Pastor Dewey Note: I have send for several years, perhaps 10 or more, that many Americans were making politics and politicians gods. Look at the mess it has created. I have said for all these years the only answer is JESUS! I always try to pray ‘The Lord Will be done.” So many in America are blinded by Satan and politics, politics is the playground of Satan. The only Revolution America needs is to return to JESUS and leave politics.
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Dec 12, 2020 |
 From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham
Q: There is much being said about revolutionaries and the good that is brought about for various causes, but rebellious individuals are destroying our cities. How has our society been so deceived to think this is good? — R.R.
A: Revolution means “change,” and the world is changing so fast that no one can really keep up with it. Students often hear only what is bad about the world. Many professors tantalize students declaring they “live in a messed up world, so burn it down and start all over again.”
That is not the answer. The environment that surrounds us crackles with conflict because we are looking to man to solve our problems, and no one can. The tragedy of our times is that we have used up all of our options and the questions basic to life are not being answered by wisdom. This is because life’s fundamental problems are theological.
More than revolution is the need for regeneration, taking off the old hostilities and resentments and putting on the attributes of the only Person who can make everything new. This is the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is Wisdom. “God gives wisdom and knowledge” (Ecclesiastes 2:26). Only He can bring relief to the chaos the world experiences. Let us remember that the world is a reflection of mankind. Until the human soul is regenerated, darkness remains.
The future does not hinge on the world situation, however grim it might be. It depends on what we do with what happened 2,000 years ago when Jesus died on the cross to cover the sins of the whole world. He shed His very blood and conquered death for each person who will receive His salvation. There is going on in the world today a quiet, bloodless revolution that brings hope. Listen only to the voice of the One who has the power to change lives.
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(This column is based on the words and writings of the late Rev. Billy Graham.)
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Why is the World full of evil?
“So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts” Eph 4: 17, 18.
The Scriptures call the mind of the natural man “blinded” 2 Cor. 4:4, “depraved” Romans 1:28, “corrupt” 1 Tim. 6:5, and “unspiritual” Col. 2:18. The natural mind thinks from a humanistic, sin-debased viewpoint. The viewpoint of the flesh directs its thoughts. The sinful mind is under the control of Satan and can never please God because it concentrates on things of the world and not things of the Spirit. The natural mind walks the road of hopelessness and self-destruction.
