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
0.16UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.04UNLIKELY
Fear
0.09UNLIKELY
Joy
0.63LIKELY
Sadness
0.11UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.49UNLIKELY
Confident
0.43UNLIKELY
Tentative
0UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.82LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.83LIKELY
Extraversion
0.15UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.83LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.73LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Apocalypse Act 2: The Seven Trumpets
Timeline
Subject of worship
Has been such a difficult concept for me to understand
I had this notion that it was up to the people up on the stage or platform to bring me to a place where I could worship
So it had to be music that spoke to me
It had to be a message that “spoke” to me
And that when I did worship, it was some sort of feeling that I had
Stirring in my heart
Holy heartburn
Quiver in my liver
What do YOU understand about worship?
Here is what I would submit for you to consider:
Worship—My Response to God’s Revelation of Himself
We discover that Revelation by definition is a book about worship
God reveals the truth about Himself, His purpose, and His ways to us
We read over and over of the moments when His creation worshiped as the right response
The Heart of Worship
Revelation 11:15-19
You and I can come back to the heart of worship by understanding the following truths about worship:
1. God Provides the Initial Revelation
V.15
Prompted by the 7th trumpet:
Loud voices in heaven
“Kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ”
“He shall reign forever and ever”
Truth is declared by the unnamed loud voices in heaven
Truth about God’s sovereignty
Sovereignty of the Father
Sovereignty of the Son
Truth about God’s power
Kingdoms of the world have become His kingdoms
Truth about God’s eternal nature
He shall reign forever and ever
It was the heavenly voices that make this declaration
Upon the sounding of the seventh trumpet
Which was prompted back by the breaking of the seventh seal in Re 8:1
Which was broken by THE LAMB
Therefore, God takes the initiative to reveal Himself to us
That which He reveals will not always be the same
The way in which He reveals it will not always be the same
But we have to be vigorously looking for that revelation
If we are not, if we are looking for nothing, that is exactly what we will find
2. I Respond to Who He Is
Vv.16-17
24 elders fall on their faces to worship
“Lord God Almighty”
παντοκράτωρ
Supremely powerful over all things
Static, not dynamic
“One who is”
“One who was”
“One who is to come”
“Your power is great”
They look up with Reverence
First part of Worship-based Prayer
Closest we come to physically being in the throne room in the third heaven
And yet Scripture says that we are there when we pray
He 4:16 “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
When I respond to who God is as revealed, I am worshiping
3. I Respond to What He Does
Vv.17-18
“You have taken Your great power and reigned”
“Your wrath has come”
“You should reward Your servants”
“The prophets and the saints”
“Those who fear Your name,”
“Small and great”
“And destroy those who destroy the earth”
What God does is connected to who He is
He can do what He does because He is who He is
When I thank Him for what He does
It helps me to ask these questions:
How did You do this?
Why did you do this?
My response
To what God has done and is doing
Which is traced back to who God is
Is…worship
Are you seeing the HEART of worship?
4. God Takes the Next Step
V.19
Temple of God opens in heaven
Why?
So John could see what was there
Ark of covenant seen in that temple
So now you know
Ark is not in a warehouse in Washington
Ark is in the temple in the third heaven
Accompanied by:
Lightnings
Noises
Thunderings
Earthquake
Great hail
When I respond in worship to what God has revealed to me
I am now in position for God to reveal more to me
More of who He is
More of what He does
He opens up the temple
He shows me His ark
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9