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Our sermon will be on Luke 16:14-17
We have a website: https://tahlequahworshipcenter.com/
We are going through the book of John on Wednesday Nights
We need to have another work day before long
Prayer requests
Gerald
Georgey
Dorcas
Cristy’s Grandparents
Sandra
Donna
Ukraine
Songs
Heaven’s Jubilee
On Jordan’s Stormy Bank
Sweet, Sweet Spirit
In Christ Alone
Don’t Take This Personally
How many of us has heated discussions or arguments?
It happens.
Usually when things get heated, we will devolve into name calling of some sort.
Like, “you alway’s do that”
Sometimes it happens by accident.
For example, I’ll say something in an upset tone.
Often, I’m upset, but not upset at the person involved.
That then escalates into an argument.
There’s also true circumstances that can cause us to be upset.
For example, a few days ago was St. Patricks Day.
I don’t know if you know this, but Patrick was actually English.
When he was about 16, he captured by Irish pirates from his home in Britain.
He was taken to Ireland where he was a slave.
He looked after animals for 6 years before he was able to escape.
He heard a voice that he was going home and that his ship was ready.
He said that during his captivity, he was converted and drew closer to God.
When be got back to Britain, He became a Cleric.
The conditions that he was
What do you do when you are treated badly?
You Will Be Provoked
Jesus says here in verse 1 that “It is impossible that no offenses should come.”
That means that we will be offended.
How many of you have been offended?
I had an Aunt that was very dear to Cristy and I.
She had a great capacity to love.
She also had a great capacity to stick her foot in her mouth.
And if you want to be offended, try being a pastor or part of a pastor’s family.
But, no matter what happens, we are to forgive.
When Jesus was teaching on prayer, he included this part: Matthew 6:12
and then in Matthew 6:14-15
I want to make this clear: if we don’t forgive others, we will not be forgiven.
Chew on that for a bit.
In a parallel passage: Matthew 18, the context is that there was a child near him.
There could have been one here, but Luke doesn’t record it.
But what we do have here is the same warning: Luke 17:2
That is a dire warning.
In Romans 14, Paul is telling the romans, and us, that we are going to believe differently about different teachings.
He classifies these things “doubtful things”
He talks specifically about eating and drinking, and also different days, like feasts.
Romans 14:12-13
So there are many things that we might argue about that are not explicitly taught in scripture.
For example, there’s not a “You shall not” in front of it.
Here’s the truth, others may provoke us, but ...
You Will Provoke Others
The short answer is that we all make mistakes.
Division is inevitable.
Even Paul had some arguments with other Christians.
For example Paul divides with someone who up until then had been one of his closest friends.
God used them all in spite of this division.
Eventually, Paul forgave Mark.
In 2 Timothy 4:11
I’m not even saying that Paul was in the wrong there.
We don’t have enough info.
However, I know this:
You Must Pardon Others
In our scripture, it says: Luke 17:3-4
Remember what we read in Matthew 6:14-15
Do y’all remember the Charleston church shooting that happened in 2015?
One by one, family members and church members forgave the shooter.
How is it possible to forgive someone that has done something as horrible as killing people just because of the color of their skin?
How could people that went through the holocaust like Corrie Ten Boom forgive those that did horrible things?
We want to hold on to those hurts.
We want to keep them to ourselves.
It’s a poison that will kill us.
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred.
It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Eric Metaxas writes this in his book 7 Women:
In 1947 while speaking in a Munich church, a balding man in a gray overcoat stepped forward to greet Corrie.
Corrie froze.
She knew this man well; he’d been one of the most vicious guards at Ravensbrück, one who had mocked the women prisoners as they showered.
“It came back with a rush,” she wrote, “the huge room with its harsh overhead lights; the pathetic pile of dresses and shoes in the center of the floor; the shame of walking naked past this man.”
And now he was pushing his hand out to shake hers, and saying:
“A fine message, Fraulein!
How good it is to know that, as you say, all our sins are at the bottom of the sea!”
And I, who had spoken so glibly of forgiveness, fumbled in my pocketbook rather than take that hand.
He would not remember me, of course — how could he remember one prisoner among those thousands of women?
But I remembered him and the leather crop swinging from his belt.
I was face to face with one of my captors, and my blood seemed to freeze.
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