We live in some very interesting days to say the least. I’m calling this series of messages blackout basing it on a scripture in Isaiah chapter 60 verse 2 which says: “Behold, darkness shall cover the earth and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you”. The scripture describes a darkness over the earth and a thick darkness upon its inhabitants. However, in the midst of great darkness we have the promise that the glory of God will be seen upon us.
I started my journey of faith 35 years ago in the late 1980’s and spiritual warfare along with a real focus on the end times was all the rage. The Soviet Union had collapsed, revival was sweeping the globe and Jesus was going to rapture his church at any moment, thrusting the world into ‘the great tribulation’. At the same time the modern American church was hit with some of its greatest scandals to date with Jim and Tammy Baker along with the Jimmy Swaggart fiascos. The scandals were both very public and ugly. What I was witnessing in live time was apostasy and revival happening simultaneously.
In the last 35 years so much has changed in the world and the church, yet so much has remained the same.
I’m not using this series to point the finger at others, I’m having a conversation because we need to all examine ourselves. We are living in times when rapid changes are taking place. It’s what happened to the children of Israel living in Egypt who had become slaves in that land for 400 years. In the fullness of times God raised up the prophet Moses as his representative to bring them out of slavery back to the land promised to Abraham.
The Passover sacrifice was the final moment when they were separated from the hold of the Pharaoh's power. However, it was the Red Sea that was the final separation from his ability to control their lives. It was in the wilderness where the real struggle began and it was a struggle with themselves. Life is about struggle, hardship and a series of choices. In the midst of great change we need to have our footing. We need something on which to securely plant our feet or we are going to fall.
In the midst of great darkness we need something to guide our path or we are going to get lost.
Paul in I Corinthians chapter 10 uses Israel’s struggles through the wilderness as an example of indiscretions and our susceptibility to the same ones. He said: “Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.” Paul wasn’t telling us to point fingers and say, "man how could they have acted this way". He says that we need to take notes so that we can learn from others' mistakes.
Don’t be prideful thinking that couldn’t be you, but if you are still standing take heed, be humble lest you fall.
In this series of messages what I want to do is what Paul was doing in I Corinthians chapter 10. Which is to ask us all to take heed; lest we too fall because none of us are above tripping in this present darkness. As a matter of fact we are all going to struggle, trip, lose our way and sometimes fall.
If you’ve fallen I want to encourage you to get up, if you’ve tripped or you are struggling to find your way because you're walking a dark path; I hope to shine some light on your path. If you are discouraged because you feel like others you looked up to let you down then I have some words of hope and exhortation for you. The journey of faith is a journey and one thing I’ve learned along this journey is that every situation we face in life there is a lesson to be learned. The pathway of following Christ is not for the faint of heart and it’s through the struggles, the trials, suffering and difficulties that we learn to truly trust in his ability. It’s called the walk of faith for a reason.
The church in America is at a major crossroads and we are all going to have to decide if we are going to continue on in the faith.
John chapter 6 opens up with Jesus performing the miracle of feeding the 5,000 with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. The next day people were following him around for what he could give them. It’s the sad state of the church in America. Far too many people follow him for what they can get thinking that godliness is a means of gain. Sadly it's what many have been taught and their faith will be greatly tested when the American gospel is shown to simply be a mirage in the midst of a wilderness.
In John chapter 6, Jesus compared himself to the manna that the children of Israel partook of walking through the wilderness. Jesus then told them that following him is not about what you can get, but it's about laying down your lives. He started talking about his flesh being the true food and his blood being the true drink. In verse 63 he says, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life”. Verse 62 says, “After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him”.
Jesus began to explain the heart of the gospel to them. Yes you get delivered from the enemy. Yes you are given the power of the Spirit. Yes you are going to be taken care of, but you have to lay down your life in covenant. It’s life for life. It's when the gospel started challenging their self indulgent carnality is when it got real. The gospel means Christ died for you, but it's also that you die. It's what Jesus told Nicodemus that you must be born from above.
Just like natural childbirth being born from above is the pathway of blood and sacrifice.
Jesus then turned to the 12 and said, “Do you want to go away as well?” I love Peter’s answer because I understand it so very well. Verse 68 and 69 says : “Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” I don’t know about you, but I’ve stood at that place many times. I’ve wanted to turn around because it was hard, it was lonely, sin looked so attractive, the church was a mess and I wasn’t sure about the way forward. It was at those times when I reflected back on the darkness that God delivered me from.
I know what living in darkness is like and I don’t ever want to go back there. I’ve tasted the power of the age to come. I know the gentle Spirit of heaven. I know the fire of God that shines in darkness. If your heart has been captivated by the Living God; your answer will be like Peter’s, “Lord, I have nowhere else to go”. Once you’ve truly tasted the flesh of Christ and drank in that living blood nothing else will satisfy. Like Paul we must be dead men walking crucified with Christ. If we want to walk in the light and have glory upon our lives we must embrace the cruciform way of life; understanding that the only way we can live in this present darkness is by allowing Christ to live his life in us.
The crossroad the church is facing is the choice between living our lives or being willing to lay them down. As we approach the end of the age there will be no middle ground.
The American McGospel has produced and promoted celebrity, prosperity and fame. It’s had its day, but it's been found lacking the humility of the cross. We are going to have a faceless generation that will truly reflect the glory of the coming king. The glory of God is going to rest upon the church, but it's only going to rest upon humility, transparency and those who willingly lay down their lives for the king of Glory.
The first sin was pride and the root of deception is pride. It’s putting self first. Pride blinds you and darkens your understanding.
It’s what compels me to do this series of messages because this series of messages titled “BlackOut” is about deception. Deception has become so widespread that it affects all of us today. In a world of confusion, distortion of facts, extremism and outright falsehood the church is supposed to be a place of sound truth. Paul in I Timothy chapter 3 verse 15 called the church “a pillar and foundation of the truth”. In our modern architecture we don’t see many buildings that Paul was more than likely reflecting upon as he wrote this letter to Timothy.
Paul had left Timothy in Ephesus to establish the body of believers in that city. The imagery of these terms for the church would not have been lost on the Ephesians. In their city was the impressive temple of the goddess Artemis called by the Greeks and later called Diana by the Romans. The temple was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, located in the city of Ephesus which is modern day Turkey. I’ve put upon the screen a model of what it would have looked like.
William Barclay gives the following description of it: “One of its features was its pillars. It contained one hundred and twenty-seven pillars, every one of them the gift of a king. All were made of marble and some were studded with jewels and overlaid with gold. Each pillar acted as a tribute to the king who donated it. The honorary significance of the pillars, however, was secondary to their function of holding up the immense structure of the roof.” The pillars were securely placed upon the foundation and they both supported the immense structure.
How we view the role of the church in a dark world is an important subject.
To do this it's important to first of all we get an accurate picture of the church. A lot of confusion surrounds the word church. Jesus is the first one to use the word and he chose an interesting word to denote the type of organization his body would be and how it would function. He used the Greek word ekklesia.
The ekklesia was first developed as a ruling assembly of citizens in the Grecian democracy to govern its city-states. The Greek and Roman versions of the ekklesia appeared in different forms and sizes, the assemblies were not a one size fits all.
In like manner, there are no cookie cutters when it comes to establishing the ekklesia or church that Jesus is building.
The Greek word ekklesia literally means ‘called out ones’. The double-k in the word gives it a two-fold meaning, which is called out of the world and called unto God. The church then, is a group of people who have been called out of spiritual darkness through the gospel of the kingdom and brought into fellowship with the King of the kingdom. The church is a group of people who have come under the present reign of Christ’s rule through spiritual rebirth.
The ekklesia or a ruling assembly of citizens could be as small as two or three gathered anywhere in the world. It only took 2 or 3 citizens for the ekklesia to be considered a local expression of Rome. Even though geography separated the ekklesia from the capital of the empire and the emperor, their coming together as fellow citizens automatically brought the power and presence of the Roman ruling authority into their midst. This was indeed the Roman ekklesia in a microcosm. In like manner, the kingdom of God created the church and works through the church in the world.
The ekklesia is made up of followers of Christ who have received the life of the kingdom and are dedicated to the task of using the keys of the kingdom, under the authority of Christ, to unlock those who are bound by Satan.
Jesus said in Matthew chapter 16 that the ekklesia or his church is established upon those who truly have a personal encounter with the living Christ and are changed from the inside out.
Ecclesiology, which is what we believe about the church, is important. The reason is because Paul said the body of Christ is the pillar and foundation of the truth. If you want to further understand my views then you can go check out the following lessons in the Foundation Publications School of Discipleship. Lessons Part I and Part II of Section III: Kingdom Ministry Through The Church. Lessons Part I and Part II on Spiritual Warfare. Lesson 45: The Body of Christ and Lessons Part I and Part II on Order In The Church. In those lessons I thoroughly discuss Biblical ecclesiology, which is the study of Christ and his body.
I’m really simple in my views because Jesus has made this simple enough for anyone who is willing to be an active member in forming his church.
We have been given great flexibility when it comes to structure, how, where and what type of meetings we are to have as his body. Jesus did not give us a blueprint on organizational structure nor did the apostles and as the old saying goes there is more than one way to skin a cat or there is more than one way to get from point A to point B. However, Jesus and the apostles gave us some very clear blueprints in regards to the truth along with the foundations of our faith.
The body of Christ is an extension of the resurrected Christ in this earth and Paul said it’s to be a pillar and foundation for truth.
We live in days when they tell us that white is black and black is white. The very core of truth is being challenged from all sides. The question that the Roman ruler Pilate asked Jesus the night before he was crucified is a question still being asked. Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth?” If I was to do a man on the street interview and walk up to people asking them this question. “What is truth?” The answers I would get would be as varied as the person to whom I am asking the question. In today’s world truth like beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
In our postmodern world truth is relative. Everyone has their own truth made in their own image so what is true to one person could be completely false to another person. There are no absolutes in todays’ postmodern culture where relativism is the norm. Remember Satan was able to convince Eve, through his subtle and cunning speech that what was forbidden by God, would be good for her. It’s the postmodern lie of relativism which says truth is whatever you make it.
Satan was the first post-modernist who destroyed truth through relativism where there are no absolutes, but just the mushy grayness of man being his own god.
The father of lie’s initial sin was pride thinking that he could be like God. As a result of his pride he became a deceiver, liar and twister of truth. The main weapons of the enemy are enticing philosophies with a scriptural foundation that have been taken out of context. Every serious Bible student knows that context means everything since you can make the Bible say just about anything you want it to say if you take it out of context.
As I told you earlier, I was saved some 35 years ago and we were focused on Spiritual warfare along with a real focus on the end times. At the age of 20 I got thrown into a very extreme church environment. The control, manipulation and the authoritarian techniques of the main leader had turned the discipleship school and church into a Charismatic cult. It took me a few years to unravel the webs of deception.
As I said earlier, Paul said we need to take notes so that we can learn from others' mistakes. The journey of faith is a journey and one thing I’ve learned along this journey is that every situation we face in life there is a lesson to be learned. Hopefully I can give some wisdom I’ve accumulated over the years.
Have you ever gotten out of bed in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom in a pitch black room? To be able to successfully walk through great darkness and not stumble, fall or get lost we need light. Psalms 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Psalms 119:130 says, The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.”
We can trust the proven, tried and tested word of God to give us direction in great darkness.
Paul told Timothy in his second letter to him that: “all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” I like to look at it this way. Jesus is the foundation. It’s not the Bible. I love the word of God, but the Bible does not save us. We are saved by encountering the living resurrected Christ who is our Great High Priest.
I love the way Eugene Peterson in the Message Translation translates the text in Matthew chapter 16 verses 15 thru 18. Jesus had just come to them in the villages of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “What are people saying about who the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some think he is John the Baptist, some say Elijah, some Jeremiah or one of the other prophets.” He pressed them, “And how about you? Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter said, “You’re the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Jesus came back, “God bless you, Simon, son of Jonah! You didn’t get that answer out of books or from teachers. My Father in heaven, God himself, let you in on this secret of who I really am. And now I’m going to tell you who you are, really are. You are Peter, a rock. This is the rock on which I will put together my church, a church so expansive with energy that not even the gates of hell will be able to keep it out.” You know everyone had their own version of who Christ was, but there is only one version that is true.
Truth is a person and we are in a relationship with a person not a book.
The scriptures are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. The scriptures are not an end to themselves. Identifying with his broken body and poured out blood; being consecrated through the waters of baptism and being filled with the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead makes us a member of his body here in the earth and eternally.
The word of God is the pillar of truth that holds the body of Christ together. If you’ve listened to me teach then you know that I’m a sticker for sound doctrine. Sound doctrine produces sound living and is like railroad tracks. It gives us structure, stability and keeps us safe from deception. The living Christ who is the Spirit also illuminates, teaches and leads us, but never contradictory to the foundation.
The prophet Zechariah in chapter 3 verse 9 talks of a “stone with seven eyes.” You can’t separate the foundation of the word from the foundation of the Spirit and if you do then you are much more likely to trip, fall and be lost in the darkness.
The Spirit is the glove that fits around the hand. The hand is the word that gives structure and you can’t separate one from the other.
What I am going to be covering in this series of messages is the topic of deception within the perspective of spiritual warfare and the last days or what Jesus called the end of the age. After this series I am going to get into the four main views on how to interpret the book of Revelation. I do have my views on this subject which you will hear some of my viewpoints as we go through this series on deception. On the subject of the book of Revelation I do consider myself somewhat of a panologist. A panologist means ultimately we’ll see how it all pans out. I kind of straddle different opinions and views on the subject.
I’ve found even the greatest of theologians don’t have a complete understanding of a very complex and fluid subject which is the summing up of all things in both heaven and earth.
In looking at the ‘last days’ or ‘end of this age’ let's get a framework for understanding. Paul in one of the scriptures we looked at earlier in I Corinthians chapter 10 saw himself as a man on whom the end of the ages has come. Peter puts himself in the last times. As he opens his first epistle in chapter 1 verse 20 speaking of the redemptive work of Christ, he says that Jesus, “was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you.” He also sees the opening of the outpouring of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost bringing to birth the church as the beginning of the last days. Acts chapter 2 verse 17 Peter quotes the prophet Joel saying, “in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh”.
The author of Hebrews opens up his epistle saying something very similar. Hebrews chapter 1 verses 1 and 2 say, “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.” A few other scriptures referring to the last days are II Timothy 3:1-9, II Peter 3:1-9, James 5:1-6.
The apostolic writers saw themselves in the last times, at the end of the ages and last days. To them it wasn’t something future, but a present reality and that was 2,000 years ago.
Truth is important because it grounds us, tether us, shines light on our pathway and keeps us from being overtaken by darkness.
The flood of information today is astonishing especially if you grew up like I did before the internet. Today the internet is just a fact of daily life and it’s causing our world to change rapidly. The invention of the printing press in 1436 by Johannes Gutenberg the German goldsmith transformed the world as we know it.
One author has noted that every 500 years God has a rummage sale. We are 500 years past the Protestant Reformation and we are in the middle of a great rummage sale going on right now in the world and the church.
It’s causing an upheaval which will bring drastic change as to how we practice our faith. Think about life before the printing press and then after the printing press. Two different worlds. Think about the life in most European nations when they were ruled by kings. Then think about those nations after the Enlightenment discourse which brought about republics and democracies. Two different worlds. Think about the time when the monolithic Catholic Church controlled and ruled nations. Then life after the Protestant reformation which produced the priesthood of all believers. Two different worlds. Think about life before the internet and life today. Two different worlds.
If we didn’t have the printing press I’m not sure we would have had a Renaissance, Protestant Reformation or the Enlightenment period. Historians conclude that the printing press had a profound impact on this period of human history. It accelerated the spread of ideas. It increased knowledge, increased literacy rates, standardized language and spelling. It had a significant impact on the arts being a key factor in the intellectual and cultural growth of the period. It became the single most important factor in the success of the Protestant Reformation by providing widespread access to ‘new teachings’.
The Bible itself was once controlled in the hands of a few, but the printing press brought truth to the masses, light shone, breaking the power of the Dark Ages and the rest is history.
The technological advances from that time to present is breathtaking if you look at it in the context of human history. It was estimated that literacy rates during the period of the early church was around 10%. It was estimated throughout the Roman empire the literacy rate was around 15%. In just looking at the West literacy rates up until the time of the printing press at best were 20%. The nobility, priests and monks were the only ones literate while the rest were left in the dark. Scientific, artistic, medical, architectural and historical knowledge greatly diminished during this period of time. Knowledge and modes of travel hadn’t changed much in the first 1500 years of the church.
In just the last 500 years things have changed in ways like no other time in human history.
It’s not even comparable. It was by the 1700’s during the First Industrial Revolution that we went from hand production methods to machines and it was the rise of the mechanized factory system. We went from wind powered ships to steam powered ships, from horse and buggy to locomotives so travel was increased. The first electric telegraph was invented in 1840.
The Second Industrial Revolution brought a period of rapid advancement. The time period was also known as the Technological Revolution. It was a period of rapid scientific discovery, standardization, mass production and industrialization from the late 19th century into the early 20th century which ended at the beginning of WWI.
Since 1947 we are living through what's come to be known as the Information Age, Digital Revolution or some call it the Third Industrial Revolution. As far as the increase of knowledge, communication and travel the last 70 years have exceeded the advancement in all previous times back to the beginning of recorded human history. The modes of travel and increase in knowledge remained relatively static for all of recorded human history until after the Protestant Reformation. Since the 1800's the graph I'm about to show you goes up with no end in sight. Anyone who is living today feels just along for the ride. We are all just holding on as the world moves at a pace never seen in human history. A picture is worth a thousand words so I put a picture up so you can see the chart. If you look at this graph it's breathtaking.
Buckminster Fuller spoke of the “Knowledge Doubling Curve” in 1982: He suggested that in 1900, human knowledge doubled approximately every 100 years. At the end of WWII in 1945, the rate had come down to every 25 years and by 1982, every 13 months. Ray Kurzwek, has suggested that with the arrival of the Internet knowledge is now doubling every 12 hours - think about that!
The Third Industrial Revolution has been a great leap forward in the way that we communicate with each other and it has resulted in computers along the internet which has become a part of the way that we daily live. The advanced ability to communicate and travel cannot be overestimated. In the year 2024 we are walking through the door of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with Artificial Intelligence taking on a greater role. It’s truly hard to grasp the momentous transformation the entire world is going through.
We are moving through rapid change at a pace that makes your head spin just trying to keep up. It’s why the church must be established on the foundation of our ancient faith that is constant and unchanging.
We are quickly moving into a world where it will be extremely difficult to know fact from fiction. In looking at the words of Isaiah the great darkness seems to be world wide so it’s not isolated to Israel. In studying the Bible and history I’ve tried to imagine myself living in those times. People living through history many times don’t realize exactly what they are living through. When history is being made and I’m talking about dramatic world changing events it’s very confusing. The old saying hindsight is 20/20 applies which means in the fog of war it’s not clear to understand exactly what’s happening since many times it's only after the fact that you see clearly. I believe we are walking through such a time in world history and it's hard to imagine how much further God will allow it to go on.
The book of Revelation was written by John the apostle with whom Jesus had a special relationship out of all the rest.
In his gospel we see a very intimate portrayal and clear description of the God who created all things wrapped in human flesh. The Deity of Christ and Humanity of Christ is clearly articulated through the writings of John. It’s also through John’s gospel that we get some of the clearest understanding of God the Holy Spirit. John makes following the risen Christ a very intimate reality. He truly shows us that our journey of faith is about a living relationship with a living personal God.
John’s gospel compares us to branches dependent on the Vine for its source of life. He compares Christ to manna and tells us that we are dependent on partaking daily of the bread of life just like the Israelites were sustained by manna in the wilderness. He tells us if we want eternal life then we must eat Christ flesh and drink his blood which is a total identification with him. It’s a merging of our lives with His life; living the cruciform way of life.
John says that by coming to Christ and humbly submitting to him then we can have rivers of living water flowing through our hearts. He says that we are sheep dependent on following our Shepherd who will care for us, protect us and lead us. John showed us that Jesus is The Way, The Life and The Truth which was a reference to the still standing Temple. His gospel clearly showed us that Jesus' body is the new temple, that he was the final sinless Passover sacrifice to cleanse not just the nation of Israel, but the sins of the world.
It's only in John's gospel chapter 8 verse 12 that Jesus is recorded as saying: “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” In this same chapter verses 31 and 32 he says: “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.”
The central focus of the book of Revelation is not a secret letter to conceal, but to unveil the risen Christ.
Its focus, like all the writings of John, is showing us that the summing up of all things is centered in the Lamb, who was slain before the foundations of the world. It’s a clear focus on the supremacy of the risen Christ as the victorious Lion from the tribe of Judah who is going to return as the king of Kings; to judge the nations, but in the midst of his judgment of justice there is going to be redemption, restoration and the brightness of His glory.
John opens the book with this his intent: The revelation of Jesus Christ. The series of messages I am beginning today is not a dive into the book of Revelation. It’s my attempt to help us understand the times in which we are living and to use the Bible as our guide. As we look at the Bible as our guide and lens by which we view the world, we have to understand this one truth. The Bible does not tell us everything about world history nor does it tell us everything about how to live life.
The Bible is history, but it’s telling us the story of God’s redemptive history in time. It’s God’s love story to humanity showing us His redemptive hand through the Hebrew people, his chosen vehicle to redeem a fallen humanity bringing us back to Himself.
John is the author that coined the term antichrist which when looking at the book of Revelation it will be a question that many will want to understand. John spoke of the ‘antichrist’ as both a present and future reality. In I John chapter 2 verses 18 and 19 he says: “Children, it is the last hour and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us”. John’s readers had already heard that antichrist is coming so it was not a topic that they were ignorant about. However, it is the only reference to the ‘last hour’ in the Bible. .
To many scholars John’s usage of the term ‘last hour’ is in reference to the prophecy of Daniel from which John draws strongly from in the book of Revelation. John draws inspiration from both Daniel and Ezekiel who were contemporaries writing their prophecies as captives in Babylon.
Daniel chapter 12 verses 1 thru 4 says: "there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at ‘that time’ your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
I want to comment on a few things in this text:
Daniel sees a time of trouble coming upon the earth that has never been seen.
It’s going to be a time when the children of Israel will be restored and delivered.
He speaks of the resurrection from the dead and judgment.
He speaks of great glory upon his people and revival.
It says we are not going to truly understand these words until 'this period of time'.
He ends this section talking about an increase in knowledge and travel.
What I am hoping to do through this series of messages is to help give you a framework for understanding our times in light of the word of God. It’s a view that has helped me navigate throughout the years keeping me centered, grounded and established in Christ. I’m not doing a comprehensive study on the book of Revelation. However, I think having a framework for understanding the last days and the book of Revelation is important. I understand it’s a complex and confusing topic or there would not be so many differing opinions. I hope these messages will help you have a clear focus on how to walk in these times and grow closer to God. I do think we need a basic framework to keep us out of the ditches of extremism. We live in an age of cultural, political, economic and theological extremes.
If you are like me then you are many times confused due to the great amounts of information flowing towards you daily. It’s what I call information overload. It’s like a power circuit that can’t handle the electricity flowing through it so it shuts down before it creates a fire. Instead of creating a fire it creates a blackout. I think that’s what happens to us today so many times; we are overwhelmed and we just shut down because we’re confused. I’m hoping that through this series you are illuminated so that you can shine in the midst of a dark and confused world.
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