PUTTING THE WORLD BACK TOGETHER

Billy Graham preaches to millions every week by radio. Yet in his 20 minute sermon he focuses on one man, one woman or one young person.

Billy Graham does not preach to a million people at once. He preaches to one person but touches millions of people.

EVERY PERSON HAS BASIC NEEDS, DESIRES & HURTS

All of us are so much the same, even though we are all so different. We all have basic needs, desires, pains and hurts.

WITH TWO WORLD WARS AND HUNDREDS OF SMALLER CONFLICTS, PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN FEAR OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT

It's no wonder we've had two world wars this century, with hundreds of smaller conflicts across the planet.

Word War III is still ominously lurking somewhere on the horizon.  The entire world is living in fear of what is next to come, as the conflicts, fighting and religious wars continue.

Violence, murder, drug abuse and other criminal activities have escalated at a frightening rate, suicides have spiraled, herpes II is almost epidemic and AIDS may soon bankrupt our health systems!

HOW DO WE CHANGE THE WORLD?

How do we change the world?  How do we usher in the era of brotherly love, kindness, peace and understanding we all crave for?

What is the needed ingredient that is missing in today's peace conferences and boards of inquiry into drug addiction, alcoholism, suicide, family breakdown, child abuse and racism?

Certainly, our educational system is unable to communicate love, and impart it to the students. We read with alarm of the tragic rise of bullying and violence by juvenile delinquents against younger kids in the schools.  This violence has escalated into horrific incidents of killing, murder, suicide and terror for those involved in the school and college shootings.  example: ( Columbine school massacre killings )

All our anti-racial and anti-hate laws will never eradicate the awful stigma of bias and prejudice from people. They may even be anti-productive in eroding our basic freedoms. Taking from good people the right to free speech and expression, while the bigots still hate and feel superior certainly cannot build a better society!

YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE LOVE!

You cannot legislate love, you cannot make a law saving you must love others or face criminal charges.  Caring, sharing and compassion must be born within by a force of good, which has invaded and possessed our beings. This force of good is what changes us from the inside!

In other words when we are spiritually born-again, the desire to hate leaves and instead a strong urge to love and befriend people automatically moves into action.

Our nature is changed by the overwhelming influence of the Holy Spirit of God in a life transforming action called the New Birth. And the subsequent Baptism of the Holy Spirit!

It's not difficult to love people when there is no hate in the heart. When the animosity is gone! And the devil has left!

When no fear remains, it's easy to feel safe. When all torments have gone, it's not difficult to know peace and when the depression and sadness has lifted, joy fills the vacuum.

THE WICKED ARE DRIVEN BY EVIL SPIRITUAL FORCES WHICH ARE UNCLEAN DEMONS & SPIRITS

The sadist wants to injure, the rapist subjugate, torture and sexually molest and the killer desires to put out the light of life. They are being driven by evil spirits, unclean demons of darkness!

SPIRITUAL FORCES ARE AT WORK WORLD WIDE CAUSING DEATH, ABUSE, PERVERSION

New York Times reporter, McCandish Phillips stated recently, "Spiritual forces are massively at work in North America causing a rise of drug abuse, sexual perversion, the occult and the breakdown of the nation's morals".

When Jesus Christ - the Prince of Life and Light - comes in, all the evil spirits depart; for light dispels darkness and good destroys evil.

When Jesus Christ takes over your life, mind & heart it is then easy to forgive, bless, help and share!

WHAT DO WE NEED TO CHANGE THE WORLD?

What we need to change and fix the world is one missing ingredient.  This ingredient  is God's divine 'Agape' Love which so changes the individual that he begins to think like God thinks, love like God loves and act like God acts!

A preacher was preparing his Sunday sermon on a Saturday morning. His wife had gone shopping, leaving little seven year old Johnny with his daddy.

The little fellow was in and out of his Dad's office every 10 minutes or so. Restless, energetic and bored! His Dad kept giving him magazines to leaf through, books to read or blocks to play with. Johnny read them all in a few minutes and clearly was looking for some new adventure.

He was full of questions and wanted to look through his Dad's files.

The pastor then got a brilliant idea. He tore off the back cover of one of his magazines which had a very large photo of the globe on it. Then he cut it into small pieces.

PUT THE WORLD BACK TOGETHER!

"Here, my son," he said. "Use this scotch tape and put the world back together again."

Within 7 or 8 minutes the little fellow was back knocking on the pastor's door.

"I've got the world back together, Dad. I've got the world back together," he shouted. Excitedly his father jumped from his desk. He ran out into the den. It was true. His son had done the impossible. He had put the world back together from little bits.

How had he done it?  How had his small son put the world back together.  His son must be a genius. It was a job that would have taken an adult at least an hour or more.

Johnny just smiled and said, "I've looked through that magazine many times Dad, and I noticed that on the inside of the cover was a full length picture of a man.

"When I put the man together, the world automatically had come back together."

HERE IS THE KEY TO CHANGING THE WORLD AND PUTTING THE WORLD BACK TOGETHER

Herein lies the key to our world's major spiritual, moral, sociological, psychological and economic problems!

That's why St. Paul wrote: "If any man be in Christ Jesus, he is a new creature, old things are passed away. All things become new". (2 Corinthians 5:17)

The gospel of Christ changes the individual from the inside out. The Bible addresses the real problems of life and declares that UNBELIEF, REBELLION & DISOBEDIENCE - which is sin - are the root causes of all our problems. And once this is settled we receive God's peace, a stable mind, good morals and the strength to cope with the pressures of life!

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." (John 5:24)

Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free". (John 8:32)

What is the truth?

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life and no man cometh unto the father but by Me". (John 14:6)

He also stated, "Thy word O God is truth". (John 17:17)

Jesus is the living Word of God and the Bible is the written Word of God. And if you will read, believe and obey God's Word, Jesus will come out of its pages and come into you heart!

The Bible says, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see (or enter) into the kingdom of God". (John 3:3-7)