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Some of these declarations even include numbers, such as "the billion-soul revival. But what if we need to do much more than just wait and pray? But rest assured, you will be surprised at the reasons he lists. Hint: This delay has nothing to do with the unsaved. I have also realized that 2 Chronicles is directed to God's people that includes me! I believe that many American Christians will be touched by God's Spirit as they read this book and glean from it that revival must start first with them.?
The neoliberal theologians, who intend to repaint Christianity, say they are reacting to the errors and abuses within the church, against the false promises of the Prosperity theology and the modern Pharisees, who use legalism as a means of oppression and control. The truth, however, is that they incur in the same mistakes of them. Those of the Prosperity Gospel or those of the postmodern church philosophy lead the ministry according to peoples desire, not according to Gods interests or the true spiritual need of people.
The Prosperity theology adapted to a greedy society that sees Jesus only as the multiplier of loaves and fishes and a free healer; therefore, it gave them what they wanted.
The postmodern Christians changed the speech and emphasis, but reproduced the same pattern of ministry. When we compare them, both groups are alike they all use pragmatism as foundation for ministry, thus, their teachings are unbiblical, their practice unethical and its results, devastating to the Christian faith.
The new painters take advantage of the mistakes of some groups of the evangelicalism, with this, they find the opportunity to throw out the baby with the dirty bathwater they throw away the true Gospel along with the errors of the church. Such opportunism is clearly detected in their effort to establish a stereotype to represent historic Christianity as a group of ignorant and devoid-of-love Fundamentalist fanatics, while they pose as open-minded good-boy- preachers, and love givers with no trace of prejudice.
By opposing legalism, these men went to the other extreme they became libertines. Thus, their offered antidote became worse than the poison itself. The neoliberal theologians came not to bring healing to the churchs problems, rather, they aggravated it.
They are opportunists who are creating a neo-Christianity under the perspectives of this new postmodern world. Only men with less breadth of intellect, maybe, but with more depth of vision can do that. Yet to be statis- tically minded in addition can be very disturbing. This means that the non-Christian population of Japan has increased by five million in the past five years.
Put this well up on your prayer list. To add to your burden and mine, there are fifteen million Jews; three hundred and fifteen million Muslims; one hun- dred and seventy million Buddhists; three hundred and fifty million Confucianists and Taoists; two hundred and fifty-five million Hindus; ninety million Shintoists; and millions of oth- ers, for whom Christ died and who are mainly unreached with the blessed Gospel.
Even church-conscious America has twenty-seven million youth under twenty-one years of age who receive no Christian training, and ten thousand vil- lages that do not have a church building. Almost a million persons in the world die each week without Christ. This sin-swamped situation calls for unction in the pulpit, and action in the pew! Synthetic religion must go. The Amen Corner has passed away with the model-T Ford; the camp- meeting glory has vanished; zeal for street meetings has evaporated.
Maybe—who knows? Is that shocking? They would go to a church if they could. The repeated prayer that the sinner might have a vision of hell may be entirely wrong. On the contrary, he probably needs a vision of Calvary, with a suffering Saviour pleading with him to repent; for after Calvary, why should he die? Wil- liam Booth of the Salvation Army is quoted as saying that if he could do it, he would have finalized the training of his soldiers with twenty-four hours hanging over hell, to see its eternal torment.
Fundamentalism needs this awe-striking vision again. The gusty, grandiloquent evangelist needs it most! Charlie Peace was a criminal. Laws of God or man curbed him not, Finally the law caught up with him, and he was condemned to death, On the fatal morning in Armley Jail, Leeds, England, he was taken on the death-walk. Before him went the prison chaplain, routinely and sleepily reading some Bible verses. The criminal touched the Preacher and asked what he was reading.
Charlie Peace was shocked at the way he professionally read about hell. Could a man be so unmoved under the very shadow of the scaf- fold as to lead a fellow-human there and yet, dry-eyed, read of a pit that has no bottom into which this fellow must fall?
Could this preacher believe the words that there is an eternal fire that never consumes its victims, and yet slide over the phrase without a tremor?
All this was too much for Charlie Peace. So he preached. Listen to his on-the-eve-of-hell sermon. We need a vision of a holy God. God is essentially holy. Omnipotent is the Lord! Holy Holy! God compasses us in time; God, the inescapable God, awaits us in eternity.
We had better be at peace with Him here, and be in the center of His will now! He who kneels before God will stand in any situation. A daily glimpse at the Holy One would find us subdued by His omnipresence, staggered by His omnipotence, silenced by His omni- science, and solemnized by His holiness. His holiness would become our holiness. Holiness-teaching contra- dicted by unholy living is the bane of this hour!
Before the experiences of the sixth chapter, Isaiah has a lot of woes for a lot of people. Are there chambers of the mind with unclean pictures hanging in them? Have we skeletons in the cupboards of our-hearts? Can the Holy Ghost be invited to take us by the hand down the corridors of our souls? There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.
Unless we are desperate to get into real victory, we are 80 easy on ourselves and so hard on others! But too often we hide ourselves from ourselves lest the sight of our- selves should sicken ourselves. Let us invite the searching eye of God to locate this corrupted, spotted, stinking Self in us. He is stubborn; I have convictions. She is proud; I have superior tastes. But the Spirit will neither spare us nor cheat us if we will expose ourselves to His infallible scrutiny.
Let us, too, pray for sight—upward, inward, and outward! Then like Isaiah, as we look upward, we will see the Lord in all His holiness; as we look inward, we will see ourselves and our need for cleansing and power; and as we look outward, we will see a world that is perishing and in need of a Saviour!
Then only will there be wnction in the pulpit and action in the pew! Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him?
Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Blijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him. One praying man stands as a majority with God! Today God is bypassing men—not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents our stumbling blocks! Out of obscurity, Elijah came on to the Old Testament stage, a full-grown man.
Queen Jezebel, that daughter of hell, had routed the priests of God and replaced them with groves to false deities. Darkness covered the land and gross darkness the people, and they were drinking iniquity like water.
Every day the land, fouled with heathen temples and idolatrous rites, saw smoke curling from a thousand cruel altars. How the God of Glory had departed! But out of this measureless backsliding, God raised up a man—not a corm- mittee, not a sect, not an angel—but a MAN, and a man of like passions as we are!
If the Church today had as many agonizers as she has advi- sers, we would have a revival in a year! Such praying men are always our national benefactors. Elijah was such. He had heard a voice, seen a vision, tasted power, measured an enemy, and, with God as partner, wrought a victory.
The tears he shed, the soul agonies he endured, the groans he uttered, are all recorded in the book of the chronicles of the things of God.
At last Elijah emerged to prophesy with divine infallibility. Failing here, we fail everywhere. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning. We are beggared and bankrupt, but not broken, nor even bent. Brother, this generation of believers is not, by and large, suffering from such a complex! The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use. Have we graduated in the secret place of prayer and in the school of suffering so that our spirits are tempered to bear such a soul-sickening sight?
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord can impart such a vision! He who kneels before God will stand in any situation. A daily glimpse at the Holy One would find us subdued by His omnipresence, staggered by His omnipotence, silenced by His omniscience, and solemnized by His holiness. His holiness would become our holiness. Then like Isaiah, as we look upward, we will see the Lord in all His holiness; as we look inward, we will see ourselves and our need for cleansing and power; and as we look outward, we will see a world that is perishing and in need of a Saviour!
Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents our stumbling blocks! Though it is wonderful indeed when God lays hold of a man, earth can know one greater wonder—when a man lays hold of God. The preacher will be heralded; the prophet hounded.
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