Revival Needed!

 Greetings to  you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Second Timothy 3:1-5 says, “ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are go  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”

     When has the above passage not been true?  It was true in the time of the early church and has progressed even more from day to day.  It  certainly is true for today’s culture.  We can find more and more examples of each and every trait.  The sinful nature of man is running freely and increasing in levels of depravity that  seem to be worse than ever before. Even video cameras capture the atrocities that are going on and the public knows it and still they go ahead and do them. 

     What is the answer to such a state of affairs as we see in our society and indeed the society of the world?  The believer instantly replies, “The answer is the Lord Jesus Christ in the lives of the lost.  More severe legislation in assorted areas will not correct the problem.  Mankind will continue to be perverted due sin nature and the events in the news will just keep increasing. What seems to be the difference between the church of today and the church of the first century?  It  shouldn’t take long to come to the conclusion that the  main difference between the two extreme ages, is the conviction of the believers at the time.  The Christians of the first century believed the word of God.  The Christian of today does not believe the Word of God.  The church of today has often become so much like the world and its plan that you can’t tell the difference between the two.  This is when the church usually says, “We need a revival in our church and in our world.”   The believer goes on to day, “...and it should start with me.”  We know it but we still ignore it until we might have a more convenient time.  A chapel service began about five to ten days ago, I am not sure when, at Asbury University in Kentucky.  It has not stopped since it began.    People are coming in from many different areas to witness what is going on.  Pastors are coming from churches, even from our area in Virginia to see what is happening and lives are being changed as a younger generation is being changed by  the Word of God and the conviction of the Holy Spirit.  Repentance is taking place in the lives of people as they are being converted and many “revived in their faith.”  Men and women are coming out changed and  some can’t figure out what happened, or what is happening.  Answers in Genesis staff sent one of their people there to find out what is going on as the service started days ago continues.  I have to ask the question, “How is my heart and how is your heart?  Do we believe God’s Word?  Do we fear God and do we fear the result of a life not turned to God that will spend eternity separated from god?  Revival does need to take place and God is working in the lives of people today.  Praise God for His working and His plan and His salvation.