Moody Broadcasting Pastor Donald Cole asked and answered his own question.<\/p>\n
“What kind of world will my children and grandchildren grow up in?\u00a0 The same kind of world I grew up in.”<\/p>\n
God is still on the throne. . .<\/p>\n
He discussed the hostile conditions of the world when Moses was born.<\/p>\n
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My thoughts…<\/p>\n
It seems that we sometimes believe that the world didn’t begin its descent into depravity until the sixties.\u00a0 Why?<\/p>\n
I think because we are more morality driven than godliness driven.\u00a0 We are more concerned with safe streets and moral causes and a strong economy than dying to ourselves and following Christ.<\/p>\n
If things were so great, how did the Church ignore the great racial divide during the “Leave it to Beaver” days?\u00a0 Where were we?\u00a0 Why didn’t we stand against this horrible injustice?<\/p>\n
If we were following Jesus, this would not have been so.<\/p>\n
I grew up in the church during this time and basically knew next to nothing of the conflict.<\/p>\n
So really what has happened is not that the world is worse but that our piece of the action is more threatened, and I am troubled that we are more interested in restoring our niche in the world than looking to the new heavens and earth that God is bringing.<\/p>\n
Again, if we were following Christ, this would not have happened.<\/p>\n
2 Peter 3:10-14 BBE<\/p>\n
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.<\/p>\n
(11)\u00a0 Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,<\/p>\n
(12)\u00a0 Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?<\/p>\n
(13)\u00a0 But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.<\/p>\n
(14)\u00a0 For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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