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这段讲道探讨了现代社会普遍存在的根基浅薄问题，并从圣经诗篇1篇出发，分析了其成因和解决方法。讲道者指出，现代社会追求一种前所未有的自由：摆脱内在的道德约束，自行决定道德和命运，这导致了根基的缺失，让人像糠秕一样被风吹散，缺乏稳定和确定性。这种根基浅薄源于不敬虔，即灵魂的根基不在神，神并非其生命之源。不敬虔导致智力上的不稳定，因为抛弃了神，就失去了稳定的知识体系和信仰基础；也导致社会和个人层面上的不稳定，人们变得相互不信任，对社会机构和权威失去信心。要获得有实质意义的生活，需要与神建立联系，将自己与神的真理相连。这不仅指遵守神的律法，更重要的是要通过耶稣基督的救赎获得新生，成为一个新的生命体。只有将神放在生活的首位，荣耀神，才能获得真正的实质和稳定，避免像糠秕一样被风吹散。

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The sermon discusses the concept of rootlessness and weightlessness in modern society, comparing it to the stability of an oak tree versus the freedom of a tumbleweed. It highlights how this condition affects individuals and society, leading to superficiality and a lack of enduring internal reality.

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A plant without roots is at best a tumbleweed. Is a tumbleweed freer than an oak tree? Yeah, it’s free to be blown about forever. 

There is what the Bible calls a rootlessness and a weightlessness about our society right now. Many of the problems you face today are that you’ve been affected deeply by this weightlessness we experience in our culture and society. 

The roots of this rootlessness were addressed long ago in Psalm 1, which tells us 1) the diagnosis of rootlessness and 2) the prescription for rootlessness.

This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 19, 1993. Series: Modern Problems; Ancient Solutions. Scripture: Psalm 1.

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