Calling It Like It Is

I was up tonight watching "Dateline NBC" with Chris Hansen and it is so disturbing seeing so many men who are caught trying to solicit sex with teen aged girls. What is even scarier are the number of men who are not caught!

My friends--our children are under attack! Our families are under attack! But lets call it like it really is. Its not due to psychological problems or bad childhoods and all the other excuses we make for people. The ultimate problem with such tragedies--is plain and simple--ITS CALLED EVIL! Its not people that are bad--such sin and tragedies happen when poeple become so separated from God--and are completely overcome by Satan's lies and deception. Paul addresses such issues in Romans 1:18-31:

18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Verse 28 says it all--when it says God eventually gives people over to their sin and they have a "Depraved Mind" which means we no longer have any conscience.

We all sin and fall short. But if we keep our spirit being continually fed and stay walking in the light--we are much stronger to resist temptation and our fleshly desires.

But make no mistake--our problem today with all the various kinds of social ills such as child sexual predators or murderers and the list goes on--is simply due to a lack of Jesus in people's lives! Lets keep telling a hurting and lost world about our Savior!