What Does God Want Preached?...

What a great question. Does God want us to talk about a fluffy feel good message or does He want the truth preached?

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Daily Meditation

"A high-tech way to deliver God's Word."

What’s Going On?

2 Tim 3:1-5 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

Yesterday I watched the news, and observed house after house be engulfed in flames, and within a few minutes, there was nothing but chimneys and other stone parts left standing.

"At least 13 fires blazed throughout the region, where thousands of firefighters struggled to contain flames that have reduced some 650 homes and 100 businesses to charred rubble, officials and reports said." One firefighter said yesterday, "If at least 2000 homes are not destroyed, I will be surprised."

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Heavy rain swamped New Orleans' streets Thursday, backing up traffic as pumping stations struggled to keep up.

"Unbelievable," said Pamela Borne, who waded in knee-high water with her daughter on her back to get to her house. "It's very disappointing, that just with an overnight rain of this magnitude, that the city is so ill-prepared."

And here in Georgia, our Governor said, "Drought is a natural disaster, and we are experiencing the single worst drought in Georgia's history."

And a few days ago in San Francisco, two homosexuals, dressed in outlandish garb, walked to the front of a church, to be served communion, as a mockery to God.

Now, what does that last paragraph have to do with what I’ve written before it? Have we forgotten what happened to "Sodom and Gomorrah?" "And the Lord said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.""(Gen 18:20,21)

"Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground."(Gen 19:24,25)

Billy Graham said, "If God doesn’t judge the United States of America, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah!" Now, I don’t claim to know what God is doing, but I do know He won’t stand by forever and do nothing, as we kick Him out of our schools, our Court Houses, public buildings and parks, and mock Him publicly and even inside our churches, as homosexuals are ordained to the ministry.

Is it possible that God allowed the horrific acts on 9/11, as a warning to us? How quickly we forgot! Is God going to have to completely destroy America, before we come to our senses?

Lest we have forgot, God said of Himself, "I am the Lord, I do not change!"(Mal 3:6) What was an "abomination" to Him then, "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination."(Lev 18:22) is still an "abomination" to Him now!

But that’s just one, of a multitude of sins that are bringing judgement upon America! We’ve become a Nation of "more," "bigger," more "sensual," and less "work." I must give credit to the advertising agencies; they know what people want to see. So they use "short skirts," bare "bosoms," the "fastest car," the most "horse-power" and the "coolest hunk" to grab their attention.

If there’s something that is in direct contradiction to God’s Word, it will be front and center! It seems as our churches are in competition to see who has the softest seats, the latest in electronic equipment, sing the most worldly-sounding songs, dress the sloppiest, attract the latest celebrity and seat the most people. (I’m sure not writing to gain popularity, Smile)

I watched, for the second time in months, as a pastor of what I believe is America’s largest church, was interviewed on TV. One of the questions put to him, as did another famous interviewer, was, "Why don’t you use the Scripture more?" He awkwardly attempted to explain the he "kind of weaves it into his motivational talks." Oh, I’m sorry, I meant to write, "sermons." (Smile)

Apparently he, like advertising agencies, understands what people want to hear. But the question is, "Is that what God wants preached to a lost and dying Nation?" Where are the sermons/motivational-talks about the sins that God calls an "abomination?" Where are the messages that lead directly to the foot of the cross, and salvation?

No, I’m not just picking on just one pastor, but on multitudes of other Christians, who would rather talk about what is popular, than stand up for what is right.

I need your help my friend! I can only write the Daily Meditations; it’s you who must finance them, send them to the unsaved, as well as your friends, print them and take them to work, and any other means that you have to warn the lost and dying.

Are you going to attempt to avoid "ruffling any feathers?" Are you going to just say what is "politically correct?" Are you going to stand by and watch, as our great Nation is destroyed, or will you do your part?

Think about it!

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