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What’s gone wrong with the world

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.

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What’s gone wrong with the world

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  1. What’s gone wrong with the world …and what is the remedy?

  2. Measles? Mumps? Bronchitis? Laryngitis? Meningitis? Spots Swollen neck glands Deep chesty cough Lost voice Headache, spots, stiff neck, light sensitivity Sickness & symptoms

  3. Symptoms? Mounting debt Drug abuse A sick society? Divorce almost 1 in 2 Prisons overflowing Terrorism Teen pregnancy Crime soaring Disruption in schools suicide

  4. A sick society? The foundations are going – all authorities are undermined Symptoms?

  5. Solutions? Man’s remedy • More prisons • Tougher police • Marriage guidance • Improve health service • Better education • Higher wages • Stronger security forces • More social workers • Benefits system

  6. Results? Man’s remedy • Cost spiralling out of control • Excessive tax burden • Problems getting worse • Remedy doesn’t work

  7. What happened to the foundations?

  8. The foundations of our land • Legal • Freedom, human rights and justice • Educational • Political • Moral • Social • Charitable • Cultural • All consistently threatened

  9. How have the foundations changed? Past Present Largely based on the absolutes of Biblical morality given by a personal creator – Revelation Now based on the relative basis of human opinion – Humanism

  10. What is the founding principle? • The word of God • God made the world • God makes the rules • We must obey God’s rules

  11. Western Decadence

  12. Western Decadence = Christianity? = Destruction of the foundations

  13. How were the foundations undermined? • 19th Century “Double whammy”

  14. How were the foundations undermined? Whammy number 1 Higher criticism of the Bible Leipzig – Germany Friedich Daniel Ernst Schliermacher & Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

  15. How were the foundations undermined? Whammy number 1 UK Uniformitarianism & Darwinism

  16. What is the disease? 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

  17. Who pays? Who pays? Christ died for our sins 1Cor 15:3

  18. 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,

  19. Works for all who take it John 6:37 he who comes to Me Iwill by no means cast out.

  20. Take now! Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 2 Cor 6:2

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