Day 5
In today’s world we
have the hustle and bustle of automobiles, the noise of trains, the fast
transportation of airplanes, the monopoly of television, the frustrations of
computers, and we have the wheeling and dealing of politicians. What more could
you ask for?
We tolerate the scientist who try to destroy the bible with their
theories of the earth being formed by accident. We tolerate the atheists who
want God out of our country. We tolerate a government that is destroying our
constitution. We tolerate a society that thinks sex and violence are the things
we should be watching on television and in the movies. Yes things have really
changed, or have they?
The only thing I see that has changed is the
attitude of our nation. In 1776 our constitution was signed and the United
States became a nation. This document was based on the Holy Scriptures and
everyone in our nation swore to defend the constitution and our rights as
citizens. Today the supreme courts are denying that the constitution was base on
the scriptures and are systematically taking away our rights. Why? Because our
attitudes as citizens have changed. The people of America have demonstrated to
the government that they are more interested in the pleasures of the flesh than
in the family values. Read (Genesis
19:1-20).
In the world today we have people who claim to
be witches, people who tell the future by using cards and crystal balls
(Acts
8:14-25), people who value
money more than God (Acts
19:21-41). We have
Christians who exploit the people for their money (Acts
5:1-11). We have
preachers who tell us one thing and some another (Galatians
2:11-21).
The economy of today demands that both the
husband and wife work just to make ends meet (Matthew
6:25-34). Our government
nor our churches are holding parents responsible for their children and married
couples today are more interested in how much alimony and child support they can
get or that they will have to pay, than their concern about their family.
Couples today are all show and no go (Matthew
5:31-32). Couples today
are more concerned about how well their children participate in sports than how
well they know about God (Ephesians
1:15-23).
There are those who want salvation and they
believe in God, but they want to party first. They want to wait until they are
old to accept Christ as their Saviour. By that time they will be ready to settle
down. However, there is a problem with that line of thought. The average age of
people killed in automobile accidents is 25-35, the average age of murder
victims is 18-30. What I am trying to say is we can die at any time. We can’t be
guaranteed we will live long enough to be ready to settle
down.
Let’s go past all the fancy gadgets we have
today and look at what matters to God. God hasn’t changed any of His
commandments, nor has He changed the requirements for salvation. God hasn’t
changed the date the world will end. God hasn’t changed His views on good and
evil. God hasn’t changed any of the scriptures He inspired men to
write.
No Christianity has not changed. No the world
hasn’t changed. The world is just more easily advertised and Christianity is
more publicly ridiculed than it once was. All these things have always been
there, we just hear more about them because of the news media.
The owner of the Washington Post was asked why
his paper never printed good news about ordinary
people doing something good for their community. His answer was this," people
won’t buy good news, I would go bankrupt if I printed just good
news.”
I have been to many different denominations and heard many different
preachers in my search for a church home. I have experienced preachers that
never read or quote scripture, preachers that talk about what they have done for
an hour and never mention what Christ has done, preachers who stated “I sin
daily and I’m proud of it,” and preachers who preach the gospel and lead people
to salvation. Which of these preachers do you think we should be listening
to?
Some of our seminaries are teaching preachers to
tell the people what they want to hear. They are so concerned with how much
money the church takes in, they don’t think the preachers should tell people
what they need to know about being a Christian and risk offending
them.
No Christianity has not changed because God
hasn’t changed. It is the responsibility of each individual to study God’s word,
learn to understand God’s word, and build their own lasting relationship with
God. Jesus set the example of how we should live and before he left he gave us a
helper (Holy Spirit) to convict us of our sins and teach us. The Holy Spirit
will also point our the deceptions of others if we will allow Him to work in our
lives.
Daily
Bible Reading:
Read John
14
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