Man in the Image of God - Gordon
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Introduction
Introduction
There are many things recently discovered which have always been.
Electricity
Gravity
Solar Rotation of Planets
There are many truth in the world just discovered that have always been.
Moses’ Law
Election of Israel
The Eternal Trinity
Thesis: If the first man had understood himself he would have been essentially a Christian. And therefore I propose to evolve from the original human situation, as described in the text, the outline of what I take to be a great faith.
Body of Sermon
Body of Sermon
If the first man had understood himself he would have been essentially a Christian. And therefore I propose to evolve from the original human situation, as described in the text, the outline of what I take to be a great faith.
If the first man had understood himself, he would have seen in himself the interpreter of nature.
Adam is the highest of God’s creative act since there is an ascension from the lower to the higher.
there is an ascension from the lower to the higher.
Man looks upon nature to discover that everything comes from something and since man cannot come from nature, he must look past nature to the eternal.
The World’s Great Sermons, Volume 10: Drummond to Jowett Gordon (Born in 1853): Man in the Image of God
The flower shows what was in the seed, the oak is the revelation of what was in the heart of the acorn; and man as the last and best outcome of nature is the authoritative expression of the power that is behind nature.
The second fact in the human situation is that religion is the interpreter of man.
The second fact in the human situation is that religion is the interpreter of man.
As man looks backward he beholds beyond nature a face like his own, only diviner; and ever afterward the noblest aspiration of his soul is to win the smile of that face and to escape its frown.
He is a being over whom the unseen wields an endless fascination. There is in him a thirst that nothing can quench save the living God.
As man looks backward he beholds beyond nature a face like his own, only diviner; and ever afterward the noblest aspiration of his soul is to win the smile of that face and to escape its frown.