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
0.1UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.07UNLIKELY
Fear
0.1UNLIKELY
Joy
0.68LIKELY
Sadness
0.18UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.78LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.05UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.88LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.79LIKELY
Extraversion
0.05UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.45UNLIKELY
Emotional Range
0.58LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Prayer
The book of John has served as one ginormous test for us to see if we really are in the faith.
We have seen the moral test, if our life exudes righteousness.
We have seen the social test, to see if our life brings forth the love that comes from God.
We have seen the truth test, to see if we believe the right things.
This book has been deeply challenging, but it has also been deeply joy filled to know that we are truly children of God if we have passed these tests.
We can know and rest in the fact that we are God’s children if we pass these tests.
And John loves his “little children”
But like any good father figure, he always wants to conclude his thoughts with a warning.
When I was growing up, every time I would go anywhere..
My dad would remind me with “Be careful!”
We could be going to work out at the farm.
Or going on a trip around the world.
And he would always conclude whatever he had to tell me with “be careful”
I think like any good father would do, John who was this spiritual father wants to leave us with some words.
John wants our best.
He wants us to remain in Christ.
He wants us to continue if the faith.
In a world of darkness, and deception; we must guard ourselves against idols.
Our only hope for success is found in God’s promises.
Assurance of Spiritual Protection
“Can’t Touch This”
Now we have talked about this a little bit a couple of weeks ago but it is important to mention here.
The Christian, the one who has been born of God cannot be harmed by the evil one.
The Christian is unharmed from the evil one because he has been born from above.
Assurance of Belonging to God
“In The Family”
John gives two important realities in this verse.
The first is an assurance and the second is a declaration of what the world is like.
The Assurance
“Passing the Test”
The assurance is that we know are from of God because we cling to the Lord Jesus.
The world hates the Lord Jesus and all that He stands for, but we know we are from of God because we cling to Jesus.
A person will ask, “How do I know that I am from God?”
In this case the certainty that “we are children of God” comes from the fact that the tests of righteousness, love, and sound doctrine have been applied and the results discovered to be positive.
When a person has passes the moral test, walking in righteousness.
The social test, loving the brothers.
And the doctrine test, believing the right things.
Then a person can know that they belong to God.
The Declaration
“In his Grasp”
The second aspect of this verse is the declaration that the world lies in the power of the evil one.
The evil one, which can be identified with Satan, has his grip on the entirety of this world.
We should not picture the world struggling against the grips of Satan.
Rather we should view the world as silently laying in the grasp of the curse.
Rather than struggling hard against Satan, they are unconsciously asleep in his embrace.
This can be seen when Satan offers to Jesus all the kingdoms of the world in Luke 4:5-7
Or as Paul says in another place,
How does Satan go about doing this?
People are enslaved to what they want.
They are enslaved to their own desires.
They are enslaved to their passions which are contrary to Christ.
Simply put: they are habitual idolators.
The blinding of this world is the fact that they are unable to see the Lord Jesus for who He is.
A secular lie is that the world has the ability to be neutral and can be swayed in any direction based upon logic and reason.
We don’t live in a neutral world, we live in a world that is bent in the direction of Satan ruling over it.
We live in a world which lies in the power of the evil one.
Every human institution - Driven by idolators
Every person who is not a believer - Enslaved to their passions
Everything lies in the power of the evil one.
Application
The believer is deeply comforted by the knowledge that they belong to God.
This verse allows the Christian to be grateful for the protection that God gives....
And simultaneously guard them from seeing others living in sin as being “happier”
It also guards us from always agreeing with others.
If the world is under the grips of the evil one, then we must have a posture of wisdom and shrewdness in our thinking.
Assurance of Knowledge of God
“Know Him”
“Know thyself,” said the heathen philosopher.
That is well, but that knowledge may only lead a man to hell.
“Know Christ,” says the Christian philosopher.
“Know him, and then you shall know yourself.”
This shall certainly lead you to heaven, for the knowledge of Christ Jesus is saving knowledge.
The last assurance in this book is that the Son of God has come and given us understanding.
Notice this: that the Son of God giving understanding proceeds the knowledge.
Our knowledge of Him who is true is based upon the fact that the Son of God has given us this knowledge.
He has revealed to us what the Father is like by the work of the Spirit through His Word.
Just like Jesus did with the disciples on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24:44-45
The act of Jesus opening their minds to the Scriptures is the prerequisite to knowing the Lord.
Application
I want you to notice something, the understanding and insight are not something that we produce.
We are not the one’s who are “smart enough” to come to Jesus.
We are NOT the one’s who are “logical enough” to come to Christ.
NO, it say’s that He has given us this understanding which has produced in us a knowledge of the Lord Jesus.
This should produce in us a deep humility.
We have received nothing that has not been given to us.
And to know the Lord is to know the truth.
The Lord Jesus is the ONE who is the truth.
Now I want you to focus in on this last statement because at it is the core focus of the whole letter.
Knowing and Loving the Son
The knowledge which has been revealed to us
1 John 5:20 (ESV)
He is the true God and eternal life.
John assertion is that the Lord Jesus is the ONE true God and eternal life.
The word for TRUE there is genuine…
It’s not as if John is saying that God is true as opposed to a liar, rather that Jesus is truly God.
John directly links the Lord Jesus with the true God and eternal life.
This is the beauty of the gospel in one sentence.
That the Lord Jesus took on flesh and lived a perfect life.
He died a death that we deserved and then was raised for our justification.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9