We live in a capitalistic society today that
functions on commerce and advertising executives learned a
long time ago that if you pitched your
product to cater to one's self-indulgence you
would have a winner on your hands.
The fast food burger chains tell us you
deserve a break today they say have it
your way and we as consumers are accustomed
to having it our way.
Unfortunately this mentality edged its way into our
churches through a diluted gospel message that ministers
preached centering around the happiness of man that
Jesus came to earth solely so you could
be happy with him in heaven.
The gospel message is all about man and
his happiness.
Churches are built to make you comfortable and
happy.
You will find big easy lounge chairs in
the foyer to sit while you have your
latte before the church service begins.
Once inside the sanctuary everything is designed to
make you feel comfortable with creature comforts.
We as a people are used to having
our own way to one degree or another
and we have created a God to serve
us.
We created him in our minds to fit
the mold we feel most comfortable with for
our religion.
Our God is a loving forgiving entity that
is more tolerant today toward sin than the
older version of the outdated God of the
old testament.
We are church and we as a nation
view God the same way that he is
a merciful God who will not deal harshly
with us because of our faults and sins
and that he understands we sin so frequently
because he's the one that made us that
way.
That's how folks think today.
You will hear someone say I am a
homosexual because God made me that way therefore
he won't punish me in a hell of
torment because he loves me the way I
am because he made me this way and
God is a God of love.
It amazes me friends how many church members
who are dating one another and who call
themselves Christians have premarital sex and see nothing
wrong with it.
How many young people today in our churches
who are engaged to be married see nothing
wrong with their fornication on Saturday night so
long as they are in church on Sunday.
Their view of God allows them to sin
as much as they want to.
Their view of God tells them that God
is okay with their promiscuous sex life because
in their minds they are committed to each
other and God is not so harsh in
regard to them and he understands.
That's how the majority of people think about
God today in this country of ours.
They see an increase of natural disasters like
fires, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes and they see terrible
events happen in society like the frequency of
mass killings one after another throughout this land
and they make no connection between these events
and the God of their imagination.
They would tell you that their God would
never punish anyone, would never send anybody to
hell unless it was a sociopath or a
serial killer, somebody who really deserved it.
God is too kind to send a normal
person to hell just for a few sins.
This concept of God in America today is
the main reason why we have a sin
loving society that does not fear God and
a sinning church that has lost her concept
of the God of the Bible.
This country has one foot hanging over the
ledge of a preface of destruction and the
other foot is on slippery ground.
In Psalm 73 18 the word of God
declares, surely thou did set them in slippery
places thou cast them down into destruction.
God will not tolerate a society that has
rejected him and God will not tolerate sin
in his people.
I believe Americans are getting ready to see
another side of God they are quite unprepared
for.
It is my prayer, great God, in thy
wrath remember mercy, Lord, in thy wrath remember
mercy, I pray.