In years past, the French Revolution signalized a political change. The Renaissance brought intellectual change. The industrial revolution introduced economic change. The Reformation introduced religious change. But today, we face every kind and category of change, mostly defined by the flood tides of materialism, secularism and liberalism. In my lifetime, for the first time in world history, governments are statedly and blatantly atheistic. No ancient Greek would ever make a destiny-determining decision without first consulting the oracle at Delphi. No Roman general would go to war without first propitiating the gods. But these bow at no altar, call upon the name of no deity, and they seem to be possessing the world. Whether we live or die lies in the imponderables of Almighty God. Will God not judge atheistic, communistic Russia? Will He not also judge secularistic, heathenistic, humanistic, materialistic America? What is the difference at the judgment bar of Christ between a God-denying Russian communist atheist and a God-denying American liberal humanist? Can God judge Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Nineveh, and Babylon, and not judge Moscow, and Peking, and San Francisco, and Dallas? Our missions frontier runs down every street and village, through every house, home, and classroom. The whole globe today is small, compact and shrunken. We see, hear, watch, read, and follow what happens moment by moment around the world. The interdependence and the inter-linking of all mankind is an actual modern fact. We all ride this planet together. Our nation is one in a dependent family of nations. Romans 14:7 avows, “For none of us lives to himself and not one of us dieth to himself.” ~ W. A. Criswell, from Whether We Live or Die, 1985 Dallas, Tx. Pastors Conference
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 17:40:37 +0000
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