What Just Happened
Many people are asking, what happened with this past election? How is it that people who love communism and people who truly hate our way of living in America can be elected to public office? I believe the answer is found in Isaiah 6:8. The Lord said, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Isaiah then said, “Here am I; send me.”
I believe this verse gives us several reasons why our nation is in dire need right now, not just because of this election, but because of what has been happening for a few decades now.
Before you cast stones at me, I want you to listen to what I'm saying. I am not against missions because missions is in the Bible. However, I believe what has happened in America is that we have stopped starting churches in our nation, churches in every small town will influence people, and churches throughout the big cities will influence people; which will turn our nation back to God.
About two decades ago, a preacher who is no longer in the ministry, by the way, said, “We don't need any more churches in America. We need to go reach the world.” Now, that sounded spiritual, but that is one of the dumbest statements I have ever heard. When you look at the Great Commission, three of the areas that God commanded us to go to are on our own continent, and only one is to the uttermost part of the earth. Now, I am for reaching all of them, but if we don't reach our nation by starting churches, then we are done.
However, you can't start churches if we don't have people answering the call. Again, we have preachers who have made the call so difficult that young men don't even know what it means to have the call of God on their lives. I'm always amazed at how we make the call of God so difficult, yet we allow young people to think that they can go do whatever they want without the call of God on their lives.
Let me make this very clear: If God has to call you to preach, then He also has to call you to be a plumber, a banker, or a business owner. God's calling is what you are supposed to do with your life, the very purpose for which God put you on this earth.
We are losing this nation because our youth conferences no longer have the great call to reach our nation. We are losing our nation because preachers are no longer putting the emphasis on going into full-time service. We are losing this nation because parents are not longer emphasizing with their children the importance of serving God full-time. We are losing this nation because young people are not answering that call, but rather want to pursue worldly affairs.
If we are going to save this nation, we have got to get back to what made us a great nation, and that is starting churches all over this nation that believe like we do. I can tell you this: Every church you start will influence people.
If you want to change America, it is not going to be through getting involved in the political world. It is going to be through winning people to Christ, and as you win people to Christ, you will influence voters to vote the right people into office.
Please understand, I'm not against missions, and I am not against God's people being educated about the politicians who are running for office; I'm simply trying to point out that we've got to get back to making the call of God something worthy of doing. We've got to get back to making young people understand that God still accepts volunteers, volunteers who will go and start churches to get His cause proclaimed throughout the world, and especially in our own nation.
This my friend, is one of the great reasons of what just happened, the other is the lack of emphasis on soul winning, but that is for another day.
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