GOD'S
LAST MESSAGE TO A FAST DYING WORLD
By Pastor Max
Solbrekken, D.D.
On April 7,
1860 the Goncourt Brothers Journal of France stated
that leading scientists were predicting that within a hundred years,
man would know the constitution of the atom and be able to create
life synthetically in competition with God.
"We
have a feeling", wrote Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de
Goncourt, "that when this time comes to pass, God ...will
come down to earth swinging His bunch of keys and will say to
humanity as they say at 5:00 o'clock in the morning, "Closing
time, gentlemen."
When people ask me
to comment on Canada's new laws that elevate adultery to
respectability in Common Law Marriages, gives a thumbs up to the
sin of homosexuality and have high-jacked the millennia-old-rite of
marriage between one man and one woman, by creating a hybrid, pseudo
man-on-man same-sex marriage, we are now at the 'tipping
point'.
And
when society in general has turned from the worship of Almighty God
and His Son Jesus Christ the Redeemer of the world, and have embraced
the gods of the New Age Movement, Secular Humanism and Atheistic
Evolution and have embraced pornography, child molestation, abortion,
alcohol and drug abuse, gambling and violence, I say:
It is an indictment
upon a deteriorating society and a sad commentary upon a people who
have given up so much good solid common sense, respected tradition
and righteous moral values and received so little in return, and in
most cases the very opposite!
Our society is like
the ancient Hebrews of whom God stated: "For
My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the
Fountain of living waters, and have hewn themselves out cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water." (Jer.2: 13)
Again, the Prophet
delivers God's message of mercy:"Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye
in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good
way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your soul. But they
said, We will not walk therein." (Jer.6: 16)
GOD
WILL INVADE THIS WORLD!
In his book, Mere
Christianity, C.S. Lewis jars us all with his powerful truth
about the conflict between God and Satan for the souls of men. Here
are his words of warning about the 'end of days':
"God will
invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to intervene openly
and directly in this world quite realize what it will be like when He
does. When that happens it will be the end of the world. When the
Author walks on to the stage the play is over.
God is
going to invade, alright. But what is the good of saying you are on
His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away
like a dream and something else - something it never entered your
head to conceive - comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some
of us and so terrible to others, that none of us will have any choice
left. It will be too late then to choose your side. That will not be
the time for choosing; it will the time when we discover, which side
we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now,
today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is
holding back to give us a chance. It will not last forever. We must
take it or leave it."
CHRIST THE ONLY HOPE
FOR OUR WORLD!
I leave you with
these powerful words of Holy Scripture from the Pen of St.
Paul: "Looking for that blessed Hope and Glorious Appearing
of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Who gave Himself for
us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify us unto
Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." (Titus
2: 13, 14)
Christ
shed His blood once on Golgotha for us. (Isa.53: 4,5; 1 Peter 2:24);
Christ sheds His Mercy, Love and Grace on us daily. (Titus 3: 5,6);
We are Justified by His Grace (Titus 3:7) and by our Faith.
(Rom.5:1). We are empowered and led by the Holy Spirit. (Acts 1:7; 1
Cor.2: 10-12; Rom.8: 17). To Him be glory and honour and praise
for evermore! Amen.
