Sermon 10-24-04 genesis 2:1-7 Who are you really?
Wesley & annual review….how is it with your soul?
Reminder….we are primarily a soul
Lose mind, not eliminated as unnecessary
Lose body part, continue to be a person
Look at the body of a deceased loved one….they are not there….
We are primarily “soul”
One of the great tragedies of our time is the loss contact with the soul. When neglected, the soul doesn’t just go away…it appears symptomatically in addictions, violence, hatred and loss of meaning.
If we are primarily about soul….then some questions rise up
1. what should be the important things in our living?
Things pertaining to the soul?
What about “who ever has the most toys at the end of life is the winner?”
Gustavo Morales…prays….O God, we are blessed….not with cars & such, but with soul
Everyone is looking for people and places with soul. Its hard to define, but when people see it and feel it, they respond powerfully.
Jesus capped it off this way….what does it profit to gain the world but to lose your own soul?
2. Q2 how do you see yourself
Are you a hair do, an athlete, a face without wrinkles…
Worried about being you and that isn’t really even you….
Old story about an aged holy man, Rabbi Susya, who becamre fearful as death drew near. His friends chided him….”what are you afraid that you will get in trouble for not being moses? No, the rabbi replied, I am afraid I have missed the mark because I was not susya.
3. how do you see others
are they white, black, tall short, or are they souls
Proverbs…….he that winneth souls is wise
Sept 11 and the great depression
Orwell….A wasp was eating jam on his plate….he cut him in half. The wasp paid no attention, just went on sucking in the jam which of course continued out of his severed body. It was not until he tried to fly away that he realized that he was in trouble. It is the same with modern man…the thing that has been cut away is his soul. And perhaps 20 years went by and modern man did not notice.
When we forget that people are souls, we are just pretending
That is why the church asks things of you without hesitation
We are in the business of souls
Sos message from the Toshiba dvd player
People tend to be like this….stuck in a make believe world of electronics, while all the while emitting an sos signal.
The modern world fills people with emptiness.
Woods chapel has a chance to off the only thing that will fill and empty soul. Jesus Christ.
Monday am, getting gas at quick trip, two crashes up over the hill. Cant see it, but real people are crashing onto the rocks of life.
Maybe its you….
Wesley & annual review….how is it with your soul?
Reminder….we are primarily a soul
Lose mind, not eliminated as unnecessary
Lose body part, continue to be a person
Look at the body of a deceased loved one….they are not there….
We are primarily “soul”
One of the great tragedies of our time is the loss contact with the soul. When neglected, the soul doesn’t just go away…it appears symptomatically in addictions, violence, hatred and loss of meaning.
If we are primarily about soul….then some questions rise up
1. what should be the important things in our living?
Things pertaining to the soul?
What about “who ever has the most toys at the end of life is the winner?”
Gustavo Morales…prays….O God, we are blessed….not with cars & such, but with soul
Everyone is looking for people and places with soul. Its hard to define, but when people see it and feel it, they respond powerfully.
Jesus capped it off this way….what does it profit to gain the world but to lose your own soul?
2. Q2 how do you see yourself
Are you a hair do, an athlete, a face without wrinkles…
Worried about being you and that isn’t really even you….
Old story about an aged holy man, Rabbi Susya, who becamre fearful as death drew near. His friends chided him….”what are you afraid that you will get in trouble for not being moses? No, the rabbi replied, I am afraid I have missed the mark because I was not susya.
3. how do you see others
are they white, black, tall short, or are they souls
Proverbs…….he that winneth souls is wise
Sept 11 and the great depression
Orwell….A wasp was eating jam on his plate….he cut him in half. The wasp paid no attention, just went on sucking in the jam which of course continued out of his severed body. It was not until he tried to fly away that he realized that he was in trouble. It is the same with modern man…the thing that has been cut away is his soul. And perhaps 20 years went by and modern man did not notice.
When we forget that people are souls, we are just pretending
That is why the church asks things of you without hesitation
We are in the business of souls
Sos message from the Toshiba dvd player
People tend to be like this….stuck in a make believe world of electronics, while all the while emitting an sos signal.
The modern world fills people with emptiness.
Woods chapel has a chance to off the only thing that will fill and empty soul. Jesus Christ.
Monday am, getting gas at quick trip, two crashes up over the hill. Cant see it, but real people are crashing onto the rocks of life.
Maybe its you….
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