TALK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE...

President Obama took his entourage to Alaska this week to visit the receding Exit Glacier and to warn the world of the immediate threat of global warning.

While some have openly questioned the claims of scientists who warn of global warming, others have wondered whether or not global warming is actually man-made. After all, they argue, the last ice age ended long before the earth was populated with polluting people.  Certainly that warm-up wasn't man-made.

But while climate change is debatable, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION THAT THE MORAL CLIMATE OF OUR CULTURE HAS AND IS CHANGING.

Respect for Authority is fading fast.  The police are targeted, teachers are threatened, and parents are fearful that their own children will attack.   Both the rule of Law and those charged with the task of upholding the law, are no longer respected.

Respect for Life is no longer our deepest conviction.  Murder rates are rising at alarming rates as fatherless gangsters battle in the streets.  Planned Parenthood not only murders the most innocent among us, they sell the parts of the children they have aborted.  Life is cheap. 

Today, knowing our "Rights" has replaced knowing what is "Right."

Liberty is thought to be incompatible with Law.

The reason of fallen man has replaced the revelation of the living God.
 
TALK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE!

It's no wonder that violent murder rates are rising at an alarming rate.
It's no wonder that the police are maligned and mistreated.
It's no wonder that children are so unruly and disrespectful.
It's no wonder that sexual immorality is epidemic.
It's no wonder that people are zoning out on drugs to escape the hopelessness and despair of a meaningless universe.
It's no wonder that families are disintegrating, marriage is mocked, and sanctity is sanctioned.

So what are we to do?  How can we positively impact the moral climate of our time?

1. MORAL CITIZENS MUST STAND UP, SPEAK UP, AND REFUSE TO GIVE UP!  Believers in environmental climate change religiously proclaim their agenda. We who contend for morality must be even more zealous.  We must do our research, present our findings, and press our case in the public square.  We must be as earnest about moral purity as they are about environmental cleanliness.

2. BECAUSE TRADITIONAL HOMES ARE THE BEST AT INSTILLING MORAL SENSE INTO CHILDREN, WE MUST ZEALOUSLY GUARD THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY.  The best predictor of juvenile delinquency is not race or poverty, it is fatherlessness.  We simply must return to the nuclear family, "one man, one woman, for life," as exalted by Christ and Christian Civilization.  Only this arrangements is adequate to incubate moral sense into the tender hearts of children. 

3. WE MUST IDENTIFY WITH THE BODY OF CHRIST. Bible-believing, God-fearing, Christ-honoring, Spirit-filled, Separated-Christianity must be both our Sunday choice, and our Monday through Saturday commitment.  Only hearts and minds that are transformed by truth will withstand the sunami of immorality that is descending upon us.  Bible preaching churches need our support, and we need their support as well.

4. First Century Christianity faced every challenge we are facing--Idolatry, Licentiousness, Depravity, and Life-threatening opposition--but they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. GOD IS ABLE AND WILLING TO KEEP US AS WE HUMBLY SEEK HIS FACE, HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS, AND WALK IN THE LIGHT.