Week 52:
A Burden for Lost Souls?
In my youth, I used to go listen in a Bible class where Dr. G. Campbell Morgan used to preach very often - a fascinating Bible teacher. And I remember in my early teens I thought, "One day I'll stay behind and ask him what kind of a Bible he has because all that stuff he has isn't in my Bible." I don't care whether you are thinking of Finney or Wesley or Booth, or any great majestic figure that has ruled in the church of God and seen revival, not one of them had a bigger Bible than you and I have. It's the same Word. Again, we better make our minds up whether it is absolute or obsolete. I'll tell you what, if this Book doesn't have the answer for a rotten, corrupt, stinking world, there is no answer for it. We've out sinned Sodom and Gomorra. Do you know there are 600 million Bibles in America? Would you try to guess how many millions or billions of Bible cassettes there are in the nation? Would you like to try to estimate how many seminars there are? Or seminaries there are? Or Bible schools? Or how many Gospel messages are preached throughout the nation? And that we've got 500 radio stations that broadcast something of the Gospel.
Let me give you the other side and I quit.
We are the most broken nation that we've ever been in history.
We've more broken homes,
We've more broken hearts over those broken homes.
We've more broken little kids because of those broken homes.
We've more minds broken by drugs,
We've more bodies broken - over a million girls last year got pregnant under 17 years of age.
And people were marching a few years ago, "Stop the war in Vietnam, stop the war." "No right to kill people," and yet it's estimated in the last nine years we've put more than 10 million babies to death before they left their mother's wombs (in a Christian country. My Lord, what happens in a heathen country!) Do you think God Almighty is going to wink at our sin much longer? I don't.
And the legislators can't help us,
and the banks can't help us,
and the government can't help us,
and money can't help us. Our help cometh from the Lord. And the only way is in submission and brokenness. That we get and say, many of us,
"Lord, I don't have the vision I used to have.
I don't have the passion I used to have.
I don't have the concern I used to have," not for America, for lost souls.
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