FAKE HOPE
Public schooling throughout America, from kindergarten to college, has become No Go (d) Zones...or No God Zones. This is pure communism in its later stages as to countries that communism is targeting. America today is in the middle stages of communism itself. Consequently the majority of our youth today have no answers to the hard questions that life throws at them....and this is all by design! They have been insulated and cloistered as to the realities around them with no real hope beyond that which they have available to them each and every new day. If they are in high school and have grades and access to tuition...or if they have acquired a job... then they have hope...but it will prove to be fleeting and ephemeral. They are in need of Jesus Christ!
Television and film tell them who they need to be...or at least who is cool even if they are not successful...therefore they can enter this virtual world where hope itself is virtual. Facebook makes available to them an alternative to hope.....fake hope....but when fake hope is shown to be what it is... despair fills the void. Thus we have suicides and drug deaths and horror news stories and grave statistics and everyone with a electronic device in front of their face.....and very little if any discernment whatsoever as to casting very important votes....this even though politicians condescend to them as an adult would a small child....'Oh what a big boy you are!'
The bottom line is this...we are trying to reach intellectually those who do not have the discernment at this time to absorb the information. I know all about this for I once could have been a poster boy for liberal ideals run amok. I needed the gospel of Jesus Christ! Napoleon once said that..."religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." Solzhenitsyn wrote..."... if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat : "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened."
Our only hope in America....our only hope....is in Jesus Christ. Folks, pull up any one of the many recent surveys done on religious belief in America. We are an eclectic mess. The same person might clam to be a Christian and not even believe in hell. There is a cost to discipleship but we have elected and thus called leaders to our pulpits who keep those costs at a bare minimum....thus obscuring the essence of the gospel. Pay attention to your pulpit this Lord's Day. If your minister of the gospel shows no concern beyond a 'pray for our leaders' then he is in need of direct and immediate intercessory prayer... morning, afternoon and evening.....for the benefit of the congregation.... that he might awaken and plead mercies for what has become of us as a nation, as a church, and as a people.
Public schooling throughout America, from kindergarten to college, has become No Go (d) Zones...or No God Zones. This is pure communism in its later stages as to countries that communism is targeting. America today is in the middle stages of communism itself. Consequently the majority of our youth today have no answers to the hard questions that life throws at them....and this is all by design! They have been insulated and cloistered as to the realities around them with no real hope beyond that which they have available to them each and every new day. If they are in high school and have grades and access to tuition...or if they have acquired a job... then they have hope...but it will prove to be fleeting and ephemeral. They are in need of Jesus Christ!
Television and film tell them who they need to be...or at least who is cool even if they are not successful...therefore they can enter this virtual world where hope itself is virtual. Facebook makes available to them an alternative to hope.....fake hope....but when fake hope is shown to be what it is... despair fills the void. Thus we have suicides and drug deaths and horror news stories and grave statistics and everyone with a electronic device in front of their face.....and very little if any discernment whatsoever as to casting very important votes....this even though politicians condescend to them as an adult would a small child....'Oh what a big boy you are!'
The bottom line is this...we are trying to reach intellectually those who do not have the discernment at this time to absorb the information. I know all about this for I once could have been a poster boy for liberal ideals run amok. I needed the gospel of Jesus Christ! Napoleon once said that..."religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." Solzhenitsyn wrote..."... if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat : "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened."
Our only hope in America....our only hope....is in Jesus Christ. Folks, pull up any one of the many recent surveys done on religious belief in America. We are an eclectic mess. The same person might clam to be a Christian and not even believe in hell. There is a cost to discipleship but we have elected and thus called leaders to our pulpits who keep those costs at a bare minimum....thus obscuring the essence of the gospel. Pay attention to your pulpit this Lord's Day. If your minister of the gospel shows no concern beyond a 'pray for our leaders' then he is in need of direct and immediate intercessory prayer... morning, afternoon and evening.....for the benefit of the congregation.... that he might awaken and plead mercies for what has become of us as a nation, as a church, and as a people.
