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Nehemiah 2:17 "You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace."

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

C2A This Week

The State of the Nation

Friends,

We are on week #2 in our new series entitled Cold Hard Facts: The Most Unpopular Christian Truths. We will be discussing why claiming the Bible is completely true and accurate is an increasingly unpopular position...but God has really laid it on my heart to jump from that subject into another subject that I believe is directly related; the state of our nation.

"Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die.
If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord...Therefore should not console ourselves by thinking that the barbarians are still a long way off. Some peoples may let the torch be snatched from their hands, but others stamp it out themselves."

- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Tomorrow will mark the 234th birthday of America...but according to the studies of the world's great civilizations, we are living on borrowed time. Did you know that the average great civilizations in world history lasted, on average, about 200 years? In the book, When Nations Die, the author identifies "ten symptoms of decline":

Lawlessness
Loss of Economic Discipline
Rising Bureaucracy
Decline of Education
Weakening of Cultural Foundations
Loss of Respect for Tradition
Increase in Materialism
Rise of Immorality
Decay of Religious Belief
Devaluaing of Human Life

Sounds eerily familiar, doesn't it? Here is another fact: at no time in human history have all ten symptoms existed in one place at one time until now...and it's here, in America. The Bible speaks of a great "falling away"...of coming judgment...when right is wrong and wrong is right. We can't escape the future God has designed, so the question we must ask is, What do we do in the meantime?

This is the subject I will be addressing on today's show. I hope you can join me live (station listing), but if not, please grab the podcast later by clicking here.

In His Service & Yours,

Steve Noble

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