Dr. J.S. Bonnell Sermon, 1965-02-14, Mankind's Most Baffling Problem

it's both ms bishop and they come to jesus and single month for sestak the season and cold and in his right mind oftentimes a single incident in the life of our lord sheds a flood of light upon the whole area of human life it becomes apparent that represents ho ho informed students of humanity are well aware of the

fact that no problem ever occurs any human society that did not first erupt in a single individual just prior to the outbreak of world war two dr j g young a historic was counseling one of his clients and at the end of the series of meetings she said do not too young i can't understand how it is that you should be able to do all this time to me one insignificant person while the whole of europe a sliding toward the abyss and he sat quietly but you've forgotten but the world problem begins with the individual we wanted to think for fleeting

second of how much of that tragedy and bloodshed within our own day came because of that disorderly mine in austria hosting in big the conflicts and tensions of the president merely refract reflect the strains on fresh variations that exist today within so many individual a remarkable example of all this is seen in our scripture lesson this morning the case of that the morning at the generous this sort of a down baffled individually many respects is typical of modern man first of all he was at war with themselves those full of contradictions that enormously ambivalence in his words

my name is legion for we are many mind we at one moment is in individual and he is also a multitude my name is legion it may well then that grows all conquering legions were sweeping across that ancient world and came into the village of this man when he was about a little boy it may well be libyan seeing babies that have almost mirrors all these legionnaire and the traumatic effect of that left its mark upon him through his later years he's on a happening crying hurting himself inflicting self punishment because of imagined are real wrong you recall how

in julius caesar one of the characters says buddhists with himself about war for vets live show of love to other men he's still anonymous to move rapidly forget the name of christian america we all recall the problem or he was a united nations one of his fellow countrymen said that he conducted a private war against the whole world what a nominee himself has given us the real explanation he said i am allergic to myself when you get an individual who's allergic to himself you love somebody who'll be a problem to everybody out modern mann act should listen hauling disorientation that word is worth examining it means literally to turn from

least figuratively to lose one's bearings to become few to be offset like think of a fifteen year old high school girl who in an interview said i'm just a crazy mixed up to my standards are slipping badly i don't seem able to distinguish between right and wrong i think of the businessman who said i sometimes think of myself as two people one of two stands back and watches with dismay what the other person is doing divided personalities at war with one cell paul went through that the good that i would i do not feel that i don't want to do i do it you're saying that i hate and that will be the biography of not a few within the

sound of my voice this morning our generation needs to be integrated to be army and taken to be unified too many are at war with themselves dollars a second predicament and that is that it was a strange from a soul man he could no longer live in human society he couldn't tolerate living people so he made as a blogger at the day they at least made no response to him and so utterly modern solitude as an integrated sites he made the night's hideous by his crop reckless destructive mark says it often been found with feathers and

chains up the chains you wrenched apart and the fact that there is a broker summer and no man had the strength to paint the recklessness of despair like a parable of the twentieth century to major world wars and the awful tragedy of korea sometimes i marvel at the letters that come to my desk filled with hate against persons and against class rich is mostly these are revelations of an inner conflict within the individual which as the psychologist would say are projected on to suicide if we could eliminate at one

stroke the ills that we suffer from today due to the projection upon others are in their discontents and enter civil war much of the troubles of our date would be immediately really housman speechless in many and i that measures may i see the mortals sickness of a mile and true on the happy to be kind and done with misery all a canister hate their fellow co happy to really though genuine test of a person's healthy mindedness is to be follow in his interpersonal relations you can take a precious gem and put it under a magnifying glass turn it

around and watch the lights flashing from various facets you can't do that with a human personality and arrive at her completely justified the judgment of the work of the individual the human person must be seen in the human relations in his interpersonal relations and then we would make some discoveries look today modern man a solo and now more over his material prosperity and progress a higher standard of living any people on earth i've never known we are enjoying we're less far behind the speed of sound we put a man in orbit around the earth

within a decade we're likely to send a man to the moon and we hope bring em back alive and within a quarter of a century we may well put a man on mars but it will of bailouts and nothing at all until we succeeded in bridging the yawning go between man american nation a nation race and rape so that second bill mr this man was that he was estranged from his fellow man at war himself in a strange from his fellow man in the third place here last contact with broad he was a rebel against everything he had tremendous resistance to the idea of a solo

he wanted to break loose from all it had ever know listen to a second song the things that they are set themselves on their rulers jay counsel against the lord and against his anointed saying let us break their buns asunder and cast away their cards from we're living today in a period of rebellion rebellion against divine authority against the divine law all man wants to refashion our his own moral code according to his own lights and desires with no human being is right until the center of his life is right unmanned center is in god

the words of a boston in the long ago are equally true of today's powerhouse made us for allies and our hearts are restless and torment and delay find rest in the back apple seen once again when she is let this man live use our imaginations and try to picture what that scene was like here there are leaving their fishing vessel and journey not the slow coordination graveyard suddenly and unexpectedly a fearsome creature leap song with honestly crimes while staring eyes filthy mouth and hair nakedness and anger

now these disciples were no collar that often face death on the sea of galilee one here was something different quite different about this memo was something weird and can a sinister devilish and with one accord they fled back father boyle but jesus didn't flee he held his grown quietly patiently and i love and visualize that man coming up to him and brushing back his tangled filthy hair from his eyes and staring into the face of jesus and little by little his violence abated for the first time in his experience he met a man who is not afraid of him and he saw in the eyes of jesus only

understanding compassion in summit law uc fear begets hate when you fear somebody you begin to hate that person this man as the most hated man or commuted because everyone is afraid but for him it's a new experience now the disciples are wondering what's happening up on the slow very tentatively and fearfully they make their way up and as they round the border to their utter amazement they see this comment a creature seated at the feet of jesus not a roaming the countryside but seated at the feet of jesus dressed in the elder rove of the master

and in his right to my sanity has been restored for gratitude he said matter i want you to go i want to go have you whenever you go to be on a cycle and jesus said no go back to your own people go back from to that situation from which you've let go back into society go back here can use for and tell all what wonderful things the lord has done for you and how he has have mercy upon she uses had announcer for the dreadful appeal most of this man he has an answer to for the needs

of the world look out and all over this porn and tortured world of our time tension fear suspicion really hate ill will everywhere flaming nationalism and bitter racial strife nation against nation people's against people class against class race against writer who won major problem that mankind faces today is not the hydrogen bomb that relatively harmless and two which triggered by man it's manual so good job basically cruel man what can we do about it to say i'm sure have you any word idaho i say announcer would also the

universe looks out through the eyes of jesus christ i see an answer in the principles of our lower human brotherhood or arch by that the miami father when we can see in the face of every follow creature the features of a brother and a friend that's the answer is if you all the better answer the map in god's name letters out for the world is in a desperate plan yet the whole global world is in jesus christ and his revelation of god to man the noble or so as in history or a

great tribute to him forty towers above men of all generations unique solitary majestic not only the first and brightest of all mankind but he has no second declare his name from the world would be to shake it to its foundations for has not been so much written as plowed into history and with his own pierced hands he has lifted empires off their hinges and turn the streams of time into new channels where forests and paul says broad has highly it's all about him and given him a name that is about every name that the name of jesus mr heaney shell ball and every tongue confess that jesus christ nolen to the king

eternal immortal invisible the only wise god our savior they all glory and majesty and dominion and our world without end amen to pay it's been