What’s gone wrong with the world …and what is the remedy?
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What’s gone wrong with the world
…and what is the remedy?
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Sickness & symptoms
• Measles?• Mumps?• Bronchitis?• Laryngitis?• Meningitis?
• Spots• Swollen neck glands• Deep chesty cough• Lost voice• Headache, spots, stiff
neck, light sensitivity
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A sick society?
Drug abuse
Terrorism
Mounting debt
Prisons overflowing
Crimesoaring
Divorce almost
1 in 2
suicide
Disruption in schools
Teen pregnancy
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A sick society?
The foundations are going – all authorities are undermined
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Man’s remedy
• More prisons• Tougher police• Marriage guidance• Improve health service • Better education• Higher wages• Stronger security forces• More social workers• Benefits system
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Man’s remedy
• Cost spiralling out of control
• Excessive tax burden
• Problems getting worse
• Remedy doesn’t work
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What happened to the foundations?
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The foundations of our land
• Legal• Freedom, human rights and justice• Educational• Political• Moral• Social• Charitable• Cultural• All consistently threatened
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How have the foundations changed?
Largely based on the absolutes of Biblical morality given by a personal creator –
Revelation
Now based on the relative basis of human opinion – Humanism
Past Present
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What is the founding principle?
• The word of God
• God made the world
• God makes the rules
• We must obey God’s rules
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Western Decadence
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Western Decadence
= Christianity?
= Destruction of the foundations
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How were the foundations undermined?
• 19th Century “Double whammy”
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How were the foundations undermined?
Whammy number 1 Higher criticism of the BibleLeipzig – GermanyFriedich Daniel Ernst Schliermacher & Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
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How were the foundations undermined?
Whammy number 1 UKUniformitarianism & Darwinism
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God’s remedy
• The heart of the problem…
• Is the problem of the heart
…all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God Romans 3:23
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Who pays?
Christ died for our sins 1Cor 15:3
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Works for all who take it
Heb 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him,
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Works for all who take it
John 6:37 he who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.
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Take now!
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
2 Cor 6:2