Posted by
Ikester on Saturday, May 31, 2008 4:10:09 PM
"All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel." Judges 2:10
Israel, for illustration purposes, could easily be replaced by America in this case. The people of the USA have been robbed of biblical education in our public schools and the media has deliberately chosen to teach revised history through their programming. Prayer was removed, the Ten Commandments are not allowed and the rise of violence and immorality are a direct result of this. Our founding fathers were insistent on the Bible being a central textbook in all of public instruction. Congress paid for Bibles to be printed and distributed, the congress building was used for Christian worship and the founders were, for the most part, God fearing people. McGuffey's readers were filled with Bible passages and moral instruction. I could go on and on about how central the Bible was to all of life.
Today, we see at least two generations, for the most part, that have been robbed of this training and so we have the youth through the forty something generations who are trying to understand life without the aid of moral and spiritual foundational truth. This is the source of the insane ideas coming from the liberals today. The condoning of the very things that God and His Bible condemn has become standard practice on a daily basis. The push to legitimize homosexuality and doing anything to keep abortion legal fits right into all of this.
This is not to say that these generations are totally devoid of these values, since millions of young people are deeply committed to God and live their lives to honor Him. The number of God worshippers has decreased as a direct result of the secularization of our society.
Tragically, many of today's Christian churches have also fallen prey to this secularization. By avoiding the teaching of the whole council of God, the whole Bible, they have contributed to the dumbing down of their congregations. America desperately needs a revival in the Christian churches of this land. Pastors and teachers must return to teaching more than just the 'feel good' passages of Scripture. They must deal with judgment, repentance, moral living, accountability, immorality, hell as well as heaven and other such topics. To go to the doctor with intense pain and to have the doctor tell you to take two aspirin and just ignore the pain would be a case of malpractice. So it is with many of today's feel good preachers and teachers. They are avoiding the real gut level issues in the lives of the people who come to hear what God has to say to them. The focus is on how to have more friends, a better marriage, and better sex to the exclusion of dealing with issues that destroy their very lives. Adultery, homosexuality, abortion, divorce, lying, obesity (shocker), drugs, alcohol, smoking are all things that are physically and emotionally destroying millions of lives, yet these are avoided since it might 'offend' the audience. OFFEND ME! Tell me the CONSEQUENCES of doing these things. Adultery, homosexuality, child molestation and pornography are often the very things that bring down the very pastor who stands before the people to preach. If he is doing these things, do you think that he will ever condemn them from the pulpit? I love pastors, since I was one for thirty-one years. It cuts my heart out every time I hear of another wheels-off wreck in a ministry. This brings disgrace on the whole body of Christ, the church.
These are all strong signs that the people in the church should insist on the whole Bible being used in our times of teaching and preaching. I speak to people, young and old, who are hungering for this kind of teaching in their churches. They want to know the whole truth, not cotton candy! The future of this very nation depends on the church and its leaders setting the pace for the congregations, who in turn will set the pace in society. If the people do not know what is right and wrong, how are they to be change agents in the society?
This change MUST take place immediately since the pushers of Socialism and atheism are running full steam ahead. With California's Supreme Court ruling on same sex marriage and many other cities and states that are trying to follow suit, the debate in congress of creating a Frankenstein man/animal combination, the constant murder of the most innocent of our citizens and the insanity goes on and on. Every day, new and unbelievable things are being shoved down the throats of God-fearing and moral people. Don't you see the tidal wave of evil that is sweeping over this land? When will we step out of political correctness chains and express our gut feelings on this. This is an urgent matter and if something is not done soon we will see the very foundations of America removed and replaced with godless philosophies and the expansion of the culture of death.
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke