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
0.15UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.1UNLIKELY
Fear
0.1UNLIKELY
Joy
0.55LIKELY
Sadness
0.51LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.73LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.27UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.95LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.64LIKELY
Extraversion
0.07UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.57LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.5LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Admit something - one of things really hate, one of my personal pet peeves, is arriving late to movie.
Really hate when miss beginning of movie.
If I walk in 5-10 minutes late, almost tempted to just leave, wait until I can see movie right from beginning.
Why?
B~/c I really like to know how movie started.
Sure, pick up stuff later on, but much better be there right in beginning, and then see how everything develops from there.
So, when come to Bible, think it good for us to also go and start from beginning.
Sure, you can pick up Bible at any point and read.
Power and beauty of Bible is that all connected, each part of Bible connected to other parts, refers to other parts.
Still though, all different connected parts do have starting point.
Point from which everything else in Bible develops.
Starting point is of course the first book of the Bible, the book of Genesis.
During next few weeks, spend some time in Genesis.
End of month break for few weeks for Christmas season, Look at some passages lead us into Christmas.
Then, pick this back up again during new year.
Now Genesis, as said, first book of Bible.
Genesis, along with next four books of Bible – Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers Deuteronomy - mostly written by Moses.
Say mostly b~/c obviously some parts that Moses didn’t write, added in.
Ex. – Moses’ death.
But, for most part, Moses was author of first five books of Bible.
Genesis basically book of beginnings.
Tells us about beginning of world, beginning of man, beginning of human history.
But mostly, Genesis book about God.
This establishes tone for rest of Bible, for entire Bible is primarily book about God, his relationship with creation, and especially, his relationship with mankind.
Moses writes Genesis in context where lot of different nations, who believe in lots of gods, have all sorts of stories and myths about these gods.
Way Moses writes see that he writing directly against what all those nations were saying.
Look at Genesis compared with other creation stories, some small similarities here and there, but mostly huge differences.
Genesis would have really stuck out like sore thumb in midst of ancient world./
Ex/.
Like everybody else running commercials saying how things like and Genesis is the one commercial that stands out b~/c it promotes something radical different from what everybody else saying.
Deliberate intention to instruct God’s people, “Look, you see kind of things everybody else writing about how world began.
It’s not true at all.
Here is how everything got started, and believe, it’s different from what everybody else is saying”
This starts off right with first verse of Genesis.
Gen 1:1, /“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”/
That one verse is packed with so much!
Think can draw lot of it out through two points see in your outline.
*Point #1.
In the beginning there was God*
Very dramatic how Bible starts off.
/“In the beginning God…” /
*a.
Radical statement for back then.*
/Illus – /Just that one phrase – like eating a hot pepper after having eaten most bland food.
That kind of thing you notice, that kind thing really stick out in your mouth.
This simple phrase, /“In the beginning God…” /was a phrase that stands 180 degrees opposite from all of the other stories going around back then.
For example, ancient Egyptians – Believed in beginning there was this primordial, divine matter called Monad.
Then, all of creation kind of evolved and unfolded from this Monad stuff.
So, basically, no one actually caused creation, it just kind of developed.
And also, means that all parts of creation were divine – i.e. earth is god, sky is god, water is god.
Ancient Mesopotamia – Similar belief.
Believed that in beginning there was preexistent matter from which came all the gods and then the entire universe.
Gen 1:1 see huge difference.
No speculation on origin of God.
Just says, /in the beginning, God/.
In the beginning of time, God was already there.
And he’s always been there.
For eternity before we ever existed God existed.
See also that is only one God – no multiple gods.
There is no female consort for God.
There are no opposing gods or struggle among gods.
Just says, /in the beginning, God/.
God there before beginning of time, be there at end time.
Rest of Scripture affirms this over and over - Ps 90:2 – /“Before the mountains were brought forth or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”/
Isa 41:1 – /“Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.”/
*b.
Radical statement then, radical statement today*
Why? B~/c to say, /in the beginning, God, /is still radical thing for many.
Some who deny existence of God.
Others who like to think of God as this kind of nameless energy.
Others who say God is everywhere.
Yet, here is Gen 1:1, once again sticking out, standing against those kind of beliefs.
/“In the beginning, God” /tells us that God not just an idea.
He not superstition or myth.
He not nameless energy.
God is real being, he is the one and only Eternal Being, without beginning or end.
/ /
Verse doesn’t stop there of course.
Goes on tell us that God is not a God who does nothing, who just sits around on his divine couch.
No, God is a real being who does things, who acts.
*Point #2.
In the beginning God created*
*a.
Why was this important statement for back then*?
Word “create” in this verse is unique word.
Comes from Hebrew word /“bara.”/
In Hebrew language, couple different words for concept of creating, making something.
One of those words is Hebrew word /“bara.”
/But /“bara”/ as it’s used in Bible is really different for all those other words b~/c only used in connection to God.
When /bara/ is used in Bible, subject is always God.
See, we humans can create.
Can create all sorts of things with materials around us, inspiration comes from world from life in general.
But only God can /bara/, create with captial C. God only One who created w~/o any materials, w~/o any substances.
God is only One who created things never existed before.
Again, this is big contrast with what rest world saying.
Lot of other nations believed in eternal primordial material, mentioned earlier.
Basically, put in modern terms, call it everlasting goo.
Was out of that everlasting goo that gods are created, rest of world created.
Bible says, “Uh, no.
There was no goo.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9