The church people are sinning because of the overemphasis on grace and the teaching of the any-moment pre-tribulation "rapture." The Christian churches are filled with immorality, rebellion, striving for preeminence, bitterness, covetousness, feminism, hatred, sorcery, and every other evil imagination, motive, word, and deed. And they are calling on the worldly governments to repent?

Imposing Christian morality on local and national governments sounds like a worthy Christian effort. In fact, the believer who does not become socially and politically active may be scorned as a pew-warmer, a do-nothing, a coward, as someone not fit to be a part of Christianity.

The problem of sin is spiritual in nature, and until the bondage of sin is broken people will continue in moral filth. The attempt of Christians to force their values on other people will finally come to nothing. All it will accomplish is to bring persecution upon the churches as secular society rises up to defend its immoral, ungodly behavior.

So few people, it seems, so very few people understand the way of the Lord!—the way of the cross!—the way of the Lamb!

The way of the Lord is not for large bodies of believers to go on the march no matter how worthy their intentions. The way of the Lord is for the individual to wait on the Lord, patiently seeking His face year after year, being content with the mercies and signs of His love that are given to those who fear Him.

The believer is not to go to war, he is to go to the cross. We do not overcome the adversary by our proclamations of faith or our boastful attitude. We do not, as someone said, "put on our administrative hat" and command the works of God's hands. We can overcome the accuser only by the blood of the Lamb, by the word of our Spirit-enabled testimony, and by loving not our life to the death.

The natural man is pleased to move forward in a belligerent manner, calling on Jesus to help him as he seeks, in his own fleshly understanding and energy, to enforce the behaviors that he—the human being—judges to be important and valuable. All of this is of babylon—confusion—and comes to nothing.

It is the personal cross of the believer that slays the self-will, the self-centeredness, the enthusiasm, the personal ambition, and all the other motives that drive the religious crusader.

God has the greatest of all revivals prepared for the closing days of the present age. The Holy Spirit will be poured out as never before. This is the promised "latter rain." The Lord Jesus is looking for those few disciples who, in the midst of the spiritual uproar, will patiently, patiently, patiently wait upon Him until He gives clear directions. There will be a great and powerful wind that will tear the mountains apart and break the rocks in pieces, an earthquake, and then fire. But the Lord will speak to His elect in a gentle, quiet whisper.

To be continued.