what’s gone wrong with the world

What’s gone wrong with the world

…and what is the remedy?

Sickness & symptoms

• Measles?• Mumps?• Bronchitis?• Laryngitis?• Meningitis?

• Spots• Swollen neck glands• Deep chesty cough• Lost voice• Headache, spots, stiff

neck, light sensitivity

A sick society?

Drug abuse

Terrorism

Mounting debt

Prisons overflowing

Crimesoaring

Divorce almost

1 in 2

suicide

Disruption in schools

Teen pregnancy

A sick society?

The foundations are going – all authorities are undermined

Man’s remedy

• More prisons• Tougher police• Marriage guidance• Improve health service • Better education• Higher wages• Stronger security forces• More social workers• Benefits system

Man’s remedy

• Cost spiralling out of control

• Excessive tax burden

• Problems getting worse

• Remedy doesn’t work

What happened to the foundations?

The foundations of our land

• Legal• Freedom, human rights and justice• Educational• Political• Moral• Social• Charitable• Cultural• All consistently threatened

How have the foundations changed?

Largely based on the absolutes of Biblical morality given by a personal creator –

Revelation

Now based on the relative basis of human opinion – Humanism

Past Present

What is the founding principle?

• The word of God

• God made the world

• God makes the rules

• We must obey God’s rules

Western Decadence

Western Decadence

= Christianity?

= Destruction of the foundations

How were the foundations undermined?

• 19th Century “Double whammy”

How were the foundations undermined?

Whammy number 1 Higher criticism of the BibleLeipzig – GermanyFriedich Daniel Ernst Schliermacher & Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

How were the foundations undermined?

Whammy number 1 UKUniformitarianism & Darwinism

God’s remedy

• The heart of the problem…

• Is the problem of the heart

…all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God Romans 3:23

Who pays?

Christ died for our sins 1Cor 15:3

Works for all who take it

Heb 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him,

Works for all who take it

John 6:37 he who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.

Take now!

Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

2 Cor 6:2