NAME: Dan Biser June
19, 2012
Messenger: Zoar Baptist Church,
Potomac Highland Baptist Association; West Virginia Convention of Southern
Baptists;
Pastor of Zoar Baptist Church,
August, WV and Fox’s Hollow Baptist Church, Romney, WV;
Organizer of Broken Before the Throne
– http://www.brokenbeforethethrone.com
I wasn’t
coming to the convention. But then the
circuit court of California ruled that they would no longer hear any arguments
about Proposition 8. Another court ruled
that DOMA (Defense of Marriage Amendment) was unconstitutional. Thus, certifying that the issue of marriage
between a man and a woman would come before the Supreme Court.
I
immediately sent out correspondence, imploring SBC leadership, pastors, and SBC
entity leaders, and seminary presidents issue an ‘immediate Call to Prayer’. Phone calls and emails to the ERLC were made,
and were never returned. And in being
pressed in my spirit to see something done, “Lord, what would You have me do?”
I had other
prayer partners and intercessors praying for me. And in doing my daily blog
devotional/commentary I was in Isaiah 19:12, “Where are they? Where are thy
wise men? And let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts
hath purposed upon Egypt.”
“Let them know what the Lord of hosts hath
purposed”
Then, I knew
I was to come and speak to you with a heart desire that we seek for His
mercy. And then I asked, ‘Lord, what are
you purposing to do?’
Last year,
2011, we saw the judgments of God in record proportions across this
nation. These weather judgments were of
drought, fires, floods, temperatures and storms with tornadoes. There was much tragic loss of life and
destruction of property. I pleaded with
you in 2010 for a call for Solemn Assemblies.
It was rejected.
“And if ye will not yet for all this
hearken unto Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.”
Leviticus 26:18
Since last
fall of 2011, murder-suicides have been weekly across this nation in our
headlines. Things which we never heard
of, in such horrifying conditions of whole families removed. And just recently, stats reveal that among
teenagers in our country, suicide is at record rates. Our armed forces are seeing, suicide among
the troops at record rates. We are being
removed from the earth for our sins against the Lord.
Now let me share
with you two portions of Scriptures for what the Lord is purposing and make a
motion for your response:
Jeremiah 15:1 -7, “Then said the Lord
unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind could not be toward
this people: cast them out of My sight,
and let them go forth. V. 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee,
Whither shall we go forth? Then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the Lord; Such
as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and
such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity,
to the captivity. V. 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord:
the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the
beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. V. 4 And I will cause them to be
removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah
king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. V. 5 For who shall have pity
upon thee, O Jerusalem? Or who shall bemoan thee? Or who shall go aside to ask
how thou doest? V. 6 Thou hast forsaken Me, saith the Lord, thou art gone
backward: therefore will I stretch out
My hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. V. 7 And I
will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land: I will bereave them of children, I will
destroy My people, since they return not from their ways.”
Do you hear
what He is going to do for our sins of abortion, and now possibly homosexuality
and our disobedience and love of self and sin?
It will be the death of our children and grandchildren. We cannot afford to wait any longer.
And one
other verse of what God is purposing:
Ezekiel 14:13, “Son of man, when the
land sinneth against Me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out Mind
hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send
famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:”
We have
sinned in trespassing grievously as a nation and as the church! We have provoked the Lord God to anger! We have allowed for this nation to be swept
away by a ‘refuge of lies’ from hell!
There must be an urgency upon us for what we have done and what is going
to happen unless we immediately seek Him for mercy!
It is not a
time to debate our name change; it is not a time to be divided and debate over
theological issues of salvation. It is
time to seek the Lord! And for His mercy!
As in 1923, “the
Southern Baptist Convention . . in May of that year. Dr. Love, the Executive
Secretary of the Board, reported to the convention there were 75 candidates to
go, but the Board did not have funds to send anyone. The news shocked the
entire convention. . . The strongest leaders, such as Dr. George W. Truett and Dr.
Gambrell and Dr. E Y Mullins” called for immediate prayer and a motion was made
to respond to this urgent need.
I come
before you now with an urgent need for 250 million souls in North America, lost
and without Christ, out of 300 million. I come before you for 5 billion souls
in this earth out of 7 billion without Christ.
Therefore, I
move that this body, an arm of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, make time
today, or at the first available opportunity to seek God for mercy,
corporately. This convention is only two
days that we are together. And at such a
time as this, we need to respond immediately.
Before our state conventions, associations, regions and local churches
return to their autonomy. May we not
only corporately cry to God ‘in wrath remember mercy’ O Lord, but may you do it
at home before it is too late.
Humbly,
Until,
Dan Biser
And as 1973,
Roe vs. Wade, the sin of abortion became the law of the land, so will the
Supreme Court decide the law of the land about marriage. Because of that action in 1973, over 55
million babies have been aborted, in almost 40 years.
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