out over U.S.A. today and not see that our whole society is a huge, cancerous sore! It seems to be spreading, and spreading, and spreading. What shall we say about the morality and the sex obsession which grips America today? Several years ago, sociologist Dr. Sorokin of Harvard Uni versity printed a little book called The American Sex Revolution. He makes no profession of being a Christian or churchman o f any sort. He comes out in the plainest of terms and says unless there is a change in America, we are doomed for the ash heap. No civilization, no empire, no nation, has sur vived obession with sex and impurity. They have never survived it and we never will. As we see it eating at the heart of America today, we are watch ing a nation die by disease. It’s on its death bed, because a holy God handles the destiny of nations. People and nations die from disease! Disease is eating the heart out of America. A Miami psycholo gist says sex is not a moral question. For answers, he says, you don’t turn to a body of absolutes. The criterion should not be: Is it morally right or wrong, but is it socially feasible? Is it personally healthy and rewarding; will it enrich you in life? He adds that this has become the view of many Protestant churchmen. He says that they are be ginning to feel the same way. “They are no longer shaking their finger because the boys and girls give in to natural biological urges and experiment a bit. They don’t say ‘stop, you’re wrong.’ They say, ‘Is it meaningful?’,” he insists. What kind of folly is this? I am very sure that in this sex-obsessed age in which we live, any red-blooded American pagan boy would certainly say, “ Sure, it’s meaningful!” , and continue on in his sinful way. He needs to hear the “Thou shalt not” of a holy God. Watching a nation die! I appeal to young people to stand by Christian standards o f morality. You’ll be a happier person because of it. Don’t be fooled by the low standards of today. When you indulge in pre-marital sex relations, you sin against God! You sin against yourself. You sin against your own body! Hold to the high standards set forth in the Word of God! Just because everybody is doing it doesn’t mean that it is right. Just about everybody is going to hell, too. But who wants to go there? No, you don’t say, “ Is it meaningful, is it socially feasible, is it personally rewarding?” Is it the will of God, or is it not ? That’s what counts! D e a t h b y S t a r v a t io n Then, again, men and nations can die by starva tion, by malnutrition. I suppose these ways of death are all related the one to the other because malnutrition and a wrong diet can make one an easy victim to diseases that kill. Would you say that America today has the right kind of diet? Our country is not being fed spiritually, in spite of there FEBRUARY, 1967
being more church members than ever before — millions of church members. America dies by star vation. The churches totter first and then the nation totters. We are only as strong as we are spiritually strong. The average church today gives you a lot of sweet nothings—book reviews, maybe a dance downstairs a couple times a year, — maybe lots of social life, but you won’t hear about a holy God. You won’t hear about judgment. You won’t hear about hell. You won’t hear that truth propounded in the Psalms that says, “ The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God.” No au thoritative Word of God binds men’s hearts any more as once it did. We have forgotten that we are dealing with a holy God, the Lord of history. We are dealing with a God who is not to be trifled with. Empires, na tions, and kingdoms have come and gone before us always by the sovereign act of God and by the weight of their own sins, and our position is no dif ferent. That which destroyed them will destroy us. We are on our death bed. D e a t h b y V io l e n c e You cannot only die by starvation; you can die by violence. It may be se£/-inflicted, or inflicted by someone else. Both of these are true, as we look out over America today. We are on the road to being victims of assassination nationally. In another sense, we are also on the road to committing sui cide! It seems to me that nothing gives more evidence of this than the appraisal of Communism that seems to hold weight today. I am absolutely ap palled and amazed at how naive many in high places in Washington can be today when it comes to this bitter, vicious, atheistic foe that is set to bury us. We seem unable to understand, even at this late hour, that Communism is a world conspir acy, is a world unity, and when the showdown comes, there’ll be no division between the Red China and the Soviet brand. I honestly believe that most suicides come as a result of some temporary mental imbalance. Our country today has evidences of an insanity present that is driving us down the brink to suicide. Make no mistake about the Soviet bear that would like to strangle us to death by taking over Latin America, and in time, I suppose, cut off our world markets and put people out of jobs at home, and be the cause of seething, boiling unrest in America. Appeasement, concessions, compromise, backing off, giving in : this is the order of the day. America may have gained a world of wealth but it has lost it« soul and strength! We’re scared to death. Around the world people think they can take our money with one hand and slap us in the face with the other. We talk of leadership, but apparently 11
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