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Exodus 17:1-7
No-End Love Third Sunday in Lent
March 10,1996
I. Every day on television, magazines, and newspapers the word about the human condition comes out. We are not cutting back enough on fat. We need more exercise. Eat more oats! One half aspirin seems to prevent strokes and heart disease. Melatonin, health food stores cannot keep enough of it, appears to slow down the ageing process. A new disorder is discovered which might explain your situation. Experts attempt to define it. The more isolated the expert the surer he or she is about what the human condition is. In a conversation with a doctor of internal medicine recently, "Someone needs to be quarter back." We have disassembled the parts and take them for treatment, but who has a vision of the whole?
A. Who has a vision of the whole? A neuro-surgeon was asked whether there would ever be brain transplants. He said no. Because each brain governs and interacts with a particular body in a unique way. The body has a head. Besides glial, ganglia, making up prefrontal lobes, the medulla, the thalamus and hypothalamus there is something we call the mind that perceives. And the Spirit which drives us. The driving spirit is that which God breathed into us.
1. Paradise lost means the relationship between God and humans is hurt, bruised, distorted, distorted. We are much like that first man and woman, Adam and Eve. Even some of the best qualities we have do not stand by themselves. Susan Smith, whether she was going to take her own life or intentionally drowned her boys in their sinking automobile was for others to argue. But what was apparent was that she was "addicted to love." She was willing to sacrifice her boys for whatever that love was.
2. Who cares? Is often the attitude we have toward that broken relationship. God cares. It is only because of that fact that we are able to continue onward. There seems to be something within the world that keeps us from doing worse than we do. Sometimes it is the law, sometimes it is a conscience to which we respond, sometimes to another human being who cares even when we don't. What do we call this? Luck? Or Providence? The way the cookie crumbles? Or the way things are put together? This grace doesn't not come out of thin air!
3. We are Adam, we are Eve. The one person so often represents the human family.
B. Our future is death—it is clear in the Bible that God does not author sin and death, but sin is the choice of the human, and death is its result.
1. Murmuring—grumbling. You know what that is. Why are we out
here? One man persuaded us that this was God's will? What does he know? We cross the Red Sea as if on dry land, but what does that prove? We are free my friend! A woman holding a crying child says, "But now we are here with no water. Did you bring us out of the land of Egypt to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?" she asks the liberator Moses.
Dr. Arthur J. Landwehr
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Object Description
| Title of Sermon | No-End Love |
| Author | Landwehr, Arthur |
| Subject | Human Condition, Jesus |
| Date of sermon | 3/10/1996 |
| Type | Text |
| Format | |
| Number of Pages | 4 |
| Language | English |
| Biblical Book | Exodus |
| Verses | 17:1-7 |
| Rights | For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this image, please contact The Styberg Library by phone (847)866-3909 or email styberg.library@garrett.edu |
| Collection | The Arthur Landwehr Sermon Collection (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) |
| Identifier | 34 No-End Love.pdf |
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| Title of Sermon | Page 1 |
| Biblical Book | Biblical Book |
| Collection | The Arthur Landwehr Sermon Collection (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) |
| Transcript | Exodus 17:1-7 No-End Love Third Sunday in Lent March 10,1996 I. Every day on television, magazines, and newspapers the word about the human condition comes out. We are not cutting back enough on fat. We need more exercise. Eat more oats! One half aspirin seems to prevent strokes and heart disease. Melatonin, health food stores cannot keep enough of it, appears to slow down the ageing process. A new disorder is discovered which might explain your situation. Experts attempt to define it. The more isolated the expert the surer he or she is about what the human condition is. In a conversation with a doctor of internal medicine recently, "Someone needs to be quarter back." We have disassembled the parts and take them for treatment, but who has a vision of the whole? A. Who has a vision of the whole? A neuro-surgeon was asked whether there would ever be brain transplants. He said no. Because each brain governs and interacts with a particular body in a unique way. The body has a head. Besides glial, ganglia, making up prefrontal lobes, the medulla, the thalamus and hypothalamus there is something we call the mind that perceives. And the Spirit which drives us. The driving spirit is that which God breathed into us. 1. Paradise lost means the relationship between God and humans is hurt, bruised, distorted, distorted. We are much like that first man and woman, Adam and Eve. Even some of the best qualities we have do not stand by themselves. Susan Smith, whether she was going to take her own life or intentionally drowned her boys in their sinking automobile was for others to argue. But what was apparent was that she was "addicted to love." She was willing to sacrifice her boys for whatever that love was. 2. Who cares? Is often the attitude we have toward that broken relationship. God cares. It is only because of that fact that we are able to continue onward. There seems to be something within the world that keeps us from doing worse than we do. Sometimes it is the law, sometimes it is a conscience to which we respond, sometimes to another human being who cares even when we don't. What do we call this? Luck? Or Providence? The way the cookie crumbles? Or the way things are put together? This grace doesn't not come out of thin air! 3. We are Adam, we are Eve. The one person so often represents the human family. B. Our future is death—it is clear in the Bible that God does not author sin and death, but sin is the choice of the human, and death is its result. 1. Murmuring—grumbling. You know what that is. Why are we out here? One man persuaded us that this was God's will? What does he know? We cross the Red Sea as if on dry land, but what does that prove? We are free my friend! A woman holding a crying child says, "But now we are here with no water. Did you bring us out of the land of Egypt to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?" she asks the liberator Moses. Dr. Arthur J. Landwehr No-End Love O 1 |
