Jeremiah 16, Part 3

"When you tell these people all this and they ask you, 'Why has the LORD decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the LORD our God?' then say to them, 'It is because your fathers forsook me,' declares the LORD, 'and followed other gods and served and worshiped them. They forsook me and did not keep my law."

Who or What have we to blame for the coming disaster? A part of it, I believe, is generational sin. 40 years ago was the "Summer of Love," marked by the release of Sgt. Pepper's, the Beatle's best-selling album. It was a season marked by drunkenness, debauchery, and self-indulgence, a time of turning to sex, drugs, music... A generation would be marked and marred by its idol worship. Yet it is not their sin itself that would be the issue, but the fact that it has been promulgated. Jesus said, "Whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven." Jeremiah 16 continues, "But you (the next generation...) you have behaved even more wickedly than your fathers. See how each of you is following the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying me.

What began as idol worship has led to so much more. Sexual "freedom" has led to a billion-dollar porn industry to which millions of men across our nation are addicted. The divorce rate stands at 31% and, according to some polls, is greater in the church than it is outside the church. The desire for professional success and material gain has made children a burden, a ball and chain around your ankle hindering your progress up the ladder of success. Thus, they are "prevented" using condoms or, when that doesn't work, they are "disposed of" through abortion. All for the comfort and convenience of (1) being able to have sex whenever, wherever, with whomever you want and/or (2) being able to climb the ladder of success, gaining "independence," self-sufficiency and material possessions. It is humanism to its greatest degree... Sex exists for the happiness of man. Drugs exist for the happiness of man. Music exists for the happiness of man. To many of this generation, even God exists for the happiness of man. To those, God is there to serve our needs and to give us what we think we are lacking to live the perfect life.

NO.

We exist to love, adore, worship and serve a living God who is altogether worthy to be loved, adored, worshiped, and served. The end of all creation is the glory of God.

Why has disaster been decreed against America? Because we have claimed the glory of God as the glory of Man. Our fathers prostituted themselves but, moreso, we have prostituted ourselves. We have delved even deeper than they into their idolatry. We of this generation like our sin and want to wallow in it.

No more!!

It is a time of turning. It is a time to rend our hearts, not our garments. Let us turn... to each other, to the Lord... now, while He may still relent...

Let the Call go forth!!