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
0.11UNLIKELY
Fear
0.13UNLIKELY
Joy
0.61LIKELY
Sadness
0.58LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.58LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.7LIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.89LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.37UNLIKELY
Extraversion
0.07UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.57LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.41UNLIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Introduction
A man had A CHECKUP and then went in to see his doctor to get the results.
The doctor said he better sit down – that he had bad news and worse news for him.
Then the Doctor asked the man, “Which do you want to hear first?”
The man was a bit puzzled and said he'd rather hear the bad news first.
The doctor said, "The bad news is that you have only 24 hours to live."
When he heard that, the man jumped up, totally shocked.
He paced back and forth and said, "24 hours to live?
I can't possibly get my affairs in order that quickly.
I can't believe this!
What could be possibly be worse news than this?"
The doctor said, "The worse news is that I was supposed to tell you this yesterday, but I forgot."
“Human beings can live for forty days without food, four days without water, and four minutes without air.
But we cannot live for four seconds without hope.”
My desire today is to be reminded that when you are in Christ, you have a LIVING HOPE and Your Future is Bright!
We often talk about hope in a type of wishful sense: "I hope you have a nice day."
"Hope you have a relaxing vacation."
"I hope I get the job."
"I hope she says yes." "I hope I get the promotion."
"I hope I don't get sick."
The word hope in English often conveys doubt.
The Bible has quite a lot to say about hope.
Biblical hope has as its foundation faith in Jesus Christ.
To lose one’s hope is perhaps the most tragic thing that can ever happen in life.
IT happens again and again in the New Testament that the true greatness of a passage lies not only on the surface and in what is actually said, but in the ideas and the convictions which lie behind it.
That is particularly so here.
In the Old Testament the Hebrew word is batah and it has the meaning of confidence, security, and being without care; therefore, the concept of doubt is not part of this word.
In most instances in the New Testament, the word hope is the Greek elpizo.
Again, there is no doubt attached to this word.
(Remarks on Peter from David Guzik’s commentary)
Peter’s name is mentioned in the gospels more than anyone except the name of Jesus.
No one speaks in the gospels as often as Peter did, and Jesus spoke more to Peter than to any other individual.
This powerful theological concept of Sanctification (Greek hagiasmos) means to make holy, to consecrate and to separate from the ungodly patterns and practices of the world.
It involves being set apart from sin so as to have intimate companionship with God and serve Him effectively.
(The Fire Bible)
Jesus rebuked Peter more than any other disciple.
Peter was the only disciple who dared to rebuke Jesus.
Peter confessed Jesus more boldly and accurately than any other disciple.
Peter denied Jesus more forcefully and publicly than any other disciple.
Jesus praised Peter more than any other disciple.
Jesus addressed Peter as Satan alone among the disciples.
“Never perish, spoil or fade”
These three verbal adjectives indicate that the inheritance is untouched by death, unstained by evil, and unimpaired by time.
Our inheritance is death-proof, sin-proof, and time-proof.
“Kept in heaven (and) shielded by God’s power” - This Greek verb is a military term; “God’s power is the garrison in which we find out security” (Hiebert)
It can be put this way:
We cannot experience this inheritance unless we are born again.
Unregenerate man does not have the capacity to enjoy this inheritance.
It would be like rewarding a blind man by showing him the most beautiful sunset or taking him to an art museum.
1 Peter 1.
1 Peter 1.
“all kinds of trials or various trials” literally means ‘many colored’ and was used to describe the skin of a leopard.
All kinds of trials literally means “varied” or “diversified” trials.
I don’t know if we can truly identify with what Peter was most likely referring to.
This takes on a depth of meaning against the background of the ghastly persecution led by the Roman emperor Nero.
In that persecution, Christians were wrapped in freshly slaughtered animal skins and fed to dogs and wild animals.
They were dipped in pitch or tar and set on fire as torches to light Nero’s gardens at night.
This persecution was the first of nine that took place under the Roman Empire during the next 250 years.
Peter himself very likely died during this first persecution.
All of this sheds some light on the expression Peter used to describe these varied trials: a little while.
What he was saying is that our suffering here is brief in light of our inheritance that lasts for eternity.
Regardless of how long our trials last, that length of time is nothing in light of eternity!
Our faith isn’t tested because God doesn’t know how much or what kind of faith we have.
It is tested because we often are ignorant of how much or what kind of faith we have.
God’s purpose in testing is to display the enduring quality of our faith.
God has purpose in testing our faith
Faith is tested to show that it is sincere faith
Faith is tested to show the strength of faith
Faith is tested to purify it, to burn away the impurities from our faith
Peter cemented his point with the illustration of a goldsmith.
To form a useful object, raw gold must be cast into a mold.
For that to occur, the solid ore must be melted, requiring a temperature of 1,900 degrees Fahrenheit.
When the gold is melted, the impurities rise to the surface, where they are skimmed off or burned off.
A goldsmith knows the gold is ready to cast when the liquid gold becomes mirror like and he can see his face reflected in the surface.
Warren Wiersbe reminds us, “The trials of life test our faith to prove its sincerity.
A faith that cannot be tested cannot be trusted.
A person who abandons his/her faith when the going gets tough is only proving that he/she really had no faith at all”
Hope itself is like a star – not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
-- Spurgeon
Hope itself is like a star – not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
-- C.H. Spurgeon
Biblical hope is a reality and not a feeling.
Biblical hope carries no doubt.
Biblical hope is a sure foundation upon which we base our lives, believing that God always keeps His promises.
“To lose one’s hope is perhaps the most tragic thing that can ever happen in life.”
(Invite Worship team and prayer team forward)
Hope Brings Confidence
Biblical hope not only desires something good for the future, it expects it to happen
Hope Brings Strength
Hope Brings The Goodness of God
(Invite Worship team and prayer team forward)
This is my prayer for you today:
This is my prayer for you today:
Extra
To lose one’s hope is perhaps the most tragic thing that can ever happen in life.
Richard Sibbes, one of the great old Puritan preachers of Cambridge who died in 1635, wrote a whole book (175 pages) on .
He was called “the sweet dropper” because of how much confidence and joy his sermons caused.
He called his book The Soul’s Conflict with Itself, because in that is exactly what you have, the soul arguing with itself, preaching to itself.
“Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God!”
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9