WE WILL FOCUS ON THE SEXUAL IMMORALITY PLAGUING OUR NATION. THIS IS THE EVILNESS FACING OUR NATION OF A NEW WORLD ORDER DESIGN. WE ARE A NATION IN CRISIS. GOD IS IN CONTROL, BUT WE MUST DO OUR PART AND COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING THAT WE MUST FIGHT FOR THE SANCTITY OF THE FAMILY. THE SATANIC CULTURE IN OUR COUNTRY HAS JOINED FORCES TO PROMOTE THE HEDONISTIC LIFESTYLE OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH NEVER SEEN IN OUR COUNTRY BEFORE.

ONLY TWICE IN THE HISTORY OF RECORDED CIVILIZATION HAVE WE SEEN SUCH TOTAL DISINTEGRATION OF THE FAMILY. THE FIRST WAS THE FALL OF THE GREEK SOCIETY, AND THE SECOND WAS WITH THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

IT FIRST BEGINS WITH THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE FAMILY THROUGH SEXUAL IMMORALITY. SECOND IS THE ERASING, DELETING AND REMOVING OF THE CULTURE. AND THIRD COMES THE FALL. FIRST

CORINTHIANS 6:9-10 SAYS, “DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? DO NOT BE DECEIVED. NEITHER FORNICATORS, NOR IDOLATORS, NOR ADULTERERS, NOR HOMOSEXUALS, NOR SODOMITES, NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS, NOR EXTORTIONERS WILL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.”

SEXUAL IMMORALITY COMPLETELY DISINTEGRATES THE FOUNDATION OF A FAMILY. TODAY OUR YOUNGER GENERATIONS ARE PROMOTING HEDONISM, THE HOOK-UP CULTURE, AND THE BLURRING OF GENDERS, AND THEY ARE DECEIVING THEMSELVES, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO PROFESS CHRISTIANITY AS A DOCTRINE, BUT NOT AS A RULE OF LIFE. GOD HAS GIVEN US BOUNDARIES TO PROTECT US.

UNFORTUNATELY, MANY SELF-PROCLAIMED CHRISTIANS TODAY HAVE GIVEN A SECOND-RATE EFFORT TO A FIRST-CLASS CAUSE, OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. THE LOVE OF MANY CLAIMING CHRIST HAS GROWN COLD. WHAT HAS CAUSED THIS DILEMMA? THE LUKEWARM CHRISTIAN IS THE SINNERS ALIBI.

THE WORLD IS IN LOVE WITH SIN. IF WE ARE NOT SERIOUS ABOUT OUR COMMITMENT TO BEING BOLD IN OUR FAITH, THEN WHY WOULD THOSE WE PROFESS CHRIST TO EVERYDAY BE SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR COMMITMENT.

IF WE ARE ON FIRE FOR CHRIST, OTHERS WILL COME AND WATCH. SET YOURSELF ON FIRE AND THE WORLD WILL COME AND WATCH YOU BURN. GEORGE WHITEFIELD SAID, “I WOULD RATHER BURNOUT THAN RUST OUT FOR CHRIST.” WE CANNOT CALL SOMEONE TO TAKE A SIDE FOR CHRIST WHILE WE ARE STRADDLING THE FENCE. IF YOU’RE NOT AUTHENTIC IN YOUR WALK WITH CHRIST, WHY WOULD SINNERS CARE TO LISTEN? WE CAN NO LONGER GIVE SECOND-CLASS DEDICATION TO A FIRST-CLASS CAUSE. HEAVEN GAVE ITS BEST FOR US, SO LET US GIVE OUR BEST FOR HEAVEN.

LET US NOT LEAN ON OURSELVES IN DEFENDING OUR OWN REPUTATION OR SEEK HONOR FOR OURSELVES. DO NOT WORRY ABOUT BEING CALLED NAMES, SEEK TO HONOR GOD, THEN HE WILL HONOR YOU IN HIS OWN WAY. IN HIS OWN TIME.

DON’T CAST YOUR PEARLS BEFORE SWINE. THE WORLDLY PERSON WILL CALL YOU ALL KINDS OF NAMES WHEN YOU SERVE GOD. AND UNFORTUNATELY, MANY HAVE ALLOWED THE NAME CALLING TO CAUSE THEM TO BACKDOWN OR ISOLATE THEMSELVES FROM STANDING BOLDLY FOR GOD.

READ AND TRUST IN GOD’S WORD, NOT THE WORLD’S WORD. JESUS SAID, “IF YOU LOVE ME, YOU WILL OBEY MY COMMANDMENTS” (JOHN 14:15). ALLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT TO REVEAL TRUTH TO YOU. ADJUST YOUR LIFE TO GOD. THEN GOD CAN AND WILL WORK IN AND THROUGH YOU TO ACCOMPLISH HIS PURPOSES. IN LIFE TODAY,

THOSE THAT WORSHIP WORLDLINESS FIND NO END TO BLAMING OTHERS FOR THEIR PROBLEMS. UP TO YOUR EYE BALLS IN STUDENT DEBT OR PERSONAL DEBT, IT’S THOSE STUDENT LOAN COMPANIES AND CREDIT CARD COMPANIES THAT WERE IRRESPONSIBLE IN GRANTING THE CREDIT TO THEM. ADDICTION TO THEIR CELL PHONES AND SOCIAL MEDIA ARE BLAMED ON THE INVENTORS OF CELL PHONES. THEIR IMPATIENCE, THEIR ENTITLEMENT, THEIR LACK OF LOYALTY AND WORK ETHIC IS BLAMED ON HOW THEIR PARENTS RAISED THEM. ITS ALWAYS OTHERS THAT ARE TO BLAME FOR THEIR BEHAVIOR, WHICH IS A RESULT OF THEM FOCUSING ON SERVING ONLY THEMSELVES THAN SERVING OTHERS. AND FINALLY, THEY BLAME GOD FOR ALL THE ILLS THAT BEFALLS US, INSTEAD OF BLAMING OUR REBELLION AGAINST GOD.

THIS IS NOTHING NEW. WHEN GOD CONFRONTED ADAM IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, AFTER THEY HAD EATEN THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT, ADAM BLAMED BOTH GOD AND EVE FOR HIS WRONG. IN TURN, EVE BLAMED THE SERPENT FOR TEMPTING HER (GENESIS 3).

– – RATIONALIZED DISOBEDIENCE – –

THE NATURAL MAN DOES NOT WELCOME GOD’S SPIRIT BECAUSE THE NATURAL MAN BELIEVES IT IS FOOLISHNESS, SO HE IS NOT ABLE TO KNOW IT SINCE IT CAN ONLY BE EVALUATED SPIRITUALLY.

EVANGELISM UP TO ABOUT 1990 HAD DIVERSE IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS FROM DENOMINATIONAL, INDEPENDENT, FUNDAMENTALISTS, ETC. BUT ALL OF THEM HAD AT LEAST ONE THING IN COMMON, WHICH IS THEY KNEW THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN. ONE WAY WAS AN UNSHAKABLE BELIEF IN ALL EVANGELICALS.

TODAY THIS IS NO LONGER THE CASE. EVANGELICALS ARE NO LONGER UNIFIED ON THIS ISSUE. UNFORTUNATELY, MANY ARE OPENLY INSISTING THAT JESUS IS NOT THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN. THEY HAVE FALLEN TO THE FALSE BELIEF THAT ALL PATHS LEAD TO GOD. ADDITIONALLY, MANY ARE TO COWARDLY, EMBARRASSED OR SIMPLY HESITANT TO STAND FIRM IN THE EXCLUSIVITY OF THE GOSPEL IN TODAY’S ERA OF INCLUSIVITY, PLURALISM AND TOLERANCE OF ALL THINGS.

TODAY, THE SECULAR WORLD DEMANDS THAT THE CULTURE STOP DECLARING CHRIST IS THE TRUTH. THIS CULTURE WAR SEES CHRISTIANITY AS BEING OUT OF HARMONY WITH THE WORLD. SO, WHY HAS THIS DRAMATIC SHIFT TAKEN PLACE? ONE OF THE REASONS IS BECAUSE CHURCH LEADERS HAVE LEANED ON THEIR DESPERATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE QUEST TO BE RELEVANT AND FASHIONABLE BY SIDING WITH THE WORLD, WHICH I CALL NICKELS AND NOSES, WHICH IS MONEY & NUMBERS OF PEOPLE.

THIS IS WHERE POST MODERNISM HAS TAKEN ROOT IN ITS HOSTILITY TOWARD THE TRUTH OF SCRIPTURE. NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO CAPITULATE TO WORLDLY CRIES TO ACCEPT PLURALISM AND INCLUSIVISM.

WE MUST STAND FOR OUR CONVICTION THAT CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN, OR THE EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY WEAK AND IRRELEVANT. ABSOLUTE EXCLUSIVITY THAT CHRIST ALONE HAS ATONED FOR OUR SIN SUMS UP ABSOLUTE TRUTH. THE EARLY CHURCH PREACHED CHRIST CRUCIFIED, KNOWING THE MESSAGE WAS A STUMBLING BLOCK TO THE RELIGIOUS JEWS AND FOOLISHNESS TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL GREEKS (1 CORINTHIANS 1:23).

WE MUST RECOVER THAT APOSTOLIC BOLDNESS. SINNERS ARE NOT WON BY PUBLIC RELATIONS OR FOLKSY PERSUASION, BUT BY THE GOSPEL. THE GOSPELS DISTINCTIVENESS AND EXCLUSIVITY IS THE VERY NARROWNESS THAT SETS CHRISTIANITY APART FROM EVERY OTHER WORLDVIEW.

THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE SERMON ON THE NARROW WAY WAS TO DECLARE THAT THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION IS BROAD AND WELL TRAVELED, WHILE THE WAY TO LIFE IS SO NARROW THAT FEW FIND IT (MATTHEW 7:13-14). OUR VERY REQUIREMENT AS DISCIPLES IS TO POINT TO THE VERY NARROW WAY.

CHRIST IS THE ONE AND ONLY WAY TO GOD, AND TO OBSCURE THAT FACT IS, IN EFFECT, TO DENY CHRIST AND DISAVOW THE GOSPEL ITSELF. WE ARE NOT TO ALLOW WORLDLY FADS OR FASHIONS TO BE BLENDED OR ABSORBED INTO THE CHURCH. WE MUST STAND FIRM AND EMPHASIZE CHRIST EXCLUSIVELY AS SOUND DOCTRINE, OTHERWISE WE ARE THREATENING TO MERGE THE NARROW AND BROAD WAYS INTO AN INCLUSIVE DOCTRINE.

“LET NO ONE DECEIVE HIMSELF. IF ANYONE AMONG YOU SEEMS TO BE WISE IN THIS AGE, LET HIM BECOME A FOOL THAT HE MAY BECOME WISE. FOR THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD” (1 CORINTHIANS 3:18-19).

CHURCHES AND PREACHERS TODAY COURT THE WORLD’S FAVOR BY BEING TERRIFIED TO OFFEND UNCHURCHED PEOPLE THINKING THE GOSPEL MIGHT TURN SOMEONE AGAINST THEM, SO THEY DELIBERATELY OMIT PARTS OF THE MESSAGE THE WORLD MIGHT NOT LIKE.

TOO MANY EVANGELICALS HAVE BEEN HIJACKED INTO BELIEVING THAT THE CHURCH CAN BE INCLUSIVE, PLURALISTIC AND BROAD-MINDED AS THE POLITICALLY CORRECT WORLD.

“DO NOT MARVEL, MY BRETHREN, IF THE WORLD HATES YOU” (1 JOHN 3:13).

CATERING TO THE WORLD IS SPIRITUAL HARLOTRY. THE APOSTLE JAMES ADDRESSES IT. “ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES! DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD IS ENMITY WITH GOD? WHOEVER THEREFORE WANTS TO BE A FRIEND OF THE WORLD MAKES HIMSELF AN ENEMY OF GOD” (JAMES 4:4).

THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH EACH OTHER. GENUINE FAITH IN CHRIST NECESSITATES A DENIAL OF EVERY WORLDLY VALUE. OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST CONSIDERED IT A GIVEN THAT THE WORLD WOULD DESPISE THE CHURCH.

IN SPEAKING TO HIS DISCIPLES, JESUS SAID, “IF THE WORLD HATES YOU, YOU KNOW THAT IT HATED ME BEFORE IT HATED YOU. IF YOU WERE OF THE WORLD, THE WORLD WOULD LOVE ITS OWN. YET BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, BUT I CHOSE YOU OUT OF THE WORLD, THEREFORE THE WORLD HATES YOU” (JOHN 15:18-19).

CLEARLY, THE QUEST FOR WORLDLY ACCOLADES IS A CHARACTERISTIC OF BEING A FALSE PROPHET OR TEACHER. THAT IS WHY NO MATTER HOW DRAMATIC WORLDLY OPINION IS, SUCH AS, TELLING US CHRISTIANITY IS ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY WHEN IT COMES TO SEXUAL IMMORALITY, IT SHOWS US CHRISTIAN TRUTH WILL NEVER BE POPULAR WITH THE WORLD. YET, THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH WHO ARE CONVINCED THAT THE BEST WAY TO WIN THE WORLD IS BY CATERING TO WORLDLY TASTES.

THE ONLY TIMES THE CHURCH HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE WORLD IS WHEN THE PEOPLE OF GOD HAVE STOOD FIRM PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH AND REFUSED TO COMPROMISE DESPITE THE WORLD’S HOSTILITY. IT IS BECAUSE CHRISTIANS HAVE SHRUNK AWAY FROM THE TASK OF CONFRONTING WORLDLY DELUSIONS WITH WHAT THEY DEEM AS UNPOPULAR BIBLICAL TRUTHS, THE CHURCH HAS AND CONTINUES TO LOSE INFLUENCE.

BIBLICAL TRUTH IS FIXED AND CONSTANT. FIRST, MODERNISM AND THEN, POSTMODERNISM, WHICH BOTH HAVE BEEN STUMBLING BLOCKS TO WHAT I CALL WORLDLY CHURCH GOERS. WHERE MODERNISM WAS A WORLDLY VIEW BASED ON THE NOTION THAT ONLY SCIENCE COULD EXPLAIN REALITY, AND THAT NOTHING SUPERNATURAL IS REAL. THIS SHOULD BE INSTANTLY OBVIOUS THAT MODERNISM IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS OF CHRISTIANITY.

THE SUPERNATURAL OF COURSE INCLUDES GOD HIMSELF. MODERNISM WAS AT ITS CORE, ANTI-CHRISTIAN. MODERNISM AND CHRISTIANITY COULD NOT BE RECONCILED. BUT NOW, POSTMODERNISM HAS TAKEN AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VIEW BY STATING THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ABSOLUTE, OBJECTIVE OR UNIVERSAL TRUTH.

TO THE POSTMODERNIST, REALITY IS WHATEVER THE INDIVIDUAL IMAGINES IT TO BE. THIS MEANS THAT TRUTH IS DETERMINED BY EACH PERSON, AND THERE IS NO OBJECTIVE, AUTHORITATIVE TRUTH THAT APPLIES TO ALL HUMANITY. WHICH IS WHERE WE ARE TODAY IN ALL THIS BLENDING OF THE GENDERS. POSTMODERNISTS BELIEVE THERE IS NO RIGHT AND WRONG, RATHER ONE PERSON’S PERSPECTIVE OF TRUTH IS ULTIMATELY JUST AS VALID AS ANOTHER PERSON’S
POINT OF VIEW. SO, UNDERSTANDING REQUIRES THAT WE DISAVOW THE POSSIBILITY OF KNOWING ANY TRUTH EXISTS AT ALL. TO THE POSTMODERNIST, TRUTH NOW BECOMES NOTHING MORE THAN PERSONAL OPINION.

THE CHURCH HOWEVER HAS BECOME IRRELEVANT DUE TO WORLDLY ACCEPTANCE INSTEAD OF BOLDNESS IN ITS BELIEF OF CHRIST EXCLUSIVELY AS THE ONE AND ONLY WAY TO GOD. TODAY, TO HOLD STRONG CONVICTIONS ABOUT BIBLICAL TRUTH IS DEEMED INTOLERANT AND EVEN AS EVIL.

THIS ENCOMPASSES THE “NEW AGE” RELIGION AND IDEOLOGY. THIS EXPLAINS WHY PEOPLE TODAY ARE MORE SELF-ABSORBED AND NARCISSISTIC THAN ANY GENERATION IN HISTORY.

WHEN INDIVIDUALS CAN REINTERPRET EVERYTHING SUBJECTIVELY SO THAT EACH PERSON DETERMINES WHAT IS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES THEN CIVILIZATION ITSELF IS IN SERIOUS TROUBLE. THIS IS THE DIRECTION AMERICA IS HEADED. SECULARISTS ACCEPT THE NOTION THAT ABSOLUTE TRUTH IS UNKNOWABLE, SO PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT ALMOST ANYTHING IN PLACE OF THE TRUTH.

THIS BRINGS TO MIND COUNTRY ARTIST AARON TIPPIN, WHO’S SONG “YOU GOT TO STAND FOR SOMETHING OR YOU’LL FALL FOR ANYTHING,” RESONATES TRUER TODAY MORE THAN EVER. UNFORTUNATELY, TOO MANY CHURCH GOERS HAVE BOUGHT INTO QUESTIONING THE CONFIDENCE IN THE OBJECTIVE TRUTH OF SCRIPTURE.

UNCERTAINTY AND OPENNESS TO MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEW ARE THE PREFERRED STYLE AMONG FALSE PREACHERS TODAY. THEY TELL US THAT WE MUST SET ASIDE DOCTRINE FOR THE SAKE OF HARMONY. SCRIPTURE IS CLEAR AND UNAMBIGUOUS.

AUTHENTIC CHRISTIANS HAVE ALWAYS HELD THAT SCRIPTURE IS
ABSOLUTE, OBJECTIVE TRUTH, REGARDLESS OF ANYONE’S OPINION ABOUT IT. IT HAS TRUE MEANING THAT APPLIES TO EVERYONE. IT IS GOD’S WORD TO HUMANITY. ITS TRUE MEANING IS DETERMINED BY GOD, AND IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE SHAPED TO FIT THE PREFERENCES OF INDIVIDUALS.

BIBLICAL TRUTH IS TRUE BY ITSELF. IT IS TRUE WHETHER OR NOT SOMEONE FEELS IT’S TRUE. IF YOU GIVE UP THE GROUND OF BIBLICAL TRUTH, WHATEVER YOU HAVE LEFT IS NOT WORTHY TO BE LABELED CHRISTIAN. MANY WHO WOULD CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIAN TODAY ARE USING LANGUAGE AND SYMBOLISM OF CHRISTIANITY, BUT THEIR REAL SOURCE OF AUTHORITY IS SOMETHING OTHER THAN SCRIPTURE. THE BIBLICAL MESSAGE IS CLEAR.

JESUS SAID, “I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME (JOHN 14:6). THE APOSTLE PETER PROCLAIMED, “NOR IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER, FOR THERE IS NO NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN BY WHICH WE MUST BE SAVED” (ACTS 4:12). THE APOSTLE JOHN WROTE, “HE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE THE SON SHALL NOT SEE LIFE, BUT THE WRATH OF GOD ABIDES ON HIM” (JOHN 3:36). THE APOSTLE PAUL, “FOR THERE IS ONE GOD AND ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MEN, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS” (1 TIMOTHY 2:5).

AGAIN AND AGAIN, SCRIPTURE STRESSES THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY HOPE OF SALVATION FOR THE WORLD. ONLY CHRIST CAN ATONE FOR SIN, AND THEREFORE ONLY CHRIST CAN PROVIDE SALVATION.

WHAT IS NEEDED IS PREACHING THAT WOULD CONVICT THEM OF SIN AND MAKE THEM SEE THEY NEED CHRIST, AND CHRIST ALONE, BUT MANY NEVER HEAR THAT. THE PREACHING MANY RECEIVE IS
BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT THEY ARE CHRISTIANS BASED UPON THEIR OWN MERIT OR BEING A CHURCH MEMBER.

THERE ARE ONLY TWO KINDS OF RELIGION IN THE WORLD. THOSE BASED ON HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT, WHICH SAYS YOU EARN YOUR WAY TO HEAVEN – VERSUS – THOSE BASED ON DIVINE ACCOMPLISHMENT, WHICH SAYS YOU MUST BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST ALONE.

WE ARE NOT TO LOOK UPON THE EXTERIOR OF A PERSON, OR WHAT THEY DO IN LIFE, BUT RATHER THE ETERNAL SPIRITUAL NEED OF EACH OF US BROKEN SINNERS.

IN OUR DAILY LIVES, BELIEVERS IN CHRIST CAN HIGHLIGHT HIS GREAT GIFT BY OFFERING TO OTHERS THE SACRIFICE OF OUR TIME, TREASURES, AND A TEMPERAMENT THAT SPEAKS OF LOVE.

PAUL WROTE, “I URGE YOU, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IN VIEW OF GOD’S MERCY, TO OFFER YOUR BODIES AS A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY AND PLEASING TO GOD” (ROMANS 12:1).

BIBLICAL TOLERANCE IS BASED IN VIRTUE. POSTMODERN TOLERANCE IS BASED IN REQUIRING ALL VIEWPOINTS TO BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT QUESTION, EXCEPT CHRISTIANITY. WE CAN’T TELL THE WORLD, THIS IS TRUTH, BUT WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BELIEVE IS FINE TOO. IT’S NOT FINE. SCRIPTURE COMMANDS US TO BE INTOLERANT OF ANY IDEAS THAT DENIES THE TRUTH.

TOLERANCE OF SIN IS FOR THOSE WHO LACK VIRTUE. IT IS NOT VALUES THAT WE DESPERATELY NEED TODAY, BUT VIRTUE. YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO STAND AND SAY, I KNOW THAT I KNOW THAT THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD.” HERE WE HAVE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, THE SON OF GOD, AND YET, MOST CHRISTIANS CAN’T GET UP ENOUGH ENTHUSIASM TO KEEP FROM LOOKING BORED WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT HIM.

SO YES, WE ARE A NATION IN CRISIS. ONE BY ONE THE FOUNDATIONS OF DECENCY AND HOPE ARE BEING KICKED TO THE CURB, AND ONE DAY, CALAMITY WILL COME.

WE WILL CALL OUT TO GOD, BUT THERE WILL BE NO ANSWER (1 SAMUEL 8:18). OUR INIQUITIES ARE SEPARATING US FROM GOD, SO THAT HE WILL NOT HEAR US. WE WILL PRAY, BUT OUR PRAYERS WON’T BE ANSWERED (ISAIAH 59:1-4).

WE LIVE IN A DAY OF MORAL AMBIVALENCE, WHICH IS TO SAY OUR NATION IS ALLOWING CONTRADICTORY IDEAS ON THINGS SUCH AS SEX AND GENDER, INSTEAD OF STANDARDS OF VIRTUE BASED IN FAITH IN GOD’S WORD. AND THAT ACTUAL SCIENCE DOES PROVE SCRIPTURE.

WE ARE TOLD TODAY THAT PUBLIC APPROVAL VALIDATES WRONG BEHAVIOR BY CALLING EVIL GOOD, AND GOOD EVIL (ISAIAH 5:20). WE ARE BOMBARDED BY MEDIA, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND MANY OTHERS THAT IF SOMEONE IS APPROVED BY SOCIETY, THEN THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS.

DAY AFTER DAY, WE ARE FED A DIET OF DECEPTION. OUR WORLD AND NATION ARE ON A SATANIC DIET THAT ARE DELIBERATE AND CALCULATED WICKEDNESS. IF YOU TAKE TIME TO RESEARCH AND STUDY FROM THE PROPHET ISAIAH’S TIME TO TODAY YOU WILL SEE THIS WICKEDNESS IS HATCHED IN MATERIALISM, HUMANISM, MARXISM TO INCLUDE: NEW AGEISM, LIBERALISM, SOCIALISM, AND COMMUNISM.

THERE ARE PHILOSOPHICAL STRUCTURES IN AMERICAN LIFE TODAY THAT ARE POISONING OUR EDUCATIONAL, RELIGIOUS, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL VIEWPOINTS. WE SEND OUR CHILDREN TO CEASAR AND WONDER WHY THEY BECOME ROMANS. OUR CHILDREN ARE BEING SERVED POISON EACH DAY BY THE SOCIAL ENGINEERING THAT HAS OVERTAKEN OUR NATION.

IN 1963, BIBLE READING IN CLASSROOM WAS DISMANTLED. IN 1962, PRAYER IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAS RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL. IN 1980, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAS DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL. IN 1982, THE TEACHING OF BIBLICAL CREATION WAS PROHIBITED. SO, IN THE SPAN OF 20 YEARS, GOD WAS EXPELLED FROM OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

CREATION IS OUT, AND EVOLUTION WAS THE NEW VALUE TEACHING OUR CHILDREN THAT MAN COMES FROM SOME PRIMORDIAL OOZE. TRUTH IS OUT AND RELATIVISM, SOMETIMES KNOWN AS REVISIONISM IS IN. ABSTINENCE IS OUT, YET ALL FORMS OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY ARE IN.

IS IT ANY WONDER THAT TEENAGE SUICIDE RATES HAVE SOARED ALONG WITH PROMISCUITY AND VIOLENT CRIME. TRUTH HAS STUMBLED AND IS ON THE FLOOR, BUT IT IS NOT DEAD. DISHONEST MEDIA, POLITICIANS AND FALSE PREACHERS ARE FUELING SATAN’S AGENDA.

THERE IS AN ALARMING DECLINE IN BASIC HONESTY IN EVERY AREA OF GOVERNMENT, SCIENCE, MEDIA AND PROFESSIONAL ENTITIES. SCRIPTURE CALLS OUT THOSE OUTSIDE THE GATES AS DOGS, AND SORCERERS, SEXUALLY IMMORAL, MURDERS, IDOLATERS AND EVERYONE WHO LOVES AND PRACTICES LYING (REVELATION 22:15).

THESE ARE HABITUAL LIARS THAT PROFIT IN SOME WAY BY EITHER GAINING POWER OR MONETARILY TO BE TRASHERS OF TRUTH. THEY ATTACK THOSE WHO STAND UP AND SPEAK UP CALLING FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE. SO, WHAT MUST WE DO? OUR JOB IN AMERICA TODAY IS TO PUT TRUTH BACK ON ITS FEET. PASTORS MUST STAND IN THE PULPITS EVERY DAY TO OPEN THE BOOK OF TRUTH, AND STATE “THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY” WITHOUT FEAR OF RETALIATION.

AND EVERY BELIEVER NEEDS TO REDEDICATE THEMSELVES TO THE TRUTH. WE NEED TO TEACH CHILDREN TO LOVE THE TRUTH, TO TELL THE TRUTH, TO KNOW THE TRUTH, AND TO BELIEVE THE TRUTH. GOD CALLS THE BIBLE THE WORD OF TRUTH (EPHESIANS 1:13).

GOD CALLS THE HOLY SPIRIT THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH (JOHN 14:17). JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE (JOHN 14:6). THE CHURCH IS CALLED THE PILLAR AND THE GROUND OF TRUTH (1 TIMOTHY 3:15).

THE EARLY CHRISTIANS DID NOT ARGUE OVER SCRIPTURE. THEY LOVED IT, THEY BELIEVED IT, THEY SHARED IT, AND THEY PRESENTED IT AND EXPLAINED IT IN DETAIL.

WE MUST TAKE AMERICA BACK TO THE TRUTH. WE MUST SHARE THE GOSPEL; FIRST AND FOREMOST. MANY FEEL AS THOUGH THEY ARE UNPREPARED, BUT SCRIPTURE GIVES IT CLEARLY FOR ALL IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15. “MOREOVER, BRETHREN, I DECLARE TO YOU THE GOSPEL, WHICH I PREACHED TO YOU, WHICH ALSO YOU RECEIVED AND IN WHICH YOU STAND, BY WHICH YOU ARE SAVED, IF YOU HOLD FAST THAT WORD WHICH I PREACHED TO YOU – UNLESS YOU BELIEVE IN VAIN. FOR I DELIVERED TO YOU FIRST OF ALL THAT WHICH I ALSO RECEIVED THAT CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, AND THAT HE WAS BURIED, AND THAT HE ROSE AGAIN THE THIRD DAY ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES
(1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-4).

OUR NATION HAS FORGOTTEN GOD. MAKE DISCIPLES, NOT CHURCH MEMBERS. HERE IS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR YOU, “WHAT PART OF YOUR LIFE IS JESUS NOT LORD OVER?” WE ARE NOT TO ALLOW THE CULTURE TO DEFINE AREAS FOR US NOT TO PREACH JUST TO SATISFY THEIR FEELINGS.

PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT THE FIRST GENERATION WOULD RESIST, BUT EVENTUALLY ACCEPT, THE NEXT GENERATION WILL ACCEPT BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS DID, AND EVERY FOLLOWING GENERATION WILL OPERATE UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY. TO BE A GREAT CHURCH, AND A GREAT NATION FOR CHRIST, YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE.

UNFORTUNATELY, MANY SERVE IN WAYS SO THAT CULTURE WON’T THROW STONES AT THEM. WE MUST STAND BOLDLY IN THE FIGHT, AND IF NEED BE, DIE FOR THE KING OF KINGS. WE MUST KEEP LEADING OTHERS TO CHRIST UNTIL HE RETURNS.

SO, I ASK YOU AGAIN, “WHAT PART OF YOUR LIFE IS JESUS NOT LORD OVER?”