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