Sometimes people do not draw on the Person of Jesus for the authority and power to overcome sin and self-will because of their belief that as long as we are in the world, Satan can force us to sin.

Do we have the wrong goals? Are we unaware of the power that is available to deliver us from Satan? Perhaps we have been ignorant of the Divine salvation, its goals and its program. It appears that the churches—and the world as a result—are in moral chaos.

The Christian churches are the only moral light of the world, and the light of the churches has become darkness because of sin and self-will.

Christ is coming to us today in fulfillment of the Old Testament observances of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles. These are the Jewish feasts that follow Pentecost (Leviticus, Chapter 23). A large number of Christian churches have been as far as Pentecost, to speak symbolically, and it is time to press forward in the Lord.

Christ is ready to wage war against the sin and self-will in the churches. He is prepared to reconcile a holy remnant to Himself. Christ intends to employ the holy remnant as a witness to every nation on earth in order to prepare the nations for the coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth. This end-time "latter rain" revival is symbolized by the two witnesses of the eleventh chapter of the Book of Revelation.

Every valley must be exalted. Every mountain must be brought low. The rough places must be made smooth and the crooked straight. The entrance into the earth of the King of all kings is at hand.

He who has an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. It is time for the moral light of the Kingdom of God to shine to every nation—not only the light of the provisions and truths of redemption but the light of righteous behavior as well.

For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. (Isaiah 62:1)

"Until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness." This is not referring to imputed (ascribed) righteousness but actual righteousness of behavior.

Christian, Catholic or Protestant, the Lord Jesus is knocking at the door of your heart. Let Him enter and dine with you on His own body and blood. It is the Judge who is at the door. He is the Lord of Armies. Open the everlasting doors of your personality and permit Him to drive the enemy from your personality so that He and you may sit on the Father's throne in your reborn inner nature.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 5:16)

Having your conversation [behavior] honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. (I Peter 2:12)

If you live a righteous life, the nation that rejects your message of salvation will acknowledge God's glory in the Day of Judgment, having no evil thing to say of you. You will have borne a true witness of God.

When a nation is sick with sin, what are its Christian citizens to do?

They are to humble themselves. They are to pray. They are to seek God's face. They are to turn (repent) from their own wicked ways.

What is God's promise if they do this?

"I will hear from Heaven. I will forgive their sin. I will heal their land." (from The Mainspring)