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
0.09UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.07UNLIKELY
Fear
0.08UNLIKELY
Joy
0.59LIKELY
Sadness
0.57LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.57LIKELY
Confident
0.49UNLIKELY
Tentative
0UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.79LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.75LIKELY
Extraversion
0.04UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.64LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.71LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Series: Abraham: Following in the Footsteps of Faith
3. The Path out of God’s Will
Genesis 12:10-20
January 24, 2010
Series Intro: few men, outside of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself have has such an impact on the history of the world as did the man introduced to us in this passage of scripture.
This man is revered by over one-half the world’s population.
In our day, Abraham is held in high esteem by Jews, Muslims and Christians.
In ancient times the Jews considered Abraham to be almost worthy of their worship.
Consider This:
1. Genesis 1-11 deals with 2000 years of history-creation, sin, flood, languages changed.
2. All the rest of Genesis 12-50 covering about 400 years deals with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph.
3. The rest of the OT 39 books deals with the history of the nation which sprang from Abraham, the nation of Israel.
4. All of the rest of the Bible is occupied with and centers on Abraham’s greater Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
5.
One man’s obedience and devotion impacted all of human history, and we don’t think it is important for us to obey God!!!!
In the Bible, Abraham is presented to us as a great example of a man who lived his life by faith, Heb.
11:8-19.
James 2:23 records the fact that Abraham was called the “Friend of God.”
This man’s life was a special life and a great portion of the first book of the Bible is devoted to it.
Now, some may ask, “Why take the time to study a man who lived 4,100 years ago?”
My answer to you is that, first, the Bible takes the time to speak about him, so we should take the time to study him.
The second is that the life of Abraham teaches us much about the matter of walking with God by faith.
That, after all, is the goal of the Lord for all His children.
God is calling every one of His children to live a life of faith.
This man teaches us how.
Intro: We have before us what is probably the saddest event in the entire life of Abraham.
We see him making a decision that will bring tremendous trouble into his life and into ours as well.
Our text tells that during a time of famine in Canaan, Abram took his family and moved to the land of Egypt.
Now, in the Bible, Egypt is always presented to us as a picture and a type of the world.
It was where the children of Israel were held in bondage to Pharaoh for 400 years.
Even after they were delivered by the power of God, they still longed for what they had left behind in Egypt, Ex. 16:3
That’s just like us! Regardless of how the Lord blesses us, there is still a part of us that looks back longingly to the world we have left behind.
Abraham decided to take his tent (temporary dwelling on this earth) and leave the altars that God had caused him to build and take a trip down into the world!
As we see this man make his journey into Egypt, there are some truths about the path he took to Egypt that we need to notice.
I want to preach for a few minutes about The Truth About The Path To Egypt.
I. IT IS ALWAYS A DOWNWARD PATH-VS. 10
(Ill.
When a believer leaves Canaan (The place of victory and blessing) to go to Egypt (The world), it always leads him down.
Ill.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9