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There is a madness

sermonindex Feb 5, 2017

There is a madness in the air. It is so lunatic that it beggars description. All around the world there is delusional thinking. Can you imagine that you are right there, watching the pied piper play his tune and the whole world is intoxicated with it and are dancing. They are winding their way out-of-town and heading towards a mighty cliff and are falling of the edge. The people behind cannot see that the ones in front are falling off because they are so intoxicated by the music and the piper plays on. You run up and down the winding crowd and scream out that they are being led over a cliff. As you do that they begin to mock and jeer. Yet you don't quit. This begins to infuriate the crowd because your noise is interrupting their enjoyment of the intoxicating music. Their fury begins to turn violent because you will not quit warning them and it is all just a noise that interrupts their intoxication. When the violence achieves nothing then they must turn to murder because they are now addicted to the intoxicating music and your noise is interrupting their enjoyment even although the path that they follow leads directly off a cliff.

There is a blindness that goes along with madness. The world is mad and they are blind and there is a ditch or a cliff or a broad path. All of it leads down into the bowels of hell. Have you ever tried to rationalize with a madman? I think much of the frustration that is going on right now, and the reason that people are so polarized is the difference between night and day. It's the difference between darkness and light. The darkness does not comprehend the light. If one is given over to nothing then they understand nothing. Yet it is not good enough just to understand what is going on if you are devoid of love. For then your very understanding will become darkness to you and you will find yourself intoxicated. One minute you will be shouting a warning at the crowd and the next minute you will be dancing wildly with the crowd as it heads down the broad winding path. Be careful saints, for the music is really intended for you. Wrap yourself in light and all the more so as the day darken and the storm approaches......bro Frank

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RogerB Feb 5, 2017

How true. I have sit on the bed and prayed about it. I just sit in awe and disbelief. No one believes they can be deceived, after all this is the most intelligent generation..

Not.

Yet in reality we are the darkest of all generations. I look back 60 years ago and see a different world, a different society. The tree of good and evil was beginning to bring forth fruit, beautiful to have and drive, to listen to, to watch, to wear. How amazing! These were designed to lead us all away from God.

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TMK Feb 5, 2017

Quote: "These were designed to lead us all away from God."

Only we can lead ourselves away from God. Material possessions or technology have no such power unless I choose to worship these instead of God.

I have no such intention of doing so.

We can't bury our heads in the sand folks. Civilization is advancing as it always has. We can serve it instead of God, or use what this advancement provides as God instructs,i.e. as stewards.

If a person is unable to do this they better hunker down in a remote cabin in the Yukon.

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dolfan Feb 5, 2017

There is evidence that Claudius' expulsion of Jews from Rome was due to Christians. Ancient writings cite "Chrestians" as the reason for Jewish expulsion, strongly suggesting that Rome made no distinction between Christians and Jews at that point in early, early church history. Another ancient writer called the "Chestians" a "mischevious" religion.

The testimony of Jesus, it is written, is the spirit of prophecy. It is not belief in Jesus, but the testimony of Jesus -- that sword that divides households -- which stands as a stark word of judgment against the darkness of this world. A church that faithfully testifies of Jesus as He is revealed in the written Word of God can not be a church that finds any beauty in the structures of society or government.

As the ancient ones of our faith demonstrated a willingness to betray their civil order, their government, their society for the sake of the testimony of Jesus, and as the spirit of their words and actions repulsed the popular order, no church today is true to Jesus that does any less or any differently.

I urge anyone who cares to do so to watch today (2/5/17) morning service at Times Square Church. It was a quickened word. Taken from Psalm 2 and titled "Why Do The Nations Rage?" I personally find it the most significant thing I have heard from any pulpit in a number of years.

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RogerB Feb 5, 2017

Times Square Church usually has some great messages. I have listened to David Wilkerson and Carter Conlon for years.

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Heydave Feb 5, 2017

Frank, This is a very clear sumary of where we are at the present time. Thank you for articulating how I think many of us feel.
I was think just earlier today, do you think that cival war is a posibility in the USA? I know that sounds crazy, but this polarisation we see happening coukd get real nasty.

Todd, I say this with respect, but now is not the time to be complacent and think that life will just carry on as normal. I don't think the issues being made had anything to do with 'technology' of itself. The issue is the spirit of this age.

I just heard about a brother here in the UK who teaches math in a state senior school (high school to you) who was told he had to teach about LBGT to his pupils. He and some other Christian teachers at the school said they could not do that and they were forced to resign!

sermonindex Feb 5, 2017

Tim, I am going to check that out brother..............bro Frank

sermonindex Feb 5, 2017

Dave writes............

"I don't think the issues being made had anything to do with 'technology' of itself. The issue is the spirit of this age."

Brother you are spot on, it is the spirit of the age and it is spiritually discerned and those who have any kind of discernment are deeply troubled by it. The first part of my OP was actually a vision I had when I was only a few years a Christian. It was so traumatic to me that I cried out for the Holy Spirit to stop. It has never left me.

As for teachers being fired in Britain for not glorifying homosexuals in whatever field it may be, maths and so on, that part is so indicitve of the age in which we live. I fear for those who cannot see what is unfolding. Christian teachers will not be welcome in any schools or universities. Soon they will not be welcome on the police force or any professional occupations. It is one thing to sin, which of course is what it is , it is quite another thing to compel people to fall in line with that sin and promote or glorify it. ....................bro Frank

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mama27 Feb 6, 2017

Ditto on the Times Square message, "Why Do the Nations Rage?" It was anointed.

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