Surviving 2020

Surviving 2020

CCCAG October 8th, 2020

Scripture- John 20:19-20

Today’s message is going to be a little different. About 90% of my sermons are expository- meaning I take a scripture and focus almost entirely on that scripture, and only bring in other scriptures to highlight the truth of that selected scripture.

Today, the sermon will be topical, meaning I’ll be focusing on an idea and using scripture to highlight that.

This morning will reflect William Booth’s advice about sermons- “Preach with the bible in one hand, and the latest newspaper in the other”

I also want to say one more thing- much of this is my personal opinion interpreting today's news, so keep that in mind.

So let’s dive in. We have had a week haven’t we?

2020 just keeps on punching us in the gut doesn't it?

The one thing this year that we may have thought would be normal this year has blown up in our face.

Tuesday night I popped some popcorn, sat in my easy chair with my computer next to me to track the election results, and got ready for a long night. I guess I was naive and expecting that we would know by 1:00 or 2:00 o'clock in the morning who our next president would be.

After all, for the most part, that’s how it’s been. We have been through this dozens of times in the history of our country. Really, the only time in our lifetime that it’s been really messed up was in the year 2000 during the Bush Gore presidential race.

Well, this is going to make Bush/Gore look like a picnic.

The evidence of corruption and vote tampering is overwhelming and all I can say about the next several weeks is buckle in because it's going to be a rough ride.

In fact, I made a comment about it on social media, and got tagged as spreading false information by the Facebook Factcheckers.

It’s a full court press- the unholy trinity of the media, technology, and leftists political forces have all united to steal an election.

I wish I had better news but from what I see is going on right now:

We will see civil unrest unlike anything we have ever seen if this result is overturned by the courts.

We will see a lot of fighting amongst families who have different opinions about what's going on.

We're going to see increased uses of drugs and alcohol and with that in increase of health problems.

Psychiatric problems will increase and with that suicide rates.

In fact , Jesus even predicted this about the last times- In Luke 21 he said that during the time leading up to his return then it would get so bad that people's hearts would fail them from fear.

What this election has shown us is something most of us knew deep down in our spirits- our country is spiritually and critically ill. We have reaped what we have sown as a nation in giving in too leftist demands to change our society into their twisted idea of what equality looks like.

I want to make this point and make it very clear. In the end it didn't matter who got elected. What matters is how they got elected. (repeat)

If there was a fair election and the votes went one way or the other I would say fine. It doesn't change my day-to-day life as a Christian. My job is to still pray for the one in office and try to live and represent Jesus Christ to those around me.

However, what we're seeing was not fair. I would say the same thing no matter which person was on top right now.

For many people it seems like the world has just gone crazy. Everything has fallen apart and there doesn't seem to be hope.

The book of Ecclesiastes has a lot of wisdom in it and I would encourage you to read it at least once a year. It was written by Solomon, who next to Jesus was the wisest man whoever lived.

In the first chapter of Ecclesiastes, Solomon made a very interesting statement, “What was will be again. There is nothing new under the sun.”

We may think that we're going through the toughest time in history right now , but really human history is very cyclical, meaning we go through these cycles of the same thing happening over and over and over and over again and so today's trials and tribulations really aren't anything new.

The Bible records a group of people who went through something very similar.

This group of people had a charismatic leader that they thought was going to lead them into a new era of prosperity for their nation and for them in particular.

This leader spoke very harshly about his critics, calling them all kinds of pretty offensive names.