MY FRIENDS, WE CAN ALWAYS TURN IT AROUND OR CAN WE?

March 16, 2016

MY FRIENDS, WE CAN ALWAYS TURN IT AROUND OR CAN WE?

If you lived in the sixties, civil unrest, rioting, violent labor disputes, assassinations and as far back as we can go, this world has always been in a state of confusion. But the attitude of the world is, we can always turn it around. My friends, we can all look back over our lives, and decade after decade it was always “the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,”

And this world will remain as is, because the god of this world will cause all who are not rooted and grounded in the love of Christ not to be able to discern, good from evil, darkness from light, or the bitter from the sweet! Is. 5:20 (NKJV) But, the world tells us, we always have turned it around we can do it again. But that is not what God’s word tells us.

“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation” John 16:33 (ESV) Tribulation being defined as “grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering” and that is why a child of God cannot be “conformed to this world,” but we must allow God’s Spirit to transform our character into the “nurture and admonition of the Lord” because this world will remain the same.

But soon, God will say “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still” Rev. 22:11 (KJV) and then in “a little while, He who is coming will come and will not tarry” Heb. 10:37 (NKJV) It’s time my friends we begin to move at rapid speed because Christ second coming is near.

In addition, “God calls for men [and women] who will prepare a people to stand in the great day of the Lord. . . . And in order to give such a message as John the Baptist, which was [Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?] we must have a spiritual experience like his. The same work must be wrought in us. We must behold God, and in beholding Him lose sight of self.” ( E. G. White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 8, pp. 332, 333)

And as we loose sight of self, we can begin to prepare ourselves  and others for Christ second coming. My friends, we cannot become absorbed in self-pity, and doubt in trying to endure to the end because this world will never be turned around so we must forever lift up our eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh our help who is “the author and finisher of our faith.”

And it is in God’s word where we begin to exemplify our faith as we look at the world we live in and come to the conclusion, this marathon that started six thousand years ago has now turned into a sprint. Consistent with this, we must now understand, with no doubt, that our “faith each day will be tried and tested in order to produce endurance so that our endurance will have its perfect result, so that God’s faithful may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. [when He comes to take us home to His holy kingdom.] James 1:2-4 (PSV)

Every excuse we may give as the reason we cannot serve Christ, was challenged and answered at Calvary.