A Generation To Reach

At precisely 7:58 AM local time on December 26, 2004, a huge earthquake rumbled on the ocean floor just off the coast of Indonesia. That earthquake, the second strongest ever recorded, set in motion forces that produced a Tsunami, a massive set of waves that caused unprecedented devastation throughout the Indian Ocean Region. The precise death toll will never be known, but within moments more than three hundred thousand lives were lost in an area stretching from Indonesia to Thailand, Sri Lanka, South India and even Africa, Millions more were displaced by the massive destruction. The Indian Ocean tsunami now ranks the deadliest disaster in modern history.

Beloved this morning I have read you this event because today in modern life we are having a tsunami that is sweeping away our future and is killing away the spiritual inheritance that we are wanting to pass on to our children. There was once a youthful rock star that told an interviewer, “I believe in absolutely nothing”, which sadly enough speaks for a large amount of our young people today.

As we are living in the last days many see our young people and even older saints falling away as the bible says this will happen, but many say that we are fast growing and furiously growing in our religious beliefs and in some places more so than ever. This is true but with false applications.

There is a tsunami of false religions that are killing our people. People are no longer looking toward Jesus for answers but now looking at new patterns of religiosity. This beloved does not represent a turning to biblical Christianity. This new spirituality is allied with the current fashions, such as pluralism, relativism, syncretism, and consumerism.

What is pluralism? This pluralism calls us or forces us as Christians to respect and accept all religious claims equally valid, beloved in other words Jesus Christ is not the only way to heaven, there are other ways and avenues to get to heaven, so in other words Jesus Christ died for absolutely no reason. To say the least to accept this is to say that what we believe as Christ being the only way makes you and I bigoted and hateful people.

Relativism: Denies the validity of all absolute moral, spiritual, or philosophical truth or claims and celebrates the beauty of diversity and the validity of virtually all “lifestyle” choices. Homosexuality is accepted and there’s nothing wrong with that immoral lifestyle, it is relative.

Syncretism: This is an attempt to unify different forms of belief’s and practices, for an example we have a someone that would describe herself as a nice Jewish, southern Baptist, Buddhist girl, that quotes, ”I feel as if I’m a buffet”.

Consumerism: This defines the individual as the center of the universe, with a commitment that last only as long as the needs of such a person are being met.

Beloved I have mentioned these four elements this evening because this has become the tsunami of the spiritual destruction of this age and has taken away many good people even in the church of God. Sadly enough this is what young people have found themselves involved in, the wrong Jesus and the wrong biblical principles and are following the wrong doctrine that is not of Jesus Christ but that caters to the flesh and denies the power of Christ and His Gospel and favors what the wickedness of the heart desires, if it feels right do it.

This evening I want to preach a sermon I have entitled, “Reaching this wicked Generation”. Today beloved how many know we are living in a time were the people that see Jesus today do not see Jesus as the Savior of the world, the Healer of our souls, the only Way the Truth and the Life. Today they see Jesus as weak man who died for the wrong cause and the wrong purpose, a foolish man that died for nothing.

People see Jesus today as someone that is dead and no longer has the power to do anything that is worthy of any praise, but I declare to you this evening that Jesus is alive and well and is working in these last days and will show Himself to and through His people.

Judges 21:25

25 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

“The World says it alright”

The transgender girlfriend of the pervert accused of sexually assaulting an 85-year-old woman sent her condolences Saturday to the battered victim.

"My heart goes out to the victim and her family," wrote Tahttiana Fermin in an e-mail. "All I can say is that we as human beings get to pick the friends we like to hang out with and the man we want to live the rest of our lives with.