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
0.1UNLIKELY
Joy
0.61LIKELY
Sadness
0.17UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.81LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.04UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.95LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.93LIKELY
Extraversion
0.1UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.67LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.81LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Scripture Reading: Romans 3:21–26
INTRODUCTION
Test
The Gospel in Romans | the power of God for salvation
Our prayer for this series is that over the coming years the Lord would build for us a foundation for our faith in the power of God for salvation.
Four-part mini-series through the whole book.
Romans 1-4 — Coming Under Grace | Grace Alone Through Faith Alone
Romans 5-8 — Living Under Grace | From Death to Life
Romans 9-11 — The Overflow of Grace | God's One Message of Salvation
Romans 12-16 — A Church Shaped by Grace | An Appeal in Light of the Power of God
test
This morning we will begin to walk down the “Romans Road.”
I will point you to Church Center to see more of the Romans Road there.
PRAY
5:00
THE GOSPEL
What is Paul’s aim in Romans?
Romans 1:15 - Paul is eager to preach the gospel to this Roman church.
Read Romans 1:16-17
The gospel is the power of God
for salvation
This morning, in Romans 1-4, Paul is going to first demonstrate the severity of the need for salvation.
Then, he will demonstrate the futility of any attempt to save ourselves.
Finally, how God accomplishes salvation.
to everyone who believes
Paul, now, hints at one of the most central topics of his letter.
That is, faith!
to the Jew and the Greek
This is another major theme.
This church has both Jewish and Gentile members.
The Jews were expelled from Rome by Emperor Claudius sometime after AD41.
This would have included at least the ethnically Jewish members of the church, if not also many of the Gentile converts …
… as it would seem that, to many in Rome, Christianity was viewed as a Jewish sect.
So, Paul is writing sometime around a decade after the return of the Jewish Christians to their place in the church.
That means that the church to whom Paul writes has experienced a serious separation due to persecution that may explain some of the unity for which Paul argues throughout the letter.
the righteousness of God
I can’t wait to preach this passage in detail.
But for now, this is crucial!
The gospel reveals GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS, not ours!
The gospel outs us for the sinners that we are.
But as we cling by to the promise of God and fulfillment of Christ …
… the righteousness of God
… that alien righteousness
… becomes our salvation!
APPLY
What follows is how Paul explains these themes for the church.
10:00
THE WRATH OF GOD
Romans 1:16 spoke of the power of God for salvation
We can’t talk about salvation if we don’t first discuss the problem …
… in other words, the need for salvation.
Salvation is needed because of the spread of sin and idolatry to the whole of mankind …
… and God’s wrath, his just and good judgement, is upon sinners.
So, we need salvation from both sin and judgement …
… the wickedness of sin
… and the justice of God upon sinners.
We could start by recounting the story of the Fall.
Man was created perfect.
God made Adam and out of Adam he made Eve.
God made them male and female …
… in perfect fellowship with both God and one another.
But, we read in Genesis 3, that Eve was tempted by the Serpent …
… and Adam and Eve together disobeyed God’s command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
By rejecting God’s command they essentially shook their fist at God, crying, “On my own I can live!”
… apart from your provision
… apart from your design
… apart from your command.
But they were wrong.
God judged their sin and rebellion …
… casting them out of the garden
… and placing Adam and Eve and their descendants under the curse of death.
This is a right and true account of sin’s entrance into the world.
And it is a right and true account of why the wrath of God is upon humanity in their sin.
But, when I share this account I will often add …
… by our own sin and rebellion we show that we are rightly counted as children of our first parents, Adam and Eve.
You see, God is just to hold not only Adam and Eve to account, but all of humanity as well …
… for every one of us, also, has joined in their rebellion.
Paul begins at this point … with the spread of our first parent’s sin and rebellion
14:00
The Wrath of God is Revealed
Romans 1:18-32
I know it might seem odd, but I have come to love and appreciate this passage.
It helps me to understand the state of the world around me …
… and the state my own heart apart from the righteousness of Christ.
Four statements about the spread of sin and idolatry.
Idolatry is the heart of all sin …
… because it is a rejection of God’s rightful rule and ordering of our lives.
v18 - suppress the truth
As creatures, made in the image of God, we know that we are not our own masters …
… and yet by ungodliness and unrighteousness
… we suppress this truth.
v21 - failure to honor or give thanks
Again, we are creatures.
All that we have and all that we are belongs to our Maker.
The failure to honor or give thanks to God …
… is a failure to acknowledge reality.
It is a failure to acknowledge as good …
… God’s eternal power and divine nature.
v24-27 - God gave them up …
… to impurity … to dishonoring their bodies … to dishonorable passions
You remember that I said Adam and Eve’s rebellion is as though they shook their fist at God and said, “On my own I can live!”
This is as though the Lord said, “Okay, let’s see how that goes living on your own.”
v32b - do and give approval
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9