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
0.62LIKELY
Disgust
0.13UNLIKELY
Fear
0.14UNLIKELY
Joy
0.56LIKELY
Sadness
0.17UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.69LIKELY
Confident
0.62LIKELY
Tentative
0UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.96LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.72LIKELY
Extraversion
0.19UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.17UNLIKELY
Emotional Range
0.6LIKELY

Tone of specific sentences

Tones
Emotion
Anger
Disgust
Fear
Joy
Sadness
Language
Analytical
Confident
Tentative
Social Tendencies
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Emotional Range
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
The Verdict Is In
Romans 3:9-20
The Scene — Court of Law
What a dramatic conclusion!
Let me set the scene.
The Scene — Court of Law — Heaven
The Event — The Verdict Is In
God is the Prosecutor, Judge and Jury.
The Voice — Paul, Court Reporter as he reads the verdict
And this is God’s verdict on the entire human race.
The Prosecutor — God
The Jury — God
The Judge — God
The Verdict — Guilty
The Guilty Party — The entire Human Race
Appeals — Irrevocable and fixed — No Appeals, this is the highest court.
That’s where we’re at in Roman 3.
This is Paul’s summarization of this section on Condemnation that began in 1:18.
The Charge — verse 9
The Case — verses 10-18
The Charge — verses 19-20
The Charge
Are we any better?
We — Who is the We?
Look at the context.
Verse 5 and verse 8. Some argue for the Jews, but the context helps us to see that this is Paul and his audience.
Who’s Paul’s audience?
Romans 1:
Now, what is the question: Are we any better?
Not at all!
For we have previously charge that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin.
Answer: All are under sin.
What does it mean to be “under sin?”
It means to be under the penalty, under the power, under the pollution of sin, to be enslaved, dominated by, under the tyranny of sin.
It’s repeated in verse 23.
This is the charge.
And lest anyone disagree or attempt to object, Paul immediately launches into the Case.
And the case is not his case.
He’s just the Court Reporter reading the verdict.
This is God’s Case.
Proof of that is that what Paul reads is a litany of Old Testament citations.
In other words, Paul reads God’s Word on the matter.
So, this is not Public Opinion.
This is not Paul’s opinion.
There is no opportunity for rebuttal.
This is God’s case against All the human race.
The Case
Think
The reason Paul uses these Old Testament quotes is to prove that this case and prosecution is nothing new.
This has been the Case all along.
Genesis 2:
So, Paul begins to quote Scripture — God’s verdict on the entire human race.
And if you have cross references in the margin of your Bible, you will see the verses Paul quotes.
, ; ; , ; ; ; & .
God is bringing witness after witness after witness to the stand.
This is the Supreme Signature Passage for the human condition — called Total Depravity.
Sometimes known as Radical Corruption.
This is the human condition from head to toe and every inch and ounce between.
Hitler gets all the blame, but there is a far greater expression of evil and includes babies to great grandma.
Total Depravity means that Adam’s sin nature has been passed down to the entire human race and has radically corrupted the mind, heart, and will.
We think wrong, feel wrong, understand wrong, and apart from divine intervention — all of that remains.
Some think it’s only the mind and heart that are affected and man’s will is still free.
This is a gross erroneous understanding of the Bible.
The will is the handmaiden to the mind and heart.
Wherever the mind and heart are, the will follows.
The will never operates independent of the mind and heart.
The will is the tail and the tail is not wagging the dog.
Wherever the mind and the heart, the affections, the desires go, then the will always makes the choices to follow the thinking, feelings, and desires.
God’s verdict masterfully uses the Scripture to build His case to an insurmountable verdict.
Walkthrough
Verse 10 is the Thematic Statement
Verse 11 speaks of the mind and heart
Verse 12 — the will
Verse 13, the throat, tongue, and lips and Verse 14 the mouth — All what we say.
Verse 15-17 — our feet — what we do
Verse 18 — our eyes — what we see.
Each body part represents human faculty that tells us about the human condition, character, conversation, and choices.
The human Character flows from the human condition, the conversation flows out of the human character, and the human choices that are the result of the human character.
It’s a comprehensive autopsy of the Spiritually Dead Sinner.
Imagine this human corpse, representative of the entire human race, laid out on the coroner’s table in the morgue.
And we’re just given a view of this corpse — Don’t be frightened, the corpse is dead and won’t talk or move.
The coroner is just looking at these body parts and saying, “Look!
He’s dead.
Look at this.
Look at brain.
There is no activity.
Look at his throat, his tongue — See that?
That’s venom!
And look inside his mouth.
See all that?
That’s cursing and bitterness.
Look at his feet — See all that blood?
His feet are just covered in blood.
The Coroner sums it up with an illustration of a glass of water.
One drop of cyanide is dropped into the water and the cyanide has permeated the whole glass of water.
There is not any part of the water that is not poisoned by the cyanide.
When you and I were born, when we were conceived in the womb, Adam’s sin nature was injected into you and me.
The snakes venom poisoned us and we came into this world with every faculty of our innermost being poisoned by sin.
It’s a devastating case against us.
There are 7 negatives (6 negatives and 1 positive, that is a negative — All.
This is the topic sentence.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9