully that a healthy relationship makes both partners more complete.
Differences:
Eyes: -The male retina is thicker
– It has more M cells (magnocellular)
– M cells are larger and are distributed across the retina
– M cells are responsible for tracking the movement of objects
-The female retina is thinner
– It has more P cells (parvocellular)
– P cells are smaller & concentrated around the center of the retina
– P cells are responsible for identifying objects & analyzing texture and color
Female babies like faces more, Male babies like moving objects more.
2 Hearing:
Girls have 11% more neurons than boys in the brain centers that control language and hearing.
Not only do women hear better than men, they can also better distinguish between a broader range of emotional tones like crying.
During male fetal development, testosterone impacts the formation of the auditory system, and causes the brain to block out unwanted noise and repeated sounds.
When a person repeats themselves several times, the male brain registers it as an “unwanted repetitious acoustic stimuli,” and they genuinely don’t hear it.
Women on the other hand don’t have that skill.
Leaking toilet example.
3. Conflict and Competition:
Men get a positive chemical boost from conflict and competition, while conflict elicits negative chemical reactions in women, creating fear, stress, and sadness.
4. Emotions:
In adolescence, the brain activity associated with negative emotion moves from the primitive area of the brain into the cerebral cortex where language and reasoning centers are located, but this only happens in girls.
This is why women are better at expressing emotion, while men seldom “want to talk about it.”
When it comes to responding to emotional experiences, men only use one side of the brain while women use both sides.
Women also retain a stronger memory for emotional events than men.
Aggression:
Aggression:
Men tend to express aggression physically, while women express it verbally.
This is because a man’s aggression pathway is more directly linked to the brain areas for physical action, and a woman’s is more closely linked to areas of verbal function.
If you want to talk to a guy, son.
You will get more accomplished if you are also doing something like walking or throwing a ball.
For women, you are better off sitting and facing one another.
God made us different.
He equipped us differently.
And He determined that we work best together, if we follow His mode for marriage.
The problem: Sin
Delight to her eyes.
She ate it and then gave it to Adam.
Desire: 2 meanings.
Interested in the bad boys.
Abusive women that won’t want to leave, even though she is oppressed by her husband.
(Battered women)
The average battered women incurs 7 attacks before leaving.
2. To dominate over man.
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