The Devil Is Retired!

Well done! I couldn't have put it better myself.
I would never have thought of that, although it is so blatanly obvious that the Church is just so apathetic toward the world going to hell. The Church is okay, they think. They have no need of nothing, Rev 3v17. God help us. We need more than just a wake up call. If 9/11 didn't move us. If the sin sick condition of this world doesn't move us, what will? As most Christians in the West are right now, the devil has no worries. Let's give him some. God bless.

This reminds of a Keith Green song entitled "No One Believes In Me Anymore."

Oh, my job keeps getting easier, as time keeps slipping away,
I can imitate your brightest light and make your night look just like day,
I put some truth in every lie, to tickle itching ears,
You know I'm drawing people just like flies, cause they like what they hear,

I'm gaining power by the hour, they're falling by the score,
You know, it's getting very simple now cause no one believe in me anymore.

Oh, heaven's just a state of mind, my books read on your shelf,
And have you heard that God is dead, I made that one up myself,
They dabble in magic spells, the get their fortunes read,
You know they heard the truth, but turned away and followed me instead,

I used to have to sneak around, but now they just open their doors,
You know, no ones watching for my tricks because no one believes in me anymore.

Everyone likes a winner, with my help, you're guaranteed to win,
And hey man, you're ain't no sinner, you've got the truth within,
And as your life slips by you believe the lie that you did it on your own,
But don't worry, I'll be there to help you share our dark eternal home.

Oh, my job keeps getting easier, as day slips into day,
The magazines, the newspapers, print every word I say,
This world is just my spinning top, it's all like childs-play,
You know, I dream that it will never stop, but I know it's not that way,

Still my work goes on and on, always stronger than before,
I'm gonna make it dark before the dawn since no one believes in me anymore,

Well now I used to have to sneak around, but now they just open their doors,
You know, no one watches for my tricks since no one believes in me anymore,

Well I'm gaining power by the hour, they're falling by the score,
You know, it's getting very easy now since no one believes in me anymore,
No one believes in me anymore, no one believe in me anymore.

Speaking of songs, Jesse's news "report" reminds me of these profound song verses by Randy Stonehill...

"I see the world as a perfect place
no tears, no fears, no dizzy fall from grace,
no hungry mouth, no one in pain, no naked orphans in the rain.

But I was only sleeping, safe and warm in bed. Safe and warm in bed...while the world was weeping, hanging by a thread. I was only sleeping.

Sometimes a voice whispers in the night about the river of souls running through my life...
lives in the balance, see them sinking down.
Will I reach out or will I watch them drown?

But I just go on sleeping, safe within my dreams, while the world is bleeding, bleeding at the seams. I just go on sleeping.

The harvest is ready and ripe but the fields are on fire. Yet the workers have all deserted to chase the mirage of desire...and I just go on sleeping....

There's a mournful dove at my window sill. If I don't wake up...who will?"

Along these sad lines I remember George Whitefield said something like this...

Many Christians ask the Lord to save them from temptation when it is they who are tempting the devil to tempt them!

MC