Greetings,
In the midst of such epidemics on our nation, the churches loss of Spirit and power, growth of evil and sin in the church and on our streets, and within the homes and hearts of men; and our very future in jeopardy, here is the question that needs to be asked and needs to be answered:
What is going on?
Why is this happening?
What are we to do about it?
". . . Are these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? And I will surely hide My face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. . . " Deuteronomy 31:17 - 19
We have seen an unprecedented increase in evils over these last 10 years. These acts of evil have gradually increased as time as gone. I have spent time in researching, observing, praying and seeking to understand why these things are happening. Out of that comes this heart cry from me to you that read this to answer the above questions one more time.
What is going on?
When an act of evil takes place and calamity happens, people begin to ask 'what is wrong with people?" "What is going on?" The simple answer is, that we are being judged. When a nations is righteous and there is a people that fears and serves the Lord rightly, the Lord meets them and blesses them. But when a people practice and do perverse, sinful, evil things then God meets them and judges them. Our nation has done much to provoke the Lord to anger and judgement. And the church has not done its part to stop the issues that provoke Him. thus, we see an increase in evil and God's judgements upon our nation, homes, streets and churches.
These judgements and episodes that have happened to us have increased to the place of constant remedial judgements. Now remedial judgements are sent and allowed by God to cause them to correct their behavior and cease from doing evil. And if they understand this, and repent of their evil, God will repent of the evil that He thought to do unto them. But if they refuse to turn from their folly, God will meet them with increased remedial judgements that are deeper, more affecting, and of deeper resolve to correct us. These issues of judgement have increased now to be at 'EPIDEMIC' proportions upon our nation and society. so much so, that our very existence as a nation and for population of our future is now at stake. We are not reproducing fast enough to continue a future. We are dying more than living. We are becoming EXTINCT!
Why is this happening?
As I mentioned, we have forsaken and forgotten the Lord over the last 50 years, in almost utter abandonment. We have a nation population at 330 million. But on any given Sunday morning for Christina churches, there may be only around 10% in church to worship and meet Him. I would be willing to give the benefit of doubt and increase to 50 million. But the reality is that well over 80% are not fearing, serving, loving or obeying the Lord and His Word and way.
Now this is due for several reasons:
1. The work of salvation in the soul in generally manipulated by the church. In such a desperation to 'win them', the church has largely "still borne" souls. due to emotion, "decisionism" and religious exercises they have not brought men and women, boy and girls to a saving knowledge of Christ that secures the soul from returning to the world.
when a soul is moved to come to Christ to be saved, the Holy Spirit is drawing them. They are under conviction and they are at that point of recognizing they are lost and need to be saved. One of the principle points of salvation that is generally failed by the church today is to answer the question upon the convicted soul, 'Saved from what?' Saved from sin of course; saved from self. And at that point the soul dies to self, takes up their cross and vows to promise God to follow Him no matter what for all his days.
but the soul that is robbed of this truth, is convicted, being given promises that upon receiving Christ they shall be saved. But they are never instructed to what their new life is all about. They do not know that they are living for Christ totally; nor do they know they are dying to self permanently. thus, they continue in sin, and self; having never truly died to anything, and never really living to anything. This is not biblical salvation to simply receive Christ without the work of Christ to be done in the soul of the seeking person. We have a false salvation.
With this way of doing salvation; which is really just humanism. Men are doing it, not God. We produce religious people, not born again people. And we fill the churches, the rolls with names, baptisms, of those that have been told by men that they are saved. I wonder how many die and go to hell thinking their ok, when they believed a lie, instead of knowing and hearing the whole truth. ADrian Rodgers warned SBC decades ago of this new way of salvation apart from Gospel.
2. There is a lack of knowledge, ignorance of the Word of God and of the God of the Word. Here we see another issue that has mounted in my lifetime, a lack of the bible. Now Madelyne Murray O'Hare may have got the bible out of public schools in 1963, but there are too many churches and Christians that got the bible out of their lives a long time ago on their own. The church, for some reason, I know not, quit reading the Word. They quit teaching the people to memorize verses and passages. They ceased mediation on what God said and Who God is. And out of that came the ignorance of Who God is. They know not His name, nor His attributes, nor His ways. Therefore they are not able to speak to the people truth of Who and what God has said, done or will do
3. The masses of society have seared consciences, reprobate minds and evil hearts. With the added mass of 'still born' souls in the churches and society. with the lack of Bible, truth and knowledge of God. No fear of God, nor way of knowing what is right and wrong; our society has embraced, encouraged, and increased in the ways of hell. We have legalized, and judicial edicts of the very things that God said, "I hate and abhor these things'. We have embraced the abominations and sins that God has vowed to judge any nation, people or person that practices and encourages them to participate in. Thus, we have a huge majority of this nation that refuse to repent from their evil ways. But instead they seek to promote and practice as much evil as they can while they can. They have subverted an entire generation to evil; this is mainly the LGBT agenda. And now we are so close to the age of Noah; 'and God saw that their thoughts and imaginations were continually evil'. And God judged them and destroyed them; and He is doing the same to us.
What are we to do about it?
To acknowledge where we are and what is going on is so important. To continue on as if this normal, or everything is ok, is a lie from hell. We are in serious trouble and the right response to our predicament is absolutely necessary.
With an understanding to all this death and destruction caused by our great sin against a great God, should break our hearts. A great lamentation and mourning should be expressed, seen and heard somewhere. but I can't hardly find it among the church. No tears, no sorrow, no heart cry.
so let us weep over our current situation, weep over our tears, let us weep before the altar and seek the Lord for mercy. Confess our sins and great offenses against Him and His ways.
we have found that less than 20% of SBC churches had or have any type of corporate prayer with any given month. The sin of prayerlessness is great among us. We must see a change in this immediately. For in this we may find the Lord's mercy; "Who knoweth if He will turn and repent and leave a blessing behind Him". But we must seek Him now.
But let me suggest again this remedy:
1. Call for Concerts of Prayer the first of each month; where churches come together corporately and cry out to God; confess sins and seek the Lord;
2. let us acknowledge our sins by specific confessions, followed by repentance; and renewed vows to serve and follow always;
3. a monthly time to fast before the Lord for these most important things;
4. may there be Divine times where God meets these seeking Him and finding Him;
EPIDEMICS:
1. Drugs;
2. Cancer;
3. Great Evil - the last week has revealed the increase daily of murder-suicides; mass shooting in MD, coupled with numerous domestic deaths; Something is in the works here.
4. LGBT;
5. Children abuse, neglect, sex traffic;
6. Natural Disasters;
UPDATES:
--Sermonindex Conference for October 4 - 6 is upon us; your prayers for this and the speakers have been greatly appreciated; continue to pray through these days for each session and speaker and for those that give ear and heart to receive; Everything is pretty much set now, now its time to do it.
--prayer link for the SBC meets at the same time as the sermonindex conference; I've done as much as I feel I can to present what they will receive for that regarding 'urgency' and gathering the SBC prayer life and trying to write it out to show where we are literally; Even though I have not posted all the actual stats, this blog covers the means of it:
http://danbiser.blogspot.com/2018/09/prayer-life-of-sbc.html
--sermons from last Sunday are uploaded to youtube page;
--A Word - have not worked on that since last Sunday when I hit the 2000 mark in Isaiah 54:4;
--The Activity of God - Deuteronomy up through chapter 32; just 3 pages to go;
http://danbiser.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-activity-of-god-in-bible-deuternomy.html
Until,
dan
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