GOD'S ABIDING GRACE

In Genesis 6: 5- 8, the first book of the bible, we read in V.5 where "God saw that the wickedness of man was so great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."  (V.6) “And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” (V.7) “And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made him. (V.8)  “ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”
It would take a spiritually blind person not to be able to see the similarities of that day and the day we’re living in. Men today seem to have nothing on their minds but lust and greed, and the thoughts of their hearts are on evil twenty four seven, three hundred and sixty five days a year. Murder, robbery, lying, and cheating seem to be the everyday norm.
While church leaders are struggling to stem the surge of pornography among many of their ministers, rape, incest, wife swapping, and other kinds of promiscuity are at high tide.
What’s missing today is not God’s abiding grace, but a preacher like Noah that will tell it like it is and believe what he is preaching enough to build a safety net for all that would get in.
Today we need preachers with backbones like saw logs and tongues of fire that will burn loose the chains that have the congregation bound and set the sinners free. What kind of preacher would that preacher have to be? Well, first of all he (or she) must be born again, read John 3: 1-13; also that preacher would need to be a praying person with knees as shiny as a bowling ball and preach the Cross until the blood flows from Emanuel’s veins down Mount Calvary until it quenches every thirsty soul that will receive it.
When I was a farm boy in the rugged hillsides of Kentucky, my dad taught me how to use a grubbing hoe to bring out the root of the sapling. He would yell at me and say, “Son get the root out, get the root out!”. My wise ole dad knew if I didn’t get the root out we would have to deal with it again the following year. That’s the way the true gospel preacher must use the sword of the Lord, he must sink the blade down to the sinful root and bring it out.
In closing, let me say that no matter what your situation may be, if you will accept it, God’s Abiding Grace will always abide with you.
Remember, these conditions let’s us know where we are on the Apocalyptic Highway by the words that Jesus said in Matthew 24: 37 “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be”.