Sermon Tone Analysis
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Who You Gonna Please?
We long for acceptance and approval
We want people to like us.
We live for acceptance and approval.
We spend money we don’t have to buy things we don’t need to impress people we don’t like.
We spend time that we don’t have to do things we don’t like to impress those who are doing the same.
We pretend to be what we are not to impress others who are not who they pretend to be.
We can’t please everyone.
Whose approval really matters?
Social media
Facebook capitalizes on our desire for instant affirmation.
Every time we see that red notification light up, our brain receives a dopamine hit.
Dopamine is a chemical in our brain that causes us to seek pleasure from things.
Although pleasure sounds good in principle, overproduced dopamine can cause self-destructive behavior.
We can become slaves to the dopamine notifications.
This can destroy self-control and quickly lead to addictive and destructive behavior.
We imagine that social media friends are “real” friends.
We buy into the false narrative that people with the most “Friends” and “Followers” are better than others.
The desire for acceptance and approval can drive us to do things that attract more “friends”, “Likes”, and “Shares”.
Every time we get a “Like” on Facebook, we imagine that someone likes “us”.
Every time someone “Shares” one of our posts, we feel that our input is valued.
This leads to a breakdown in human relationships.
Real interactions with people are replaced with online friendships based upon “Likes”, “Comments”, and “Shares”.
We become addicted to the pursuit of more “Likes” and “Shares”.
We become unwilling to engage in an unpopular stand for what is true and right.
The pursuit of approval has led to online bullying and “cancel” culture.
Who wants to get “cancelled” from their “source” of acceptance and approval?
Who You Gonna Please?
Who made us?
Who determines our identity?
Who knows our purpose?
Who cares for our soul?
To whom will we give account?
Two Choices
Please others
Please God
Two Outcomes
Blessing and Life
Cursing and Death
Jesus described these two choices as between Life and Destruction (Heaven and Hell)
Who You Gonna Please?
Please God!
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