Moral Action Committee Reports

 

Who Do We Serve - God or Man?

Ronnie Dabney, Pastor
First Baptist Church
Italy, Texas

When I was first asked to write this article, I was not sure what I would say. But each day as I thought of what to write, I would go from one event to another: abortion, homosexuals, drugs, alcohol, and on and on.

The more I thought about it the more I realized the decay of our country—the immoral state that has over-run our country.

Each article you read would lead to another and another. Why? There is only one answer and it is that we have looked the other way too long. God has warned us about the morality, and how we would believe a lie. Friends, we are the reason. We want to blame the politicians and others for something that we Christians have done. Eve blamed the serpent. Adam blamed Eve. Each time something is not going right in our sight we are overly eager to blame someone else.

Divorce did not just happen, drugs did not just happen, abortion did not just happen. We allowed it. Prophets preached it, apostles proclaimed it, and yet no one listened. Well, here we are in the state we are in, because we do not listen to God. Can it change? Yes it can. How? By God’s people, listening to God, then taking the action God wants us to take.

Bro. Roy McLaughlin has written many articles about what our country is doing. And we ask, "What is the world coming to?" We know, and we just do not want to get involved. Well, we are involved whether we do anything are not. Here are some things now going on.

• Innocent unborn life is still under attack and two U.S. Supreme Court seats may turn over soon.

• Home schooling is being assailed.

• God’s definition of marriage and family are under repeated attack.

• Attempts are being made to label all teaching on morality illegal "hate speech." (In Canada it has just been made a criminal offense to preach against immorality, particularly homosexuality.)

Ask yourself, "How can I not get involved? What can I do?"

It is time we let the truth of God and the Bible be heard once again from the pulpits and the Christian homes in this country. It is time to declare once again that God is right and man is wrong.

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land" (2 Chronicles 7:14).

October, 2004