Crisis

In times of crisis, people want somewhere to turn. It’s proven that more people come to Christ in after a disaster, or when things are hard, than when life is simple and easy. During a crisis, people want to turn to an authority to save them, to give one person the power to end the distress. Healthcare crisis, housing crisis, unemployment crisis, swine-flu crisis, economic crisis, national debt crisis. What answer has been given for these crises? Give the government more money.
There was a nation, a world power, rich in culture and society. They had accumulated a large national debt from a retaliatory war, which they had started. Their once impressive currency was dwindling fast, and an economic crisis was in full swing. Then a new leader came on the scene. He was a young leader, new to the political realm, for which he was proud; he, as many, blamed the entrenched government officials who were to set in their ways for their situations. He was a charismatic young man, and a strong, passionate speaker. He spoke of Change and Hope. He promised to provide social security to the poor. He promised to provide health care for the weak. He promised to recover the falling nation. He took over the dying car companies of his nation. He bought and bailed out banks and businesses. His name was Hitler. His nation was Germany.
When the money ran out, he started cutting government programs. He let the poor, insane sickly with no families in institutions die, so the government wouldn’t have to support them. Then he killed the lonely elderly, so he wouldn’t have to support them. Then he used prisoners and convicts as medical experiments, so he wouldn’t have to support them. Then he decided that his was the greatest evolvement of man, and began a holocaust.
There was a nation, a world power, rich in culture and society. They had accumulated a large national debt from a retaliatory war, which they had started. Their once impressive currency was dwindling fast, and an economic crisis was in full swing. Then a new leader came on the scene. He was a young leader, new to the political realm, for which he was proud; he, as many, blamed the entrenched government officials who were to set in their ways for their situations. He was a charismatic young man, and a strong, passionate speaker. He spoke of Change and Hope. He promised to provide social security to the poor. He promised to provide health care for the weak. He promised to recover the falling nation. He took over the dying car companies of his nation. He bought and bailed out banks and businesses. His name is Obama. His nation is our nation.
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Some day you are going to die. Don’t be sad about that, or afraid of it, you are a Christian, and you know where you are going.
Your are in heaven, in the presence of God. When you’ve been there ten thousand years, “bright shining as the sun”, You get invited to Moses’ mansion, “for in my house there are many…” There are a bunch of other champions of scripture there. You all get to talking to Moses and ask him about what he was feeling when he and his people were trapped between the red sea and Pharaoh, and what he did in that crisis.
Moses tells the story up to that point, and he says, “In that crisis, the people wanted to turn back to Egypt. I stretched out my hand, my staff in it, and trusted God, and He provided me a way. I could have done nothing, so I sold out to Him, and he solved the crisis.”
Then you turn to David and ask him what it was like to face Goliath. He tells the story and says, “The people wanted to give up, but I took courage and took my sling. I could have done nothing, so I sold out to Him. I took my sling, hit him in the head, and took his sword, and decapitated him. He solved the crisis.”
Joshua steps forward and tells his story, how he shouted and sold out to God, and God solved the crisis. Paul comes forward, as does Deborah, and Jonah, and Job, and Daniel. They sold out to God, and He solved their crisis. Then they all turn to you.
Christ comes up, sets up a screen and plays a movie, depicting a great revival, and the turning of a nation to Him, and the crisis being solved. He says, “This is what you could have done. The people wanted to give up and turn to a government to save them. This is what you could have done if you were a little more sold out to me. I'd solve the crisis.”
But we aren't dead, you have life and breath. This is our crisis. Who are we sold out to? God? The government? China?