Sermon Tone Analysis

:18-23

Jhn 3:19-21

Intro

Recap:

1-7 = Introduction / Greeting

From Paul - To Roman Believers

8-12 = Paul’s Prayer

13-15 = Intentions

16-17 = Micro Presentation

Next:

Section 1:18-3:20 = Heart of Sin

Right Diagnosis = Right Remedy

Observance = Wisdom

Understanding Sin = Love of God

Today:

Truth - Knowledge - Ignorance

Video

Title / Text

He Must Reign | Intelligence or Ignorance

Opening Prayer

V18

Pauls Logical Progression / Dichotomy

For = progression in argument

Revelation of God

righteousness

wrath

Wrath of God

The Difference

man’s wrath

emotional

personal

fleeting

God’s wrath

The Degree’s

God’s Wrath

present

eschatological

The Destination

from heaven

to men

Ungodliness / Unrighteousness

ungodliness

unrighteousness

Suppress Truth [the truth]

The Greek word katakein means to press down with force against something that is exercising a counterforce

The image that comes into my mind would be a giant steel spring, which would take the full weight of a human being to press down.

Because of the tension, if the person lets go for a second, the spring will shoot right up.

The word is used in a negative sense where people are thrown into prison and are held in prison against their will.

They are, in a word, incarcerated.

Paul is saying that the truth of God is, in some way, pushed down, repressed, hindered, stifled.

It almost sounds like a textbook in psychology, because modern psychologists note that this is exactly what we do with memories of painful and traumatic experiences.

We push them out of the painful areas of our conscious minds and push them into the deepest recesses and chambers of our minds.

Truth?

What truth?

That God should be worshiped

Revelation

general

special

V19

I like Magic…

God does not seek to make illusion to us!

v17 = is revealed

v18 = is revealed

What Can Be Known = Is Palin = God Has Revealed It

reverse order also...

Revelation

general

special

What Can be Known?

= Truth?

= of creation…

God exists

He creates

He controlls

He is powerfull

He deserves worship

There is a God and it is not me!

V

after the satellite detection of the birthpangs of the universe was announced to the American Physical Society in April 1992, an anonymous Guardian contributor wrote: ‘It is difficult to know what the appropriate reaction to such mind-expanding discoveries should be, except to get down on one’s knees in total humility and give thanks to God or Big Bang or both, for cunningly contriving to allow this infinitesimal part of the universe called Earth to be bestowed with something called Air.’

At the opposite end of the size scale, a consultant surgeon wrote to me a few years ago: ‘I am filled with the same awe and humility when I contemplate something of what goes on in a single cell as when I contemplate the sky on a clear night.

The coordination of the complex activities of the cell in a common purpose hits the scientific part of me as the best evidence for an Ultimate Purpose.’

Carl Gustav Boberg 1885 / Stuart K. Hine = “How Great Thou Art”

O Lord my God!

When I in awesome wonder Consider all the works Thy hand hath made.

I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee: How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

V20

Consider all the works Thy hand hath made.I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,Thy power throughout the universe displayed.Refrain:Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee:How great Thou art, how great Thou art!Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee:How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

Rom 1

Invisible Atributes = can be witnessed?

Eternal Power

creator

sustainer

intelligence

Divine Nature

the god-ness of God

v18 - ungodliness… of men

Clearly Perceived?

2x Greek

nooumena = grasped intellectually

kathoratai = perceived mentally