We like robots that are like us humans. But we don't like them if they are too much like us humans. That's a little too creepy.
"God so loved the world that he gave his only Son," John 3:16 famously declares. But sometimes, when we show the ugly side of ourselves, ya gotta wonder if there's a limit to that divine love for us.
True, the Bible says that God's very nature is love (1 John 4:8,16), but can our self-centeredness, our waywardness, our inhumanity, ever render us so alien to God's own nature that God loses compassion for us? (Go back and re-read that sentence because it's the key question for the sermon you're going to develop.)
From all the biblical statements about God's love, and from all the preaching we've heard expounding on divine love, our immediate response (perhaps with Romans 8:39 resounding in our minds) may be "No, nothing can separate us from the love of God."
But not so fast. Psalm 14, which is, of course, also in the Bible, offers some counterbalance to that overly quick answer. The author of Psalm 14 pictures God as "look[ing] down from heaven on humankind to see if there are any who are...
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