Whats gone wrong with the world

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Whats gone wrong with the world

• and what is the remedy?

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Sickness symptoms

• Measles?
• Mumps?
• Bronchitis?
• Laryngitis?
• Meningitis?

• Spots
• Swollen neck glands
• Deep chesty cough
• Lost voice
• Headache, spots, stiff neck, light sensitivity

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A sick society?
Divorce almost 1 in 2
Prisons overflowing
Terrorism
Teen pregnancy
Crime soaring
Disruption in schools
suicide
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A sick society?
The foundations are going all authorities are
undermined
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Mans remedy

• More prisons
• Tougher police
• Marriage guidance
• Improve health service
• Better education
• Higher wages
• Stronger security forces
• More social workers
• Benefits system

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Mans remedy

• Cost spiralling out of control
• Excessive tax burden
• Problems getting worse
• Remedy doesnt work

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What happened to the foundations?
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The foundations of our land

• Legal
• Freedom, human rights and justice
• Educational
• Political
• Moral
• Social
• Charitable
• Cultural
• All consistently threatened

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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
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What is the founding principle?

• The word of God
• God made the world
• God makes the rules
• We must obey Gods rules

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Western Decadence
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Western Decadence
Christianity?
Destruction of the foundations
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How were the foundations undermined?

• 19th Century Double whammy

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How were the foundations undermined?
Whammy number 1 Higher criticism of the
Bible Leipzig Germany Friedich Daniel Ernst
Schliermacher Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
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How were the foundations undermined?
Whammy number 1 UK Uniformitarianism Darwinism
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Gods remedy

• The heart of the problem
• Is the problem of the heart

all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of
God Romans 323
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Who pays?
Christ died for our sins 1Cor 153
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Works for all who take it
Heb 725 Wherefore he is able also to save them
to the uttermost that come unto God by him,
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Works for all who take it
John 637 he who comes to Me I will by no means
cast out.
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Take now!
Behold, now is the accepted time behold, now is
the day of salvation. 2 Cor 62