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Building Blocks
I Thessalonians 5.1-11 November 18, 1990
Hymn 191 Jesus Loves Me. Please pick up your Bible and turn to I
Thessalonians 5.1-11.
Our experience with the Bible.
A. National College of Education, now National-Louis University
in Evanston, surveyed 1,000 CEO's from Fortune 1000
Companies, the Presidents of 1200 universities. 25% found
their lives changed. 93% of the American people own at least
one Bible. Majority of born again Christians read the Bible
once or twice a week. The discipline of daily Bible reading is
not unlike a good breakfast, daily.
B. The Bible is the most read, most popular, most studied, most
purchased book in the world. Those who need help look to the
Bible for answers. Others seek God on its pages. Many look
to it for a moral compass. Yet it is the most misunderstood
and abused book. Because of it people have gone to prison, for
it they have suffered death.
C. How many of you know John 3.16? How many of you know
Psalm 23; I Corinthians 13, Hebrews 12?
11. The Bible is a unique book for Jews and Christians. Both refer to
it as sacred Scripture.
A. The Bible is both a human and inspired book. The Bible does
not contain God-sayings dropped from heaven through a funnel
called a human being.
1. The Scriptures begin in oral tradition. We meet real
people. Their names are there: Moses, Joshua, Gideon,
D avid.
2. This God to which they give themselves interacts with
them. Amos and Ezekiel, Jesus and Paul.
3. Their stories are carefully stated and passed on from
generation to generation. That tradition is carried in the
Torah, and then spoken to by the prophets. The Torah
says, "God gave you the promised land." The prophet
says, "Yes, says the Lord, but what God gave God can
take away." The Scriptures authorize an understanding.
4. In that human encounter they report to us their
experiences of a real authority to which they gave in and
which they wanted to transmit to many others in order
that they might listen to reason and surrender their lives
to the same God as the authors did.
5. The human subject invests his culture and history in the
process. They use the language of their time and the
thought patterns that govern the way the express
themselves. They speak speak in the language of their
time. Words change, the idiom shifts.
B. There are different viewpoints for different times.
1. Proverbs says, "God is clearly blessing the pious and
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Object Description
| Title of Sermon | Building Blocks |
| Author | Landwehr, Arthur |
| Subject | Value of the Bible, Authority of the Bible |
| Date of sermon | n/a |
| Type | Text |
| Format | |
| Number of Pages | 3 |
| Language | English |
| Biblical Book | 1 Thessalonians |
| Verses | 5:1-11 |
| Rights | For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this image, please contact The United Library by phone (847)866-3909 or email united.library@garrett.edu |
| Collection | The Arthur Landwehr Sermon Collection (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) |
| Identifier | 876 Building Blocks.pdf |
Description
| Title of Sermon | Page 1 |
| Biblical Book | Biblical Book |
| Collection | The Arthur Landwehr Sermon Collection (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) |
| Transcript | Building Blocks I Thessalonians 5.1-11 November 18, 1990 Hymn 191 Jesus Loves Me. Please pick up your Bible and turn to I Thessalonians 5.1-11. Our experience with the Bible. A. National College of Education, now National-Louis University in Evanston, surveyed 1,000 CEO's from Fortune 1000 Companies, the Presidents of 1200 universities. 25% found their lives changed. 93% of the American people own at least one Bible. Majority of born again Christians read the Bible once or twice a week. The discipline of daily Bible reading is not unlike a good breakfast, daily. B. The Bible is the most read, most popular, most studied, most purchased book in the world. Those who need help look to the Bible for answers. Others seek God on its pages. Many look to it for a moral compass. Yet it is the most misunderstood and abused book. Because of it people have gone to prison, for it they have suffered death. C. How many of you know John 3.16? How many of you know Psalm 23; I Corinthians 13, Hebrews 12? 11. The Bible is a unique book for Jews and Christians. Both refer to it as sacred Scripture. A. The Bible is both a human and inspired book. The Bible does not contain God-sayings dropped from heaven through a funnel called a human being. 1. The Scriptures begin in oral tradition. We meet real people. Their names are there: Moses, Joshua, Gideon, D avid. 2. This God to which they give themselves interacts with them. Amos and Ezekiel, Jesus and Paul. 3. Their stories are carefully stated and passed on from generation to generation. That tradition is carried in the Torah, and then spoken to by the prophets. The Torah says, "God gave you the promised land." The prophet says, "Yes, says the Lord, but what God gave God can take away." The Scriptures authorize an understanding. 4. In that human encounter they report to us their experiences of a real authority to which they gave in and which they wanted to transmit to many others in order that they might listen to reason and surrender their lives to the same God as the authors did. 5. The human subject invests his culture and history in the process. They use the language of their time and the thought patterns that govern the way the express themselves. They speak speak in the language of their time. Words change, the idiom shifts. B. There are different viewpoints for different times. 1. Proverbs says, "God is clearly blessing the pious and 1 |
